Installing AUR packages while chroot?

meezoarch · 2024-01-07 12:28:38

I want to add add a function to install some AUR packages on my custum arch install script. I am getting permission errors and not sure about the correct way of acheiving that.

This is what I have so far:

	mkdir /mnt/home/"$USER"/.AUR
	for pkg in "${aur_all[@]}"; do
	  
    #did not work
    # arch-chroot /mnt git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/${pkg}.git
    # arch-chroot /mnt bash -c "cd ${pkg} && makepkg -si --noconfirm"

    arch-chroot /mnt sudo -u "$USER" git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/${pkg}.git /mnt/home/"$USER"/.AUR
    arch-chroot /mnt sudo -u "$USER" bash -c "cd /mnt/home/${USER}/.AUR/${pkg} && makepkg -si --noconfirm"
	done

Kindly help.

Lone_Wolf · 2024-01-07 12:42:12

The typical method used is to build the packages on another system and just copy the created binaries to the install medium.

It seems you don't want that, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Develo … ean_chroot has good info about using a chroot to build archlinux packages and should give you an idea.

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2024-01-07 12:42:59)

meezoarch · 2024-01-07 12:51:04

Lone_Wolf wrote:

The typical method used is to build the packages on another system and just copy the created binaries to the install medium.
It seems you don't want that, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Develo … ean_chroot has good info about using a chroot to build archlinux packages and should give you an idea.

Thank you for your prompt response.
I followed the link but did not quite understand.

Do you mind explaining further?
Perhaps with an example? Sorry!

Lone_Wolf · 2024-01-07 13:15:14

make sure devtools and base-devel are part of your install environment (if 32-bit build are needed, also add multilib-devel )

create a user foo with a home-directory and bash as shell
switch to this user

create a directory $HOME/foo-build and cd into it. run git clone to retrieve the files needed for building aur-foo .
cd to the aur-foo folder .

execute extra-x86_64-build -c

Try these steps manually before using them in a script .

Trilby · 2024-01-07 14:56:37

meezoarch wrote:

I am getting permission errors ... #did not work

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855

What are the errors? ~~What do you expect "$USER" to be in that context?~~ (edit: nevermind this part, it would seem it must be set in some other part of the script you haven't shown). But do those lines with sudo $USER work?

Last edited by Trilby (2024-01-07 14:57:53)

meezoarch · 2024-01-07 16:53:23

I got it to work.
Basically it seems that the step I was missing was to switch user. To run the script without having to enter the password I added some lines as below.

# as part of a function

	arch-chroot /mnt sed -i 's/^%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL$/%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL/' /etc/sudoers

	# Install the required ones:
	for pkg in "${aur_all[@]}"; do
		local COMMAND="mkdir -p /home/$USER/.AUR && cd /home/$USER/.AUR && git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/${pkg}.git && (cd $pkg && makepkg -si --noconfirm)"
		arch-chroot /mnt bash -c "echo -e \"$USERPASS\n$USERPASS\n$USERPASS\n$USERPASS\n\" | su $USER -s /usr/bin/bash -c \"$COMMAND\""
	done

	arch-chroot /mnt sed -i 's/^%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL$/%wheel ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL/' /etc/sudoers

Last edited by meezoarch (2024-01-07 17:38:01)

meezoarch · 2024-01-07 16:55:05

Trilby wrote:

meezoarch wrote:
I am getting permission errors ... #did not work
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
What are the errors? ~~What do you expect "$USER" to be in that context?~~ (edit: nevermind this part, it would seem it must be set in some other part of the script you haven't shown). But do those lines with sudo $USER work?

Yes $USER is defined and the sudo $USER was not working => permission denied error.

Please see my comment above. I am happy to take further suggestions.

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#1 2024-01-07 12:28:38

Installing AUR packages while chroot?

#2 2024-01-07 12:42:12

Re: Installing AUR packages while chroot?

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Re: Installing AUR packages while chroot?

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