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| author | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-05-13 13:29:20 +0100 |
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| committer | Richard Jones <rjones@redhat.com> | 2010-05-14 11:41:28 +0100 |
| commit | 95dd28aadbfc1f058dae26beea949cf3cbc22b26 (patch) | |
| tree | a22f2dbcd2a450c339a0aaf371e2c8f437500d98 /febootstrap-to-supermin.pod | |
| parent | 3c9a5248737321d174aefcb9cb8251e1ab44c3fa (diff) | |
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Pull in febootstrap-supermin-helper (C version) from libguestfs.2.7
This commit also pulls in the automake C dependencies and gnulib.
febootstrap-supermin-helper is modified so that it has the
--kmods option (to read the whitelist, from the old shell script),
and so that it can read supermin appliances composed of multiple
parts from out of a directory.
Also: Updates to documentation.
Diffstat (limited to 'febootstrap-to-supermin.pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | febootstrap-to-supermin.pod | 19 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/febootstrap-to-supermin.pod b/febootstrap-to-supermin.pod index 6263f51..123327c 100644 --- a/febootstrap-to-supermin.pod +++ b/febootstrap-to-supermin.pod @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ Use supermin appliances with caution. =head2 ANATOMY OF A SUPERMIN APPLIANCE -A supermin appliance consists of two files: +A supermin appliance consists usually of just two files, but can +contain several files and directories from the list below: =over 4 @@ -90,6 +91,10 @@ call it anything you want) is the skeleton initramfs. This is like an initramfs built by L<febootstrap-to-initramfs(8)>, but all libraries and binaries are removed. +Note that this file is a cpio file in cpio "newc" format, and is +I<not> compressed (unlike initramfs files which are compressed cpio +files). + =item hostfiles.txt This plain text file contains a list of files that we need to add back @@ -106,6 +111,14 @@ the file contains lib64/libreadline.so.6.* +=item any directory + +You can specify a directory which should contain image file(s) +and hostfile(s). + +Using a directory is useful either to keep the appliance-related files +together, or to make more complex appliances containing optional bits. + =back =head2 RECONSTRUCTING AN INITRAMFS FROM A SUPERMIN APPLIANCE @@ -175,8 +188,8 @@ Richard W.M. Jones <rjones @ redhat . com> =head1 COPYRIGHT -(C) Copyright 2009 Red Hat Inc., -L<http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap>. +(C) Copyright 2009-2010 Red Hat Inc., +L<http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap>. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |