lemniskett / archbox

Easy to use Arch Linux chroot environment with some functionalities to integrate it with your existing Linux installation. Mirror of https://momodev.lemniskett.moe/lemniskett/archbox

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archbox's Issues

uid and file owner in mounted home don't match.

Thanks for making archbox, it's very useful.

I have a user jbrown that has a uid of 1001 on the host Ubuntu system and a uid of 1000 in the Arch chroot. This is a pain because the permissions are wrong for all the files in /home/jbrown that are owned by 1001.

21:55:30 detritus:~
  id -u jbrown
1001

21:55:34 detritus:~
  archbox -e

21:55:38 detritus:/
  id -u jbrown
1000

21:55:54 detritus:/
  ls -al /home/jbrown/
total 600
drwxr-xr-x 30 1001 1001   4096 Oct 27 15:54 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Oct  2 20:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 1001 1001   4096 Oct  4 20:12 .aws
-rw-------  1 1001 1001  11467 Oct 27 21:55 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 1001 1001    220 Oct  2 20:29 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 1001 1001    127 Oct  2 22:12 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 1001 1001   2486 Oct  2 22:12 .bash_prompt
-rw-r--r--  1 1001 1001   2909 Oct 15 21:15 .bashrc

What is the best way to work around this one? I perfer to change the uid of jbrown to 1001 but I can not because jbrown always has some process in the chroot and it crashes if I kill it.

ChromeOS

Greetings,

does archbox support ChromeOS ?

SteamDeck support?

I do have a SteamDeck with SteamOS 3.4 (Arch distro) and I would like to install this software on my machine but I do not know if is supported and if so how to install-it.

Best regards.

Script is asking for preferred editor, but is using nano the next time something needs to be edited

The script asks for my preferred editor (which i obviously replied vim) when editing the mirrorlist, but is using nano when you need to edit the locale.

How do I use input methods?

This is pretty usable, but there is one problem.
I can't use input methods, which are used for entering special characters like Cyrillic and CJK.
Is there a chance that I can run them properly in Archbox?
As a reference, I'll specify my environment here.
OS: NixOS 21.11 Unstable
DE: KDE Plasma

Enhancement: Fall back on curl if wget is not available

wget only appears to be used once to fetch archlinux.tar.gz at the time of writing.

Since using curl can be functionally identical here, adding it seems a bit of a no-brainer.

Use $PREFIX in install.sh

The install script presently has /usr/local hard coded as its prefix, which may not be desirable to package maintainers. The convention (in GNU Makefiles at least) is to default this to /usr/local but for it to be easy to override.

ARM64 / AARCH64 Chromebooks

Hi,
Does this work on ARM64 chromebooks? I need it very badly, truly, madly, deeply. Please say yes. :)
Thanks.

Archbox using the wrong PATH environment variable.

Archbox is using my host NixOS system's PATH environment variable.
Screenshot

I can confirm the binaries exist in /bin.
Here is my config:

{ config, pkgs, ... }:

let
    archbox = pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
        name = "archbox";
        src = pkgs.fetchFromGitHub {
            owner = "lemniskett";
            repo = "archbox";
            rev = "6ab44021605ff7592692562871aa654eec1ed6bb";
            sha256 = "0qgar6w2q1wsglx3zyj02mygypxs6bplrj43k61bkwz9g9d31yw5";
        };
        sourceRoot = ".";
        installPhase = ''
            mkdir -p $out
            cd source
            export FORCE_INSTALL_CONFIG=1
            export ETC_DIR=$out/etc
            export PREFIX=$out
            export ARCHBOX_USER=meisme_arch
            export MOUNT_RUN=no
            ${pkgs.bash}/bin/bash install.sh
        '';
    };
in
{
    environment.systemPackages = [ archbox ];
    environment.etc = { 
        "archbox.conf" = { 
            source = "${archbox}/etc/archbox.conf";
        };
    };
}

Dependencies

Like the title says, a list of dependencies would be nice to add to the readme. So far i know wget is one for the download of the arch linux bootstrap tarball, and a bash or bash capable shell.

Home directory is gone after reboot

After rebooting the host system and running archboxinit, the home directory that was mounted from my host system is gone.

Perl gives unset locale error

When starting perl, it gives an error message about unset locale settings. Like this:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LANGUAGE = (unset),
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_MONETARY = "de_CH.UTF-8",
	LC_PAPER = "de_CH.UTF-8",
	LC_TELEPHONE = "de_CH.UTF-8",
	LC_MEASUREMENT = "de_CH.UTF-8",
	LC_TIME = "de_CH.UTF-8",
	LANG = "en_GB.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

This can be fixed by setting the two unset locales in the .bashrc, like this:

export LC_ALL="de_CH.UTF-8"
export LANGUAGE="de_CH.UTF-8"