start container from rootfs

[ashraffouda]

can we import containers/images from rootfs directory?
like if I did for example
pacstrap -K /var/chroot base base-devel which will create /var/chroot can I use this directory to create an image/container from it?

[flouthoc]

Hmm does it work if you do

FROM scratch
COPY /root-on-host /

and then run buildah build -t imagename . ?

[flouthoc]

Also podman allows you to run container directly from rootfs see https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-run.1.html#rootfs

[ashraffouda]

I did something like this which seems to be working

newcontainer=$(buildah from scratch)
scratchmnt=$(buildah mount $newcontainer)
pacstrap -c $scratchmnt base bash coreutils redis-server unzip

[rhatdan]

Yes this is what buildah was designed to do.