| RINSE(8) | Perl Programmers Reference Guide | RINSE(8) |
rinse - RPM Installation Entity.
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.
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.
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
Short of supporting more distributions or architectures there aren't really any outstanding issues.
To add a new distribution you need to
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
dnf repoquery --requires --resolve --recursive --installed dnf | \
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.
Thomas Lange https://visva.cs.uni-koeln.de/team/lange Steve Kemp http://www.steve.org.uk/
Copyright (c) 2011-2022 by Thomas Lange. All rights reserved.
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.
| 2023-02-04 | 4.1 |