Description of APKBUILD

Introduction

APKBUILD is a file containing instructions on how something should be built/compiled.
These files are used when building alpine from source.
In your build environment you would have at least one APKBUILD for each package/program.

When alpine is compiled, you will no longer see (or have use of) the APKBUILD. The APKBUILD is not included in the 'iso' or 'tar.gz'.

The abuild script reads the APKBUILD and executes the steps needed to create a package.

Location

The aports tree is a directory tree with many APKBUILDs.

If using the 1.9 build environment you should find your aports at

/usr/src/aports

Fetch latest APKBUILD's

While inside your build environment you need to install some needed packages and you need to fetch the APKBUILD's from the server.
Note: You only need to do these 2 steps once! Next time you can skip this part.

apk add alpine-sdk
git clone git://dev.alpinelinux.org/aports /usr/src/

When the above is done you might be interested in fetching the latest updates.

cd /usr/src/
git pull

Create a APKBUILD

Your are encouraged to contribute with APKBUILD's the you have made.
Please look at 'Creating_an_Alpine_package' that describes how you make your own APKBUILD's.