[arch-dev-public] Automating creation of i686 chroots on x86_64 systems with mkarchroot.

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)
<ghost1227 at archlinux.us> wrote:
> I've always thought the method of modifying your local mirrorlist,
> running mkarchroot, then reverting the changes to be more tedious than
> necessary for creation of i686 chroots on x86_64. My recent work with
> setting up a dedicated build server gave me plenty of time and an
> excuse to actually do something about it. As such, I've put together a
> little patch that allows specification of creation of an i686 chroot
> at runtime. When set, this flag will automatically modify your local
> mirrorlist, create the requested i686 chroot, then revert the changes
> to the mirrorlist file. I don't know if others would find this useful
> or not, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to post it.

Actually, I *thought* I added a flag to point to an alternate pacman
config when building the chroot, to simplify this. So it'd be as
simple as:

sed s/x86_64/i686/ < /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist > /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist-i686
sed s/mirrorlist/mirrorlist-i686/ < /etc/pacman.conf > /etc/pacman-i686.conf

mkarchroot -C /etc/pacman-i686.conf ...yada yada...