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Instructions to build a tiny compressed archlinux (latest) docker image
[ If you want to download archlinux image:
https://hub.docker.com/r/archlinux/base ]
Installation
basic installation
# mkdir -pv /archlinux/var/lib/pacman
# pacman --root /archlinux/ -Sy base --noconfirm
# sed -i -e 's/#\(.*otenet\)/\1/g' /archlinux/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
# sed -i -e 's/^SigLevel.*/SigLevel = Never/g' /archlinux/etc/pacman.conf
Clean up
remove unnecessary files
# pacman -Rncs linux --root /archlinux/ --noconfirm
# pacman -Rncs man-db --root /archlinux/ --noconfirm
# pacman -Rncs man-pages --root /archlinux/ --noconfirm
# rm -rf /archlinux/usr/share/locale
# rm -rf /archlinux/usr/share/man
Archive
# cd /archlinux/
# tar Jcf a .
# du -h a
54M a
Import to Docker
# docker import - archlinux:latest < a
# docker run -t -i archlinux:latest bash
[root@9adf2e774846 /]#