aurch VS pacman-venv

My personal AUR helper builds AUR packages in an nspawn container. Thinking about scripting the automation of running them in dedicated nspawn container as well.

I ended up writing my own AUR helper that sets up aurutils inside an nspawn container. It does prompt for inspecting and/or modifying git cloned files before building. However, it omits other typical AUR helper features like building/updating multiple packages at once. On the other hand, it transparently manages required gpg keys and AUR dependencies. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch

I did it using a systemd nspawn container. I made my AUR helper as both an interesting scripting project and a proof of concept for myself. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch

Reinventing the wheel has been an great way for me to learn more about shell scripting and Arch packaging in general. ie: https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch

I use pacman to work on non default locations in my AUR helper. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch

I've been using my own AUR helper over the last year without issue. https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch

Details: https://github.com/Cody-Learner/aurch/blob/main/aurch

I'm wanting some kind of immutable-ish arch, with all user packages managed by something else like one of these. Also been checking this out https://github.com/jdholtz/pacman-venv which is surprising that it works with just some basic environment variables changing the pacman root and stuff.

Hi everyone. I just released a new project called pacman-venv. This is a tool that allows you to create virtual environments for Pacman. It works similarly to Python's virtualenv. You can find the project's AUR page here and the source code here.