Run setup script in init hook?

[alexispurslane]

I have a setup script that compiles a couple packages I need from source and installs them, clones my dotfiles and unstow's them, builds doom emacs, etc, and I'd like to make that script an init hook in my distrobox.ini so that when I run distrobox assemble create it runs those steps as part of the process of creating my development environment container, after all the packages have installed.

I've tried putting each of the commands in the set up script individually in init_hooks, but for some reason it kept failing (something to do with the way init_hooks are parsed and combined), so I'd really like to have them bundled up in a discrete script instead, so that they're executed correctly. Is there any way to make that script accessible to a distrobox's init hooks?

[alexispurslane]

Currently it just gives this.

[MarkusOstermayer]

You don't need to recreate your script line-by-line using init_hooks but can provide init_hooks a path to the script. Just make sure that everything the script needs in order to run is already installed in the distrobox.

According to https://distrobox.it/#configure-distrobox container_init_hook is capable of working with shell-scripts and internally distrobox-create's --init-hooks-flag uses container_init_hook:

distrobox/distrobox-create

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	--init-hooks)
	if [ -n "$2" ]; then
	container_init_hook="$2"
	shift
	shift
	fi

[happymab]

You can use --volume option to make the script available inside distrobox.
--volume /path/to/your/script:/path/inside/container:ro