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FREEDOM-MAKER(1) FreedomBox Manual FREEDOM-MAKER(1)

NAME

freedom-maker - image builder for FreedomBox

SYNOPSIS

freedom-maker [--build-stamp] [--image-size] [--build-mirror] [--mirror] [--distribution] [--package] [--custom-package] [--build-dir] [--log-level] [--hostname] [--sign] [--force] [targets] [-h, --help]

DESCRIPTION

FreedomBox is a community project to develop, design and promote personal servers running free software for private, personal communications. It is a networking appliance designed to allow interfacing with the rest of the Internet under conditions of protected privacy and data security. It hosts applications such as blog, wiki, website, social network, email, web proxy and a Tor relay on a device that can replace a wireless router so that data stays with the users.

freedom-maker is a tool to build FreedomBox images for various single board computers, virtual machines and general purpose computers.

OPTIONS

--build-stamp

Build stamp to use on image file names

--image-size

Size of the image to build

--build-mirror

Debian mirror to use for building

--mirror

Debian mirror to use in built image

--distribution

Debian release to use in built image

--package

Install additional packages in the image

--custom-package

Install package from DEB file into the image

--build-dir

Directory to build images and create log file

--log-level'

The logging level - choose one of ('critical', 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug'). Default log level is 'debug'.

--hostname

Hostname to set inside the built images

--sign

Sign the images with default GPG key after building

--force

Force rebuild of images even when required image exists

targets

Image targets to build. Choose one or more of a20-olinuxino-lime, a20-olinuxino-lime2, a20-olinuxino-micro, amd64, arm64, armhf, banana-pro, beaglebone, cubieboard2, cubietruck, i386, lamobo-r1, orange-pi-zero, pcduino3, pine64-lts, pine64-plus, qemu-amd64, qemu-i386, raspberry2, raspberry3, raspberry3-b-plus, test, virtualbox-amd64, virtualbox-i386

EXAMPLES

Example 1. Build BeagleBone image

$ freedom-maker beaglebone

Build a FreedomBox image for the BeagleBone Single Board Computer.

Example 2. Build all images

$ freedommaker a20-olinuxino-lime a20-olinuxino-lime2

a20-olinuxino-micro amd64 arm64 armhf banana-pro beaglebone cubieboard2
cubietruck i386 lamobo-r1 orange-pi-zero pcduino3 pine64-lts pine64-plus
qemu-amd64 qemu-i386 raspberry2 raspberry3 raspberry3-b-plus test
virtualbox-amd64 virtualbox-i386

Build all the available FreedomBox images using freedom-maker.

BUGS

See the freedom-maker issue tracker[1] for a full list of known issues and TODO items.

AUTHOR

FreedomBox Developers

NOTES

1.
freedom-maker issue tracker
05/05/2021 0.8