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=head1 NAME
febootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Fedora system (like Debian debootstrap)
=head1 SYNOPSIS
febootstrap [--options] REPO TARGET [MIRROR]
=head1 EXAMPLES
febootstrap fedora-10 /tmp/f10
febootstrap rawhide /tmp/rawhide
febootstrap rawhide /tmp/rawhide http://mymirror/rawhide/x86_64/os
febootstrap --groupinstall="Mail Server" rawhide /tmp/rawhide
=head1 DESCRIPTION
febootstrap creates a Fedora root filesystem, based on the Fedora
version specified by I<REPO> under the directory specified by
I<TARGET>. Optionally I<MIRROR> can point to a local mirror
(otherwise the public Fedora mirrors are used). I<REPO> names are
C<fedora-I<VERSION>> (eg. C<fedora-10>) or C<rawhide>.
febootstrap does not need to be run as root. If for some reason you
do run it as root, then it works slightly differently and may have
side effects such as stopping or starting system daemons.
For more advanced needs, take a look at L<mock(1)> and
C<livecd-creator>.
The normal output is a root directory located at I<TARGET> and
a fakeroot logfile at C<I<TARGET>/fakeroot.log>.
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 4
=item B<--install="list of packages separated by commas">
=item B<--groupinstall="list of groups separated by commas">
Specify the list of packages or groups to install. These are passed
directly to C<yum install> or C<yum groupinstall> commands, and thus
any dependencies are also resolved by yum. You can also use shell
globs and filenames here, as with ordinary yum.
If no packages or groups are given, then we install the C<Core> group
which is the smallest working Fedora installation. Use C<yum
groupinfo Core> to list the packages currently in the C<Core> group.
=back
=head1 FAKEROOT LOGFILE
When febootstrap is run as non-root (the normal case) we use fakeroot
so that yum thinks it is running as root. Fakeroot keeps track of
"real" file permissions in a log file which is saved into the target
directory as C<I<TARGET>/fakeroot.log>.
You can use the fakeroot logfile in a number of ways:
=over 4
=item *
Run C<fakeroot -i fakeroot.log I<command>> in order to run a
command with the faked file permissions.
=item *
Generate an initrd (cpio) file containing the correct permissions
using the tool C<febootstrap-to-initrd>.
=item *
Apply the permissions to the target directory using the tool
C<febootstrap-fix-root> (requires root).
=back
=head1 COMPARISON TO debootstrap
febootstrap cannot do cross-architecture installs (C<debootstrap
--foreign>). The reason is that C<%pre> and C<%post> scripts cannot
run. It may be possible to defer running of scriptlets (which is
basically how debootstrap works), and patches to do this are welcomed.
febootstrap cannot do 32-on-64 bit installs. The reason is that
fakeroot and fakechroot do not load the correct preload library. This
is really a bug in fakeroot/fakechroot, which we think would be easy
to fix. (debootstrap deals with this case the same as for
C<--foreign> installs - see previous point).
=head1 OTHER RESTRICTIONS AND BUGS
Some C<%post> scripts do not run correctly. The most common case is
C</sbin/ldconfig>. Since this binary is statically linked, fakeroot
and fakechroot's LD_PRELOAD hack does not work, so effectively
ldconfig tries to update the system cache. You will see the following
error:
/sbin/ldconfig: Can't create temporary cache file /etc/ld.so.cache~: Permission denied
This error is mostly harmless. Just run C</sbin/ldconfig> the first
time you boot into the newly created Fedora system.
Another error you will see is with C</usr/sbin/glibc_post_upgrade>
which is caused for the same reason - this binary is statically
linked. We have examined what this binary does, and it is not really
necessary for installs. If it makes you happier, you can run it the
first time you boot the new system.
=head1 HOME PAGE
L<http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/febootstrap>
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<febootstrap-to-initrd(8)>,
L<febootstrap-fix-root(8)>,
L<fakeroot(1)>,
L<fakechroot(1)>,
L<yum(8)>,
L<rpm(8)>.
=head1 ALTERNATIVES
L<mock(1)>,
L<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD/LiveCDHowTo>,
L<debootstrap(8)>.
=head1 AUTHORS
Richard W.M. Jones <rjones @ redhat . com>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
(C) Copyright 2009 Red Hat Inc.,
L<http://et.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
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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