[PKG-Openstack-devel] Non-free and contrib repositories enabled in the OpenStack image

[Joonas Kylmälä]

Hi,

I downloaded cloud-init tools source code (apt source cloud-init) and
quick rgrep for "non-free" gave me results like this:

./templates/sources.list.debian.tmpl:deb {{mirror}} {{codename}} main
contrib non-free
./templates/sources.list.debian.tmpl:deb-src {{mirror}} {{codename}}
main contrib non-free
./templates/sources.list.debian.tmpl:deb {{security}}
{{codename}}/updates main contrib non-free

So I guess we found the cause of the problem because the sources.list I
got goes well along with the template. The git commit "merge patched
into master" with hash 1162f5628064010b9e0ec32afc483c7660900aeb is the
one that includes these non-free repositories (in
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/cloud/cloud-init.git/).

Joonas

Joonas Kylmälä:
> Hi,
> 
> I did some more research and I have now a guess why you weren't able to
> find the non-free repositories enabled. This is how I ran the image: I
> issued "qemu-system-x86_64 debian-9.0.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2", waited
> for it to boot with the default grub option and then waited a few
> minutes more because there was some cloud-init problem. After that I got
> the login prompt. So after this I wanted to see how the files in the
> system looked. I rebooted the qemu virtual machine and edited with grub
> the linux boot argument to have init=/bin/bash. Now I was able to see
> the /etc/apt/sources.list file and it had entries like "deb
> http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free" + bunch of
> comments probably from cloud-init (unfortunately it is quite tedious for
> me to include the whole file because I don't know how to copy it from qemu).
> 
> If I don't boot the image first normally but instead use init=/bin/bash,
> then the non-free repositories are not enabled. So from that I conclude
> that something in the boot process enables them, and most likely it is
> cloud-init.
> 
> I have no experience with OpenStack software so I'm in really bad
> position to debug this further. I only wrote to this mailing list
> because I saw one VPS company providing these Debian 9 images with the
> non-free repositories enabled (and their sources.list file have the same
> comments as I got by running the image in the way as I described above).
> 
> Best regards,
> Joonas
> 
> Thomas Goirand:
>> On 06/20/2017 06:22 PM, Joonas Kylmälä wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> it has come to my knowledge that the OpenStack image provided from
>>> <http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/9.0.0-20170617/debian-9.0.0-openstack-amd64.qcow2>
>>> come enabled with non-free and contrib repositories by default. Isn't
>>> this a bug that needs urgent fix? If it is not bug then I suggest moving
>>> the OpenStack images that are not compliant with DFSG to be moved to the
>>> misc and "unoffical" stuff section in <http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/>.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Joonas
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> The above is simply a false statement. I was first very much surprised,
>> and then I checked. The image at:
>>
>> http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/openstack/current-9/debian-9-20170620-openstack-amd64.raw
>>
>> does not have contrib or non-free installed in the sources.list. I don't
>> think it has ever been the case, even. I didn't check other images, but
>> they are built using the same script which doesn't activate the non-free
>> or contrib repo.
>>
>> Could you please check again, and come back to this list on this topic?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>>
>>
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