2011/2/19 Ángel Velásquez <angvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 > OK, but how will you get a clean chroot to begin with? If not with pacman -r, how? Extracting some tarball? And is that different from using pacman -r? Thanks, anyway Jorge
