Setting up a 'edge' build environment on HDD

Introduction

We will host this build environment on a HDD installed Alpine.

Boot you build environment

Boot the latest Alpine Linux image on a box with a HDD.

Basic setup

Set basic environment settings (when prompted for disk, select the disk(s) that you wish to use, and use them in sys mode. Note that if you specify two disks, soft raid will be setup on them automatically).

setup-alpine

For more details, see Installation or setup-alpine.

Change your repository to use edge:

Contents of /etc/apk/repositories

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

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

Update/upgrade your system:

apk update

apk upgrade

Add the Alpine SDK:

apk add alpine-sdk

Reboot your system.

Start building packages

Now you can move on to creating packages for Alpine.