README.md

Arch for Apptainer

This bootstrap spec will generate an Archlinux distribution using Apptainer. Note that you can also just bootstrap a Docker image. By default, the metapackage base gets installed. It can be changed using the Include parameter (add it below Bootstrap). Similarly, pacman configuration can be changed by specifying a URL to get pacman.conf in the confURL parameter.

If you want to move forward with the raw, old school, jeans and hard toes bootstrap, here is what to do. I work on an Ubuntu machine, so I had to use a Docker Archlinux image to do this. This first part you should do on your local machine (if not Archlinux) is to use Docker to interactively work in an Archlinux image. If you don't want to copy paste the build spec file, you can use --volume to mount a directory from your host to a folder in the image (I would recommend /tmp or similar). Here we run the docker image:

docker run -it  --privileged pritunl/archlinux bash

pacman -S -y git autoconf libtool automake gcc python make sudo vim \
 arch-install-scripts wget apptainer

You can add the Apptainer build spec here, or cd to where it is if you have mounted a volume.

cd /tmp
apptainer create arch.img
sudo apptainer bootstrap arch.img Apptainer

That should do the trick!