On 16/1/21 5:47 pm, Andrew Gregory wrote: > Implementing --sysroot the lazy way with a simple chroot turned out to > have a number of complications that significantly reduce its utility. > I've been sitting on a patch to reimplement it by prefixing all > configuration paths with the sysroot, but this raises the question of > how we should handle paths provided on the command line. Using chroot > meant that all paths, regardless of what they were or where they came > from, would be interpreted relative to the sysroot. Switching to > manually adjusting paths means that we have the option to change that. > > I'm inclined to change pacman to use command line arguments/options > as-is and have --sysroot just modify values from the config file. > I think that's the friendlier option for users. >
I think that is the right approach, but I'd really like input from the archiso and pacstrap maintainers, as they use these options and I believe have had issues this should solve. A
