1 .TH "CATALYST" "1" "December 8, 2005" "Catalyst 2.0" "Catalyst"
4 catalyst \- The Gentoo Linux Release Engineering meta-tool
10 [\fIoptions\fR] [\fI\-f file\fR | \fI\-C keys\fR | \fI\-s version_stamp\fR] ...
21 \fBcatalyst\fR is the tool that the Gentoo Release Engineering team
22 utilizes to build all Gentoo Linux releases. It is capable of building
23 installation stages, bootable LiveCDs, netboot images, and Gentoo Reference
24 Platform (GRP) sets. \fBcatalyst\fR is also capable of providing a simple
25 tinderbox environment for ebuild/package testing.
27 For more information, please visit the \fBcatalyst\fR project page
28 on the web at <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst>.
33 .BR "\-\-clear\-autoresume " (\fB\-a\fR)
34 This option is to be used to clear any autoresume points that have been saved
35 for this target. It is used in conjunction with \-f, \-C, or both.
38 .BR "\-\-cli " (\fB\-C\fR)
39 This option is to be used in place of a specfile. All options are passed
40 to \fBcatalyst\fR on the commandline. Please note that this option must
41 be the last option passed to \fBcatalyst\fR for everything to work correctly.
44 .BR "\-\-config " (\fB\-c\fR)
45 Tell \fBcatalyst\fR to use a user-defined configuration file. A sample
46 configuration file is installed at /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf.
49 .BR "\-\-debug " (\fB\-d\fR)
53 .BR "\-\-fetchonly " (\fB\-F\fR)
54 This tells \fBcatalyst\fR to only fetch distfiles for the given packages without
55 performing any building.
58 .BR "\-\-file " (\fB\-f\fR)
59 Tell \fBcatalyst\fR to use the user supplied specfile.
62 .BR "\-\-help " (\fB\-h\fR)
63 Print the help message and exit
66 .BR "\-\-purge " (\fB\-p\fR)
67 Tell \fBcatalyst\fR to clear all temporary directories, package caches, and
68 autoresume flags for the given target.
71 .BR "\-\-snapshot " (\fB\-s\fR)
72 Create a Portage snapshot using the specified identifier stamp.
75 .BR "\-\-verbose " (\fB\-v\fR)
78 .BR "\-\-version " (\fB\-V\fR)
79 Print the version information and exit
84 Using the commandline option (\-C, \-\-cli) to build a Portage snapshot:
85 catalyst \-C target=snapshot version_stamp=my_date
87 Using the specfile option (\-f, \-\-file) to build a stage target:
88 catalyst \-f stage1\-specfile.spec
90 Using the snapshot option (\-s, \-\-snapshot) to package a Portage snapshot
91 using the datestamp 20051208:
96 Example specfiles can be found in /usr/share/doc/catalyst-<version>/examples.
97 An example configuration file can be found at /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf.
101 An up-to-date list of Catalyst bugs can always be found listed on the Gentoo
102 Linux bug-tracking system at <http://bugs.gentoo.org>.
106 A more in-depth examination of Catalyst options and procedures can be found
107 linked from the \fBcatalyst\fR project page, which is located at
108 <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst>.
112 \fBCatalyst\fR is conceptually derived from the Gentoo livecd-ng and Gentoo
113 stager projects, both of which were used to create pre-1.4 Gentoo releases.
115 \fBCatalyst\fR was originally conceived and coded by both Daniel Robbins and
116 John Davis. It is currently maintained by Chris Gianelloni and Eric Edgar and
117 hass been mostly re-written.
120 John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org>
121 Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
124 $Id: catalyst.1,v 1.5 2005/12/08 14:48:58 wolf31o2 Exp $