NAME¶
lb config - Create config directory
SYNOPSIS¶
lb config [
live-build options]
lb config
[
--apt apt|aptitude]
[
--apt-ftp-proxy URL]
[
--apt-http-proxy URL]
[
--apt-indices true|false]
[
--apt-options OPTION|"
OPTIONS"]
[
--aptitude-options OPTION|"
OPTIONS"]
[
--apt-pipeline DEPTH]
[
--apt-recommends true|false]
[
--apt-secure true|false]
[
--apt-source-archives true|false]
[-a|
--architectures ARCHITECTURE]
[-b|
--binary-images iso|iso-hybrid|netboot|tar|hdd]
[
--binary-filesystem fat16|fat32|ext2|ext3|ext4]
[
--bootappend-install PARAMETER|
"PARAMETERS"]
[
--bootappend-live PARAMETER|
"PARAMETERS"]
[
--bootloader grub|syslinux]
[
--bootstrap cdebootstrap|cdebootstrap-static|debootstrap]
[
--cache true|false]
[
--cache-indices true|false]
[
--cache-packages true|false]
[
--cache-stages STAGE|
"STAGES"]
[
--checksums md5|sha1|sha256|none]
[
--compression bzip2|gzip|lzip|none]
[
--config GIT_URL::GIT_ID]
[
--build-with-chroot true|false]
[
--chroot-filesystem ext2|ext3|ext4|squashfs|jffs2|none]
[
--clean]
[-c|
--conffile FILE]
[
--debconf-frontend dialog|editor|noninteractive|readline]
[
--debconf-priority low|medium|high|critical]
[
--debian-installer true|cdrom|netinst|netboot|businesscard|live|false]
[
--debian-installer-distribution daily|
CODENAME]
[
--debian-installer-preseedfile FILE|
URL]
[
--debian-installer-gui true|false]
[
--debug]
[-d|
--distribution CODENAME]
[
--parent-distribution CODENAME]
[
--parent-debian-installer-distribution CODENAME]
[
--dump]
[
--fdisk fdisk|fdisk.dist]
[
--firmware-binary true|false]
[
--firmware-chroot true|false]
[
--force]
[
--grub-splash FILE]
[
--gzip-options OPTION|"
OPTIONS"]
[
--hooks FILE]
[
--ignore-system-defaults]
[
--initramfs auto|none|live-boot|casper]
[
--initramfs-compression bzip2|gzip|lzma]
[
--initsystem sysvinit|runit|systemd|upstart|none]
[
--interactive shell]
[
--isohybrid-options OPTION|"
OPTIONS"]
[
--iso-application NAME]
[
--iso-preparer NAME]
[
--iso-publisher NAME]
[
--iso-volume NAME]
[
--jffs2-eraseblock SIZE]
[
--keyring-packages PACKAGE|"PACKAGES"]
[-k|
--linux-flavours FLAVOUR|
"FLAVOURS"]
[
--linux-packages "PACKAGES"]
[
--losetup losetup|losetup.orig]
[
--memtest memtest86+|memtest86|none]
[-m|
--parent-mirror-bootstrap URL]
[
--parent-mirror-chroot URL]
[
--parent-mirror-chroot-security URL]
[
--parent-mirror-chroot-updates URL]
[
--parent-mirror-chroot-backports URL]
[
--parent-mirror-binary URL]
[
--parent-mirror-binary-security URL]
[
--parent-mirror-binary-updates URL]
[
--parent-mirror-binary-backports URL]
[
--parent-mirror-debian-installer URL]
[
--mirror-bootstrap URL]
[
--mirror-chroot URL]
[
--mirror-chroot-security URL]
[
--mirror-chroot-updates URL]
[
--mirror-chroot-backports URL]
[
--mirror-binary URL]
[
--mirror-binary-security URL]
[
--mirror-binary-updates URL]
[
--mirror-binary-backports URL]
[
--mirror-debian-installer URL]
[
--mode debian|progress-linux|ubuntu]
[
--system live|normal]
[
--net-root-filesystem nfs|cfs]
[
--net-root-mountoptions OPTIONS]
[
--net-root-path PATH]
[
--net-root-server IP|
HOSTNAME]
[
--net-cow-filesystem nfs|cfs]
[
--net-cow-mountoptions OPTIONS]
[
--net-cow-path PATH]
[
--net-cow-server IP|
HOSTNAME]
[
--net-tarball true|false]
[
--quiet]
[
--archive-areas ARCHIVE_AREA|
"ARCHIVE_AREAS"]
[
--parent-archive-areas
PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREA|
"PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS"]
[
--security true|false]
[
--source true|false]
[-s|
--source-images iso|netboot|tar|hdd]
[
--tasksel apt|aptitude|tasksel]
[
--templates PATH]
[
--hdd-size MB]
[
--updates true|false]
[
--backports true|false]
[
--verbose]
[
--win32-loader true|false]
DESCRIPTION¶
lb config is a high-level command (porcelain) of
live-build(7),
the live systems tool suite.
