syntactician/archlinux-pacaur repository overview

⁠archlinux-pacaur

An AUR-capable Docker image.

⁠Rationale

This image is inspired by chrert⁠'s docker-arch-yaourt⁠ image.

It is intended to be used to manage dependencies from the AUR with pacaur⁠ in an otherwise minimal Arch image.

⁠Details

This image is built atop greyltc⁠'s very transparent archlinux⁠ image, and automatically builds to match each release.

This image provides additionally a user build in the group wheel. /etc/sudoers/ is configured such that users in wheel have sudo privileges without a password, allowing operations like pacaur --noconfirm -S python-flask-git just work for build.

This user can also be used to build your own PKGBUILDs. This image provides the directories /build and /home/build which belong to build. /home/build exists only to contain ~/.gnupg for build (necessary for pacaur and some AUR packages), so PKGBUILDs should be built in subdirectories of /build. $AURDEST is also set to /build, so any packages installed via pacaur will have their source in /build. $PACMAN is set to pacaur, so makepkg will resolve PKGBUILD depends from the AUR using pacaur.

⁠Usage

Here's an example Dockerfile using this as a base image:

FROM syntactician/archlinux-pacaur
MAINTAINER Your Name

# install from AUR
su build -c 'pacaur --noconfirm -S python-flask-git'

# build from a custom PKGBUILD via github
WORKDIR /build
RUN git clone https://github.com/your/git-package
WORKDIR /build/git-package
RUN makepkg --noconfirm -sri

# build from local PKGBUILD
COPY PKGBUILD /build/local-package/PKGBUILD
WORKDIR /build/local-package
RUN makepkg --noconfirm -sri

# remove build user
USER root
RUN userdel -r build && rm /home/build