On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 9:29 AM, John Reiser <jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/22/2017 0013Z, Neal Gompa wrote: >> >> Yes, we do have debootstrap, but it can only build Debian-based systems. >> :) >> >> I want to be able to build a Fedora based one. > > > Please be specific, and give a concrete example of what should change. > > debootstrap takes a list of .debs and builds a root filesystem that contains > them. > febootstrap takes a list of .rpms and builds a root filesystem that contains > them. > In both cases the result contains some distro-specific metadata as files: > the packaging data for maintenance of the system, which is implicit > (are not files that are contained in some input .debs or .rpms.) > In the case of Debian, the "extra" info is the apt metadata. > In the case of Fedora, the "extra" info is the dnf/yum metadata. > > Anything else? > debootstrap has the capability to utilize qemu-user-static to support constructing foreign arch rootfses. That means I can build an arm64, armhf, or ppc64el rootfs from an x86_64 host. As far as I know, febootstrap can't do this. The missing piece here is that I want to be able to construct a rootfs or an image for an architecture that *isn't* the same as my host machine. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
