distrobox question...
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/$DBX_CONTAINER_NAME" but it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated.
(Basically, I want to err on the side of a bit of isolation between containers by default so that I can more easily track what each is doing separately.
Thanks!
I would make a bash function to do this. I'm on my phone so idk how this will look lol
dbxcreate () { ALL_CONTAINER_HOME=${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
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!
I think what you are looking for is
${DBX_CONTAINER_HOME_PREFIX} or container_home_prefix=...
See also
https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/main/distrobox-create#L716
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...)