Changeset 1315 in ProjectBuilder for devel/rpmbootstrap

Timestamp:

Jun 17, 2011, 3:11:36 AM (13 years ago)

Author:

Bruno Cornec

Message:

• Improved documentation and web pages (Eric Anderson eric.anderson4_at_hp.com)

File:

• devel/rpmbootstrap/bin/rpmbootstrap (modified) (1 diff)

devel/rpmbootstrap/bin/rpmbootstrap

@@ -44 +44 @@
 and similar to mock, but fully integrated with project-builder.org 
 (which also supports rinse and mock).
+
+rpmbootstrap works in 2 phases. The first one is used to download all
+the required packages to have a working package management system in the
+chroot working. This list of packages is stored in /etc/pb/pb.conf under
+the rbsmindep parameter (aka rpmbootstrap minimal dependencies). Once the
+packages have been downloaded from the mirror, they are extracted with
+rpm2cpio. At that point you should be able to use yum on Fedora, urpmi
+on Mandriva/Mageia and zypper on OpenSuSE. 
+The second phase uses exactly the previous mentioned tools to install 
+exactly the same package list to have a coherent RPM db at the end.
+
+rpmbootstrap has additional options to execute a post-install script
+(-s) or to add packages (-a). Then pb can use the chroot to perform even
+more actions in it.
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS