Update on porting mono 5

[Romain Tartière]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 04:35:36PM -0700, Russell Haley wrote:
> Thanks for that Romain! I suppose I was more being philosophical then
> literal (and a little silly). If the pkg repository server where the
> package was built is using the exact same sources, OS version and
> dependencies as I would use from Ports, IS it a binary? Your (perfect)
> response clearly shows the answer is yes, but I was trying to have
> some fun with that idea.

In fact, it's the rather large problem of "reproductible builds" [1]
which is embrassed by many projects [2].

I just discovered FreeBSD even has a Mailing-List dedicated to this
topic [3]. While the archive seems to say no essage where posted, I
guess a few folks are subscribed, and adding this list to the discussion
might be a good idea?

References:
  1. https://reproducible-builds.org/
  2. https://reproducible-builds.org/who/
  3. https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-reproducibility

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