An Arch Linux container for Docker built entirely using the bootstrap archives provided by the Arch Linux project, without requiring explicit root access that other methods which use pacstrap require. Only docker access is required.
Other methods for creating base images typically require some external tool.
For Arch Linux, this typically involves the use of pacstrap and
arch-chroot which typically root access on the machine to operate. On top
of this, they generally require some external build script.
This image is an attempt to create a base Arch Linux image entirely via a
Dockerfile (based upon the base/scratch empty image). Unfortunately, as
Docker currently does not support extracting archives from URLs directly, I
had to include binary copies of gzip and tar to extract the archive to
the appropriate location.
I was planning on using busybox (so I would only require a single executable)
but unfortunately busybox's tar implementation does not have an essential
available option from GNU's tar: --strip-components, nor does busybox's
exclude option have any effect.
I need to work on compacting the image (or wait for Docker to include some sort of "squash" or "commit" system to flatten the image and reduce its size.
The upside is that this image can be automatically built on docker registries, and has no large binaries (or binaries likely to change) committed to the repository.
- docker
- curl
- tar (+gzip)
- make (not sure about GNU dependencies, though)
Copyright 2015 Joe Harrison
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