[arch-general] Difference between mkarchroot and arch-chroot

gt static.vortex at gmx.com
Tue Jan 15 23:55:22 EST 2013


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 06:08:01PM +0100, Kwpolska wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 9:38 AM, gt <static.vortex at gmx.com> wrote:
> > Can someone elaborate on the difference between mkarchroot and
> > arch-chroot?
> arch-chroot — chrooting into an existing environment, using on the
> Arch install medium to get to your brand new root you pacstrap’d ten
> seconds ago (or for recovery of an existing root).
> 
> mkarchroot — creating a brand new Arch Linux environment/root.
> 
> So, two different things when you think about it.

Yup, I got it later on. Was a bit stupid question, now I think about it
:P

Anyway, since Thomas mentioned systemd-nspawn, and it seems to do the
same stuff as arch-chroot, I was wondering what are the differences
between the two, and would arch-chroot be deprecated in the future? 


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