Context

In the dotnet/installer repo, we have a list of file patches that we apply onto the files when creating the tarball.

In the VMR, we have several ways how to deal with this, e.g. have patches already applied in the VMR or applying them during the source-build. There are benefits and drawbacks to each approach as we want to keep track of the patches.

Goal

We need to consider how to bake this step into the VMR so that we deal with these in some maintainable fashion.