RootStock's goal is to create a command-line and graphical set of tools to make a fully configured tarball or VM image of an Ubuntu rootfs from scratch so that you can extract it to a root device on e.g. armel systems.

Creating a rootfs can help you testing Ubuntu in devices that are not official supported. It also helps you if you want to create smaller images, or just different flavors of Ubuntu (with Gnome, KDE, XFCE, etc).

This project was formerly known as build-arm-rootfs and could be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootfsFromScratch).

RootStock's Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ARM/RootStock


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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New Features:

· rootstock now works without requiring root privileges (#553963)
· ability to run rootstock in a ARM machine without using qemu (#589104)
· --version argument (#600540)
· normal path now uses qemu-arm-static and chroot, avoid using a full vm (qemu too buggy)

Bug Fixes:

· rootstock: bashism introduced in bzr revision 94 (#575854)
· admin user cant be used in rootstock (#569946)
· rootstock should understand http_proxy that uses mDNS for local host lookup during the build (#600539)
· rootstock options should work with = sign on the command line (#600541)