On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Damien Churchill <damoxc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > You could mount --bind the location of your local git repositories to > a point inside your chroot, that's probably the quickest and simplest > way of doing it, although it offers no protection of your git > repositories from being wiped out from within the chroot. you can readonly --bind mount at the VFS level: mount --bind /a /b mount -oremount,bind,ro /b ... i have an AUR package that does exactly this: (the for loop after "# Allow env passthru ...") http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/py/pyjamas-engine-pythonwebkit/PKGBUILD ... this block allows variables to be set from the ENV, but more related is the excerpt later on in build(): if [[ ! -e ${g}/objects ]]; then msg "[git] Creating NEW repository ... " git --git-dir="${g}" --work-tree="${w}" init elif [[ ! -w ${g}/objects ]]; then warning "[git] Repository read-only, setting up proxy ... " git --git-dir="${_gitrepo_proxy}" --work-tree="${w}" init echo "${g}/objects" > "${_gitrepo_proxy}/objects/info/alternates" cp -r "${g}/refs" "${_gitrepo_proxy}" g="${_gitrepo_proxy}" fi ... this block check for an objects directory: if missing clone new, if readonly create proxy. the proxy works by creating a new git repo, and assigning the original as an alternate object store ... this allows the build to not only reuse the existing repo but *also* download/use/change within it's own repo. i use this for webkit because it's a 1GiB+ repository. -- C Anthony
