On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Giovanni Santini via arch-general <arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Good evening to everybody, > I got interested in Docker lately and I've decided to create an > ArchLinux image for it. > There's one suggested from the ArchWiki (*base/archlinux*) but I wanted > to learn from scratch. > So, I've then some questions: > > 1. As the root filesystem, I've made a repacked version of the bootstrap > tarball. Even though it is not so clean, it works and it is easy peasy > to do. Should I go still for a `pacstrap`? > 2. Theorically, one step of the Dockerfile should be installing the > whole 'base' group, which includes also the kernel, which is not really > needed in a container. > So this questions splits up in 2 parts: > - which packages I can ignore of the 'base' group? > - which packages present in the bootstrap OS can be removed? > This is because I think the Docker image should contain only the least > number of packages of an Arch system; ideally, *pacman* and the needed > core utils. > 3. I'm having a GPGME error with the i686 tarball... Upgrading GPGME > breaks pacman, upgrading pacman does the same. If someone is interested > in helping me, I would be glad to share the Dockerfile. > > A first working code is here: https://github.com/ItachiSan/dockerfiles There is a script in the moby repo that might be a good starting place (it's what I've used for building Archlinux docker images). See https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/master/contrib/mkimage-arch.sh, and https://github.com/IQSS/iqss-jupyter-notebook for the notes I wrote last time I did it. --Ista > > -- > Giovanni Santini > My blog: http://giovannisantini.tk > My code: https://git{hub,lab}.com/ItachiSan > My GPG: 2FADEBF5
