$ pacman -Qo mkarchroot
/usr/bin/mkarchroot is owned by devtools 1:1.2.1-1
Referring to
https://archlinux.org/news/manual-intervention-for-pacman-700-and-local-repositories-required/
and to
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot#Setting_up_a_chroot
with a modified pacman.conf:
error: could not open file /home/user/chroot/root/var/lib/pacman/sync/download-o6cp5z/core.db.part: Permission denied
error: failed to setup a download payload for core.db
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)
==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root
==> ERROR: Failed to install all packages
The modified pacman.conf is using links created with
ln -s /var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
I have also tried the naive approach of
--- a/usr/bin/mkarchroot 2024-06-23 21:00:54.158267054 +0000
+++ b/usr/bin/mkarchroot 2024-09-22 19:31:52.984269364 +0000
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
[[ -e $working_dir ]] && die "Working directory '%s' already exists" "$working_dir"
mkdir -p "$working_dir"
+chown :alpm "$working_dir"
lock 9 "${working_dir}.lock" "Locking chroot"
In addition, the most basic suggestion of
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_clean_chroot#Setting_up_a_chroot
, namely
# mkarchroot /home/user/chroot/root base-devel
also fails. Though it could be due to a usually working XferCommand in
pacman.conf.
Does mkarchroot broken?
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