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+# Forced architecture LXC-CT builder 
+Scripts support ARM builds only.  
+  
+This only works if the binary of the target system can run on the host one,  
+if that is not the case it will fail trying to build it.  
+  
+For example you are able to build an armHF contaiter on a arm64(Aarch64) system,  
+or an build i368(x86) container on a amd64(x86_64) system.
+
+## Usage
+Use `buildDistroBuilder.sh` to build distrobuilder with the required patch  
+Use `buildCT.sh -i` to iteratively build a LXC-Container template  
+Use `buildCT.sh -a <Architecture> -d <Distro> -v <Variant>` to iteratively build a LXC-Container template  
+
+**Available Distros**
+* Debian11 (Debian 11)
+* Debian12 (Debian 12)
+* Alpine318 (Alpine 3.18)
+* RasPiOS11 (Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS 11)
+
+**Available Variants**
+* minimal (Bare minimal for CT to run)
+* default (Adds nano and ssh server)
+
+**Available Architecture**
+* armhf (All distros)
+* aarch64 (Alpine)
+* armv7  (Alpine)
+* arm64 (Debian)
+* armel (Debian)
+
+
+## Install software dependencies
+dependencies avalible in apt
+```
+apt install ca-certificates git make debootstrap curl gcc libc-dev nano gnupg2 rsync xz-utils --no-install-recommends -y
+```
+  
+Golang in the apt repo is not new enough install it directly from release binary
+```
+rm -rf /usr/local/go
+curl -L https://go.dev/dl/go$(curl -Ls https://go.dev/VERSION?m=text |sed 's/go//g').linux-<Arch>.tar.gz -o /tmp/go.tar.gz
+tar -C /usr/local -xzf /tmp/go.tar.gz
+echo "export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin" >> $HOME/.profile
+export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
+```
+
+## How it works
+It applies a patch to [distrobuilder](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder) before building it,  
+this patch disables the default architecture mapping behavior, and allows an architecture to be forced using the `image.architecture_mapped=` parameter.  
+the default behavior will check the architecture of the host system and map it to the target CT distro (for example if building a Debian container on a Aarch64 system it will map it to arm64)
+
+Tesed on [distrobuilder](https://github.com/lxc/distrobuilder) commit `29e94ac90dc52ae4e5fc0c6ad34951d4369aa001`