-febootstrap - Bootstrap a basic Fedora system
+febootstrap - Bootstrapping tool for creating supermin appliances
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.
+febootstrap is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are
+tiny appliances [similar to virtual machines], usually around 100KB in
+size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a
+second when you need to boot one of them.
-There are currently some restrictions compared to debootstrap.
+A complete description is in the febootstrap(8) man page.
-For instructions, restrictions, examples etc. please read the manpage
-febootstrap(8).
+IMPORTANT NOTE FOR USERS OF FEBOOTSTRAP 2.x:
+ febootstrap 3.x is a complete rewrite. febootstrap 2.x could only
+ build Fedora distributions. This version can build many varieties
+ of Linux distros. 3.x only builds supermin appliances, it does not
+ build chroots. 3.x does not build cross-distro, cross-release or
+ cross-architecture systems. If you want febootstrap 2.x, please use
+ the 'febootstrap-2.x' branch from the git repository.
Requirements
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- fakeroot
- - Tested with version 1.11.
+ ocaml
- 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.
- - Needs network access to a Fedora repository, or a local
- Fedora mirror.
+ ocaml findlib ("ocamlfind" program)
perldoc
- This is just used to generate the manpage.
bash
- MAKEDEV
+ gcc
+
+ gawk
+
+ libcom_err
+ libext2fs
+ /sbin/mke2fs
+ - These are part of e2fsprogs.
+
+For Fedora/RHEL:
+
+ rpm
+ yum
+ yumdownloader
+
+For Debian/Ubuntu:
+
+ dpkg
+ aptitude
- upx
- - Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, for minimizing binaries
+Optional
+--------
- qemu
- - If you want to test-run your systems.
+These are only needed if you plan to boot the supermin appliances you
+are building:
+
+ qemu >= 0.13
+ kernel >= 2.6.36
+
+ zlib - if your kernel uses gzipped modules
Building and installing
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Feedback and bugs
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-Send feedback to rjones@redhat.com. You can file bugs in
-http://bugzilla.redhat.com/
+Send feedback to libguestfs@redhat.com. You can file bugs in
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/ (under "Fedora", "febootstrap")
+
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