[arch-general] makepkgchroot

[Myra Nelson]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 13:12, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 12:53, Ionut Biru <ibiru at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> On 06/17/2011 08:38 PM, Myra Nelson wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm attempting to set up a clean chroot to build packages in. I've
>>> followed the
>>> instructions on the wiki page
>>>
>>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot.
>>>
>>> I've read all the posts on the forum, than man pages, and the mailing
>>> lists
>>> (I may have missed something) and haven't found any answer to my problem;
>>>
>>> Steps to recreate:
>>
>> <wipe everything>
>>
>>
>> quick todo. simple way
>>
>> sudo extra-x86-64-build or sudo extra-i686-build
>>
>> does the clean chroots in /var/tmp and it does two things
>> 1) if chroot doesn't exists it will create and start compiling
>> 2) if chroot exists, clean the chroot and start compilation.
>>
>> the schemas for chroots are like this:
>> /path/to/chroot/root - the clean one
>> /path/to/chroot/$usr - the one that is used for compilation and gets clean
>>
>> now, if you want to modify mirrorlist from chroot take in consideration that
>> is taken from system /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist first mirror.
>>
>> now depending of what you want to modify in makepkg.conf some variables can
>> be read and exported inside chroot from ~/.makepkg.conf like MAKEFLAGS,
>> PACKAGER.
>>
>> for pacman.conf you should edit /path/to/chroot/root/etc/pacman.conf
>>
>> to use makechrootpkg use makechrootpkg -rc /path/to/chroot without specify
>> anything else and  mkarchroot wants a /path/to/chroot/root as parameter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ionuț
>>
>
> I'll give this a try later. Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> Myra
>
> --
> Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
>

Ionut:

Thank you very much. This is much more elegant. I
appreciate the assistance.

Myra

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