[opensuse-factory] New package for NonFree
Hi, I just created a submit request for :Factory:NonFree for a package called suse-ami-tools. The most important part of the package is an init script that does the ssh-key injection for EC2 images, without which one cannot access a launched instance. Without this package it is not possible to create a working openSUSE image that can be uploaded to EC2 and access it. Would be great if the package could be included (also in 11.4, I know I am cutting it rather close, but I just figured out that this is critical to EC2). Thanks, Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert@novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
Do you have more info on the upstream project? I can not find anything about it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org
On 02/01/2011 07:19 PM, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:
Do you have more info on the upstream project?
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 16:09 +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
On Monday 18 October 2010 15:31:31 Peter Bowen wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 16:12 +0200, Ciaran Farrell wrote: > > On Friday 15 October 2010 15:10:30 Peter Bowen wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 14:49 +0200, James Tan wrote: > > > > > > On 10/15/2010 01:53 PM, Peter Bowen wrote: > > > > > > > > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 12:28 +0200, Christoph Thiel wrote: >> > > > > > > >> You didn't know about this, but Amazon has asked us in the >> > > > > > > >> past not to repackage ec2-ami-tools. Why do we need to >> > > > > > > >> package these? > > > > > > > > > > > > We don't need to, but it's nice to have an RPM for users to > > > > > > install. ec2-ami-tools is needed for the current > > > > > > create_ami.sh script from Studio. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > As of the latest release, Amazon has updated their > > > > > > > > ec2-ami-tools RPM to fully support SUSE and work out of the > > > > > > > > box with no changes. > > > > > > > > https://ec2-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-ami-tools.noarch > > > > > > > > .rpm (which is currently ec2-ami-tools-1.3-57676.noarch.rpm) > > > > > > > > will work perfectly on openSUSE and SLE*. There is a > > > > > > > > detached signature available (same url + ".asc")
> > > > > > > > be verified if you want to ensure that it from Amazon. The > > > > > > > > key is > > > > > > > > https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/public-key.asc > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for the explanation. Will update the README to
> > > > > > users to the Amazon RPM. > > > > > > > > The license on the RPM is suck that we can download, > > > > redistribute it, and include it in our appliances as well. > > > > > > > > > > There's no RPM for ec2-api-tools? If so, will just
> > > > > > to the .zip. It is needed for the create_ebs_ami.sh
> > > > > > I'm working on for Studio built SLE EC2 images. > > > > > > > > You can package the ec2-api-tools, there is no conflict here. > > > > However, I think our policies for OBS would prevent us from > > > > package it there, because it is not released under an open > > > > source license[1] and the source code is not available. > > > > > > > > @AJ: Is this correct? We cannot have this in the OBS? Note > > > > that Ciaran cleared it for inclusion into SLES. > > > > To quote from the discussion concerning this
> > SLES: > > ################################################################# > > ######## #### > > > > > > > >>> @Ciaran: Can you please confirm that this license is approved > > > > > >>> for inclusion into SLES? > > > > >> > > > >>From a legal perspective, yes. The license allows us to freely > > > > >>copy and redistribute the software. > > > > >> > > > > >>However, as I pointed out in a previous mail, the
> > > > >>not meet the Open Source Definition - it has a restriction on > > > > >>'field of endeavour' as the software and derived software are > > > > >>only to be used with Amazon's web > > > > services. > > > > > > >>PM should decide if this is ok. For SLE there are
This was developed in cooperation between Amazon and Novell and is not setup as a public project. The repository containing the code is Novell internal. Due to the cooperation with Amazon and the use of the EC2 API the code has use limitation, i.e. only with Amazon EC2. Therefore, this has to be in the NonOss repository. Inclusion of this was agreed upon by AJ on Oct. 25, 2010 mail header removed to protect the innocent ;) On Monday 25 October 2010 17:06:20 Peter Bowen wrote: that can point point users script package/license and license does packages which
> > > > >>are not OSI approved - mostly firmware. > > > > ################################################################## > > ####### ##### > > > > Thus, as for firmware which doesn't meet the OSI definition, PM > > must make the decision to actually approve the inclusion. The > > same applies to including the package on any product.
AJ, can you please determine if we can include software licensed under the Amazon Software License in openSUSE?
I'm fine with adding ec2-ami-tools under the Amazon Software License.
Just to clarify, there are three packages under this license:
ec2-api-tools ec2-ami-tools suse-ami-tools (portions that are from Amazon)
Ok, so let's add all three to NonFree.
Let's do the following to record this decision: Get the package into openSUSE:Factory:NonFree!
Then you can setup a proper devel project for this, e.g. devel:openSUSE:Factory,
To be clear, my approval is based on doing those two steps. Please talk with Coolo or myself if any problems occur,
Andreas Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Program Manager openSUSE, aj@{novell.com,opensuse.org} Twitter: jaegerandi | Identica: jaegerandi SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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