Re: Updating mono. Adding MSBuild.

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Danny Milosavljevic writes:

> Hi,
>
>> > Mono, for most distributions, seems to be bootstrapped with a prebuilt
>> > binary mono-lite. Due to this, I am unsure of how to make the first step
>> > in correctly repackaging Mono.  
>> 
>> Instead of adding a new binary mono-lite, can we reuse the existing
>> “mono” package to build the new Mono?
>
> +1
>
>> (I don’t know what MSBuild is and how it would help here.)
>
> MSBuild is something like Ant for .NET.  (or "make", but with more XML :) )
>
> I think Brett means that MSBuild is bundled with mono.
>
> I failed to unbundle some things just to have a CVE in one of the bundled
> dependencies DAYS later.  I think it's not a good idea in general to bundle
> things.  (But if it's from the same vendor and team anyway they'll probably
> update their bundled copy after fixing CVEs, too)

I will try to build a newer mono against the current version we have.

Although, there is a possible issue here that needs to be
addressed. Both Mono and Chicken produce a binary called `csi`. This is
a naming conflict, and I do not know the Guix-way for resolving naming
conflicts. Most distributions renamed the Chicken csi to `chicken-csi`
and left mono to `csi`. Does Guix have namespaces for binaries we
produce? How should I proceed here?