diskimage-builder/diskimage_builder/elements/debian-minimal/README.rst
Andreas Florath fdd2c4b236 Semi-automatic doc generation of element dependency
Currently there is no description of dependencies in the generated
documentation of the elements: therefore a user of an element does not
know which other elements are automatically included and e.g. which
configuration options are available. In addition there are some
copy&pastes of parts of the README.rst scattered thought different
Ubuntu and Debian specific elements.

This patch adds a semi-automatic generation of dependency information
of all elements.  Nevertheless these are not automatically included.
The author of the element's README.rst can decide if and where the
dependency information should appear and can use the descriptor

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for this.

This patch adds the dependency information for some Debian and
Ubuntu patches - and creates the base for later removing the
duplicated parts.

A call is added to element_dependencies._find_all_elements() to
populate reverse dependencies for Element objects.

(This is a reworking of I31d2b6050b6c46fefe37378698e9a330025db430 for
the feature/v2 branch)

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debian-minimal
==============
Create a minimal image based on Debian. We default to unstable but `DIB_RELEASE`
can be set to any series of Debian.
There are two ways to configure apt-sources:
1. Using the standard way of defining the default, backports, updates
and security repositories is the default. In this case you can
overwrite the two environment variables to adapt the behavior:
`DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR`: the mirror to use
default: http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian
`DIB_DEBIAN_COMPONENTS`: (default) `main`
a comma separated list of components. For Debian this can be
e.g. `main,contrib,non-free`.
Note it is not recommended to use http://httpredir.debian.org/ for
`DIB_DISTRIBUTION_MIRROR` due to how unreliable it is. Be sure to
select a mirror from the official mirror list:
https://www.debian.org/mirror/list
By default only `main` component is used. If
`DIB_DEBIAN_COMPONENTS` (comma separated) from the `debootstrap`
element has been set, that list of components will be used instead.
Backports, updates and security are included unless `DIB_RELEASE`
is `unstable`.
2. Complete configuration given in the variable
`DIB_APT_SOURCES_CONF`.
Each line contains exactly one entry for the sources.list.d
directory.
The first word must be the logical name (which is used as file name
with `.list` automatically appended), followed by a colon `:`,
followed by the complete repository specification.
Example:
DIB_APT_SOURCES_CONF=\
"default:deb http://10.0.0.10/ stretch main contrib
mysecurity:deb http://10.0.0.10/ stretch-security main contrib"
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. It is also recommended that the 'debian-keyring' package
be installed.
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.
For further information about `DIB_DEBIAN_DEBOOTSTRAP_SCRIPT` ,
`DIB_DEBIAN_USE_DEBOOTSTRAP_CACHE` and `DIB_DEBOOTSTRAP_EXTRA_ARGS`
please consult "README.rst" of the debootstrap element.
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Note on ARM systems
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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`.
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