beta release. still some missing features (ipxe, http/tftp and remote syncing, etc.)

extra/pre-build.d/etc/systemd/scripts/pacmandb.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+for i in pacman apacman;
+do
+	if [ -f /usr/local/${i}.db.tar.xz ];
+	then
+		/usr/bin/tar -Jxf /usr/local/${i}.db.tar.xz -C /var/lib/${i}/
+	fi
+done

extra/pre-build.d/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pacmandb.service

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/etc/systemd/system/pacmandb.service

extra/pre-build.d/etc/systemd/system/pacmandb.service

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Restoring Installed Packages DB
+
+[Service]
+Type=oneshot
+#ExecStart=/usr/bin/tar -Jxf /usr/local/pacman.db.tar.xz -C /var/lib/pacman/
+ExecStart=/etc/systemd/system/scripts/pacmandb.sh
+RemainAfterExit=yes
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target

extra/pre-build.d/root/pre-build.sh

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ exec 1>/var/log/chroot_install.log 2>&1
 
 # we need this fix before anything.
 dirmngr </dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1
-locale-gen
 
 cleanPacorigs()
 {
@@ -45,7 +44,9 @@ pacman -Syy
 # Just in case.
 cleanPacorigs
 # Install some prereqs
-pacman -S --noconfirm --needed base syslinux wget rsync unzip jshon sed sudo abs xmlto bc docbook-xsl git
+pacman -S sed
+pacman -S --noconfirm --needed base syslinux wget rsync unzip jshon sudo abs xmlto bc docbook-xsl git
+locale-gen
 # And get rid of files it wants to replace
 cleanPacorigs
 # Force update all currently installed packages in case the tarball's out of date
@@ -175,6 +176,8 @@ fi
 paccache -rk0
 localepurge-config
 localepurge
+localepurge-config
+localepurge
 rm -f /root/.bash_history
 rm -f /root/.viminfo
 rm -f /root/apacman-*.pkg.tar.xz