Possibility to turn back on the network sandbox for .NET builds

[xgqt]

Hello! I'm currently developing eclasses for Gentoo to support packaging .NET applications.
At the time of writing it is possible to not violate the network sandbox while building .NET packages for Gentoo if using the dotnet-pkg eclass from the experimental gentoo-dotnet-2023 overlay.

Eclasses:

• https://gitlab.com/xgqt/gentoo-dotnet-2023/-/blob/master/eclass/dotnet-pkg-utils.eclass
• https://gitlab.com/xgqt/gentoo-dotnet-2023/-/blob/master/eclass/dotnet-pkg.eclass

Example packages:

• https://gitlab.com/xgqt/gentoo-dotnet-2023/-/blob/master/app-shells/pwsh/pwsh-7.3.3.ebuild
• https://gitlab.com/xgqt/gentoo-dotnet-2023/-/blob/master/dev-db/eventstore/eventstore-22.10.1.ebuild

Thought I would share this because i see you are fighting the Paludis's sandbox for building .NET apps.
See: https://github.com/CleverCloud/CleverCloud-exheres/blob/7bdd08d9c96952e2602a35b492c3b6743d365e31/packages/dev-db/EventStore/EventStore-21.10.8.exheres-0

[s0dyy]

Hello!

Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate it.

I agree, the .NET packaging could be greatly improved (lack of time, priority...).

I think that creating an Exlib now is not really necessary (we have very few packages, and EventStore is not really used anymore...). But no doubt I'd take a look at your work at Gentoo if I had to create an Exlib in the future!

Do you plan to create a .NET ebuild from source (I've only seen a dotnet-sdk-bin package)? Packaging from source is always a pain (very long, many errors, patches to do...) and having an equivalent package at Gentoo would very useful.

[xgqt]

Do you plan to create a .NET ebuild from source (I've only seen a dotnet-sdk-bin package)? Packaging from source is always a pain (very long, many errors, patches to do...) and having an equivalent package at Gentoo would very useful.

I will explore that in near future for the mentioned overlay.
Some time ago previous .NET Gentoo maintainer was working on building .NET SDK 5.0 from source: gentoo/gentoo#21112

[xgqt]

@s0dyy It is possible to build dotnet w/o net access but it has to have a special bootstrap tarball.

See:

• Offline build support needed dotnet/source-build#3432
• https://gitlab.gentoo.org/dotnet/gentoo-dotnet-2023/-/blob/d2d55eafde0df1e29d82fc143b7e20f7776a6188/dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk/dotnet-sdk-7.0.105.ebuild