2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/makechrootpkg.in b/makechrootpkg.in
index 85b6845..4b73d37 100644
--- a/makechrootpkg.in
+++ b/makechrootpkg.in
@@ -225,6 +225,9 @@ _chrootbuild() {
 	# shellcheck source=/dev/null
 	. /etc/profile
 
+	# otherwise we might have missing keys
+	pacman-key --populate
+
 	# Beware, there are some stupid arbitrary rules on how you can
 	# use "$" in arguments to commands with "sudo -i".  ${foo} or
 	# ${1} is OK, but $foo or $1 isn't.
diff --git a/mkarchroot.in b/mkarchroot.in
index a0cacac..aafaa4f 100644
--- a/mkarchroot.in
+++ b/mkarchroot.in
@@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ echo "$CHROOT_VERSION" > "$working_dir/.arch-chroot"
 
 systemd-machine-id-setup --root="$working_dir"
 
+pacman-key --gpgdir "$working_dir"/etc/pacman.d/gnupg --init
+
 exec arch-nspawn \
 	"${nspawn_args[@]}" \
 	"$working_dir" locale-gen