On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 1:45 AM lacsaP Patatetom <patate...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I use `pacstrap -U` to install locally forged packages in a dedicated
> folder.
> this dedicated folder already contains some files and some of these files
> are causing problems for `pacstrap -U` (eg. `pacman -U`).
>
> i'd like to be able to use `--overwrite` option and pass it from
> `pacstrap`.
>
> is it possible to pass options to `pacman` via `pacstrap` ?
>

It seems pacstrap is passing any additional flags to pacman:

https://github.com/archlinux/arch-install-scripts/blob/master/pacstrap.in#L141

So you should be able to pass options using e.g.:

$ pacstrap -U /mnt linux -- --overwrite

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