README


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IF YOU ARE IN A HURRY
=====================

From a directory that contains a PKGBUILD, run:

	arch.build i686

This will build the package for the given architecture. You may also
append a list of repositories to use on top of [core], [extra], and
[community], for instance:

	arch.build x86_64 testing multilib-testing multilib


FOR BETTER PERFORMANCE
======================

Enable hardware virtualization.

Make /tmp a tmpfs. (This is where the copy-on-write drive is stored.)

Use a fast package mirror, ideally a caching proxy on your local network.
Entries from /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist are used as-is except that 127.0.0.1 gets
translated to 10.0.2.2 which is the host address from the qemu guest viewpoint.


REQUIREMENTS FOR ARCH.INSTALL
=============================

The arch.install script creates an Arch Linux disk image which:
- has [base] and [base-devel] installed
- has a "user" user able to sudo at will
- boots unattended with networking enabled
- runs an SSH daemon accepting the host user's keys

Once created, this disk image is read-only most of the time: the virtual
machines created in arch.build use copy-on-write on top of it.