Group:Software/research/ExternalRepositories

Introduction

While distributions typically have high quality packages that work fine, a lot of software is not packaged in distributions.

This often lead users to rely on third party package managers that are often provided by the distribution.

This page tries to summarize the research about such third party package managers, especially to understand which one can be added in or kept in FSDG compliant distributions, and which ones should be removed or replaced.

FSDG compliant repositories

This contains lists of FSDG compliant repositories.

Repository type	FSDG compliant implementations
Browser addons	See BrowserAddons
General purpose package manager on top of existing distributions	Guix

The CrossDistroBootstrap also has some information on how reusable are some FSDG distribution repositories. For instance PureOS is now in upstream debootstrap, but other FSDG compliant distributions need to wait for a new debootstrap release, and they might also need to package the PureOS keyring to enable users to safely use their repositories.

Programming languages

Repository name	Programs / Packages	Repository type	Licenses requirements	Reliability of license fields	Status
Cabal		Haskell	FLOSS license required, points to FSF and OSI for the licenses list	?
CPAN	?	Perl	Allow any license (including nonfree software)	?
Hackage?		Haskell	?	?
PECL	?	PHP	Allow nonfree software, GPL and LGPLv3 (libraries?) not accepted	?
Python Package Index	pip	Python	Allow any license (including nonfree software)	?	Distribution Status Dragora Dynebolic Guix Hyperbola LibreCMC Parabola blacklisted ProteanOS Replicant PureOS Trisquel Ututo S
?	rubygems	Ruby	Allow any license (including nonfree software)	?	Distribution Status Dragora Dynebolic Guix Hyperbola LibreCMC Parabola blacklisted ProteanOS Replicant PureOS Trisquel Ututo S
?	?	Rust	?	?

Parabola has a bug report (bug #1035) about programming language package managers, it has more reference and information on the issue.

Docker registries

These repositories are usually referenced in Dockerfiles, not in docker. So users need to be careful if they want to use Dockerfile files.

They contain distributions or operating system images.

Since Guix is FSDG compliant, that it runs on most GNU/Linux distributions and that it can create docker images and that it can also run software very easily in containers, it might be easier to use Guix directly.

Repository type	Repository website	Licenses requirements	Reliability of license fields
Repository of distribution images	registry.fedoraproject.org	?	Strict policy.

Programs

Program name	Program type	Repository type	Repository website	Licenses requirements	Reliability of license fields	Status
GNOME Boxes (+osinfo-db)	Virtualization software	Repository of distribution installation images that is constructed with libosinfo and osinfo-db				Distribution Status Dragora Dynebolic Guix Bug #60109 Hyperbola LibreCMC Parabola Gnome Boxes and/or libosinfo are patched to only show FSDG compliant distributions. ProteanOS Replicant Doesn't ship GNOME Boxes PureOS Trisquel Ututo S
Libreoffice	Document editing software	Extensions	extensions.libreoffice.org	?	?	TODO: Needs confirmation of the bug (Does upstream have licenses requirements or not?). Distribution Status Dragora Dynebolic Guix Hyperbola LibreCMC Parabola Bug #3412 ProteanOS Replicant Doesn't ship libreoffice PureOS Trisquel Ututo S
Wesnoth	Game	Addons	?	?	?
Xonotic	Game	Content downloaded during online games: Maps Music Other?	?	?	?

List of pages

This set of pages talks about external repositories.

• BrowserAddons
• DockerRegistries
• FlatpakRegistries

(Note that this page does not automatically update; if you add another page under Hardware/, make sure to refresh/purge this page.)

"issue" is not in the list (interest, location, project, school) of allowed values for the "Organized around" property.