[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 25.10 released

[Sunil Mohan Adapa]

On 8/19/25 05:59, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
[...]
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> My concern is the packages task-freedombox-blend and freedombox that
> are officially parts of Debian. Do they pull in these containers, or is
> that done in some imaging scripts external to Debian?
> 

When FreedomBox package is installed using Debian installer or using 
apt, these containers are not pulled in. The podman package is also not 
installed by default. This is also true for all the FreedomBox images 
built by FreedomBox team. There are no software bits outside of official 
Debian (except for that one u-boot patch for Olimex Pioneer Ethernet 
issue which we still carry).

To install container based "apps", each user will have to visit the 
FreedomBox web UI, read the warnings about containers, and request 
installation. Then, podman (from Debian) and the containers (from 
upstream project) are downloaded and installed. In effect, FreedomBox is 
shipping some install scripts for installing these container based apps. 
I believe, this is similar to how Firefox, flatpak, or GNOME Software 
install software from outside of Debian.

-- 
Sunil
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