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Advertize qemu-user-static and binfmt-support, and warn about essential

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Yann Dirson 2011-06-30 08:56:36 +02:00 committed by josch
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Polystrap is a tool to create a foreign architecture rootfs without needing
superuser privileges by using multistrap, fakeroot, fakechroot and qemu user
mode emulation.
Polystrap is a tool to create a foreign architecture rootfs without
needing superuser privileges by using multistrap, fakeroot, fakechroot
and qemu user mode emulation from the qemu-user-static package.
The proper qemu-*-static binary must be properly configured
(eg. /etc/qemu-binfmt/arm pointing to /usr/arm-linux-gnueabi/ with
xapt-installed libc and possibly other packages); package
binfmt-support (which is only a "Recommends" of qemu-user-static) must
also be installed.
While I wanted to build without superuser privileges, multistrap would never
offer mechanisms that would allow me to do so. Hence I wrote this script which
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The file is not strictly needed because the options
can also be set by commandline arguments and the
script will fall back to ./default/config.
Correct settings for ARCH and ROOTDIR are necessary
for proper operation, whereas other parameters are
only used if your multistrap.conf references them.
PLATFORM/debconfseed.txt - as the name suggests
PLATFORM/hooks - A directory that contains files that are sourced by
polystrap after packages are installed.