A simple tool for bootstrapping Chimera systems from binaries
This is a simple tool for bootstrapping Chimera systems from binaries. For source builds, you want .
Simple usage:
$ # run as root most of the time
$ ./chimera-bootstrap.py --repository /path/to/main --key /path/to/key.pub /path/to/root
See --help for more information.
Why not simply use apk?
For one, this script makes sure that all hooks and triggers are run correctly and reproducibly, in a safe manner. This is not ensured if you just use apk to install a base package.
For two, Chimera has /usr merged. Alpine does not, and apk‘s --initdb option assumes an Alpine system. This creates trouble. Therefore,