Mageia Linux

Packaging .NET 11 for Mageia Linux

Forward-porting Mageia's own dotnet spec to .NET 11 with no Fedora package to lean on — nineteen clean-chroot builds, fifteen failures, and one root cause hiding behind ten different error messages.

Packaging .NET 8 for Mageia Linux — A Comeback Story

After a decade away, I returned to Mageia packaging to bring .NET 8.0.28 and SDK 8.0.128 to the distribution — bootstrapping from Fedora sources and learning why packaging matters more than ever.