1 febootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Fedora system
2 by Richard W.M. Jones (rjones@redhat.com)
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5 febootstrap is a Fedora equivalent to Debian's debootstrap. You can
6 use it to create a basic Fedora filesystem.
8 There are currently some restrictions compared to debootstrap.
10 For instructions, restrictions, examples etc. please read the manpage
17 - Tested with version 1.11.
19 fakechroot >= 2.9 or 2.8 + patch
20 - **** NB. KNOWN NOT TO WORK WITH 2.8 ***** You MUST apply
21 the patch 'fakechroot-2.8-relchroot.patch' to the fakechroot
22 sources and recompile. Hopefully this patch will be included
23 in future versions of fakechroot.
26 - Tested with version 3.2 (works best with 3.2.21 or above)
27 - Needs network access to a Fedora repository, or a local
31 - This is just used to generate the manpage.
38 - If you want to test-run your systems.
40 Building and installing
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47 Note, if you want to run the scripts locally without installing,
48 you have to set the $PATH to the current directory, ie:
56 If you get segfaults while running febootstrap or errors in the %post
57 scripts, these are often caused by some incompatibility in the
58 emulation provided by fakeroot/fakechroot. You can track them down by
59 running the yum command explicitly. Try:
61 fakeroot fakechroot -s \
63 --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=febootstrap \
64 --noplugins --nogpgcheck \
65 --installroot=/tmp/root \
68 where /tmp/repo would be a file like this (change repo and arch
69 parameters as appropriate):
73 failovermethod=priority
76 mirrorlist=http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/mirrorlist?repo=rawhide&arch=x86_64
78 You can insert gdb in the appropriate place in the fakeroot /
79 fakechroot / yum command.
84 Send feedback to rjones@redhat.com. You can file bugs in
85 http://bugzilla.redhat.com/