[arch-dev-public] makechrootpkg without aufs2

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 24/01/10 09:08, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi devs,
>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> This can be easily done by changing this in makechrootpkg:
>>>
>>>     mount -t aufs none -o "dirs=$chrootdir/$LAYER=rw:$chrootdir/root=ro"
>>> "$uniondir"
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>     rsync -a --delete --progress -h -c -W "$chrootdir/root/" "$uniondir"
>>>
>>> <snip>
>>
>> You get a +1 from me for the idea.  But looking at the rsync line, I think
>> that this will not work if I use makechrootpkg with "-- -i" to install a
>> package then use it without "-c" to build on top of that?  I guess we should
>> not do the rsync if "-c" is not specified.
>
> I'm fine with this approach. aufs was used originally (well, unionfs)
> because it was a cheap way to say "don't break this chroot". Copying
> is fine.
>
> BUT (there's always a but), some systems are size restricted. For
> instance, slicehost slices have very limited disk space, so copying
> the chroot to do this has potential to cause issues. I don't like
> special case code for shitty systems, but perhaps we could keep both
> aufs and rsync code in there, enabled by a command line switch? (-U
> use a union (aufs) to keep chroot clean [DEPRECATED])

How many people are building clean packages on a size-restricted
system? I'm guessing this is an edge case where you might be one of
the few exceptions.

-Dan