rinse(8)
NAME
rinse - RPM Installation Entity.
SYNOPSIS
rinse [options] Help Options: --help Show help information. --manual Read the manual for this script. --version Show the version information and exit. Mandatory Options: --directory The directory to install the distribution within. --distribution The distribution to install. Misc Options: --arch Specify the architecture to install. --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. --list-distributions Show installable distributions. --print-uris Only show the RPMs which should be downloaded.
OPTIONS
--arch Specify the architecture to install. Valid choices are 'amd64'
and 'i386' only.
--cache Specify whether to cache packages (1) or not (0).
--cache-dir Specify the directory we should use for the cache.
--clean-cache Remove all cached .rpm files.
--directory Specify the directory into which the distribution should be
installed.
--distribution Specify the distribution to be installed.
--help Show help information.
--list-distributions Show the distributions which are installable.
--manual Read the manual for this script.
--print-uris Only show the files we would download, don't actually do
so.
--version Show the version number and exit.
DESCRIPTION
- 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.
USAGE
- 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
TODO
- Short of supporting more distributions or architectures there aren't
- really any outstanding issues.
AUTHOR
Steve
-http://www.steve.org.uk/
LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2007-2008 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.