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How build the Alpine Linux kernel

A customized build of the Alpine Linux may be needed if you are experimenting with adding/removing kernel features and modules. For example, Alpine releases multiple [[Kernels]kernels] that vary in features and file sizes. Alpine kernels extend the standard Linux kernel and build within a few minutes to a few hours (depending on the speed of your system) using abuild, aports, and alpine-sdk.

Before you start

A running instance of Alpine Linux and a non-root user with doas (wheel group) privileges are required to use abuild.

Build & install the kernel

Build

doas apk add alpine-sdk
doas addgroup USERNAME abuild             # your non-root user

git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports.git
abuild-keygen --append --install

cd aports/main/linux-lts/
time abuild -crK

Install

apk add /home/USERNAME/packages/.....................................

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 == How build the Alpine Linux kernel ==
-A customized build of the Alpine Linux kernel may be needed if you are experimenting with adding/removing kernel features and modules. The Alpine kernel extends the standard [https://www.kernel.org/linux.html Linux kernel] and builds within a few minutes to a few hours (depending on the speed of your system) using <code>[[abuild]]</code>, [https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports aports], and [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/alpine-sdk alpine-sdk].
+A customized build of the Alpine Linux may be needed if you are experimenting with adding/removing kernel features and modules. For example, Alpine releases multiple [[Kernels]kernels] that vary in features and file sizes.  Alpine kernels extend the standard [https://www.kernel.org/linux.html Linux kernel] and build within a few minutes to a few hours (depending on the speed of your system) using <code>[[abuild]]</code>, [https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports aports], and [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/alpine-sdk alpine-sdk].
 == Before you start ==
-A running instance of Alpine Linux and a non-root user with wheel/doas privileges are required to use <code>[[abuild]]</code>.
+A running instance of Alpine Linux and a non-root user with [https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/main/x86_64/doas doas] (<code>wheel</code> group) privileges are required to use <code>[[abuild]]</code>.
 == Build & install the kernel ==
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 === Build ===
 <pre>
-##  Run as root
+doas apk add alpine-sdk
+doas addgroup USERNAME abuild             # your non-root user
-apk add alpine-sdk
-addgroup USERNAME abuild     # your non-root user
-</pre>
-<pre>
-##  Run as non-root user
 git clone --depth 1 https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports.git
-abuild-keygen --append
+abuild-keygen --append --install
 cd aports/main/linux-lts/