[arch-general] On containers. WAS: Re: snapcraft.io ...

[Carsten Mattner]

On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Bennett Piater <bennett at piater.name> wrote:
>> Another very useful case would be using containers as a chroot replacement
>> for having clean (only what's in the recipe), reproducable build environments
>> for building arch packages. It would also allow installing makedeps only in
>> the container/chroot or make cross-compilation easier to manage.
>>
>> Are there plans to support this in makepkg? I believe xbps has this.
>
> Out of curiosity, what's wrong with makechrootpkg?

Thanks I wasn't aware of it.