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5 Catalyst is copyrighted by the Gentoo Foundation, and is released under the
6 terms of the GNU General Public License v.2.1. For more information, please
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12 The Gentoo Foundation extends no warranty or guarantee for catalyst. This
13 software is provided to the public to comply with the Gentoo social contract
14 and to assist other distributors and integrators of Gentoo and Gentoo-based
15 solutions. Use at your own risk.
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20 - Python 2.4 or greater (may still work with 2.3)
21 - A portage snapshot (or portage tree to make your own)
22 - A Gentoo generic stage3 tarball
23 - shash for digest support
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28 Catalyst is the Gentoo Linux project's release building tool. With catalyst,
29 you are able to completely customize your Gentoo install by customizing
30 the very tools that are used to install a system. Official Gentoo Linux release
31 media is built with catalyst.
33 Catalyst is capable of:
35 - Building installation stages for every architecture supported by Gentoo
36 - Building bootable LiveCDs for every architecture supported by Gentoo
37 - Building GRP (Gentoo Reference Platform) sets for every architecture supported by Gentoo
38 - Setting up a Tinderbox target for test building
39 - Building netboot images
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44 After emerging/installing catalyst, the first (and probably only) thing
45 that you will have to do is edit /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf to your liking.
47 Example catalyst.conf:
49 distdir="/usr/portage/distfiles"
50 options="pkgcache kerncache"
51 sharedir="/usr/lib/catalyst"
53 There are many more options that can be set, but those defaults are good
54 for out of the box operation. For more documentation on what you can do
55 with catalyst, please check the man page or the online documentation at
56 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst.