Chisel in Rockcraft

Chisel is a software tool for extracting well-defined portions (aka slices) of Debian packages into a filesystem.

Using the analogy of a tool to carve and cut stone, Chisel is used in Rockcraft to sculpt minimal collections of files that only include what is needed for the rock to function properly.

A package’s slices can be defined via a YAML Slice definitions file.

See Chisel a rock for information about using the tool in Rockcraft.