Licensing ======================== Originally, Catalyst was copyrighted by the Gentoo Foundation, Inc. and was released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v.2.1. Since this is a fork of that project, all new code is no longer copyrighted to the Gentoo Foundation. Currently, copyright is held by the individual authors for their contributions. For more information, please consult COPYING. Disclaimer ======================== This software is covered by no warranty or guarantee of functionality. It is provided to the public for use in creating source-based distributions in a simple and reproducable manner. Use at your own risk. Requirements ======================= - Python 3.8 or greater - A generic stage3 tarball for your architecture - A squashfs ebuild repository snapshot - Or an ebuild git repo with sys-fs/squashfs-tools-ng and dev-vcs/git What is catalyst? ======================== Catalyst is a release building tool, used by Gentoo Linux. With catalyst, you are able to completely customize your Gentoo install by customizing the very tools that are used to install a system. Official Gentoo Linux release media is built with catalyst. Catalyst is capable of: - Building installation stages - Building bootable LiveCDs - Building netboot images Configuring catalyst ======================== After emerging/installing catalyst, the first (and probably only) thing that you will have to do is edit /etc/catalyst/catalyst.conf to your liking. If you are not using an ebuild for the installation, you should create a /etc/catalyst directory, and copy catalyst.conf and catalystrc from the distribution tarball's files directory. Example catalyst.conf: distdir="/var/cache/distfiles" options="pkgcache kerncache" sharedir="/usr/share/catalyst" There are many more options that can be set, but those defaults are good for out of the box operation. For more documentation on what you can do with catalyst, please check the man page or the online documentation at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Catalyst Bugs ======================== If you have questions or wish to help with development, contact the gentoo-catalyst@lists.gentoo.org mailing list. Bug reports should be filed at http://tinyurl.com/79slrk (https://bugs.gentoo.org) under the "Catalyst" component of the "Gentoo Hosted Projects" product.