markuspeitl / iso-creator-docker-for-manjaro

Unofficial ISO Creator Docker image for Manjaro

Dockerfile for building an image based on manjaro/base image and manjaro-iso-tools, for the purpose of building a customized manjaro image from any linux machine and trying to prevent the creating of temporary files on the host machine. (At least not fully, as the files in /var/lib/manjaro-tools still need to be mounted on the host, as a workaround for mounting the overlay filesystem)

Why?

• Less files on the host system
• Build on non-arch hosts, without building manjaro-tools from source (as manjaro-tools are not available via apt)
• Speed up the build process (as otherwise you possibly would need a VM which leads to performance overhead and the question how to get the .iso file out of the VM)
• Simpler setup of the requirements

Essentially i just wanted to simplify the .iso build process for me, so that i can have all the applications that i want to have preinstalled on the .iso and can quickly set up a new system for me anywhere anytime so that i do not spend ages on installing stuff.

Consideration

Be careful what you do with the container. It requires priviledged mode and could break your host system if wrongfully used.

TODO

• Integrate easy method to add AUR packages
• Cache optimization (save package caches on host or daemonize docker container)

Note

Currently the pacman update fails in the base image if on a debian machine. One possible workaround is to install "sudo apt install runc" on the host machine.