I tried to use it on the chromebook but it doesn't have zstd, is there an alternative that doesn't involve installing zstd?

Today I have this error while running bootstrap:
....
--- install packages: acl archlinux-keyring attr bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libssh2 lzo2 openssl pacman pacman-mirrorlist xz zlib filesystem coreutils bash grep gawk file tar systemd
/usr/bin/pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libgssapi_krb5.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

./arch-bootstrap.sh myarch
--- destination directory: myarch
--- core repository: http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64
--- temporary directory: /tmp/tmp.4VkDWgRGIG
--- fetch packages list: http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/
./arch-bootstrap.sh: line 47: curl: command not found
--- Error: cannot fetch packages list: http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64
--- pacman package and dependencies: acl archlinux-keyring attr brotli bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libnghttp2 libssh2 lzo openssl pacman pacman-mirrorlist xz zlib krb5 e2fsprogs keyutils libidn2 libunistring gcc-libs lz4 libpsl icu libunistring zstd filesystem
--- Error: cannot find package: acl

On http://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/ I see that the file is called acl-2.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst which might not be matching the regex in line 145 anymore.

It is odd that this wrapper does not rwatw the chroot in the structure that this page describes: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot

This then doesn't allow makechrootpkg to run, as it checks for dir/. arch-chroot under dir/root. Why doesn't this script house the root contents in root/ not the directory passed to it? Where is .arch-chroot?

Contents of . arch-chroot

v4

That is an old 85th chroot I have.

arch-nspawn where the check occurs: http://sprunge.us/KAZj

Is the wiki outdated for Arch and I should not be using makechrootpkg?

I am interested in using this script on a system where some of the dependencies - such as bash and gawk - may not be available, but busybox is guaranteed to be available.

When I looked through your source code, it seems most things could be easily made more portable. The awk you use, for example, does not seem dependent on any gawkisms at all, and could be any major awk implementation.

Some things would be harder to make POSIX, such as pipefail. Busybox supports pipefail and, for my needs, no additional work for that would have to be done. However, getting it to be fully POSIX would be a reachable and reasonable goal, I think.

I'll be happy make the changes necessary to do this and throw a pull request at you myself; however, before I do so, I figured I'd ask if such a patch would likely be accepted. I wasn't sure if there was a specific reason you were targeting GNU systems beyond it simply being a reasonable balance between portability and work to implement.

Thanks!

arthur@arthur-K46CB:/$ ./arch-bootstrap.sh
Usage: arch-bootstrap.sh [-q] [-a i686|x86_64|arm] [-r REPO_URL] [-d DOWNLOAD_DIR] DESTDIR

I had to mount an EXTRA /dev sub-dir to be able to install anything via pacman.
Otherwise all packages gave:
error: GPGME error: Inappropriate ioctl for device

(from debian sid 2013-12)

sudo mount --bind /dev/pts /arch/dev/pts

Please add to readme.
Thx for super script!

when using the '-d <download_dir>' option, do not download the files which are already in the directory.

perhaps we should verify them with a hash or something.

improvement: let pacman also know about those packages.

The bug

Running this script from Linux Mint, I get this error:

/usr/bin/pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libxml2.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it seems this script is not downloading libxml2, which is required by pacman.

The work-around for others encountering this

I managed to work around the issue like so:

• Go to https://archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/libxml2
• Click on Download From Mirror
• Extract the resulting .tar.zst file.
• Merge its contents with your chroot dir. In my case, it looked like this:
  • rsync -av ~/Downloads/libxml2-2.13.0-4-x86_64.pkg/usr/ chroot/myarch/usr/
• Rerun the arch-bootstrap command.

Once that was done I chroot'd in like normal and everything worked fine.

I followed this tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/c50vsb/howto_run_steam_in_a_container_without_32bit/

And besides other errors, the tutorial assumes arch-bootstrap would just let me cancel out the setup.
It doesn't.

I am stuck here:

Arch Linux 5.15.23-1 (pts/0)

bootstrap login: 

Previously, arch-bootstrap saved packages and kept them between runs when a user-specified directory was passed through the -d flag. It looks like 0a66940 removed this functionality resulting in user-specified directories being completely wiped out at exit.

Got the following error:

# /usr/local/bin/arch-bootstrap -a x86_64 -r "http://mirror.aktkn.sg/archlinux/" /mnt/arch
--- destination directory: /mnt/arch
--- core repository: http://mirror.aktkn.sg/archlinux/core/os/x86_64
--- temporary directory: /tmp/tmp.sDYR1Glicf
--- fetch packages list: http://mirror.aktkn.sg/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/
--- pacman package and dependencies: acl archlinux-keyring attr bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libnghttp2 libssh2 lzo openssl pacman pacman-mirrorlist xz zlib krb5 e2fsprogs keyutils libidn2 libunistring gcc-libs lz4 libpsl icu libunistring zstd filesystem
--- download package: http://mirror.aktkn.sg/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/acl-2.2.53-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  131k  100  131k    0     0   586k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  589k
--- uncompress package: /tmp/tmp.sDYR1Glicf/acl-2.2.53-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
--- Error: cannot find package: archlinux-keyring

I have a need to bootstrap for i686. It looks like this was moved off of the default repo about a year ago. Simply using -r with one of the arch32 mirrors doesn't seem to solve the issue.

