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