General description of the build system

To be able to create and contribute by creating your own alpine iso you need different components.

These components are listed below with a short description of what it's all about.
Each section has a link to a more detailed description or howto.

Build environment

The build environment makes it possible to create and modify alpine.
You need this to be able to build packages, iso's, and other files.

Detailed description: Setting up the build environment

aports

The aports tree is a set of files and folders that contains scripts needed to build/create a package.
This package (called 'apk') can then be installed and used by Alpine.

Detailed description: Description of the aports tree
Also read: Creating an Alpine package

abuild

The abuild tree contains scripts you need when creating alpine packages or a Alpine iso.

Detailed description: Description of the abuild tree