From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brett Gilio Subject: Re: Updating mono. Adding MSBuild. Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 20:14:28 +0100 Message-ID: <877echijcb.fsf@posteo.net> References: <875zs5c72r.fsf@posteo.net> <874l7o4y1p.fsf@elephly.net> <20190327122310.4c8155eb@scratchpost.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59805) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h9wxm-0004Rl-O6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:14:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h9wxl-0003GC-H2 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:14:50 -0400 Received: from mout02.posteo.de ([185.67.36.66]:53503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h9wxk-0003EK-HY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:14:49 -0400 Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout02.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 909E02400FB for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2019 20:14:43 +0100 (CET) In-reply-to: <20190327122310.4c8155eb@scratchpost.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Danny Milosavljevic Cc: Guix-devel 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 st= ep >> > in correctly repackaging Mono.=20=20 >>=20 >> Instead of adding a new binary mono-lite, can we reuse the existing >> =E2=80=9Cmono=E2=80=9D package to build the new Mono? > > +1 > >> (I don=E2=80=99t 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 bund= le > things. (But if it's from the same vendor and team anyway they'll probab= ly > 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?