Include:Setup your system and account for building packages

2022-12-21T13:39:01Z

DancesWithCycles: fix one minor typo

The {{Pkg|alpine-sdk}} is a metapackage that pulls in the most essential packages used to build new packages. Also install and configure a way to elevate privileges, such as sudo or doas, and an editor, such as vi, nano, micro.

{{Cmd|# apk add alpine-sdk}}

This would be a good time to [[Setting_up_a_new_user|create a normal user account for you to work in]]. To make life easier later, it's a good idea to add this user to the wheel group; operations that require superuser privileges can now be done with sudo or doas.

The [[Aports_tree|aports tree]] is in git so before we clone it, let's configure git.

{{Cmd|$ git config --global user.name "Your Full Name"
$ git config --global user.email "your@email.address"}}

Read carefully [[Development using git]] to grasp basic Git operations and how to configure for sending email patches.

Now we can clone the [[Aports_tree|aports tree]].

{{Cmd|$ git clone https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports}}

Before we start creating or modifying [[APKBUILD_Reference|APKBUILD]] files, we need to setup abuild for our system and user. Edit the file {{Path|abuild.conf}} to your requirements.

Most of the defaults can be left alone, unless you are developing for a custom platform, in which case the comments in the file should guide you. The one field to edit is PACKAGER, so that you can get credit (or blame) for packages you create.

To use 'abuild -r' command to install dependency packages automatically.
{{Cmd|# addgroup <yourusername> abuild}}

We also need to prepare the location where the build process caches files when they are downloaded. By default this is {{Path|/var/cache/distfiles/}}. To create this directory and ensure that it is writeable, enter the following commands:

{{Cmd|# mkdir -p /var/cache/distfiles}}
{{Cmd|# chmod a+w /var/cache/distfiles}}

As an alternative to the second command, you can add yourself to the abuild group:

{{Cmd|# chgrp abuild /var/cache/distfiles}}
{{Cmd|# chmod g+w /var/cache/distfiles}}

{{Note|Remember to logout and login again for the group change to have effect.}}

The last step is to configure the security keys with the [[Abuild-keygen|abuild-keygen]] script for [[Abuild|abuild]] with the command:

{{Cmd|# abuild-keygen -a -i}}

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