NAME¶

SYNOPSIS¶

  rinse [options]


  Help Options:
   --help     Show help information.
   --manual   Read the manual for this script.
   --version  Show the version information and exit.


  Mandatory Options:

   --arch         Specify the architecture to install.
   --directory    The directory to install the distribution within.
   --distribution The distribution to install.


  Customization Options:

   --add-pkg-list        Additional packages to download and install

   --after-post-install  Additionally run the specified script after
                         the post install script.
   --before-post-install Additionally run the specified script before
                         the post install script.
   --post-install        Run the given post-install script instead of the
                         default files in /usr/lib/rinse/$distro

  Misc Options:

   --cache               Should we use a local cache?  (Default is 1)
   --cache-dir           Specify the directory we should use for the cache.
   --clean-cache         Clean our cache of .rpm files, then exit.
   --config              Specify a different configuration file.
                         (Default is /etc/rinse/rinse.conf)
   --pkgs-dir            Specify a different directory containing
                         <distribution>.packages files.
   --mirror              Specify the URL of the mirror.
                         (Default is to read it from /etc/rinse/rinse.conf)
   --list-distributions  Show installable distributions.
   --print-uris          Only show the RPMs which should be downloaded.
                         default files in /usr/lib/rinse/$distro
   --verbose             Enable verbose output.

OPTIONS¶

--arch Specify the architecture to install. Valid choices are 'amd64' and 'i386' only.

--add-pkg-list Add a list of additional packages.

--cache Specify whether to cache packages (1) or not (0).

--cache-dir Specify the directory we should use for the cache.

--clean-cache Remove all cached .rpm files.

--directory Specify the directory into which the distribution should be installed.

--distribution Specify the distribution to be installed.

--help Show help information.

--mirror Specify the URL of the mirror. Normally this is read from /etc/rinse/rinse.conf.

--list-distributions Show the distributions which are installable.

--manual Read the manual for this script.

--print-uris Only show the files we would download, don't actually do so.

--verbose Enable verbose output.

--version Show the version number and exit.

DESCRIPTION¶

  rinse is a simple script which is designed to be able to install
 a minimal working installation of an RPM-based distribution into
 a directory.

  The tool is analogous to the standard Debian GNU/Linux debootstrap
 utility.

USAGE¶

  To use this script you will need to be root.  This is required
 to mount /proc, run chroot, and more.

  Basic usage is as simple as:

   rinse --distribution fedora-core-6 --directory /tmp/test

  This will download the required RPM files and unpack them into
 a minimal installation of Fedora Core 6.

  To see which RPM files would be downloaded, without actually
 performing an installation or downloading anything, then you
 may run the following:

   rinse --distribution fedora-core-6 --print-uris

TODO¶

  Short of supporting more distributions or architectures there aren't
 really any outstanding issues.

ADDING NEW DISTRIBUTIONS¶

1. Add a new package list to "etc/DISTRIBUTION.packages"

2. Add a script to "scripts/DISTRIBUTION/post-install.sh" Many of these are identical across releases, so symlinks work here.

3. Add download mirrors to "etc/rinse.conf"

Package lists tend to be very similar across different releases in a distro, but not identical. A way to make these lists is to obtain an existing install of a distro, and follow the dependency tree of the packaging utilities. A "DISTRIBUTION.packages" file can be the output of

   repoquery --requires --resolve --recursive dnf yum rpm | perl -pe 's/(.*)-.*?-.*?$/$1/g' | sort -u \
     egrep -v 'glibc-all-langpacks|glibc-langpack-'

This is more a developers attempt to generate a package list.

AUTHOR¶

 Thomas Lange http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/~lange/
 Steve Kemp http://www.steve.org.uk/

LICENSE¶

Copyright (c) 2007-2010 by Steve Kemp. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license.