ARCH-NSPAWN(1)                                                  ARCH-NSPAWN(1)

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

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

DESCRIPTION
       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.

OPTIONS
       -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

HOMEPAGE
        <https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools>

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

                                  2025-08-28                    ARCH-NSPAWN(1)