Debian Image Build System

Requirements

• debootstrap
• qemu-user-static

Install

sudo apt-get install debootstrap qemu-user-static
git clone https://github.com/ARMWorks/dibs.git
cd dibs

Usage

DIBS has several features along with building a debian root file system image.

 ./dibs.sh <NAME> <COMMAND> [ARG ...]

NAME is the path to the image, excluding the file extension. COMMAND is the command to be executed.

Commands

• defconfig [TARGET]
  • Copies a default configuration file. TARGET specifies the configuration to use, if omitted the basename of NAME will be used.
• build
  • Build Debian image.
• reconfigure
  • Re-runs do_configure and post_install tasks.
• shell
  • Start a shell within the Debian image.
• tarball
  • Create tar.gz of image.
• tarxz
  • Create tar.xz of image.
• qemu
  • Run in qemu-system virtual machine.

Examples

# Copy default configuration
./dibs.sh my-image defconfig nanopi

# Build image
./dibs.sh my-image build

# Explore or modify root file system image
./dib.sh my-image shell

# Create tarball archive
./dibs.sh my-image tarball