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The Void source libre packages collection
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Nonfree packages can be searched for #29

Closed reback00 closed 3 years ago

reback00 commented 3 years ago

On our current install of Ymir, nonfree packages can be searched for. e.g. Running xbps-query -Rs firefox shows firefox/firefox-esr packages which are non-free.

your-freedom will not let the user install them by mistake. But ideally nonfree packages should not appear on search results.

drake-newell commented 3 years ago

Do you mean packages from the nonfree repo? Because that does not happen in my case. If you mean nonfree packages in the free repo, I'm afraid that as long as we use void's repos for the majority of packages, which are free, we can't really avoid that as far as I can tell. EDIT: one possible solution is switching over fully to our repo by partially mirroring void's packages with rsync, minus the nofree subrepo

reback00 commented 3 years ago

I meant Void's repo. We can't really ignore Void's repo, because it will be an overhead to build all the packages from Void's repo. I was thinking if we could modify xbps-query to ignore nonfree packages from our your-freedom denylist to show up on search results.

drake-newell commented 3 years ago

I meant Void's repo. We can't really ignore Void's repo, because it will be an overhead to build all the packages from Void's repo. I was thinking if we could modify xbps-query to ignore nonfree packages from our your-freedom denylist to show up on search results.

I think my solution of mirroring only free packages from the main repo with rsync will work. We will then only use our repo.

reback00 commented 3 years ago

Will we be able to exclude nonfree items from search results this way? I didn't check how xbps-query works, but I think we may have to update repodata or something according to what we let in from Void mirrors (and what we don't).

drake-newell commented 3 years ago

Ah, you're right. I'll have reposync run xbps-rindex -c after syncing to update the repodata. EDIT: I just ran xbps-rindex, see if you can search for linux-firmware.

drake-newell commented 3 years ago

Resolved.

reback00 commented 3 years ago

Ah, you're right. I'll have reposync run xbps-rindex -c after syncing to update the repodata. EDIT: I just ran xbps-rindex, see if you can search for linux-firmware.

I can see linux-firmware on my search results. firefox too. Would I have to do anything else on my end? Update some package or something?

drake-newell commented 3 years ago

Force update xbps and base-files specifying the repo as https://ymirlinux.org/libre with the -R flag

reback00 commented 3 years ago

Tried:

sudo xbps-install -R https://ymirlinux.org/libre -f xbps base-files

Still shows firefox

drake-newell commented 3 years ago

Tried:

sudo xbps-install -R https://ymirlinux.org/libre -f xbps base-files

Still shows firefox

Try it now.

reback00 commented 3 years ago

It worked. Thanks.

I think now we're 100% libre, right? :100:

drake-newell commented 3 years ago

It worked. Thanks.

I think now we're 100% libre, right? :100:

Yes and no. We're 100% libre, but now we're missing some stuff. I had to exclude the debug packages from the mirror because of space constraints. I'm not sure what to do about that.