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Monty Taylor d22cc0ce0d Generate locales in debian-based elements 
Without generating locales, annoying warnings are spewed.

Change-Id: Ibb2f241a5eb398377967a77cd5dd8fe55719fdbf
2015-04-27 05:08:24 +00:00
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install.d Generate locales in debian-based elements 2015-04-27 05:08:24 +00:00
root.d Split the debootstrap functions into an element 2015-04-26 18:04:59 +00:00
element-deps Split the debootstrap functions into an element 2015-04-26 18:04:59 +00:00
package-installs.yaml Split the debootstrap functions into an element 2015-04-26 18:04:59 +00:00
README.rst Split the debootstrap functions into an element 2015-04-26 18:04:59 +00:00

README.rst

debootstrap

Base element for creating minimal debian-based images.

This element is incomplete by itself, you'll want to use the debian-minimal or ubuntu-minimal elements to get an actual base image.

If necessary, a custom apt keyring and debootstrap script can be supplied to the debootstrap command via DIB_APT_KEYRING and DIB_DEBIAN_DEBOOTSTRAP_SCRIPT respectively. Both options require the use of absolute rather than relative paths.

Use of this element will also require the tool 'debootstrap' to be available on your system. It should be available on Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora.

The DIB_OFFLINE or more specific DIB_DEBIAN_USE_DEBOOTSTRAP_CACHE variables can be set to prefer the use of a pre-cached root filesystem tarball.

The DIB_DEBOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_ARGS environment variable may be used to pass extra arguments to the debootstrap command used to create the base filesystem image. If --keyring is is used in DIB_DEBOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_ARGS, it will override DIB_APT_KEYRING if that is used as well.

Note on ARM systems

Because there is not a one-to-one mapping of ARCH to a kernel package, if you are building an image for ARM on debian, you need to specify which kernel you want in the environment variable DIB_ARM_KERNEL. For instance, if you want the linux-image-mx5 package installed, set DIB_ARM_KERNEL to mx5.