Include:Setup your system and account for building packages
The alpine-sdk is a metapackage that pulls in the most essential packages used to build new packages. Also install and configure a way to elevate privileges, such as sudo or doas, and an editor, such as vi, nano, micro.
# apk add alpine-sdk
This would be a good time to create a normal user account for you to work in. To make life easier later, it's a good idea to add this user to the wheel group; operations that require superuser privileges can now be done with sudo or doas.
The aports tree is in git so before we clone it, let's configure git.
$ git config --global user.name "Your Full Name" $ git config --global user.email "your@email.address"
Read carefully Development using git to grasp basic Git operations and how to configure for sending email patches.
Now we can clone the aports tree.
$ git clone https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports
Before we start creating or modifying APKBUILD files, we need to setup abuild for our system and user. Edit the file /etc/abuild.conf to your requirements.
Most of the defaults can be left alone, unless you are developing for a custom platform, in which case the comments in the file should guide you. The one field to edit is PACKAGER, so that you can get credit (or blame) for packages you create.
To use 'abuild -r' command to install dependency packages automatically (and other 'abuild' commands that require it).
# addgroup <yourusername> abuild
The last step is to configure the security keys with the abuild-keygen script for abuild with the command:
# abuild-keygen -a -i