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dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 98

Where is chroot

Last time when I was installing Arch I mounted my cache in to /var/cache/pacman/pkg. This time it doesn't work - pacman is dowloading packages. Quick search using ls, and ctrl+f in browser (Bigginers guide, Official Installation guide) for chroot catalog and I still don't know where it is.

No big deal, only ~120MB, but where the KISS gone?

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 705

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Re: Where is chroot

Last time when I was installing Arch I mounted my cache in to /var/cache/pacman/pkg.

By looking at the source of both the old installer and the newer AIF, it appears that files are downloaded to /src/core/pkg during installation.

Quick search using ls, and ctrl+f in browser (Bigginers guide, Official Installation guide) for chroot catalog and I still don't know where it is.

I'm not sure what you mean by "chroot catalog". Could you please rephrase that and maybe elaborate on it further?

dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 98

Re: Where is chroot

By 'chroot catalog' I mean the place where installer build system to copy it on HDD at the end - like in PLD or Gentoo. When I noticed that Pacman didn't see the cache I was quite sure, that there is chroot somewhere.

Last time I was installing Arch, everything I set on live cd appeared in installed system. Now it doesn't, so something was changed.

Thanks for info about /src/core/pkg. I will be very useful next time.