Rinse bootstrap

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Official website: http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/rinse/


Rinse is a simple tool which is designed to carry out the installation of a new RPM-based distribution. Rinse is currently supported several distributions:

  • centos-4
  • centos-5
  • fedora-core-10
  • fedora-core-4
  • fedora-core-5
  • fedora-core-6
  • fedora-core-7
  • fedora-core-8
  • fedora-core-9
  • opensuse-10.1
  • opensuse-10.2
  • opensuse-10.3
  • opensuse-11.0
  • opensuse-11.1

To install and use this software you'll need several dependencies:

  • rpm & rpm2cpio
  • perl : to unpack the RPM packages


Some usefull options from rinse:

  • Customization Options:
      --add-pkg-list        Additional packages to download and install
      --after-post-install  Additionally run the specified script after
                            the post install script.
      --before-post-install Additionally run the specified script before
                            the post install script.
      --post-install        Run the given post-install script instead of the
                            default files in /usr/lib/rinse/$distro
  • Misc Options:
      --arch                Specify the architecture to install.
      --cache               Should we use a local cache?  (Default is 1)
      --cache-dir           Specify the directory we should use for the cache.
      --clean-cache         Clean our cache of .rpm files.
      --config              Specify a different configuration file (Default is /etc/rinse/rinse.conf)
      --pkgs-dir            Specify a different directory containing
                            <distribution>.packages files.
      --list-distributions  Show installable distributions.
      --print-uris          Only show the RPMs which should be downloaded.
                            default files in /usr/lib/rinse/$distro


So in a computemode context, to install a computemode server, we can use this kind of command:


# sudo rinse --arch amd64 --distribution centos-5 --directory ./


It is also possible to add more distributions:

# ls /etc/rinse/
centos-4.packages        fedora-core-15.packages  fedora-core-6.packages  fedora-core-9.packages  opensuse-10.3.packages  rinse.conf
centos-5.packages        fedora-core-4.packages   fedora-core-7.packages  opensuse-10.1.packages  opensuse-11.0.packages
fedora-core-10.packages  fedora-core-5.packages   fedora-core-8.packages  opensuse-10.2.packages  opensuse-11.1.packages

We just have to add a configuration file containing a package list to be installed into the chrooted environment and to configure the mirror installation into the /etc/rinse/rinse.conf file.


Note: all repositories into the /etc/rinse/rinse.conf file seems to be deprecated but we can easily find some other mirrors.

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