Setting up Alpine in a chroot

To set up in ./root:

ARCH=x86
apk fetch apk-tools-static -o ./
tar zxvf apk-tools-static-*.apk
mkdir ./root
./sbin/apk.static --initdb -U --root root --arch $ARCH --repository http://nl.alpine.michaelzhou.net/alpine/edge/main/ --repository http://nl.alpine.michaelzhou.net/alpine/edge/testing/ add alpine-base
echo unset HISTFILE >>./root/etc/profile
chroot ./root sh -l

For a list of available repositories, see http://nl.alpinelinux.org/alpine/MIRRORS.txt

echo 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' >/etc/resolv.conf
echo 'http://nl.alpine.michaelzhou.net/alpine/edge/main/' >/etc/apk/repositories
echo 'http://nl.alpine.michaelzhou.net/alpine/edge/testing/' >>/etc/apk/repositories
apk update