+++ Brendan Simon [2009-07-15 23:07 +1000]: > > > > Is there anything specific that is missing from the manpage that you'd > > like covered in a prospective webpage? > > > > An example usage. I did use it before some time ago as a test, but > can't seem to work out the what I did <blush> > > I'm currently trying: > $ fakeroot -- /usr/sbin/multistrap -f simple-nocleanup.multistrap.cfg
Here's what we use, to generate a rootfs based on grip, and taking some packages from our local repository with a fallback to Debian for missing dependencies. And all the sources get This is exceedingly cool: fakeroot /usr/sbin/em_multistrap -a $(ARCHNAME) -d $(BUILD) -f multistrap-balloon-sl40.conf --tidy-up --source-dir $(BUILD)/sources/packages and multistrap-balloon-sl40.conf looks like: [General] # arch and directory are overridden. arch=arm directory=/opt/multistrap/ # same as --tidy-up option if set to true cleanup=true # retain the sources outside the rootfs for distribution # specify a directory to which all the .debs can be moved. # or override with the --source-dir option. retainsources= # same as --no-auth option if set to true # keyring packages listed in each debootstrap will # still be installed. noauth=true # retries not needed. #retries=5 # extract all downloaded archives unpack=true # the order of sections is no longer important. # debootstrap determines which repository is used to # calculate the list of Priority: required packages debootstrap=Grip # the order of sections is no longer important. # aptsources is a list of sections to be listed # in the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/multistrap.sources.list # of the target. aptsources=Grip Updates Debian Trx850 [Grip] packages=balloon3-config source=http://www.emdebian.org/grip keyring=emdebian-archive-keyring suite=lenny [Updates] packages=apt source=http://www.emdebian.org/grip keyring=emdebian-archive-keyring suite=lenny-proposed-updates # fallback [Debian] packages= source=http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian keyring=debian-archive-keyring suite=lenny [Trx850] # space separated package list packages=sl40-platform-debian libgsmd0 source=http://trx850/debian suite=development #keyring= Wookey -- Principal hats: iEndian - Balloonboard - Toby Churchill - Emdebian http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
