[arch-general] Uninstalling single package from i686 archroot without cleaning

[Jadon Bennett]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:13:17 -0600
"David C. Rankin" <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:

> All,
> 
>   The i686 archroot on the x86_64 box worked perfectly building i686
> TDE. However, as I tweak packages, I need to 'uninstall' a package
> from the rw-layer without cleaning the entire archroot. Since this is
> i686 on a x86_64 box how do I properly chroot the archroot so that I
> can run pacman -R package name?
> 
>   Can I somehow:
> 
>     mount --bind some_dev $CHROOT/dev
>     mount -t proc none $CHROOT/proc
>     mount -t sysfs none $CHROOT/sys
>     cd $CHROOT
>     some_chroot_cmd
> 
>   So that the i686 system will be functional enough to remove a
> package? I have seen the Arch64_FAQ page discussing the linux32
> wrapper working with i686 chroots created by installing with i686 ISO
> "quickinstall", but this setup is just an i686 archroot. (will it
> work?)
> 
>   I want to avoid cleaning the archroot or deleting and recreating a
> new one just to test minor changes to package content adjustments due
> the setup requiring several hundred dependencies and packages to
> rebuild.
> 
>   What say the experts?
> 

If your host is on Arch, you can do:
pacman -R <pkgname> --arch i686 --root $CHROOT
or install the Arch Install Scripts and chroot:
pacman -S arch-install-scripts
arch-chroot $CHROOT