Overview

Flootstrap is a python wrapper around Linux distributions bootstrappers. Chroot's environments are useful for building locally in a native guest environment and don't pollute your system with dependencies.

There are other alternatives for isolating a system for building and testing, but unlike container-based alternatives like Docker, this only abstracts the file system, not the system as a whole.

Examples

[debian-bookworm]
target = 'debian-bookworm'
arch = 'amd64'
dir = 'debian-bookworm-amd64'
post_script = 'post-script.sh'

[fedora-28]
target = 'fedora-28'
arch = 'amd64'
dir = 'fedora-28-amd64'
post_script = 'post-script.sh'

Running

Listing available distributions and versions

$> flootstrap -l debug list

Building the entries on the file

$> flootstrap -l debug build examples/rootfs.toml

Running a command inside the rootfs

$> flootstrap -l debug run examples/rootfs.toml debian-bookworm /bin/bash

TODO

• Add support for ENV variables in the toml definition
• Call the post-script after the rootfs is created
• Add support for extra command line options when triggering the bootstrapper
• Fix rinse error Use of uninitialized value $CONFIG{"width"} in subtraction (-) at /usr/sbin/rinse line 1247