NAME
    rpmbootstrap - creates a chrooted RPM based distribution a la debootstrap,
    aka Virtual Environment (VE)

DESCRIPTION
    rpmbootstrap creates a chroot environment (Virtual Environment or VE) with
    a minimal distribution in it, suited for building packages for example.
    It's very much like debootstrap but for RPM based distribution. It aims at
    supporting all distributions supported by project-builder.org (RHEL, RH,
    Fedora, OpeSUSE, SLES, Mandriva, ...)

    It is inspired by work done by Steve Kemp for rinse
    (http://www.steve.org.uk/), and similar to mock or febootstrap, but fully
    integrated with project-builder.org (which also supports rinse and mock).
    Contrary to these, rpmbootstrap creates an environment where the packages
    commands are usable after build, as described hereafter.

    rpmbootstrap works in 2 phases. The first one is used to download all the
    required packages to have a working package management system in the
    chroot working. This list of packages is stored in /etc/pb/pb.yml under
    the rbsmindep parameter (aka rpmbootstrap minimal dependencies). Once the
    packages have been downloaded from the mirror, they are extracted with
    rpm2cpio. At that point you should be able to use yum on Fedora, urpmi on
    Mandriva/Mageia and zypper on OpenSuSE. The second phase uses exactly the
    previous mentioned tools to install exactly the same package list to have
    a coherent RPM db at the end.

    rpmbootstrap has additional options to execute a post-install script (-s)
    or to add packages (-a). Then pb can use the chroot to perform even more
    actions in it.

SYNOPSIS
    rpmbootstrap [-vhmqpdk][-s script][-i image][-a pkg1[,pkg2,...]]
    distribution-version-arch [target-dir] [mirror [script]]

    rpmbootstrap
    [--verbose][--help][--man][--quiet][--print-rpms][--download-only]
    [--keep][--script script][--image image][--add pkg1,[pkg2,...]]
    distribution-version-arch [target-dir] [mirror [script]]

OPTIONS
    -v|--verbose
        Print a brief help message and exits.

    -h|--help
        Print a brief help message and exits.

    --man
        Prints the manual page and exits.

    -q|--quiet
        Do not print any output.

    -p|--print-rpms
        Print the packages to be installed, and exit. Note that a target
        directory must be specified so rpmbootstrap can determine which
        packages should be installed, and to resolve dependencies. The target
        directory will be deleted.

    -d|--download-only
        Download packages, but don't perform installation.

    -k|--keep
        Keep packages in the cache dir for later reuse. By default remove
        them.

    -s|--script script
        Name of the script you want to execute on the related VEs after the
        installation. It is executed in host environment. You can use the
        chroot command to execute actions in the VE.

    -i|--image image
        Name of the ISO image or the docker image of the distribution you want
        to install on the related VE.

    -a|--add pkg1[,pkg2,...]
        Additional packages to add from the distribution you want to install
        on the related VE at the end of the chroot build.

    --no-stop-on-error
        Continue through errors with best effort.

ARGUMENTS
    distribution-version-arch
        Full name of the distribution that needs to be installed in the VE.
        E.g. fedora-11-x86_64.

    target-dir
        This is the target directory under which the VE will be created.
        Created on the fly if needed. If none is given use the default
        directory hosting VE for project-builder.org (Cf: vepath parameter in
        $HOME/.pbrc.yml)

EXAMPLE
    To setup a Fedora 12 distribution with an i386 architecture issue:

    rpmbootstrap fedora-12-i386 /tmp/fedora/12/i386

WEB SITES
    The main Web site of the project is available at
    <http://www.project-builder.org/>. Bug reports should be filled using the
    trac instance of the project at <http://trac.project-builder.org/>.

USER MAILING LIST
    Cf: <http://www.mondorescue.org/sympa/info/pb-announce> for announces and
    <http://www.mondorescue.org/sympa/info/pb-devel> for the development of
    the pb project.

CONFIGURATION FILE
    Uses Project-Builder.org configuration file (/etc/pb/pb.yml or
    /usr/local/etc/pb/pb.yml)

AUTHORS
    The Project-Builder.org team <http://trac.project-builder.org/> lead by
    Bruno Cornec <mailto:bruno@project-builder.org>.

COPYRIGHT
    Project-Builder.org is distributed under the GPL v2.0 license described in
    the file "COPYING" included with the distribution.