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sveinemann

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Registered: 2007-09-30

Posts: 108

Pacman ignores --root flag's input; chroot not in /opt/arch32

Due to lack of storage capacity on my root partition, I would like to install chroot in my home folder. Which does not work. If I change all the paths to the folder in my home folder nothing works.

pacman --root /home/svein/arch32 --cachedir /home/svein/arch32/var/cache/pacman/pkg --config /home/svein/arch32/pacman.conf -Sy

This would output;
error: config file /opt/arch32/mirrorlist could not be read.

I cannot see any /opt/ anywhere in the input. So what's wrong?

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 6,965

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Re: Pacman ignores --root flag's input; chroot not in /opt/arch32

Does /home/svein/arch32/pacman.conf  contain "Include = /opt/arch32/mirrorlist"?

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