RINSE(8) Perl Programmers Reference Guide 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.
--config Specify a different configuration file.
(Default is /etc/rinse/rinse.conf)
--list-distributions Show installable distributions.
--print-uris Only show the RPMs which should be downloaded.
--post-install Run the given post-install script instead of the
default files in /usr/lib/rinse/$distro
--add-pkg-list Additional packages to download and install
OPTIONS
--arch Specify the architecture to install. Valid choices are ’amd64’
and ’i386’ only.
--add-pkg-list Add a list of additional packages.
--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.
1.5 2008-12-21 RINSE(8)
