On Jun 22, 2013 2:49 PM, "Thomas Bächler" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 22.06.2013 20:10, schrieb Pierre Schmitz: > > Am 22.06.2013 17:33, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > >> Setting up Arch on a root server should be as easy as this: > >> * Boot rescue system, make sure you have Linux 2.6.32 or later > >> * Download tarball from Arch, extract to /tmp/root.x86_64/ > >> * Set up partitions and such, mount to /tmp/root.x86_64/mnt/ > >> * chroot /tmp/root.x86_64/ (well, also some bind-mounts) > >> * pacman-key --populate archlinux > >> * pacstrap /mnt base and follow the installation guide > >> > >> I'd like to generate such tarballs regularly (monthly like our ISOs?) > >> and put them on our mirrors, unless there are objections. > > > > Good idea. I had something like this in mind for some time; I did not > > think of putting only pacstrap and deps into the tar though. > > I think I tested this once and it is sufficient. As a plus, it has all > dependencies so you can use pacman to install more packages into the chroot. > > > I wonder if you could use arch-chroot isntead of just chroot here. > > It requires bash 4 - if that's not installed on the host, arch-chroot > will not work. I would rather provide instructions involving manual > bind-mounting and chroot.
If you think its worthwhile to make the install scripts bash 3 compat I can look into doing this. > > > You > > can also use the pacman.conf from the releng scripts. > > I pretty much used the default pacman.conf from our packages (also > enabled Color, but that didn't do anything). Is the releng one different? > > > And to be safe you > > should prefix pacstrap with a setarch call. > > Already done as per Gerardo's suggestion: https://paste.xinu.at/lNIrq/ > > > I'd say we include this script into the releng scripts (either archiso > > or create a nwe package; atm I use some additional script for releasing > > an ISO image) and upload such a tar at the same time as the ISO image. > > I was thinking about including this into arch-install-scripts, but I am > unsure if it really fits in there. > >
