Arch Linux Appliance Builder

This is a fork of Proxmox AAB project with the goal of building an updated Arch Linux LXC template for use with PVE, also to prevent removal of pacman keyring; disable systemd-resolved and enable sshd.

Requirements for building

The best way to build this template is running inside of an Arch Linux environment and will need the following packages: lxc make perl-uuid

Also to prevent an error when starting the container, you need to enable devices cgroup since LXC will apply device cgroup limits.

mount -o remount,rw /sys/fs/cgroup
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/devices
mount -t cgroup devices -o devices /sys/fs/cgroup/devices
mount -o remount,ro /sys/fs/cgroup

To enable/disable services and install additional packages

Go to the file PVE/AAB.pm and search for the following lines:

• Add new packages: my @BASE_PACKAGES
• Disable service: print "Masking problematic systemd units...\n";
• Enable serivce: print "Enable systemd services...\n";

Usage

with Make

• make aab.conf
• run as root make build-current
• go drink mate or kofi while is creating and compacting the template
• when done will have the following file archlinux-base_${DATE}-1_${ARCH}.tar.zst
• upload to your PVE and enjoy~

or step by step

1. Create an aab.conf file describing your template.

• make aab.conf
• edit the source argument inside of aab.conf and change to a mirror of your choice

2. Run as root:

• ./aab init
• ./aab bootstrap

3. Maybe install additional packages

• ./aab install base-devel

4. Create the archive and clean up:

• ./aab finalize
• ./aab cleanup