lb config populates the configuration directory for live-build. By
default, this directory is named 'config' and is created in the current
directory where
lb config was executed.
Note: Currently
lb config tries to be smart and sets defaults for some
options depending on the setting of other options (e.g. which linux packages
to be used depending on if a wheezy system gets build or not). This means that
when generating a new configuration, you should call
lb config only
once with all options specified. Calling it several times with only a subset
of the options each can result in non working configurations. This is also
caused by the fact that
lb config called with one option only changes
that option, and leaves everything else as is unless its not defined. However,
lb config does warn about know impossible or likely impossible
combinations that would lead to non working live systems. If unsure, remove
config/{binary,bootstrap,chroot,common,source} and call
lb config
again.
OPTIONS¶
In addition to its specific options
lb config understands all generic
live-build options. See
live-build(7) for a complete list of all
generic live-build options.
- --apt apt|aptitude
- defines if apt-get or aptitude is used to install packages when building
the image. The default is apt.
- --apt-ftp-proxy URL
- sets the ftp proxy to be used by apt. By default, this is empty. Note that
this variable is only for the proxy that gets used by apt internally
within the chroot, it is not used for anything else.
- --apt-http-proxy URL
- sets the http proxy to be used by apt. By default, this is empty. Note
that this variable is only for the proxy that gets used by apt internally
within the chroot, it is not used for anything else.
- --apt-indices true|false|none
- defines if the resulting images should have apt indices or not and
defaults to true. If set to none, no indices are included at all.
- --apt-options OPTION|"OPTIONS"
- defines the default options that will be appended to every apt call that
is made inside chroot during the building of the image. By default, this
is set to --yes to allow non-interactive installation of packages.
- --aptitude-options OPTION|"OPTIONS"
- defines the default options that will be appended to every aptitude call
that is made inside chroot during building of the image. By default, this
is set to --assume-yes to allow non-interactive installation of
packages.
- --apt-pipeline DEPTH
- sets the depth of the apt/aptitude pipeline. In cases where the remote
server is not RFC conforming or buggy (such as Squid 2.0.2) this option
can be a value from 0 to 5 indicating how many outstanding requests APT
should send. A value of zero MUST be specified if the remote host does not
properly linger on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur.
Hosts which require this are in violation of RFC 2068. By default,
live-build does not set this option.
- --apt-recommends true|false
- defines if apt should install recommended packages automatically. By
default, this is true.
- --apt-secure true|false
- defines if apt should check repository signatures. This is true by
default.
- --apt-source-archives true|false
- defines if deb-src entries should be included in the resulting live image
or not, defaults to true.
- -a|--architectures ARCHITECTURE
- defines the architecture of the to be build image. By default, this is set
to the host architecture. Note that you cannot crossbuild for another
architecture if your host system is not able to execute binaries for the
target architecture natively. For example, building amd64 images on i386
and vice versa is possible if you have a 64bit capable i386 processor and
the right kernel. But building powerpc images on an i386 system is not
possible.
- -b|--binary-images iso|iso-hybrid|netboot|tar|hdd
- defines the image type to build. By default, for images using syslinux
this is set to iso-hybrid to build CD/DVD images that may also be used
like hdd images, for non-syslinux images, it defaults to iso.
