how to define aur packages in a distrobox.ini

[zany130]

is this possible?

i tried

[arch]
image=quay.io/toolbx/arch-toolbox:latest
pull=true
entry=true
replace=true
pre_init_hooks="sudo pacman-key --init"
pre_init_hooks="sudo pacman-key --recv-key 3056513887B78AEB --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com"
pre_init_hooks="sudo pacman-key --lsign-key 3056513887B78AEB"
pre_init_hooks="sudo pacman -U --noconfirm 'https://cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx/chaotic-aur/chaotic-keyring.pkg.tar.zst'"
pre_init_hooks="sudo pacman -U --noconfirm 'https://cdn-mirror.chaotic.cx/chaotic-aur/chaotic-mirrorlist.pkg.tar.zst'"
pre_init_hooks="echo -e '[chaotic-aur]\nInclude = /etc/pacman.d/chaotic-mirrorlist' | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf"
pre_init_hooks="sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm"
additional_packages="bat base-devel eza fish git headsetcontrol motivate speedtest++ paru"
init_hooks="paru -S --noconfirm --needed --skipreview headsetcontrol-notificationd-bash-git headsetkontrol mpf-check-bin ps3dec-git ps3-disc-dumper ps3iso-utils-git ps3netsrv redumper rusty-psn-git sm64ex-redrawn-git soniccd-git supermarioworld unscrambler smb1r-bin"

and it fails at the init_hooks commeting that out and then running

distrobox enter arch  -- paru -S --noconfirm --needed --skipreview headsetcontrol-notificationd-bash-git headsetkontrol mpf-check-bin ps3dec-git ps3-disc-dumper ps3iso-utils-git ps3netsrv redumper rusty-psn-git sm64ex-redrawn-git soniccd-git supermarioworld unscrambler smb1r-bin

works perfectly fine without user input so i know a. paru is succsesfully getting installed and b. my paru command is correct

[TranThangBin]

• I do sudo -u $USER -- paru -S --needed --noconfirm <aur_packages>. I assume the init_hooks is run as root inside the container. Also I found ghcr.io/ublue-os/arch-toolbox which is built on top of arch-toolbox and come with paru preinstalled you can check if out if it fit what you want.
• Also another useful debug tip I found useful is that when the distrobox-enter <container_name> is running you can use podman logs <container_name> -f to see what is happening inside without verbose flag and also because assemble verbose doesn't verbose the enter.
• Final note I usually do something like this in my init_hooks.

init_hooks=[ -f /etc/init ] || sudo -u $USER -- paru -S --needed --noconfirm <aur_packages>
... more init_hooks
# ending with this init_hooks
init_hooks=touch /etc/init

Because init_hooks run every time the container starts.