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distrobox question... (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi There - I'm starting to make use of distrobox, but I have a question about creating custom home directories.

In my ~/.config/distrobox/distrobox.conf file, I've added a line ->

container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx"

This ensures that all new containers, by default, have their homes set to ~/dbx .

This is good, however, I'm looking for a way to default new container homes to ~/dbx/<>. Is there a way to do this? I've tried setting the line in distrobox.conf to

container_user_custom_home="$HOME/dbx/$DBX_CONTAINER_NAME" but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.

(Basically, I want to err on the side of a bit of isolation between containers by default so that I can more easily track what each is doing separately.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I would make a bash function to do this. I'm on my phone so idk how this will look lol

dbxcreate () {
ALL_CONTAINER_HOME=${HOME}/dbx

CONTAINER_NAME="$1"

export DBX_CONTAINER_CUSTOM_HOME="${ALL_CONTAINER_HOME}/${CONTAINER_NAME}"

distrobox create --name "${CONTAINER_NAME}"
}

I would add some checks/more arguments and error messages but thats the idea

You may also have to make that home dir but then its as easy adding a mkdir line

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thank you - it seems that this will only be possible with a wrapper script (which was going to be my next course of action). I can definitely use what you've written here as an accelerator, though!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think what you are looking for is

${DBX_CONTAINER_HOME_PREFIX} or container_home_prefix=...