- --binary-filesystem fat16|fat32|ext2|ext3|ext4
- defines the filesystem to be used in the image type. This only has an
effect if the selected binary image type does allow to choose a
filesystem. For example, when selection iso the resulting CD/DVD has
always the filesystem ISO9660. When building hdd images for usb sticks,
this is active. Note that it defaults to fat16 on all architectures except
sparc where it defaults to ext4. Also note that if you choose fat16 and
your resulting binary image gets bigger than 2GB, the binary filesystem
automatically gets switched to fat32.
- --bootappend-install
PARAMETER|"PARAMETERS"
- sets boot parameters specific to debian-installer, if included.
- --bootappend-live
PARAMETER|"PARAMETERS"
- sets boot parameters specific to debian-live. A complete list of boot
parameters can be found in the live-boot(7) and
live-config(7) manual pages.
- --bootloader grub|syslinux
- defines which bootloader is being used in the generated image. This has
only an effect if the selected binary image type does allow to choose the
bootloader. For example, if you build a iso, always syslinux (or more
precise, isolinux) is being used. Also note that some combinations of
binary images types and bootloaders may be possible but live-build does
not support them yet. lb config will fail to create such a not yet
supported configuration and give a explanation about it. For hdd images on
amd64 and i386, the default is syslinux.
- --bootstrap cdebootstrap|cdebootstrap-static|debootstrap
- defines which program is used to bootstrap the debian chroot, default is
debootstrap.
- --cache true|false
- defines globally if any cache should be used at all. Different caches can
be controlled through the their own options.
- --cache-indices true|false
- defines if downloaded package indices and lists should be cached which is
false by default. Enabling it would allow to rebuild an image completely
offline, however, you would not get updates anymore then.
- --cache-packages true|false
- defines if downloaded packages files should be cached which is true by
default. Disabling it does save space consumption in your build directory,
but remember that you will cause much unnecessary traffic if you do a
couple of rebuilds. In general you should always leave it true, however,
in some particular rare build setups, it can be faster to refetch packages
from the local network mirror rather than to utilize the local disk.
- --cache-stages
true|false|STAGE|"STAGES"
- sets which stages should be cached. By default set to bootstrap. As an
exception to the normal stage names, also rootfs can be used here which
does only cache the generated root filesystem in
filesystem.{dir,ext*,squashfs}. This is useful during development if you
want to rebuild the binary stage but not regenerate the root filesystem
all the time.
- --checksums md5|sha1|sha256|none
- defines if the binary image should contain a file called md5sums.txt,
sha1sums.txt and/or sha256sums.txt. These lists all files on the image
together with their checksums. This in turn can be used by live-boot's
built-in integrity-check to verify the medium if specified at boot prompt.
In general, this should not be false and is an important feature of live
system released to the public. However, during development of very big
images it can save some time by not calculating the checksums.
- --compression bzip2|gzip|lzip|none
- defines the compression program to be used to compress tarballs. Defaults
to gzip.
- --config GIT_URL::GIT_ID
- allows to bootstrap a config tree from a git repositories, optionally
appended by a Git Id (branch, commit, tag, etc.).
- --build-with-chroot true|false
- defines whether live-build should use the tools from within the chroot to
build the binary image or not by using and including the host system's
tools. This is a very dangerous option, using the tools of the host system
can lead to tainted and even non-bootable images if the host systems
version of the required tools (mainly these are the bootloaders such as
syslinux and grub, and the auxiliary tools such as dosfstools, xorriso,
squashfs-tools and others) do not exactly match what is present at
build-time in the target distribution. Never do disable this option unless
you are exactly sure what you are doing and have
completely understood its consequences.
- --chroot-filesystem ext2|ext3|ext4|squashfs|jffs2|none
- defines which filesystem type should be used for the root filesystem
image. If you use none, then no filesystem image is created and the root
filesystem content is copied on the binary image filesystem as flat files.
