Revision as of 14:30, 19 October 2009

Setting up a 'edge' build environment for Alpine

Introduction

We will host this build environment on Alpine.

Boot you build environment

Boot alpine-1.9.0 on a box with a HDD.

Basic setup

Set basic environment settings.

setup-alpine

Change repository

Change repository to use 'edge'

vi /etc/apk/repositories

The file should look like this

http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/packages/main/
http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/packages/testing/
http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/packages/x11/

Note: You can replace 'dl-4' with some other available mirror.

Update/upgrade your system

apk update
apk upgrade

Prepare HDD

Install your system on HDD

setup-disk

Reboot your system

Update repository

Refresh the repository

apk update

Start building packages

Now you can move on to creating packages for Alpine.

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 Reboot your system
-== Useful apps ==
+== Update repository ==
-You might find the following apps useful in your system
+Refresh the repository
-  apk add openssh && /etc/init.d/sshd start && rc-update sshd
+  apk update
- apk add screen
- apk add git
+== Start building packages ==
+Now you can move on to [[Creating_an_Alpine_package|creating packages for Alpine.]]