Hi, I found a potential issue with the debootstrap package and the Guix blog.
The Free System Distribution Guidelines states that: > A free system distribution must not steer users towards obtaining any > nonfree information for practical use, or encourage them to do so. > The system should have no repositories for nonfree software and no > specific recipes for installation of particular nonfree programs. Nor > should the distribution refer to third-party repositories that are > not committed to only including free software; even if they only have > free software today, that may not be true tomorrow. Programs in the > system should not suggest installing nonfree plugins, documentation, > and so on. However after instalation, the debootstrap package contains scripts for installing many distributions, and most of them are either not FSDG compliant or have nonfree software in them. I assume that the Ubuntu repositories are "third-party repositories that are not committed to only including free software", and they are used in the debootstrap scripts to install Ubuntu. After installation I got the following scripts in ~/.guix_profile/share/debootstrap/scripts/: - aequorea - amber - artful - ascii - bartholomea - beowulf - bionic - bookworm - breezy - bullseye - buster - ceres - chromodoris - cosmic - dapper - dasyatis - debian-common - disco - edgy - eoan - etch - etch-m68k - feisty - focal - gutsy - hardy - hoary - hoary.buildd - intrepid - jaunty - jessie - jessie-kfreebsd - kali - kali-dev - kali-last-snapshot - kali-rolling - karmic - lenny - lucid - maverick - natty - oldoldstable - oldstable - oneiric - potato - precise - quantal - raring - sarge - sarge.buildd - sarge.fakechroot - saucy - sid - squeeze - stable - stretch - testing - trusty - unstable - utopic - vivid - warty - warty.buildd - wheezy - wily - woody - woody.buildd - xenial - yakkety - zesty The scripts are named after distribution codenames. So here you can see some ubuntu code names like trusty, xenial, etc (ubuntu contains nonfree software), or some debian code names like stretch. Not all scripts are problematic, as amber is the codename of the main PureOS repository[2]. To fix that, Parabola patches debootstrap to remove the problematic scripts[3] and also adds support for many FSDG distributions along the way. It also has a modified manual[4] with examples for Trisquel instead of Debian. Something similar could probably be done in debian.scm[5]. In addition the Guix blog post about "Running a Ganeti cluster on Guix"[6] should probably be reviewed as it contains code to install Debian buster. As I understand, Debian may not contain nonfree software but it is not FSDG compliant, so it could be a good idea to use an FSDG compliant distributions instead to avoid any issues. In addition if the buster script is removed, then the code on the blog post won't work anymore. References: ----------- [1]https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html [2]https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Hardware/FSDG_distributions/PureOS [3]https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/tree/libre/debootstrap/PKGBUILD#n50 [4]https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre.git/tree/libre/debootstrap/debootstrap.8 [5]https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/debian.scm#n121 [6]https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/running-a-ganeti-cluster-on-guix/ Denis.
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