Depending on what binary filesystem you have chosen, it may not be
possible to build with such a plain root filesystem, e.g. fat16/fat32 will
not work as linux does not support to run directly on them.
- --clean
- minimizes config directory by automatically removing unused and thus empty
subdirectories.
- -c|--conffile FILE
- using a user specified alternative configuration file in addition to the
normally used one in the config directory.
- --debconf-frontend dialog|editor|noninteractive|readline
- defines what value the debconf frontend should be set to inside the
chroot. Note that setting it to anything but noninteractive, which is the
default, makes your build asking questions during the build.
- --debconf-priority low|medium|high|critical
- defines what value the debconf priority should be set to inside the
chroot. By default, it is set to critical, which means that almost no
questions are displayed. Note that this only has an effect if you use any
debconf frontend different from noninteractive.
- --debian-installer
true|cdrom|netinst|netboot|businesscard|live|false
- defines which type, if any, of the debian-installer should be included in
the resulting binary image. By default, no installer is included. All
available flavours except live are the identical configurations used on
the installer media produced by regular debian-cd. When live is chosen,
the live-installer udeb is included so that debian-installer will behave
different than usual - instead of installing the debian system from
packages from the medium or the network, it installs the live system to
the disk.
- --debian-installer-distribution daily|CODENAME
- defines the distribution where the debian-installer files should be taken
out from. Normally, this should be set to the same distribution as the
live system. However, some times, one wants to use a newer or even daily
built installer.
- --debian-installer-preseedfile FILE|URL
- sets the filename or URL for an optionally used and included preseeding
file for debian-installer. If config/binary_debian-installer/preseed.cfg
exists, it will be used by default.
- --debian-installer-gui true|false
- defines if the debian-installer graphical GTK interface should be true or
not. In Debian mode and for most versions of Ubuntu, this option is true,
whereas otherwise false, by default.
- --debug
- turn on debugging informational messages.
- -d|--distribution CODENAME
- defines the distribution of the resulting live system.
- -d|--parent-distribution CODENAME
- defines the parent distribution for derivatives of the resulting live
system.
- -d|--parent-debian-installer-distribution CODENAME
- defines the parent debian-installer distribution for derivatives of the
resulting live system.
- --dump
- prepares a report of the currently present live system configuration and
the version of live-build used. This is useful to provide if you submit
bug reports, we do get all informations required for us to locate and
replicate an error.
- --fdisk fdisk|fdisk.dist
- sets the filename of the fdisk binary from the host system that should be
used. This is autodetected and does generally not need any
customization.
- --force
- forces re-execution of already run stages. Use only if you know what you
are doing. It is generally safer to use lb clean to clean up before
re-executing lb build.
- --grub-splash FILE
- defines the name of an optional to be included splash screen graphic for
the grub bootloader.
- --gzip-options OPTION|"OPTIONS"
- defines the default options that will be appended to (almost) every gzip
call during the building of the image. By default, this is set to --best
to use highest (but slowest) compression. Dynamically, if the host system
supports it, also --rsyncable is added.
- --hooks FILE
- defines which hooks available in /usr/share/live/build/examples/hooks
should be activated. Normally, there are no hooks executed. Make sure you
know and understood the hook before you enable it.
- --ignore-system-defaults
- lb config by default reads system defaults from
/etc/live/build.conf and /etc/live/build/* when generating a
new live system config directory. This is useful if you want to set global
settings, such as mirror locations, and don't want to specify them all of
the time.
- --initramfs auto|none|live-boot|casper
- sets the name of package that contains the live system specific initramfs
modification. By default, auto is used, which means that at build time of
the image rather than on configuration time, the value will be expanded to
casper when building ubuntu systems, to live-boot for all other systems.
Using 'none' is useful if the resulting system image should not be a live
image (experimental).
- --initramfs-compression bzip2|gzip|lzma]
- defines the compression program to be used to compress the initramfs.
Defaults to gzip.
