About

This script install Mageia to chroot.

How it work

Script make dir for chroot (if doesn't exist) and install to to it via urpmi packages "basesystem-minimal", "urpmi" and additional packages (if entered by user).

Limits

• chroot's dir cannot be /
• chroot's dir cannot in first level of / (/bin, /etc, /dev, /usr, ...)
• chroot's dir cannot be in first level of /usr (/usr/share, /usr/bin/, /usr/lib, ...)

Wrong: /

Wrong: /var

Ok: /mnt/chroot

Ok: /etc/chroot

• all keys (like -t, -d, ...) must be at the beginning of command's args (just after "./mrc-chroot.rpmbuild") before src.rpms

Wrong: ./mageia-chroot.install lynx -d http://packages.mageialinux.ru/mageia4/i586/

Ok: ./mageia-chroot.install -d http://packages.mageialinux.ru/mageia4/i586/ lynx

Usage

./mageia-chroot.install -key1 VALUE1 -key2 VALUE2 ... -k[n] VALUE[n] additional_pkg[1] additional_pkg[2] ... additional_pkg[n]

Keys

• -d DISTRIB = url to repostiory. Like a http://ftp.belnet.be/mageia/distrib/4/i586

• -p PATH = path to chroot's dir [Default: /mnt/chroot]

• -r RELEASE = set Mageia release: 1 - 4, cauldron [ needed if you what to use default mirror by geoip, see below ]

• -a ARCH = set Mageia arch: i586 or x86_64 [ needed if you what to use default mirror by geoip, see below ]

• -h = show help

Example

./mageia-chroot.install -d http://ftp.belnet.be/mageia/distrib/4/i586

Will install system to /mnt/chroot and get packages from http://ftp.belnet.be/mageia/distrib/4/i586. List of installed packages will be: basesystem-minimal, urpmi.

If you want to use default mirror based on yours geo ip, you not need to use -d. Just set arch and release number for system in chroot:

./mageia-chroot.install -r 4 -a i586

If you need to install some additional packages add them to command's end

./mageia-chroot.install -d http://ftp.belnet.be/mageia/distrib/4/i586 lynx git

List of installed packages will be: basesystem-minimal, urpmi, lynx and git (of course, dependencies for lynx and git will be installed too).