NAME

       cdebootstrap - Bootstrap a Debian system

SYNOPSIS

       cdebootstrap [OPTION]... [ORIGIN/]CODENAME TARGET [MIRROR]

DESCRIPTION

       cdebootstrap  builds  a  basic  Debian  system  of  CODENAME (e.g. jessie, stretch, sid) from ORIGIN (e.g
       Debian, Ubuntu) into TARGET using the source specified in MIRROR.  It supports http://,  ftp://,  file://
       and  ssh://  URL  and defaults to http://ftp.debian.org/debian.  The ssh:// scheme uses cat on the remote
       host to access the files.  You have to setup a master connection and configure ssh to use it or use a key
       for authentication. No user interaction is possible.  The complete log is saved as /var/log/bootstrap.log
       in the new system.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       --allow-unauthenticated
              Ignore if packages can't be  authenticated.   This  ignores  the  unavailability  of  Release.gpg,
              missing keyrings, broken signatures and missing gpgv executable.

       -a, --arch=ARCH
              Set the target architecture.

       -c, --configdir=CONFIGDIR
              Set the config directory.

       --debug
              Enable debug output.

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

       --exclude=A,B,C
              Drop  packages  from  the  installation  list.   This  only  works  if  the  package  is pulled in
              explicitely, either via priority or explicit definition in the config.  It won't exclude  packages
              which are pulled in via dependencies.

       --foreign
              Enable support for non-native arch (needs qemu-user-static).

       -f, --flavour=FLAVOUR
              Select the flavour to use (see FLAVOURS below).

       -k, --keyring=KEYRING
              Use   given   keyring.    Relative   filename   are   looked   up   in  /usr/local/share/keyrings,
              /usr/share/keyrings and CONFIGDIR.

       -H, --helperdir=DIR
              Set the helper directory.

       --include=A,B,C
              Install extra packages.

       -q, --quiet
              Be quiet.  Only warnings and errors are shown.

       --suite-config

       -v, --verbose
              Be verbose.  All command output is shown.

       -h, --help
              Display this help and exit.

       --version
              Output version information and exit.

FLAVOURS

       Flavours available with default configuration:

       build  Installs essential, apt and build-essential.  Suitable for sbuild and pbuilder  usage.   All  rc.d
              operations are disabled by a policy-rc.d script (cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package).

       minimal
              Installs   essential  and  apt.   All  rc.d  operations  are  disabled  by  a  policy-rc.d  script
              (cdebootstrap-helper-rc.d package).

       standard
              Installs required and important priority packages.  This is the default flavour.