Pacman Repository

Add the following to your /etc/pacman.conf on your target machine to use the repo:

# nano /etc/pacman.conf
[repo]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://<server_ip>:8081/$arch

Let the CLI fill it in

aurcli is already configured to talk to the instance, and the repository is the same host on the mirror port — so it can print the stanza with nothing left to substitute:

$ aurcli repo config
[repo]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = http://192.168.1.10:8081/$arch

Or have it make the change:

aurcli repo config --install
sudo pacman -Sy

--install appends the stanza to /etc/pacman.conf and is safe to run twice — if the repository is already configured it says so and changes nothing. It tries the write unprivileged first, so running as root, or against a file you own, never prompts; only a permission error falls back to sudo, which asks for your password on the terminal. --pacman-conf points it at a different file, for a container or a chroot.

Without --install the stanza goes to stdout and the instructions to stderr, so it also appends cleanly by hand:

aurcli repo config | sudo tee -a /etc/pacman.conf

With a token configured, it asks the server how it actually publishes the repository rather than assuming the default port — a deployment behind a reverse proxy, on another port, or under a path is described correctly. The host is still decided locally, because the server only sees how it was reached: a published address that names a real host is kept, and the localhost default is replaced with the address that works from here.

Without a token it falls back to the configured URL's host on the default port, so it still works before the instance is otherwise set up. --offline forces that fallback; --port, --name and --siglevel override the result outright.

$arch is pacman's own variable and is deliberately left unexpanded: one stanza serves every architecture the instance builds for.