Build image from Archlinux

scripts/prerequisites.sh

@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ then
 fi
 
 sane=true
+archlinuxsane=false
 
 distributor_id_sane="^Ubuntu$"
+archlinux_id_sane="^Arch$"
 release_sane="^14.04$"
 codename_sane="^trusty$"
 arch_sane="^amd64$"
@@ -75,10 +77,17 @@ case "${check_sanity}" in
             distributor_id=`/usr/bin/lsb_release -s -i`
             release=`/usr/bin/lsb_release -s -r`
             codename=`/usr/bin/lsb_release -s -c`
-
+	      
             if ! echo "${distributor_id}" | egrep -q "${distributor_id_sane}"; then
                 echo "WARNING: Distributor ID reported by lsb_release '${distributor_id}' not in '${distributor_id_sane}'" 1>&2
-                sane=false
+                sane=false	
+                echo "Check if it is Archlinux"
+                if echo "${distributor_id}" | egrep -q "${archlinux_id_sane}"; then
+                    echo "Distributor ID reported by lsb_release '${distributor_id}' in '${archlinux_id_sane}'" 1>&2
+                    archlinuxsane=true
+                else
+	            echo "Distributor not Arch" 1>&2
+                fi 
             fi
 
             if ! echo "${release}" | egrep -q "${release_sane}"; then
@@ -114,7 +123,15 @@ case "${check_sanity}" in
     false) ;;
 esac
 
-apt-get update
+case "${archlinuxsane}" in
+    true)
+	echo 'pacman -Syu'
+        sudo pacman -Syu
+        ;;
+    false)
+        apt-get update
+	;;
+esac
 
 # These are essential to pass OE sanity test
 # locales, because utf8 is needed with newer bitbake which uses python3
@@ -135,6 +152,22 @@ essential="\
     wget \
 "
 
+archlinux_essential="\
+    base-devel \
+    chrpath \
+    cpio \
+    diffstat \
+    gawk \
+    git \
+    iputils \
+    lsb-release \
+    python \
+    python2 \
+    python3 \
+    texinfo \
+    wget \
+"
+
 # bzip2, gzip, tar, zip are used by our scripts/build.sh
 archivers="\
     bzip2 \
@@ -151,11 +184,35 @@ extras="\
     time \
 "
 
-apt-get install --yes \
-    ${essential} \
-    ${extras} \
-    ${archivers} \
+archlinux_extras="\
+    multilib-devel \
+    time \
+"
 
-locale-gen en_US.utf8
+case "${archlinuxsane}" in
+    true)    
+        sudo pacman -Syu \
+	    ${archlinux_essential} \
+	    ${archlinux_extras} \
+	    ${archivers} \
+
+        echo 'WARNING: Make sure that locale en_US.utf8 is generated. Link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/locale#Generating_locales' 1>&2
+        echo 'WARNING: Make sure that you are using Python2: sudo ln -sf /bin/python2 /bin/python' 1>&2
+	;;
+    false)
+        apt-get install --yes \
+	    ${essential} \
+	    ${extras} \
+	    ${archivers} \
+	locale-gen en_US.utf8
+	;;
+esac
 
-echo $version  > $statusfile
+case "${archlinuxsane}" in
+    true)    
+        sudo sh -c "echo $version > $statusfile"
+        ;;
+    false)	
+        echo $version  > $statusfile
+	;;
+esac