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distrobox question...

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/<<containername>>. 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!

somethingsomethingidk ,

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


<span style="color:#323232;">dbxcreate () {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">ALL_CONTAINER_HOME=${HOME}/dbx
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CONTAINER_NAME="$1"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">export DBX_CONTAINER_CUSTOM_HOME="${ALL_CONTAINER_HOME}/${CONTAINER_NAME}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">distrobox create --name "${CONTAINER_NAME}"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">}
</span>

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

indigomirage OP ,

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!

oh_gosh_its_osh ,
@oh_gosh_its_osh@lemmy.ml avatar

I think what you are looking for is

${DBX_CONTAINER_HOME_PREFIX} or container_home_prefix=…

See also

github.com/89luca89/distrobox/…/distrobox-create#…

indigomirage OP ,

I’ve got that, but I want the container home prefix to be named, dynamically, after the container upon creation as a subdirectory of a container home prefix ‘parent’ directory I’ve already created.

Desired outcome -> All dbxs get homes in a subfolder of ~/dbx in turn, named after the container name I provide upon creation.

So… a container called ‘utility’ would automatically home itself in ~/dbx/utility, and one called ‘archtest’ would go in ~/dbxarchtest, etc.

As it stands, the config gives each container the same home directory (albeit separate from the host, so at least I’ve got that…)

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