BOOTC-INST...NFIGURATION(8)

πŸ’– BOOTC-INSTALL-PRINT-CONFIGURATION πŸ’–

okay bestie, listen up β€” this one lives in the System Manager's Manual, section 8, and it's called bootc-install-print-configuration. say that five times fast. actually don't, just read the page. ✨


πŸŽ€ NAME πŸŽ€

bootc-install-print-configuration β€” spits out JSON to stdout with the merged installation configuration, like, the parts that actually matter to processes calling install to-filesystem, especially the ones trying to figure out the desired root filesystem type from the container image πŸ¦‹


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

bootc install print-configuration [OPTIONS...]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So, the vibe here is: this command outputs JSON to stdout, and that JSON contains the merged installation configuration as it may be relevant to calling processes using install to-filesystem. And what are those processes hunting for, you ask? mostly they wanna discover the desired root filesystem type from the container image. it's giving "tell me what fs I should be building over here." πŸ’…

Right now β€” and I mean at the current time, that's literally what the page says β€” the only output key is root-fs-type, which is a string-valued filesystem name, and it's suitable for passing straight to mkfs.$type. yes, with the dollar sign. it's a variable, bestie, not a typo. 🌈


πŸ’… OPTIONS πŸ’…

  • --all β€” Print all configuration. that's it. that's the whole menu. sometimes minimalism is iconic. πŸ‘‘

🫢 VERSION 🫢

v1.17.1


aaaand that's the whole page, no cap. πŸ“ big thanks to the System Manager's Manual, section 8, and to version v1.17.1 for showing up and showing out β€” love that for us. mwah. πŸ’–πŸ§šπŸ’œ

πŸ“¦ where this page comes from
  • fedora 43: bootc 1.17.1-1.fc43 Β· Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
  • fedora 44: bootc 1.17.1-1.fc44 Β· Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND MIT AND (Apache-2.0 OR BSL-1.0) AND (Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception OR Apache-2.0 OR MIT) AND (Unlicense OR MIT)
  • πŸ’– girlified by deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on : a language model's rewrite of the original, under its terms