1 .TH "CATALYST" "1" "August 12, 2004" "Catalyst 1.1.0" "Catalyst"
4 catalyst \- The Gentoo Linux Release Engineering meta-tool
10 [\fIoptions\fR] [\fI\-f file\fR | \fI\-C keys\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 Platform (GRP)
24 sets. \fBcatalyst\fR is also capable of providing a simple tinderbox
25 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 "\-\-cli " (\fB\-C\fR)
34 This option is to be used in place of a specfile. All options are passed
35 to \fBcatalyst\fR on the commandline. Please note that this option must
36 be the last option passed to \fBcatalyst\fR for everything to work correctly.
39 .BR "\-\-config " (\fB\-c\fR)
40 Tell \fBcatalyst\fR to use a user-defined configuration file. A sample
41 configuration file is installed at /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf.
44 .BR "\-\-debug " (\fB\-d\fR)
48 .BR "\-\-file " (\fB\-f\fR)
49 Tell \fBcatalyst\fR to use the user supplied specfile.
52 .BR "\-\-help " (\fB\-h\fR)
53 Print the help message and exit
56 .BR "\-\-snapshot " (\fB\-s\fR)
57 Create a Portage snapshot using the specified identifier stamp.
60 .BR "\-\-verbose " (\fB\-v\fR)
63 .BR "\-\-version " (\fB\-V\fR)
64 Print the version information and exit
69 Using the commandline option (\-C, \-\-cli) to build a Portage snapshot:
70 catalyst \-C target=snapshot version_stamp=my_date
72 Using the specfile option (\-f, \-\-file) to build a stage target:
73 catalyst \-f stage1\-specfile.spec
75 Using the snapshot option (\-s, \-\-snapshot) to package a Portage snapshot using the datestamp 20041006:
80 Example specfiles can be found in /usr/share/doc/catalyst-<version>/examples. An example configuration file can be found at /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf.
84 An up-to-date list of Catalyst bugs can always be found listed on the Gentoo Linux bug-tracking system at <http://bugs.gentoo.org>.
88 A more in-depth examination of Catalyst options and procedures can be found linked from the \fBcatalyst\fR project page, which is located at <http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/catalyst>.
92 \fBCatalyst\fR is conceptually derived from the Gentoo livecd-ng and Gentoo stager projects, both of which were used to create pre-1.4 Gentoo releases.
94 \fBCatalyst\fR was originally conceived and coded by both Daniel Robbins and John Davis.
97 John Davis <zhen@gentoo.org>
100 $Id: catalyst.1,v 1.4 2005/12/05 18:13:12 rocket Exp $