[arch-dev-public] chroots config question
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Tue Dec 8 18:15:56 EST 2009
Paul Mattal wrote:
> Regarding the below:
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot
>
>
> It reads:
>
> "The -C and -M flags are optional, but it is recommended to provide
> these with clean pacman.conf and makepkg.conf files (directly from the
> pacman package) during first creation of clean chroot to ensure lack of
> user specific adjustments."
>
> I think this is misleading. If you *don't* provide these arguments, what
> you get is the default config files directly from the pacman package,
> right? So the desired thing in most circumstances is, presumably, NOT to
> override?
I believe it copies the local ones on your file system. Perhaps that
should be changed...
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