Botch stands for Bootstrap/Build Order ToolCHain. It consists of a number of tools that aid in breaking dependency cycles and generating a build order so that Debian can be bootstrapped.

Source code

git clone http://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/debian-bootstrap/botch.git

Documentation

• First Steps
• Tools
• Terminology
• Heuristics
• Examples/Graphs
• Master Thesis about botch
• FOSDEM Talk (Slides) (Video, Mirror)
• DebConf13 Talk (Slides) (Video, Mirror)
• CBSE2013 (Paper) (Slides) (Video)
• Informatiktage 2013 (Paper)

Contact

• Email: j.schauer@email.de
• IRC: #debian-bootstrap on irc.debian.org

Links

• General Bootstrapping Introduction on the Debian wiki
• TODO list for developers
• Blog