[CentOS-devel] [altarch] multiarch docker images

Fabian Arrotin arrfab at centos.org
Thu Jan 28 06:34:20 UTC 2016


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On 27/01/16 20:17, Manfred Touron wrote:
>> On 27 Jan 2016, at 16:43, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org 
>> <mailto:mail-lists at karan.org>> wrote:
>> 
>> I believe that is the crux of the matter - Armhfp is not
>> installer driven, but image driven. There are no installer images
>> created for that platform, hence no boot.iso or DVD images etc.
> 
> Ok, that makes sense.
> 
> Is this possible to do something like “debootstrap" or alpine
> linux' “apk” do, i.e:
> 
> mkdir rootfs cp yum-static rootfs chroot rootfs ./yum-static
> install base
> 

more or less, yes, and that's how the actual armhfp .img files were
created (yum --installroot=)
As said before on irc, have a look at https://github.com/mndar/rbf
(and for example
https://github.com/arrfab/rbf/blob/master/templates/centos-cubietruck.xml)

BTW, if you just need the RootFS, why not using one of the generated
images, and get what you need from that image ?

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Fabian Arrotin
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