Bootstraps a Debian system into a target directory with minimal dependencies for minimal root file system size. It let you choose which files of a debian package should be in your target root file system.

Debrootstrap generates a minimalistic root system for a single executable with all its dependent shared library, but not more. No docs, no configuration, no localization - unless you explicitly want them.

It is inspired by debootstrap, but not a replacement, because it does not configure the packages. It just extracts the content from the configured debian packages.

Configuration example:

[global] # optional. Defaults to amd64 architecture = amd64

# optional. Defaults to /etc/apt/trusted.gpg keyring = /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

# list of apt sources as seen in /etc/apt/sources.list without 'deb' prefix sources =

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily main restricted http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily universe

[packages] redis-server = ldd-deps version>=2:3.0.3-3

/usr/bin/redis-server # include a binary

## Getting started

Checkout from github

git clone https://github.com/peick/debrootstrap.git

Running it

cd debrootstrap python debrootstrap.py -h