[arch-general] Creating an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system?
Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:40:07 +0200, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora?
Theoretically, you just need to compile pacman and then you can continue as if you were making an Arch chroot from an Arch system. I can't think of anything easier :) - Dan -- ---- Dan Vrátil dan@progdan.cz Tel.: +420 732 326 870 Jabber: progdan@jabber.cz
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:07:28AM +0200, Dan Vrátil wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 10:40:07 +0200, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora?
Theoretically, you just need to compile pacman and then you can continue as if you were making an Arch chroot from an Arch system. I can't think of anything easier :)
Then you need to work on your imagination a bit ;) (just kidding) No one who's already had to do this and produced a script that automates it? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 11:07:28 +0200, Dan Vrátil wrote:
Theoretically, you just need to compile pacman and then you can continue as if you were making an Arch chroot from an Arch system. I can't think of anything easier :)
Yes, that's how I've done it on CentOS. Converted a VPS from CentOS to Arch with pivot_chroot this way. :-) Geert -- geert.hendrickx.be :: geert@hendrickx.be :: PGP: 0xC4BB9E9F This e-mail was composed using 100% recycled spam messages!
On 23 July 2011 16:40, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora?
There is only 1 requirement: * pacman You can build pacman on your distribution, or use a prebuilt statically-linked pacman. pacman.static is no longer provided, so get ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/larch/larch8/i686/pacman-allin.tar.gz -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:
Is there something available out there that makes it easy to create an Arch chroot on a non-Arch system, e.g. Ubuntu or Fedora? Some times it more easy to create a local chroot with your arch, make a tarball, scp it and untar it.
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Dan Vrátil
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Geert Hendrickx
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Magnus Therning
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