Dependencies

For the most part the codebase is self-contained (e.g. all dependencies are vendored), but assembly of the stage1 requires some other tools to be installed on the system.

Build-time dependencies

Basic

  • GNU Make
  • Go 1.5.3 or later
  • autoconf
  • aclocal (usually a part of automake)
  • bash
  • git
  • glibc
  • development headers
  • the rkt binary links against the library
  • gofmt (usually distributed with Go)
  • govet (usually distributed with Go)
  • TrouSerS (only when TPM is enabled)
  • development headers
  • the rkt binary links against the library
  • libsystemd-journal
  • development headers
  • gpg (when running functional tests)

Additional dependencies when building any stage1 image

  • glibc
  • development headers
  • the stage1 binaries link against the static library
  • libdl
  • development headers
  • the stage1 binaries link against the library
  • libacl
  • development headers
  • C compiler

Specific dependencies for the coreos/kvm flavor

  • cat
  • comm
  • cpio
  • gzip
  • md5sum
  • mktemp
  • sort
  • unsquashfs
  • wget
  • gpg (optional, required when downloading the CoreOS Container Linux PXE image during the build)

Specific dependencies for the kvm flavor

Specific dependencies for the src flavor

  • build dependencies for systemd

Run-time dependencies

  • Linux 3.18+ (ideally 4.3+ to have overlay-on-overlay working), with the following options configured:
  • CONFIG_CGROUPS
  • CONFIG_NAMESPACES
  • CONFIG_UTS_NS
  • CONFIG_IPC_NS
  • CONFIG_PID_NS
  • CONFIG_NET_NS
  • CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS (nice to have)

Additional run-time dependencies for all stage1 image flavors

  • libacl
  • the library is optional (it is dlopened inside the stage1)

Specific dependencies for the host flavor

  • bash
  • systemd >= v222
  • systemctl
  • systemd-shutdown
  • systemd
  • systemd-journald