[pacman-dev] Pacman and CheckSpace on the install CD

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:08:34 -0600
Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
> > On 11/03/11 12:17, Dan McGee wrote:
> >>
> >> Has anyone tried this yet? Or at least in a similar "let me mount a
> >> bunch of drives under a folder and set my root to that" type
> >> situation? Just want to make sure all the statvfs() stuff plays
> >> nice with chrooting and such, although I guess we don't chroot
> >> during the install itself...
> >>
> >
> > I have used it with mkarchroot (which does a pacman -r) with no
> > issues.  I assume the installer essentially does the same.
> >
> > What will not work, is using this within a chroot...   Run "df"
> > inside a chroot to see why.  Perhaps we should document that in the
> > man page?
> Might not be a terrible idea, and not sure there is any good way we
> can work around that.
> 
> -Dan
> 

FWIW.
AIF has cans install in the live system, as well as the target
system. like this:

PACMAN=pacman
PACMAN_TARGET="pacman --root $var_TARGET_DIR --config /tmp/pacman.conf"

https://github.com/Dieterbe/aif/blob/master/src/aif.sh#L139

Dieter