[Freedombox-discuss] FreedomBox 25.10 released

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Sunil Mohan Adapa (2025-08-19 21:42:55)
> 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.

Excellent :-)

 - Jonas

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