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== Package versions == | == Package versions == | ||
* Package versions are similar to gentoo. | * Package versions are similar to gentoo or other distributions, e.g. 10.2.33, 4.5_alpha, 20200712-r0: | ||
# See [https://semver.org Semantic Versioning] | |||
# Alpha, release candidates (_rc2), etc are prefixed with underscore ''_'' not a hyphen. | |||
# Subsequent fixes are ''-r0'', ''-r1'', and so on, if they don't change the version. | |||
# Test your proposed version with ''apk'', for example ''apk version --check 3.2.1-rcN''. The result is nothing if it is valid. | |||
== Licensing == | == Licensing == |
Revision as of 19:41, 12 May 2021
The Alpine Linux Package Policies describe some of the policies when creating packages.
Package Names
- All package names should be lowercase.
- Development files are placed in subpackages with -dev suffix (e.g. uclibc-dev)
- Documentation files (incl. man pages) are placed in subpackages with -doc suffix (e.g. expat-doc)
- Lua modules (not applications) are prefixed with lua-. (e.g. lua-posix)
- Perl modules (not applications) are prefixed with perl-. (e.g. perl-xml-parser)
- Python 2 modules (not applications) are prefixed with py2-. (e.g. py2-libxml2)
- Python 3 modules (not applications) are prefixed with py3-. (e.g. py3-libxml2)
- Kernels and third party modules should be suffixed with the kernel flavor. (e.g., -grsec, -vserver).
- Don't use - sign in kernel flavor name.
- Specify KERNEL_FLAVOR_DEFAULT as your kernel flavor if you want boot your kernel by default.
Package versions
- Package versions are similar to gentoo or other distributions, e.g. 10.2.33, 4.5_alpha, 20200712-r0:
- See Semantic Versioning
- Alpha, release candidates (_rc2), etc are prefixed with underscore _ not a hyphen.
- Subsequent fixes are -r0, -r1, and so on, if they don't change the version.
- Test your proposed version with apk, for example apk version --check 3.2.1-rcN. The result is nothing if it is valid.
Licensing
- The license identifier used is the short-identifier SPDX.
- The license of the program should be based on the licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation or OSI.
- If you are unsure about the license, please ask in our IRC channel.