- --interactive shell
- defines if after the chroot stage and before the beginning of the binary
stage, a interactive shell login should be spawned in the chroot in order
to allow you to do manual customizations. Once you close the shell with
logout or exit, the build will continue as usual. Note that it's strongly
discouraged to use this for anything else than testing. Modifications that
should be present in all builds of a live system should be properly made
through hooks. Everything else destroys the beauty of being able to
completely automatise the build process and making it non interactive. By
default, this is of course false.
- --isohybrid-options OPTION|"OPTIONS"
- defines options to pass to isohybrid.
- --iso-application NAME
- sets the APPLICATION field in the header of a resulting CD/DVD image and
defaults to "Debian Live" in debian mode, and "Ubuntu
Live" in ubuntu mode.
- --iso-preparer NAME
- sets the PREPARER field in the header of a resulting CD/DVD image. By
default this is set to "live-build VERSION;
http://packages.qa.debian.org/live-build", where VERSION is expanded
to the version of live-build that was used to build the image.
- --iso-publisher NAME
- sets the PUBLISHED field in the header of a resulting CD/DVD image. By
default, this is set to 'Live Systems project; http:/live-systems.org/;
debian-live@lists.debian.org'. Remember to change this to the appropriate
values at latest when you distributing custom and unofficial images.
- --iso-volume NAME
- sets the VOLUME field in the header of a resulting CD/DVD and defaults to
'( MODE) (DISTRIBUTION) (DATE)' whereas MODE is
expanded to the name of the mode in use, DISTRIBUTION the distribution
name, and DATE with the current date and time of the generation.
- --jffs2-eraseblock SIZE
- sets the eraseblock size for a JFFS2 (Second Journaling Flash File System)
filesystem. The default is 64 KiB. If you use an erase block size
different than the erase block size of the target MTD device, JFFS2 may
not perform optimally. If the SIZE specified is below 4096, the units are
assumed to be KiB.
- --keyring-packages
PACKAGE|"PACKAGES"
- sets the keyring package or additional keyring packages. By default this
is set to debian-archive-keyring.
- -k|--linux-flavours FLAVOUR|"FLAVOURS"
- sets the kernel flavours to be installed. Note that in case you specify
more than that the first will be configured the default kernel that gets
booted.
- --linux-packages "PACKAGES"
- sets the internal name of the kernel packages naming scheme. If you use
debian kernel packages, you will not have to adjust it. If you decide to
use custom kernel packages that do not follow the debian naming scheme,
remember to set this option to the stub of the packages only (for debian
this is linux-image-2.6), so that STUB-FLAVOUR results in a
valid package name (for debian e.g. linux-image-2.6-486). Preferably you
use the meta package name, if any, for the stub, so that your
configuration is ABI independent. Also don't forget that you have to
include stubs of the binary modules packages for unionfs or aufs, and
squashfs if you built them out-of-tree.
- --losetup losetup|losetup.orig
- sets the filename of the losetup binary from the host system that should
be used. This is autodetected and does generally not need any
customization.
- --memtest memtest86+|memtest86|none
- defines if memtest, memtest86+ or no memory tester at all should be
included as secondary bootloader configuration. This is only available on
amd64 and i386 and defaults to memtest86+.
- -m|--parent-mirror-bootstrap URL
- sets the location of the debian package mirror that should be used to
bootstrap from. This defaults to http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ which
may not be a good default if you live outside of Europe.
- --parent-mirror-chroot URL
- sets the location of the debian package mirror that will be used to fetch
the packages in order to build the live system. By default, this is set to
the value of --parent-mirror-bootstrap.
- --parent-mirror-chroot-security URL
- sets the location of the debian security package mirror that will be used
to fetch the packages in order to build the live system. By default, this
points to http://security.debian.org/debian/.
- --parent-mirror-chroot-updates URL
- sets the location of the debian updates package mirror that will be used
to fetch packages in order to build the live system. By default, this is
set to the value of --parent-mirror-chroot.
- --parent-mirror-chroot-backports URL
- sets the location of the debian backports package mirror that will be used
to fetch packages in order to build the live system. By default, this
points to http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/.
