VRMS missing from repos
Disaster! How can I tell my new Trisquel installation is truly 100% free without VRMS? :D
$ sudo apt-get install vrms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package vrms is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package vrms has no installation candidate
$
The VRMS package can be obtained from http://vrms.alioth.debian.org/
It's GPL software, so not sure why it's missing. It it because it's unnecessary or inaccurate? Ideally it would scan for all items on the blacklist - useful for when debs or third party repos might have been manually added to an installation at some point.
http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Software_blacklist
Ironically, I just noticed that it's listed on that very same blacklist due to it being "Incomplete and misleading"!
I'm not sure I agree - surely the blacklist is incomplete too? Are we certain we will never find anything else that should be removed from Trisquel? Even if we are, why not just add a disclaimer that it is not 100% accurate?
I just went to recompile my kernel, and found this:
$ dpkg -L linux-source-2.6.32
/.
/usr
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/linux-source-2.6.32
/usr/share/doc/linux-source-2.6.32/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/linux-source-2.6.32/copyright
/usr/src
/usr/src/linux-source-2.6.32
$
Try it for yourself! VRMS is the least of our worries.
Trisquel GNU/Linux is not affiliated with the libre-planet blacklist. We don't have any control over if they put a disclaimer or not. You would have to contact their mailing list if that is your concern (http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-linux-libre).
Also, you seem to indicate that something is amiss when you went to recompile your kernel. Perhaps I am missing what you are indicating but I don't see anything.
> Trisquel GNU/Linux is not affiliated with the libre-planet blacklist.
In fact it is, I started both projects, and IIRC I added the vrms entry to the blacklist.
> We don't have any control over if they put a disclaimer or not.
> You would have to contact their mailing list if that is your
> concern (http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-linux-libre).
That list is just for free distro main developers, so any third party message would be put on hold until an FSF admin or myself aprove it.
> Also, you seem to indicate that something is amiss when you went to
> recompile your kernel. Perhaps I am missing what you are indicating
> but I don't see anything.
That is due to a packaging bug we are already taking care of. In the meantime you can get the kernel source with apt-get source