2011/2/19 Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@xxxxxxxxx>: > I've been reading several pieces of documentation about making a > custom LiveCD, in particular the documentation for Archiso. Makefiles > and bash are not my strong suit, so I may have misunderstood > something. Among other things, we need to create a directory, say > "prov", and populate it with an arch system. I tried this: > > mkdir -p prov/var/lib/pacman > pacman -r prov -Sy > pacman -r prov -S base > > This seems to work, although it had a complain about the directory > "sys". My question is: to populate a directory with a base system plus > some assorted stuff, can we do it with pacman -r? Or is it necessary > to chroot into prov? (And if so, don't we need to use pacman -r to > have a functional chroot dir to begin with?) > I would understand the need for chroot if we were to compile software > (I read LFS stuff...), to ensure correct library linking. But we're > talking about binary packages... > > I'm just trying to get the big (and small) picture... > > TIA > > Jorge Almeida > Well if I were you, I will use a clean chroot first, then l use that dir, plus I can add or test packages in the chroot itself -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
