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