NAME¶
cdebootstrap - Bootstrap a Debian system
SYNOPSIS¶
cdebootstrap [OPTION]... [ORIGIN/]CODENAME TARGET
[MIRROR]
DESCRIPTION¶
cdebootstrap builds a basic Debian system of CODENAME (e.g.
jessie, stretch, sid) from ORIGIN (e.g Debian, Ubuntu) into
TARGET using the source specified in MIRROR. It supports
http://, ftp://, file:// and ssh:// URL and defaults to
http://ftp.debian.org/debian. The ssh:// scheme uses cat on the remote
host to access the files. You have to setup a master connection and configure
ssh to use it or use a key for authentication. No user interaction is
possible. The complete log is saved as /var/log/bootstrap.log in the
new system.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short
options too.
- --allow-unauthenticated
- Ignore if packages can't be authenticated. This ignores the unavailability
of Release.gpg, missing keyrings, broken signatures and missing gpgv
executable.
- -a, --arch=ARCH
- Set the target architecture.
- -c, --configdir=CONFIGDIR
- Set the config directory.
- --debug
- Enable debug output.
- -d, --download-only
- Download packages, but don't perform installation.
- --exclude=A,B,C
- Drop packages from the installation list. This only works if the package
is pulled in explicitely, either via priority or explicit definition in
the config. It won't exclude packages which are pulled in via
dependencies.
- --foreign
- Enable support for non-native arch (needs qemu-user-static).
- -f, --flavour=FLAVOUR
- Select the flavour to use (see FLAVOURS below).
- -k, --keyring=KEYRING
- Use given keyring. Relative filename are looked up in
/usr/local/share/keyrings, /usr/share/keyrings and CONFIGDIR.
- -H, --helperdir=DIR
- Set the helper directory.
- --include=A,B,C
- Install extra packages.
- -q, --quiet
- Be quiet. Only warnings and errors are shown.
- --suite-config
- -v, --verbose
- Be verbose. All command output is shown.
- -h, --help
- Display this help and exit.
- --version
- Output version information and exit.
FLAVOURS¶
Flavours available with default configuration:
- build
- Installs essential, apt and build-essential. Suitable for sbuild and
pbuilder usage. All rc.d operations are disabled by a policy-rc.d script
(cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package).
- minimal
- Installs essential and apt. All rc.d operations are disabled by a
policy-rc.d script (cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package).
- standard
- Installs required and important priority packages. This is the default
flavour.
