#!/bin/bash out() { printf "$1 $2\n" "${@:3}"; } error() { out "==> ERROR:" "$@"; } >&2 die() { error "$@"; exit 1; } (( $# )) || die "No root directory specified" newroot=$1; shift pacman_args=("${@:-base}") if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then die "This script must be run as root" fi [[ -d $newroot ]] || die "%s is not a directory" "$newroot" echo 'Creating install root at %s' "$newroot" mkdir -m 0755 -p "$newroot"/var/{cache/pacman/pkg,lib/pacman,log} "$newroot"/{dev,run,etc} "$newroot"/etc/pacman.d mkdir -m 1777 -p "$newroot"/tmp mkdir -m 0555 -p "$newroot"/{sys,proc} cp -a /etc/pacman.conf "$newroot/etc/pacman.conf" cp -a /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist "$newroot/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist" echo 'Creating /dev/null in new root' mknod "$newroot/dev/null" c 1 3 echo 'Installing packages to %s' "$newroot" if ! pacman -r "$newroot" -Sy --noconfirm "${pacman_args[@]}"; then die 'Failed to install packages to new root' fi echo 'Deleting /dev/null from new root' rm "$newroot/dev/null"