On 12 May 2013 13:49, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 05:15:52PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > > Currently even the EC2 part of Amazon's build script pulls a specific > > version of euca2ools from Eucalyptus's github site during the build > > process. It also pulls a boto patch from Red Hat's bugzilla and applies it. > > While none of this bothers me from a freeness perspective, it doesn't meet > > Lucas's criterion (A) (about all software coming from Debian). > > As I understood it, that point is about the software that's contained in > the images. Am I wrong in assuming that euca2ools is only used to build > the images and not shipped as part of it? I've only grepped around > Anders' script very quickly, and that seems to actually be the case, but > I certainly might have missed something. > > I think this is an important distinction to make, if only to avoid > double standards wrt the regular Debian building toolchain. > > Cheers. > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o > Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o > Former Debian Project Leader . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
Forgot to press "Reply all" > Am I wrong in assuming that euca2ools is only used to build the images and > not shipped as part of it? Nope, that is correct, we need neither euca2ools nor boto for the image. Short of using non-free tools I'd say that on the building machine in general anything goes (as long as the one who is bootstrapping is made aware of the changes to his system). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/camcogxev+wz0+ej37w65ppwtpm7jwne5y_ukgntnutuasnm...@mail.gmail.com
