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febootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Fedora system
by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com)
http://people.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap
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febootstrap is a Fedora equivalent to Debian's debootstrap. You can
use it to create a basic Fedora filesystem.
There are currently some restrictions compared to debootstrap.
For instructions, restrictions, examples etc. please read the manpage
febootstrap(8).
Requirements
------------
fakeroot
- Tested with version 1.11.
fakechroot >= 2.9 or 2.8 + patch
- **** NB. KNOWN NOT TO WORK WITH 2.8 ***** You MUST apply
the patch 'fakechroot-2.8-relchroot.patch' to the fakechroot
sources and recompile. Hopefully this patch will be included
in future versions of fakechroot.
yum
- Tested with version 3.2 (works best with 3.2.21 or above)
- Needs network access to a Fedora repository, or a local
Fedora mirror.
perldoc
- This is just used to generate the manpage.
bash
gcc
qemu
- If you want to test-run your systems.
Building and installing
-----------------------
./configure
make
sudo make install
Note, if you want to run the scripts locally without installing,
you have to set the $PATH to the current directory, ie:
PATH=$(pwd):$PATH
febootstrap [...]
Debugging
---------
If you get segfaults while running febootstrap or errors in the %post
scripts, these are often caused by some incompatibility in the
emulation provided by fakeroot/fakechroot. You can track them down by
running the yum command explicitly. Try:
fakeroot fakechroot -s \
yum -y -c /tmp/repo \
--disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=febootstrap \
--noplugins --nogpgcheck \
--installroot=/tmp/root \
install "@Core"
where /tmp/repo would be a file like this (change repo and arch
parameters as appropriate):
[febootstrap]
name=febootstrap
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=x86_64
You can insert gdb in the appropriate place in the fakeroot /
fakechroot / yum command.
Feedback and bugs
-----------------
Send feedback to rjones@redhat.com. You can file bugs in
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
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