On Sun, Jul 17, 2016 at 05:16:50AM +0000, Alive 4ever wrote: > After 'having fun' with archboot, I finally got it working on both UEFI > and BIOS. Just make sure that x86_64 and i686 archboot systemd container > have proper package cache. This can be achieved by bind mounting host > package cache '/var/cache/pacman/pkg' to chroot package cache. Also make > sure that /tmp in which archboot-allinone.sh -g performed is large > enough to hold image creation, at least 4GB. > > However, a very serious problem occured. The resulting Archboot dual iso > doesn't properly contain all packages needed for installation. The most > notable is 'libnftl'. 'systemd' (core) depends on iptables (core). > 'iptables' can't be installed because 'libnftl' is missing (extra). This > is serious problem that prevented archboot development for about two > months. > > I know that 'archboot' only contains 'core' repository. As temporary > solution, 'libnftl' should be added as 'SUPPORT_ADDITION' in > archboot-svn.sh, so that users will be able to get a working > installation by using only the 'archboot' image. > > I strongly suggest to move 'libnftl' to core repository to prevent this > problem i.e. 'base' can't be installed without access to extra repository. I mean 'libnftnl' library, which is also depends on 'libmnl'. These two packages (libnftnl and libmnl) should be moved to core repository.
