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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.

Read a related article: Keeping track of freedom while managing packages

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
  • 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

Docker registries contain distributions or operating system images.

These repositories are usually referenced in Dockerfiles. So users need to be careful if they want to use Dockerfile files.

Additionally docker itself might need to be patched not to refer to repositories that contain nonfree software. For instance Parabola and probably other FSDG distributions as well have an issue that needs to be reported and fixed: 

# docker run -it --rm archlinux bash -c "echo hello world"
Unable to find image 'archlinux:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/archlinux
b72d4d4e6198: Pulling fs layer 
3b001a57ac96: Download complete

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 than to have to rely on docker repositories/registries. 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, so docker itself (patched to remove the reference to nonfree repositories) can also be used in an FSDG compliant way.

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] ?
docker.io Not FSDG compliant.[2] ?
registry.fedoraproject.org Probably not FSDG compliant.[3] Strict policy.[4]

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. Since that repository is used in the 'docker' command line tool, it needs to be replaced or removed.
Distribution Status
Dragora
Dynebolic
Guix
Hyperbola
LibreCMC
Parabola
ProteanOS
Replicant Doesn't ship docker
PureOS
Trisquel
Ututo S
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
LXC Virtualization software Repository of distribution packages / rootfs images.linuxcontainers.org ? ? LXC provides $prefix/share/lxc/templates/lxc-download which can download various distributions like Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
Distribution Status
Dragora
Dynebolic
Guix '/gnu/store/*-lxc-*/share/lxc/templates/lxc-download --list' lists non-fsdg compliant distributions.
Hyperbola
LibreCMC
Parabola '/usr/share/lxc/templates/lxc-download --list' lists non-fsdg compliant distributions.
ProteanOS
Replicant
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.


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


See also

  • DistroUpstreamSupport: This page has a list of which FSDG distributions are supported in some of the external repositories present here.
  • CrossDistroBootstrap: For how to bootstrap an FSDG distribution from another FSDG compliant distribution.

References

  1. ↑ The repository images with nonfree software like the Windows base OS images. So if there is a license policy it probably allows that.
  2. ↑ The repository images with nonfree software like the Windows base OS images. So if there is a license policy it probably allows that.
  3. ↑ 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?
  4. ↑ https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Fedora


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