On Wed, 04 Sep 2013 09:40:49 -0400 "Michael H. Warfield" <m...@wittsend.com> wrote: > I do think it is an issue with the whole "distribution agnostic > template" problem that may require some help from the distros or some > innovative ideas of how we can bootstrap distros using distro agnostic > tools (like stone knives and bear skins style install of the rootfs > using nothing more than tar, gzip, gpg, and curl or wget).
This would be very nice. I have not had success with any templates except the debian on Alpine Linux. Debian works because we build a debootstrap package. Ubuntu template did not work because it uses 'arch' command which we don't have. (ok, should be trivial to implement if we want it bad enough - and I haven't tested current git templates) However, the alpine template in current git should work on any distro. Here is what we do: * download static apk-tools (package manager) and the package with the public keys used for package signature checking. * unpack the the package manager and public keys package with tar. The package format is basically .tar.gz with some files in the beginning with metadata, so the .apk files can be extracted with tar -zx. * verify that the public keys are unmodified against a sha256 sum that is embedded in the template script. * verify that the static binary is unmodified using the public key and openssl. The apk-tools-static package includes a signature for the static binary. * use the verified static package manager to install a rootfs. The package manager will use the previously downloaded pub keys. This should work on any x86/x86_64 distro with tar, gzip, openssl and wget. -nc
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