- --parent-mirror-binary URL
- sets the location of the debian package mirror that should end up
configured in the final image and which is the one a user would see and
use. This has not necessarily to be the same that is used to build the
image, e.g. if you use a local mirror but want to have an official mirror
in the image. By default, 'http://http.debian.net/debian/' is used.
- --parent-mirror-binary-security URL
- sets the location of the debian security package mirror that should end up
configured in the final image. By default, 'http://security.debian.org/'
is used.
- --parent-mirror-binary-updates URL
- sets the location of the debian updates package mirror that should end up
configured in the final image. By default, the value of
--parent-mirror-binary is used.
- --parent-mirror-binary-backports URL
- sets the location of the debian backports package mirror that should end
up configured in the final image. By default,
'http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/' is used.
- --parent-mirror-debian-installer URL
- sets the location of the mirror that will be used to fetch the debian
installer images. By default, this points to the same mirror used to build
the live system, i.e. the value of --parent-mirror-bootstrap.
- --mirror-bootstrap URL
- sets the location of the debian package mirror that should be used to
bootstrap the derivative from. This defaults to
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ which may not be a good default if you
live outside of Europe.
- --mirror-chroot URL
- sets the location of the debian package mirror that will be used to fetch
the packages of the derivative in order to build the live system. By
default, this is set to the value of --mirror-bootstrap.
- --mirror-chroot-security URL
- sets the location of the debian security package mirror that will be used
to fetch the packages of the derivative in order to build the live system.
By default, this points to http://security.debian.org/debian/.
- --mirror-chroot-updates URL
- sets the location of the debian updates package mirror that will be used
to fetch packages of the derivative in order to build the live system. By
default, this is set to the value of --mirror-chroot.
- --mirror-chroot-backports URL
- sets the location of the debian backports package mirror that will be used
to fetch packages of the derivative in order to build the live system. By
default, this points to
http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/.
- --mirror-binary URL
- sets the location of the derivative package mirror that should end up
configured in the final image and which is the one a user would see and
use. This has not necessarily to be the same that is used to build the
image, e.g. if you use a local mirror but want to have an official mirror
in the image.
- --mirror-binary-security URL
- sets the location of the derivatives security package mirror that should
end up configured in the final image.
- --mirror-binary-updates URL
- sets the location of the derivatives updates package mirror that should
end up configured in the final image.
- --mirror-binary-backports URL
- sets the location of the derivatives backports package mirror that should
end up configured in the final image.
- --mirror-debian-installer URL
- sets the location of the mirror that will be used to fetch the debian
installer images of the derivative. By default, this points to the same
mirror used to build the live system, i.e. the value of
--mirror-bootstrap.
- --mode debian|progress|ubuntu
- defines a global mode to load project specific defaults. By default this
is set to debian.
- --system live|normal
- defines if the resulting system image should a live system or a normal,
non-live system.
- --net-root-filesystem nfs|cfs
- defines the filesystem that will be configured in the bootloader
configuration for your netboot image. This defaults to nfs.
- --net-root-mountoptions OPTIONS
- sets additional options for mounting the root filesystem in netboot images
and is by default empty.
- --net-root-path PATH
- sets the file path that will be configured in the bootloader configuration
for your netboot image. This defaults to /srv/debian-live in debian mode,
and /srv/ubuntu-live when in ubuntu mode.
- --net-root-server IP|HOSTNAME
- sets the IP or hostname that will be configured in the bootloader
configuration for the root filesystem of your netboot image. This defaults
to 192.168.1.1.
- --net-cow-filesystem nfs|cfs
- defines the filesystem type for the copy-on-write layer and defaults to
nfs.
- --net-cow-mountoptions OPTIONS
- sets additional options for mounting the copy-on-write layer in netboot
images and is by default empty.
- --net-cow-path PATH
- defines the path to client writable filesystem. Anywhere that
client_mac_address is specified in the path live-boot will
substitute the MAC address of the client delimited with hyphens.
-
- Example:
/export/hosts/client_mac_address
/export/hosts/00-16-D3-33-92-E8
- --net-cow-server IP|HOSTNAME
- sets the IP or hostname that will be configured in the bootloader
configuration for the copy-on-write filesystem of your netboot image and
is by default empty.
