EvanCarroll / alpine-packaging-image

An image building script to ease packaging for Alpine.

Alpine Image Builder for Packaging

This is a simply a container meant to be run rootless to ease alpine package creation. It installs the tools needed, and pulls down the alpine abuild repo.

This is pretty simple,

• Edit the /.env file
• Run rootless.sh to create the rootless container
• Run run.sh to jump into it and get to packaging!

How does it work?

When you're packaging you can mutilate an entire system trying different things. Containers are great for "restoring" state without messing up your machine. You can be totally careless with them, destroy and recreate them.

This repository pulls down abuild repository linked above. That's where your build files like the APKBUILD reside (the Alpine equivalent of RHEL Spec files). This gets volume mounted into the container with the run.sh script. It's the only state that remains from one iteration of run.sh to another.

Notes on Root (UID=0)

Many of the Alpine build utilities will error if you try to run them as root. This error is safe to ignore! as none of the utilities actually run as root with this configuration. When logged into a rootless container you have uid=0 from the perspective of the container, but you're actually mapped back to the user that executed podman run. Some of the utilities will require a capital -F flag to force them to permit root. This is fine.