diskimage-builder/elements/debootstrap
Andreas Florath a8c8c61711 Fix packaging problems for Debian
This patch solves three issues with Debian packaging / apt:

o When building 'testing' only default apt sources is
  included - backports, updates and security are skipped because they
  do not exists.

o The default release for Debian was `unstable`: this is now fixed to
  `stable`.

o Starting a Debian Stretch VM that was build with diskimage-builder
  does not work, because some mandatory packages are missing.
  This patch fixes this problem: it adds the mandatory packages and
  the test case.

Change-Id: If49b5b162c4da1e074e9b19324839bc59d87dc57
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
2016-07-19 07:11:57 +02:00
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environment.d Set default locale to image in debootstrap element 2016-03-18 10:04:50 +01:00
install.d Export FS_TYPE and remove hardcoded ext4 values 2016-05-19 17:33:36 +10:00
root.d Fix packaging problems for Debian 2016-07-19 07:11:57 +02:00
element-deps Add cloud-initramfs-growroot for Precise 2016-05-20 14:32:41 +10:00
package-installs.yaml Add cloud-initramfs-growroot for Precise 2016-05-20 14:32:41 +10:00
pkg-map Add cloud-initramfs-growroot for Precise 2016-05-20 14:32:41 +10:00
README.rst Set default locale to image in debootstrap element 2016-03-18 10:04:50 +01:00

===========
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.

The `DIB_DEBOOTSTRAP_CACHE` variable can be used to cache the created root
filesystem. By default this is 0 (disabled) and any other value enables this.
If run in offline mode then the most recently cached rootfs is used instead of
being built.

The `DIB_DEBOOTSTRAP_DEFAULT_LOCALE` environment variable may be used
to configure the default locale of the base image. It defaults to
C.UTF-8.

-------------------
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`.