Developer Documentation

Package management

• Package Management (apk) (How to add/remove packages on your Alpine)
  • Comparison with other distros
  • apk spec
• Upgrading to Edge
• Alpine local backup (lbu) (Permanently store your modifications in case your box needs reboot)
  • Back Up a Flash Memory Installation
  • Manually editing a existing apkovl
• How to setup a Alpine Linux mirror
• How to use xdelta and download only differential update files
• How to make a custom ISO image
  • Burning ISOs

Init system

• initramfs init
• Init System (OpenRC) (Configure a service to automatically launch at next reboot)
  • Multiple Instances of Services
• Writing Init Scripts

Development

Configuring your system

• Upgrading to Edge

• Setting up the build environment on HDD
  • Setup your system and account for building packages
  • Abuild-keygen

• Installing Alpine Linux in a chroot
  • Buildlab (Tool for creating and managing chroots)
• Install Alpine on LXC
• Install Alpine on VirtualBox, VMware, coLinux, Qemu, or Amazon EC2

• Xen Dom0 (Setting up Alpine as a dom0 for Xen hypervisor)
  • Xen Dom0 on USB or SD
  • Create Alpine Linux PV DomU
  • Xen LiveCD

• Setting up a basic vserver
• Setting up a compile vserver for official or for third party packages

Building from source and creating packages

• Aports tree
• Abuild and Helpers (Scripts for packaging)
• Creating an Alpine package
  • Package policies
  • Package Maintainers
• Custom Kernel
• APKBUILD Reference
• APKBUILD examples
• Alpine package format
• Apkindex format

• Development using git
  • Basic usage
  • Package Maintainers
  • Creating patches
  • Developer repositories
  • Cgit
  • Another cgit page

Misc

• Alpine Package Testing Suite work in progress
• Alpine Release Testing Checklist
• Running glibc programs
• Alpine Source Map by boot sequence

Alpine Configuration Framework

This material is work-in-progress ... Needs to be organized/consolidated. (Last edited by Nullbyte on 6 Oct 2019.)

• Alpine Configuration Framework Design (Why ACF is the way it is)
• Writing User Documentation for ACF
• mvc.lua reference - mvc.lua is the core of ACF
• mvc.lua example - build a simple (command-line) application
• acf www-controller reference - ACF www application functions
• acf www-controller example - webify the above examples
• ACF how to write - Step by step howto for writing acfs
• ACF core principles - Things that are standard across the application
• LuaPosix - Documentation for the Lua Posix functions
• ACF Libraries - Document the libraries and common functions
• Writing ACF Views - Guide for writing a view
• Writing ACF Controllers - Guide for writing a controller
• Writing ACF Models - Guide for writing a model

• ACF css
• ACF packages
• APKBUILD examples:ACF
• Apk.lua
• Changing passwords for ACF
• Generating SSL certs with ACF
• Generating SSL certs with ACF 1.9
• Getting started with ACF development
• Managing ACF

Alpine-developed Utilities

• Alpine Wall - How-To Alpine Wall - Alpine Wall User's Guide (a new firewall management framework)

Alpine Design Docs

• Architecture
• File Formats