Developer Documentation

Developer Documentation

Documentation how to build and modify the Alpine distro.

• Alpine Package Testing Suite
• Alpine Configuration Framework Design (Why ACF is the way it is)
• Development using git
• Installing Alpine on a virtual machine
• Writing User Documentation for ACF

Alpine 1.9.x build system

After Alpine 1.8 is released we will switch to a new build system. Those docs here below is for bulding packages in Alpine 1.9 and later.

• Setting up the build environment
• Creating an Alpine package
• Creating_an_Alpine_1.9_iso (This page is experimental and might go away or move in the future)

Obsolete docs

• Setting up the build environment 1.7
• Newbie Guide to Building an apk
• Creating patches

Misc. References

Other useful references.

• http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/nwp/external/fcm/doc/user_guide/working_practices.html - Some guidelines on use of Trac and SVN