Building overview¶

There are two major steps involved in building KaarPux:

Use an existing Linux distribution (called the Host System) to build a minimal, bootable version of KaarPux
Boot into the minimal KaarPux version to build a complete KaarPux distribution.

Different ways to build KaarPux¶

Kaarpux can be build in many ways; here we describe three:

The steps involved in building KaarPux (as described in more detail in the following sections) are:

Get ready

Install required packages on the host: Make sure the tools needed to build KaarPux are installed on the Host System
Formatting disks: Format the disk partition(s) KaarPux will be install onto.
Download and Prepare KaarPux: Download the bleeding edge or stable version of KaarPux as a tarball.
Configure KaarPux: Create a configuration file with suitable options for your system and build
- mount disks
- prepare a host directory for KaarPux
- unpack tarballl
- configure KaarPux
- create scripts
- download packages
- add a dedicated build user

Bootstrap

Build

Building the complete KaarPux system: Boot into the new (minimal) system. Build the rest of the KaarPux packages there.

Use it

All the above steps are described in detail in Build KaarPux on your own machine

In order to automate the building of KaarPux further, you can use a virtual machine:

KaarPux can be build in less than 5 hours on this reference installation:

Host and target where run under kvm with testing disabled, using tmpfs for build directories.

Durations for each phase: