diskimage-builder/diskimage_builder/elements/debian-minimal
Andreas Florath 3636b40f74 Introduce manual setting of DIB_INIT_SYSTEM
The current implementation evauates the dib-init-system
script too early.  Also it looks that there is no simple
way of getting the info about the init system automatically:
another element can install (later on) a different
init system.  Therefore the only reliable way of setting
this is manual.

Change-Id: I6e9ffa1bdb3154f488f4fd335b197699b86aacd4
Signed-off-by: Andreas Florath <andreas@florath.net>
2019-11-21 12:38:15 +11:00
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environment.d Introduce manual setting of DIB_INIT_SYSTEM 2019-11-21 12:38:15 +11:00
root.d install gnupg2 by default in debian-minimal 2019-07-01 14:28:01 -05:00
test-elements Add a test to validate we can build debian vms 2017-05-05 19:17:39 +02:00
element-deps Release 1.25.2 2017-02-02 11:20:00 +11:00
element-provides Move elements & lib relative to diskimage_builder package 2016-11-01 17:27:41 -07:00
package-installs.yaml Add debian minimal requirement for arm64 2017-10-16 13:39:50 +08:00
README.rst Add security suite name override in debian-minimal 2019-10-15 21:20:02 +00:00

==============
debian-minimal
==============

The ``debian-minimal`` element uses debootstrap for generating a
minimal image.

By default this element creates the latest stable release.  The exact
setting can be found in the element's ``environment.d`` directory in
the variable ``DIB_RELEASE``.  If a different release of Debian should
be created, the variable ``DIB_RELEASE`` can be set appropriately.

Note that this element installs ``systemd-sysv`` as the init system

The element obeys the ``DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR`` argument for
mirroring (see ``debootsrap`` element documentation).  However, the
security repositories are separate for Debian, so we can not assume
they exist at ``DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR``.  If you do not wish to use
the upstream repository (from ``security.debian.org``) override it
with ``DIB_DEBIAN_SECURITY_MIRROR``. The security suite name's subpath
can also be overridden to something other than ``/updates`` with the
``DIB_DEBIAN_SECURITY_SUBPATH`` variable.

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