On 10/27/18 8:02 PM, Ryan Petris via aur-requests wrote:
I use the arch iso for various purposes in virtual machines, and dislike having to download a new version manually every month or so. I also use tails occasionally in a VM. I would love if they just updated automatically. By making this package, I'll still have to effectively update manually, however my hope is to make this easier for others.
You don't need to download a new copy every month or so. The ISO just provides a bootable squashfs image with a pacman binary, and in fact our official installation guide takes some pain to inform you that you can install Arch to bare metal using the bootstrap image, or using the pacman packages provided by Fedora and Gentoo! The devtools package has scripts to automatically install systemd-nspawn containers if the host is Arch Linux -- or at leas contains a working pacman installation and the Arch Linux keyring. We use this script to build packages. We also provide official docker containers as well as vagrant images, under the "archlinux" namespaces. If you're updating manually *anyway*, this package does nothing -- and there's better ways that even let you update automatically by *not* using AUR packages. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User