ARCH-NSPAWN(1)   ARCH-NSPAWN(1)

arch-nspawn - Run a command or OS in a light-weight namespace container

arch-nspawn [options] working-dir [systemd-nspawn arguments]

arch-nspawn is a wrapper around systemd-nspawn to run command or OS in a namespace container such as a directory including base utilities of a OS. It is used to build package(s) in given clean and defined environment.

-C <file>

Location of a pacman config file

-M <file>

Location of a makepkg config file. Specific additions (e.g. build flags for additional languages) can be placed in <file>.d/*.conf.

-c <dir>

Set pacman cache, if no directory is specified the passed pacman.conf’s cachedir is used with a fallback to /etc/pacman.conf

-f <src>[:<dst>]

Copy file from the host to the chroot. If dst is not provided, it defaults to src inside of the chroot.

-s

Do not run setarch

-h

Show this usage message

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Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs.

2025-02-25