Re: [PATCH 0/3] Enable Ubuntu 18.10

[Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>]

Am Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:35:05 +0100
schrieb "[ext] Henning Schild" <henning.schild@siemens.com>:

> Am Thu, 15 Nov 2018 18:29:28 +0100
> schrieb Henning Schild <henning.schild@siemens.com>:
> 
> > This series is kind of a show-case that Isar can be used to build
> > Ubuntu. I personally would not want to do that for anything serious,
> > but people might find that feature useful.
> > 
> > Adding another distro to the mix could end up being a lot of work.
> > But it could also help increase quality and might increase the
> > visibitly of Isar and maybe grow the community. Feel free to
> > express your opinion and start a distro war.  
> 
> On the one hand i am not a huge fan and would be strongly against
> that, at least if we regard it as officially supported. On the other
> hand it might be nice for a demo for people that think that Ubuntu is
> the same as Linux.
> And there might be a legal aspect, Canonical has a strange additional
> license where any derived thing needs the brand names patched out
> again. And since ubuntu is spreading its names all over its packages,
> that comes close to a full rebuild. But Isar is not providing a
> modified version of Ubuntu ... and i am not a lawyer.

https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/intellectual-property-policy
I think as long as you do not distribute modified versions you are
fine, so this only becomes an Isar topic if we ever provide images for
download.

Henning

> Henning
> 
> > Note that p2 might be useful even if the series does not get merged.
> > 
> > Henning Schild (3):
> >   image: Copy KERNEL_IMAGE out using sudo
> >   meta/isar-bootstrap: allow passing a SCRIPT to debootstrap
> >   conf: Add new distro ubuntu with suite "cosmic"
> > 
> >  .../conf/distro/ubuntu-cosmic-ports.list      |  4 ++++
> >  meta-isar/conf/distro/ubuntu-cosmic.conf      | 15 +++++++++++++
> >  meta-isar/conf/distro/ubuntu-cosmic.list      |  4 ++++
> >  meta-isar/conf/local.conf.sample              |  2 ++
> >  .../conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-cosmic.conf    | 21
> > +++++++++++++++++++ .../conf/multiconfig/qemuarm64-cosmic.conf    |
> > 19 +++++++++++++++++ meta/classes/image.bbclass                    |
> > 2 +- .../isar-bootstrap/isar-bootstrap.inc         |  7 ++++---
> >  scripts/ci_build.sh                           |  5 ++++-
> >  scripts/start_vm                              |  8 ++++++-
> >  scripts/vm_smoke_test                         |  1 +
> >  11 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 meta-isar/conf/distro/ubuntu-cosmic-ports.list
> >  create mode 100644 meta-isar/conf/distro/ubuntu-cosmic.conf
> >  create mode 100644 meta-isar/conf/distro/ubuntu-cosmic.list
> >  create mode 100644 meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuamd64-cosmic.conf
> >  create mode 100644 meta-isar/conf/multiconfig/qemuarm64-cosmic.conf
> >   
>