[arch-general] Debootstrap for Arch?

[Dwight Schauer]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 21:17, Piyush P Kurur <ppk> wrote:
>> You can install packages under a particular directroy using the command
>>
>> pacman -S pkgname -r /gateway/to/hell
>>
>> So using that you can actually build a chrooted environment and work
>> your way up.
> Duh, now why didn't I think of that? There's a wiki page for how to
> install arch inside a chroot, use that.
>

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=mkarchroot&go=Go

There is also mkarchroot which is similar to debootstrap.

You need to install devtools to get mkarchroot.