1 Ideas for a future version of febootstrap.
7 The name 'febootstrap' confuses everyone. I'd like to rename the
8 program to 'supermin' and rename 'febootstrap-supermin-helper' to
9 'supermin-reconstruct'.
15 'hostfiles' causes lots of trouble, because it bakes path dependencies
16 into the supermin appliance.
18 We propose to replace this with a list of root packages. Lines in
19 hostfiles beginning with a "+" sign are a root package, eg:
24 We then query RPM or dpkg to get a list of hostfiles at appliance boot
25 time. eg. For rpm we'd do the rpmlib equivalents of:
27 rpm -ql bash # list of files in bash
28 rpm -qR bash # what bash requires
29 rpm -q --whatprovides <depN> # recursively look up each requires
31 (If this is too slow, aggressively cache the results)
33 Some files still need to be stored at build time, basically %config
36 Unclear what to do about kernels if we make this change.
38 'hostfiles' may still be needed for a handful of files that we really
39 want to copy in. Notable ones: /etc/localtime and /etc/resolv.conf.
45 Can we get the %post scripts and store them in a directory in the
52 Reconstruction is tied to having directories being created before they
53 are used. We should try to remove this limitation as it's really