On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:55 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Devs, > > DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot notes that updating the chroot is now > done by: > > arch-nspawn $CHROOT/root pacman -Syu > > instead of > > mkarchroot -u $CHROOT/root > > Checking the help for both files I note (1) the -u option is dropped from > mkarchroot, and (2) the help output for both arch-nspawn and mkarchroot are > identical. So what is the difference between the two? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. In the process of reorganizing the code, mkarchroot was split into two binaries with complementing functionality. arch-nspawn is a thin wrapper around systemd-nspawn, doing some pacman-specific stuff like copying config from the host and binding the cache. mkarchroot (which now just builds the chroot instead of also providing chrooting functionality) makes use of arch-nspawn, as do makechrootpkg and archbuild.
