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NAME
cdebootstrap - Bootstrap a Debian system
SYNOPSIS
cdebootstrap [OPTION]... SUITE TARGET [MIRROR]
DESCRIPTION
cdebootstrap builds a basic Debian system of SUITE (e.g. etch, lenny, sid) into TARGET using the source specified in MIRROR. It supports
http://, ftp://, file:// and ssh:// URL and defaults to http://ftp.debian.org/debian. The ssh:// scheme uses cat on the remote host to
access the files. You have to setup a master connection and configure ssh to use it or use a key for authentication. No user interaction
is possible. The complete log is saved as /var/log/bootstrap.log in the new system.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
--allow-unauthenticated
Ignore if packages can't be authenticated. This ignores the unavailability of Release.gpg, missing keyrings, broken signatures and
missing gpgv executable.
-a, --arch=ARCH
Set the target architecture.
-c, --configdir=DIR
Set the config directory.
--debug
Enable debug output.
-d, --download-only
Download packages, but don't perform installation.
--exclude=A,B,C
Drop packages from the installation list. This only works if the package is pulled in explicitely, either via priority or explicit
definition in the config. It won't exclude packages which are pulled in via dependencies.
--foreign
Use second stage installer. This does the unpack phase of the bootstraping only. The second stage installer will be available as
/sbin/cdebootstrap-foreign and /sbin/init.
-f, --flavour=FLAVOUR
Select the flavour to use (see FLAVOURS below).
-k, --keyring=KEYRING
Use given keyring.
-H, --helperdir=DIR
Set the helper directory.
--include=A,B,C
Install extra packages.
-q, --quiet
Be quiet. Only warnings and errors are shown.
--suite-config
-v, --verbose
Be verbose. All command output is shown.
-h, --help
Display this help and exit.
--version
Output version information and exit.
FLAVOURS
Flavours available with default configuration:
build Installs essential, apt and build-essential. Suitable for sbuild and pbuilder usage. All rc.d operations are disabled by a policy-
rc.d script (cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package).
minimal
Installs essential and apt. All rc.d operations are disabled by a policy-rc.d script (cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package).
standard
Installs required and important priority packages. This is the default flavour.
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