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| author | Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> | 2017-04-16 00:31:57 -0400 |
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| committer | Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com> | 2017-04-16 19:41:35 -0400 |
| commit | fae33a1faf3f94ea46049664ef483b2a3e0d3f01 (patch) | |
| tree | e33404cef3acbbf18b774a33eab3006a7b986c5e /doc | |
| parent | 6a4c6a02de9b45abe4c0f78c4f5d14d92d3359d6 (diff) | |
add --sysroot option
--root is not sufficient to properly operate on a mounted guest system.
Using --root still uses the host system's configuration and there is no
way to correctly use the guest configuration without manually modifying
any Include directives. --sysroot provides an easier way to operate on
a guest system by chrooting immediately after option parsing before
configuration parsing or performing any operations. It is currently
limited to the root user, but that's enough for restoring a guest system
to a working state, which is the primary intended use case.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/pacman.8.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/pacman.8.txt b/doc/pacman.8.txt index f01f4aa4..d670e82a 100644 --- a/doc/pacman.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman.8.txt @@ -136,11 +136,12 @@ Options *-r, \--root* <path>:: Specify an alternative installation root (default is `/`). This should not be used as a way to install software into `/usr/local` instead of - `/usr`. This option is used if you want to install a package on a - temporarily mounted partition that is "owned" by another system. + `/usr`. *NOTE*: If database path or log file are not specified on either the command line or in linkman:pacman.conf[5], their default location will be inside this root path. + *NOTE*: This option is not suitable for performing operations on a mounted + guest system. See '\--sysroot' instead. *-v, \--verbose*:: Output paths such as as the Root, Conf File, DB Path, Cache Dirs, etc. @@ -197,6 +198,12 @@ Options Disable defaults for low speed limit and timeout on downloads. Use this if you have issues downloading files with proxy and/or security gateway. +*\--sysroot* <dir>:: + Specify an alternative system root. Pacman will chroot and chdir into the + system root prior to running. This allows mounted guest systems to be + properly operated on. Any other paths given will be interpreted as relative + to the system root. Requires root privileges. + Transaction Options (apply to '-S', '-R' and '-U') -------------------------------------------------- |