General description of the build system: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:39, 8 December 2011

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 packages for Alpine Linux. These scripts are installed automatically with the alpine-sdk package.

Detailed description: Description of the abuild tree

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 '''Also read:''' [http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Creating_an_Alpine_package Creating an Alpine package]
-== '''[[Description_of_the_abuild_tree|abuild]]''' ==
+== abuild ==
-The [[Description_of_the_abuild_tree|abuild tree]] contains scripts you need when creating alpine packages or a Alpine iso.  These scripts are installed automatically with the alpine-sdk package.
+The [[Description_of_the_abuild_tree|abuild tree]] contains scripts you need when creating packages for Alpine Linux. These scripts are installed automatically with the <tt>alpine-sdk</tt> package.
-'''Detailed description:''' [http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/w/index.php?title=Description_of_the_abuild_tree Description of the abuild tree]
+'''Detailed description:''' [[Description_of_the_abuild_tree|Description of the abuild tree]]