Group: Software/research/ExternalRepositories
Contents
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 |
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.
As for using other distribution repositories, the DistroExecutionEnvironments page has more information about which container/virtualization systems work with which distribution.
Research
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 |
|
Python | Allow any license (including nonfree software) | ? |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ? | rubygems | Ruby | Allow any license (including nonfree software) | ? |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ? | ? | 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.
Docker registries 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. For instance to run 'ls' in a container, one can just run 'guix shell --container --network --emulate-fhs bash coreutils -- ls'. Containers environments can easily be defined with manifest files. And finally Guix can generate docker images with 'guix --image-type=docker system.scm' where system.scm contains an operating system definition. The Guix manual has all the details on how to use all that.
For the status of docker image of FSDG compliant distributions, see the DistroExecutionEnvironments wiki page.
| Repository website | Licenses requirements | Reliability of license fields |
|---|---|---|
| docker hub | Not FSDG compliant.[1] | ? |
| registry.fedoraproject.org | Probably not FSDG compliant.[2] | Strict policy.[3] |
Programs
| Program name | Program type | Repository type | Repository website | Licenses requirements | Reliability of license fields | Status | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker | Virtualization software | Repository of distribution installation images and software images | Docker has a default repository for images according to the docker bug #7203 and to a stackoverflow comment. However this needs a Dockerfile to be used so it's not clear if it's an FSDG issue or not. It also raises the question of what to do with all the Dockerfiles (or other configuration or script meant to test a given software on top of a non-fsdg compliant distribution that is installed for that purpose) scattered around. The best way to fix that here is probably to inform users though.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| GNOME Boxes (+osinfo-db) | Virtualization software | Repository of distribution installation images that is constructed with libosinfo and osinfo-db |
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Libreoffice | Document editing software | Extensions | extensions.libreoffice.org | ? | ? |
TODO:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wesnoth | Game | Addons | ? | ? | ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Xonotic | Game | Content downloaded during online games:
|
? | ? | ? |
List of pages
This set of pages talks about external repositories.
(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.
- ↑ The repository images with nonfree software like the Windows base OS images. So if there is a license policy it probably allows that.
- ↑ Fedora is not FSDG compliant. Though the question here is if the are nonfree firmwares are in the same repositories than the rest of the software. If not are the repositories with nonfree firmwares enabled in the fedora docker registry?
- ↑ https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Fedora