-a x86_64 is working, but -a aarch64 or -a armv7h get a ways into it but then give this error...

--- install packages: acl archlinux-keyring attr bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libnghttp2 libssh2 lzo openssl pacman pacman-mirrorlist xz zlib krb5 e2fsprogs keyutils libidn2 libunistring gcc-libs lz4 libpsl icu libunistring zstd filesystem coreutils bash grep gawk file tar systemd sed
chroot: failed to run command '/usr/bin/pacman': No such file or directory

Not sure what a GNU distro is since GNU is a toolset that tends to make up less that 5% of any system it's on, does it work with a Linux Distro?

I tried to use this on i686 alpine linux and ended up in a situation where /dev/null didn't exist. The install script for gnupg includes dirmngr </dev/null &>/dev/null, which causes a hilarious infinite loop with it trying to interpret its own logs and error messages as input.

I tried this with

jonas@jonas-elementary:~$ sudo arch-bootstrap -a x86_64 /media/jonas/Arch\ Linux/

but it failed here:

--- download package: http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/core/os/x86_64/filesystem-2017.03-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 10448  100 10448    0     0  22190      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 22182
--- uncompress package: /tmp/tmp.n2vsN9Jh0K/filesystem-2017.03-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
--- configure DNS and pacman
sed: kann /media/jonas/Arch nicht lesen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
sed: kann Linux//etc/shadow nicht lesen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden

The --force flag has been deprecated, hence it should be removed from the script otherwise pacman will simply fail.

It currently throws an error when trying to execute /usr/bin/pacman about libbrotli.so.1 not being found. To fix this you must add brotli to the pacman packages list at the beginning of the script.

Hi!

There seems to be no checking of GPG signatures and the URLs used internally start with http:// rather than https:// (while at least http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux could be replaced by https://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux). That leaves quite some surface for man-in-the-middle attacks.

I propose to download GPG keys through HTTPs and check GPG signatures of packages downloaded.

Thanks and best, Sebastian

locale-gen depends on it

Hi!

While installation through the Rackspace mirror seems to work fine

# ./arch-bootstrap.sh -a x86_64 -r http://mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/ arch_root

the default mirror at mirrors.kernel.org does not lead to a successful installation as of today, tried twice:

# ./arch-bootstrap.sh -a x86_64 arch_root
[..]
--- configure DNS and pacman
--- install packages: acl archlinux-keyring attr bzip2 curl expat glibc gpgme libarchive libassuan libgpg-error libssh2 lzo openssl pacman pacman-mirrorlist xz zlib krb5 e2fsprogs keyutils libidn gcc-libs filesystem coreutils bash grep gawk file tar systemd
:: Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed retrieving file 'core.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed to update core (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed to update extra (download library error)
error: failed retrieving file 'community.db' from mirrors.kernel.org : error setting certificate verify locations:
  CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
  CApath: none
error: failed to update community (download library error)
error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to init transaction (download library error)

# ls -l /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 273790 Apr 25 11:46 /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

Maybe Rackspace would make a better default mirror? It's listed as worldwide at the very top in etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

Best, Sebastian

had this error while installing inside debian docker container

--- configure DNS and pacman
mknod: archroot/dev/null: Operation not permitted

have any idea what could be the cause?

many distro's only come with curl initially, and wget is optional (this is because curl is also a library, and used almost everywhere, whereas wget is only a cli).

I used this patch to make it work:

diff --git a/arch-bootstrap.sh b/arch-bootstrap.sh
index 43c3d2f..b157f2b 100755
--- a/arch-bootstrap.sh
+++ b/arch-bootstrap.sh
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ extract_href() {
 }

 fetch() {
-  wget -c --passive-ftp --quiet "$@" 
+  curl -s "$@"
 }

 uncompress() {
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ fetch_packages_list() {

   debug "fetch packages list: $REPO/"
   # Force trailing '/' needed by FTP servers.
-  fetch -O - "$REPO/" | extract_href | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}' | sort -rn ||
+  fetch "$REPO/" | extract_href | awk -F"/" '{print $NF}' | sort -rn ||
     { debug "Error: cannot fetch packages list: $REPO"; return 1; }
 }

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ install_pacman_packages() {
     local FILEPATH="$DOWNLOAD_DIR/$FILE"

     debug "download package: $REPO/$FILE"
-    fetch -O "$FILEPATH" "$REPO/$FILE"
+    fetch -o "$FILEPATH" "$REPO/$FILE"
     debug "uncompress package: $FILEPATH"
     uncompress "$FILEPATH" "$DEST"
   done

I Cannot Use This On My Raspberry Pi !! So Please Fix The Problem Yourself Instead Waiting A Pull Request !!! ù$%!=