On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 7:20 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth+arch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 21:17, Piyush P Kurur <ppk> wrote: >> You can install packages under a particular directroy using the command >> >> pacman -S pkgname -r /gateway/to/hell >> >> So using that you can actually build a chrooted environment and work >> your way up. > Duh, now why didn't I think of that? There's a wiki page for how to > install arch inside a chroot, use that. > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:Search&search=mkarchroot&go=Go There is also mkarchroot which is similar to debootstrap. You need to install devtools to get mkarchroot.