2009-04-21 - Fedora Test Day - Minimal platform

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Wed Apr 22 17:22:02 UTC 2009


On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:28:12AM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> Wait, what's febootstrap?

It's a way to run 'yum --installroot=dir install ...'
where I've pushed enough patches and enhancements to fakeroot and
fakechroot upstream so you don't need to be root.

Also some other bits for minimizing the size, and making initramfs
images directly.

Rich.

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