Ek-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 9

TrueNAS build system going closed source

Readme updated today:

This repository is no longer actively maintained. The TrueNAS build system previously hosted here has been moved to an internal infrastructure. This transition was necessary to meet new security requirements, including support for Secure Boot and related platform integrity features that require tighter control over the build and signing pipeline. No further updates, pull requests, or issues will be accepted. Existing content is preserved here for historical reference only.

https://github.com/truenas/scale-build

Wondering if this is just the first step towards doing a minio in the future.

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Show threadSteveTech

I found a post on the forum:

forums.truenas.com/t/…/64313

This is only their old build system which they weren’t using themselves, the rest of the OS will remain open source. However they also said some worrying stuff about including “proprietary pieces of the OS”.

Scale-build git repo going closed source

I gave a pretty concrete example in another thread about how we did that for CORE just a few short years ago. At the time we needed a FIPS certified SSL implementation. We couldn’t use the open source version, so we shipped a closed one we licensed. So yes, reasons like this do exist and sometimes thats the best option, even if its not our preferred one at the time.

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Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 10

In a years time will the public be able to build trueNAS for themselves without developing their own build tools?

If not then the TrueNAS is no longer Open Source as people can’t practically build it for themselves

(or verify that during the build some code wasn’t injected)

Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 10

According to their own documentation: https://github.com/truenas/scale-build

The TrueNAS build system previously hosted here has been moved to an internal infrastructure.

This doesn’t sound like they are no longer using the build tool, they are simply not open-sourcing it anymore.

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Show threadLordChaos82Mar 10
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai @SteveTech So are they hosting the source code outside of github on their own platform or is it not going to be available at all?
Show threadEk-Hou-Van-BraaiMar 10

Afaik they are hosting their code on their own closed source internal system.

So it will no longer be Open-Source

Show threadLordChaos82Mar 10
@Ek-Hou-Van-Braai That sucks. So where does that leave us opensource advocates? What opensource Nas options do we have now?
Show threadIratePirateMar 10

OpenMediaVault. CasaOS. There may be others.

No drop-in replacements fir everything TrueNAS did, but at least something.