DeveloperWiki talk:Building in a clean chroot
Deleting a chroot
It's not written in the page so I'll write it here: Just delete the $CHROOT folder (Unless it's btrfs). Tharbad (talk) 03:05, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
More info needed RE: archbuild
With the semi-recent changes to chroot building and the addition of the archbuild convenience script, using a custom repo within your build chroot is no longer supported. It is therefore required to create (or symlink) a pacman.conf to /usr/share/devtools/pacman-<some_name>.conf, and then run <some_name>-x86_64-build to build packages in a chroot that will have access to your custom repo.
For more background, see this reddit post and this response thread.
Terminalmage (talk) 01:39, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
- updating this comment from 2019... I think this page needs an update by someone more familiar with devtool package. Mainly a note about arch-nspawn usage/sideeffects over chroot. Gcb (talk) 09:35, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Note about BTRFS subvolumes
There is a note attached underneath the first `mkarchchroot` command that says:
On btrfs, the chroot is created as a subvolume, so you have to remove it by removing the subvolume by running btrfs subvolume delete $CHROOT/root as root.
According to this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Deleting_a_subvolume , BTRFS subvolumes can just be removed normally with `rmdir` or `rm`. Should this note be removed?
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Adjusted mirrorlist can be over written when up dating the chroot
Quoting the end of 3.1 Setting up a chroot
- Also adjust the mirrorlist in
$CHROOT/root/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
- Also adjust the mirrorlist in
Quoting the beginning of 3.2 Building in the chroot
- Firstly, make sure the base chroot (
$CHROOT/root) is up to date: $ arch-nspawn $CHROOT/root pacman -Syu
- Firstly, make sure the base chroot (
Depending on the configuration, the adjusted mirrorlist can be over written when making sure the base chroot is up to date. Should the article point out the possible over write?