Is it possible to build a bootstrap ZIP with a custom package list?

[shrihankp]

So basically, I want to make a bootstrap ZIP where the only things are coreutils (so mv,cp,rm...), bash, dash, unzip, nodejs-lts and openjdk-17. Because of the large size of the last two packages, I simply want to make a bootstrap with ONLY those packages (I don't want apt to be installed – there wouldn't be any pkg update, etc.).

Is this possible? I tried to build the aforementioned packages using ./build-package.sh -a aarch64 <pkgs> but I don't know how to make a bootstrap out of it. ./scripts/generate-bootstraps.sh just allows to have additional packages along with the list of defaults (-a). I'd like to add that the package ID is changed.

Thanks in advance!

[truboxl]

termux-packages/scripts/generate-bootstraps.sh

Lines 429 to 474 in 94346c6

	# Package manager.
	if ! ${BOOTSTRAP_ANDROID10_COMPATIBLE}; then
	pull_package ${TERMUX_PACKAGE_MANAGER}
	fi
	# Core utilities.
	pull_package bash
	pull_package bzip2
	if ! ${BOOTSTRAP_ANDROID10_COMPATIBLE}; then
	pull_package command-not-found
	else
	pull_package proot
	fi
	pull_package coreutils
	pull_package curl
	pull_package dash
	pull_package diffutils
	pull_package findutils
	pull_package gawk
	pull_package grep
	pull_package gzip
	pull_package less
	pull_package procps
	pull_package psmisc
	pull_package sed
	pull_package tar
	pull_package termux-exec
	pull_package termux-keyring
	pull_package termux-tools
	pull_package util-linux
	pull_package xz-utils
	# Additional.
	pull_package ed
	if [ ${TERMUX_PACKAGE_MANAGER} = "apt" ]; then
	pull_package debianutils
	fi
	pull_package dos2unix
	pull_package inetutils
	pull_package lsof
	pull_package nano
	pull_package net-tools
	pull_package patch
	pull_package unzip
	# Handle additional packages.

Delete one of these

[shrihankp]

Okay, so, will this work if I use the script in #11491? That's because I'm building using a custom package name and in #11713 you suggested to use that.

[truboxl]

The one in #11491 adds -c option so it will not download deb files that still use com.termux prefix path and instead use the debs you created

YMMV since I never test changing package ID

I believe the repo package list https://grimler.se/termux/termux-main/dists/stable/main/binary-aarch64/Packages downloaded by generate-bootsraps.sh does not contain com.termux prefix and only used for resolving package dependencies so my earlier comment about generate-bootstraps.sh is dumber is not true

Might need to add an option to create a local copy of this list in the future since it likely will break for new packages that are not yet on the repo

[shrihankp]

@truboxl Okay then, I might as well try and see if removing the calls to pull_package actually works ⭐