Debian chroot inside Arch

gistfile1.txt

pacman -S wget # needed for debootstrap

curl -o /tmp/db.deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.60~bpo70+1_all.deb
mkdir /opt/debootstrap
cd /opt/debootstrap
ar x /tmp/db.deb
tar xf data.tar.gz

mkdir /opt/debian

DEBOOTSTRAP_DIR=/opt/debootstrap/usr/share/debootstrap /opt/debootstrap/usr/sbin/debootstrap --arch amd64 wheezy /opt/debian/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/

mount -t proc proc /opt/debian/proc/
mount -t sysfs sys /opt/debian/sys/
mount -o bind /dev /opt/debian/dev/
mount -o bind /dev/pts /opt/debian/dev/pts/

cat > /opt/debian/etc/apt/sources.list << 'EOF'
deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib

deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main non-free contrib

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates main non-free contrib
EOF

chroot /opt/debian /bin/bash

# inside chroot

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install locales
dpkg-reconfigure locales

# add name to /etc/hosts

# optional

apt-get install curl sudo ncurses-term

groupadd sudo
useradd -m -G sudo -s /bin/bash chris
passwd chris

cat > /etc/sudoers << 'EOF'
root  ALL=(ALL) ALL
%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL
EOF

sudo -iu chris

apt-get install git

mkdir ~/git
git clone git://github.com/cdown/dotfiles.git ~/git/dotfiles
(cd ~/git/dotfiles && ./setup)

useful gist, using it right now to bring a ubuntu 20.04lts into manjaro. :)

Hm. debootstrap exists as an arch package. Any reason not to use that?

probably because this paste is unmaintained and 6 years old ;-)