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cdebootstrap(1)


NAME

   cdebootstrap - Bootstrap a Debian system

SYNOPSIS

   cdebootstrap [OPTION]... [ORIGIN/]CODENAME TARGET [MIRROR]

DESCRIPTION

   cdebootstrap  builds  a  basic  Debian system of CODENAME (e.g. jessie,
   stretch, sid) from ORIGIN (e.g Debian, Ubuntu) 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=CONFIGDIR
          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
          Enable support for non-native arch (needs qemu-user-static).

   -f, --flavour=FLAVOUR
          Select the flavour to use (see FLAVOURS below).

   -k, --keyring=KEYRING
          Use given keyring.  Relative filename are  looked  up  in
          /usr/local/share/keyrings,     /usr/share/keyrings    and
          CONFIGDIR.

   -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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