- --net-tarball true|false
- defines if a compressed tarball should be created. Disabling this options
leads to no tarball at all, the plain binary directory is considered the
output in this case. Default is true.
- --quiet
- reduces the verbosity of messages output by lb build.
- --archive-areas
ARCHIVE_AREA|"ARCHIVE_AREAS"
- defines which package archive areas of a debian packages archive should be
used for configured debian package mirrors. By default, this is set to
main. Remember to check the licenses of each packages with respect to
their redistributability in your juristiction when enabling contrib or
non-free with this mechanism.
- --parent-archive-areas
PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREA|"PARENT_ARCHIVE_AREAS"
- defines the archive areas for derivatives of the resulting live
system.
- --security true|false
- defines if the security repositories specified in the security mirror
options should be used or not.
- --source true|false
- defines if a corresponding source image to the binary image should be
build. By default this is false because most people do not require this
and would require to download quite a few source packages. However, once
you start distributing your live image, you should make sure you build it
with a source image alongside.
- -s|--source-images iso|netboot|tar|hdd
- defines the image type for the source image. Default is tar.
- --firmware-binary true|false
- defines if firmware packages should be automatically included into the
binary pool for debian-installer. Note that only firmware packages
available within the configured archive areas are included, e.g. an image
with packages from main only will not automatically include firmware from
non-free. This option does not interfere with explicitly listed packages
in binary package lists.
- --firmware-chroot true|false
- defines if firmware packages should be automatically included into the
live image. Note that only firmware packages available within the
configured archive areas are included, e.g. an image with packages from
main only will not automatically include firmware from non-free. This
option does not interfere with explicitly listed packages in chroot
package lists.
- --swap-file-path PATH
- defines the path to a swap file to create in the binary image. Default is
not to create a swap file.
- --swap-file-size MB
- defines what size in megabytes the swap file should be, if one is to be
created. Default is 512MB.
- --tasksel apt|aptitude|tasksel
- selects which program is used to install tasks. By default, this is set to
tasksel.
- --templates PATH
- sets the path to the templates that live-build is going to use, e.g. for
bootloaders. By default, this is set to
/usr/share/live/build/templates/.
- --hdd-size MB
- defines what size the hdd image should be. Note that although the default
is set to 10000 (= 10GB), it will not need 10GB space on your harddisk as
the files are created as sparse files.
- --updates true|false
- defines if debian updates package archives should be included in the image
or not.
- --backports true|false
- defines if debian backports package archives should be included in the
image or not.
- --verbose
- increases the verbosity of messages output by lb build.
- --win32-loader true|false
- defines if win32-loader should be included in the binary image or not.
ENVIRONMENT¶
Currently, command line switches can also be specified through the corresponding
environment variable. However, this generally should not be relied upon, as it
is an implementation detail that is subject to change in future releases. For
options applying directly to live-build, environment variables are named
LB_FOO, meaning, e.g.
--apt-ftp-proxy becomes LB_APT_FTP_PROXY (the
exception being internal options such as
--debug). For options passed
to another program, as in APT_OPTIONS or GZIP_OPTIONS, no LB_ prefix is used.
FILES¶
- auto/config
- /etc/live/build.conf, /etc/live/build/*
- An optional, global configuration file for lb config variables. It
is useful to specify a few system wide defaults, like
LB_PARENT_MIRROR_BOOTSTRAP. This feature can be false by specifying the
--ignore-system-defaults option.
SEE ALSO¶
live-build(7)
live-boot(7)
live-config(7)
This program is a part of live-build.
HOMEPAGE¶
More information about live-build and the Live Systems project can be found on
the homepage at <
http://live-systems.org/> and in the manual at
<
http://live-systems.org/manual/>.
BUGS¶
Bugs can be reported by submitting a bugreport for the live-build package in the
Bug Tracking System at <
http://bugs.debian.org/> or by writing a
mail to the Live Systems mailing list at <
debian-live@lists.debian.org>.
AUTHOR¶
live-build was written by Daniel Baumann <
mail@daniel-baumann.ch>.