diskimage-builder/diskimage_builder/elements/debian-minimal
Ian Wienand 8662297517 Deprecate dib-python; remove from in-tree elements
We are at the point that all distributions we are building have Python
3, so any tools running in the chroot can assume Python 3 exists.
This makes dib-python redundant; mark it as deprecated and start to
remove it from elements where it is no longer required.

Change-Id: I5d852843ec65d3b04444b77c54c5b82424455cd8
2020-08-07 10:38:16 +10:00
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environment.d Introduce manual setting of DIB_INIT_SYSTEM 2019-11-21 12:38:15 +11:00
root.d Deprecate dib-python; remove from in-tree elements 2020-08-07 10:38:16 +10:00
test-elements Add a test to validate we can build debian vms 2017-05-05 19:17:39 +02:00
element-deps Deprecate dib-python; remove from in-tree elements 2020-08-07 10:38:16 +10:00
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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