NAME
cdebootstrap - Bootstrap a Debian system
SYNOPSIS
cdebootstrap [OPTION]... SUITE TARGET [MIRROR]
DESCRIPTION
cdebootstrap builds a basic Debian system of SUITE (e.g. etch, lenny,
sid) 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=DIR
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
Use second stage installer. This does the unpack phase of the
bootstraping only. The second stage installer will be available
as /sbin/cdebootstrap-foreign and /sbin/init.
-f, --flavour=FLAVOUR
Select the flavour to use (see FLAVOURS below).
-k, --keyring=KEYRING
Use given keyring.
-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.