Group: Software/FSDG distributions/CrossDistroBootstrap
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Introduction
In some cases, users and developers might need to install an FSDG distribution from another one.
This tracks tools that can script installations of an FSDG distribution rootfs from another FSDG distribution.
The criteria for being OK / green are very subjective:
- The installation needs to be somehow automated (debootstrap / pacstrap)
- Signature needs to be checked
Use cases
- Using software not available in the distribution you use, while making sure it doesn't bundle nonfree software, depend on it, etc, by reusing all the work that went into packaging it in other FSDG distributions.
- Build Replicant (it needs specific versions of GNU/Linux distributions)
- Getting FSDG compliant environments packaged by Debian (like Freedombox, or the Android SDK) by getting it from PureOS.
- Supporting more distributions (through semi-automatic installations) in an FSDG hosting environment (where administrators can maintain their own VM with the FSDG distribution of their choice)
Cross bootstrap distros table
| Hosts | ||||||||||||||||
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| Guix for x86_64-linux | Hyperbola i686 | Hyperbola x86_64 | Parabola armv7h | Parabola i686 | Parabola x86_64 | PureOS 10.0 (byzantium) aarch64 | PureOS 10.0 (byzantium) x86_64 | Trisquel 10 (Nabia) x86_64 | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) amd64 | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) arm64 | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) armhf | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) ppc64el | ||||
| Targets | Guix for x86_64-linux |
guix package |
Manual install only | Manual install only |
guix 1.4.0 and guix-installer 1.4.0 packages |
guix 1.4.0 and guix-installer 1.4.0 packages |
guix 1.4.0 and guix-installer 1.4.0 packages |
guix package[1] | guix 1.2.0 package[1] | Manual install only |
guix 1.3.0 package |
guix 1.3.0 package |
guix 1.3.0 package |
guix 1.3.0 package |
||
| Hyperbola i686 | missing pacstrap | pacstrap | pacstrap | missing qemu-user-static | pacstrap + hyperbola-* packages | pacstrap + hyperbola-* packages | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | |||
| Hyperbola x86_64 | missing pacstrap | missing qemu-user-static | pacstrap | missing qemu-user-static | pacstrap + hyperbola-* packages + qemu-user-static | pacstrap + hyperbola-* packages | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | |||
| Parabola armv7h | missing pacstrap | missing qemu-user-static + keyring + configs | missing qemu-user-static + keyring + configs | pacstrap | pacstrap + archlinux-arm-keyring + qemu-user-static | pacstrap + archlinux-arm-keyring + qemu-user-static | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | |||
| Parabola i686 | missing pacstrap | manual with pacstrap: missing keyring + configs | manual with pacstrap: missing keyring + configs | missing qemu-user-static | pacstrap | pacstrap + archlinux32-keyring | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | |||
| Parabola x86_64 | missing pacstrap | missing qemu-user-static + keyring + configs | manual with pacstrap: missing keyring + configs | missing qemu-user-static | pacstrap + qemu-user-static | pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | missing pacstrap | |||
| PureOS 9.0 (amber) aarch64 | Needs testing (with debootstrap and qemu:static) | missing debootstrap | missing debootstrap | Can't run --second-stage: missing qemu-user-static | deboostrap --foreign + pureos-archive-keyring + qemu-user-static | deboostrap --foreign + pureos-archive-keyring + qemu-user-static | debootstrap | debootstrap --foreign + qemu-user-static | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring? | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | |||
| PureOS 9.0 (amber) x86_64 | Needs testing (with debootstrap).[2] | missing debootstrap | missing debootstrap | Can't run --second-stage: missing qemu-user-static | deboostrap --foreign + pureos-archive-keyring + qemu-user-static | deboostrap + pureos-archive-keyring | debootstrap --foreign + qemu-user-static | debootstrap | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring? | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | |||
| PureOS 10 (byzantium) aarch64 | Needs testing (with debootstrap and qemu:static) | debootstrap --foreign + qemu-user-static[3] | ||||||||||||||
| PureOS 10.0 (byzantium) x86_64 | debootstrap[2] | deboostrap + pureos-archive-keyring[4] | deboostrap + pureos-archive-keyring[5] | |||||||||||||
| Trisquel 10 (Nabia) x86_64 | Needs testing (with debootstrap).[6] | missing debootstrap | missing debootstrap | debootstrap + trisquel-keyring[7] | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | missing support in debootstrap + missing keyring | debootstrap (+ some keyring?) | debootstrap + trisquel-keyring | ||||||||
| Trisquel 11 (Aramo) amd64 | debootstrap[6] | debootstrap + trisquel-keyring[8] | debootstrap + trisquel-keyring | |||||||||||||
| Trisquel 11 (Aramo) arm64 | Needs testing (with debootstrap and qemu:static) | deboostrap --foreign + trisquel-keyring + qemu-user-static[9] | ||||||||||||||
| Trisquel 11 (Aramo) armhf | debootstrap + qemu:static + small tweaks[10] | deboostrap --foreign + trisquel-keyring + qemu-user-static[11] | ||||||||||||||
| Trisquel 11 (Aramo) ppc64el | Needs testing (with debootstrap and qemu:static) | missing qemu-ppc64el-static[12] | ||||||||||||||
| Guix for x86_64-linux | Hyperbola i686 | Hyperbola x86_64 | Parabola armv7h | Parabola i686 | Parabola x86_64 | PureOS 10.0 (byzantium) aarch64 | PureOS 10.0 (byzantium) x86_64 | Trisquel 10 (Nabia) x86_64 | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) aarch64 | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) x86_64 | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) armhf | Trisquel 11 (Aramo) ppc64el | ||||
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References
- ↑ 1.01.1 PureOS 10.0 (byzantium) and Trisquel 11 (aramo) now have a guix package
- ↑ 2.02.1 debootstrap now supports PureOS and automatically pulls the pureos-archive-keyring dependency. Tested with PureOS byzantium when sending the patch for that in Guix.
- ↑ Tested on Parabola x86_64.
- ↑ Tested on Parabola x86_64.
- ↑ Tested inside a byzantium chroot inside Parabola x86_64.
- ↑ 6.06.1 debootstrap now supports Trisquel and automatically pulls the trisquel-keyring dependency. Tested with Trisquel 11 when sending the patch for that in Guix.
- ↑ Tested with debootstrap nabia rootfs https://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel on Parabola x86_64.
- ↑ Tested with debootstrap aramo trisquel-11 https://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel on Parabola x86_64
- ↑ Tested under Parabola x86_64 by running 'debootstrap --foreign --arch arm64 aramo rootfs' and 'cp /usr/bin/qemu-aarch64-static rootfs' and 'LANG=C.UTF-8 chroot trisquel-11-arm64 qemu-aarch64-static /bin/bash' and '/debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage' inside the chroot
- ↑ Tested with the Hardware/FSDG_distributions/Trisquel tutorial with 'etiona' replaced by 'aramo', up to the '/debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage' (included). The tweaks are mentioned in the tutorial.
- ↑ Tested on Parabola x86_64 by following Group:Hardware/FSDG_distributions/Trisquel#How_to_install_Trisquel_10_.28etiona.29_on_32bit_ARM_SBCs with aramo instead of etiona. Only the first and second stage deboostrap were done though (I didn't create a loop device, etc).
- ↑ Parabola has qemu-ppc64le-static, qemu-ppc64-static, qemu-ppc-static but none of them work for chrooting inside the ppc64el chroot.
