On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 09:04:37AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
For various reasons I'm looking into not using `makechrootpkg` when building the 200+ packages I put into a non-official repo. Obviously it's important to keep the building environment separate from my ordinary system environment. Going to full virtualisation is definitely overkill and the only containers I know of are chroots and docker.
If by chroot you mean also nspawn, then it is mostly equivalent to docker and lxc. The only thing bad about systemd-nspawn is its lack of easy config through files (it only supports cmdline switches which is ridiculously cumbersome). Also, docker is more complex than a plain lxc-tools approach. So, I would go with lxc as the simplest and most flexible solution. In fact, that's how I build my packages.
Docker has some nice attributes, in particular no need for root access. However, I don't know a whole lot about it, so I wonder are
Where do you take this from? Rootless containers require a specific host kernel configuration (which -ARCH kernels don't have). Cheers, -- Leonid Isaev GPG fingerprints: DA92 034D B4A8 EC51 7EA6 20DF 9291 EE8A 043C B8C4 C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D