oowy/glibc-abuild repository overview

⁠Quick reference

• Maintained by:
  Oowy team⁠

• Where to get help:
  the Docker Community Slack⁠, Server Fault⁠, Unix & Linux⁠, or Stack Overflow⁠

⁠Supported tags

• latest
• 1.14-alpine3.19
• 1.14-alpine3.18
• 1.14-alpine3.17

⁠Quick reference (cont.)

• Supported architectures: amd64, arm64v8

⁠What is abuild?

Alpine Linux abuild is a tool used in the Alpine Linux distribution to build packages. It is a shell script that automates the process of building packages. An abuild script defines the build procedure, such as which dependencies are required, how the package should be compiled, and where the resulting files should be installed.

Abuild is a powerful and flexible tool that allows package maintainers to build packages quickly and easily. It also provides a number of hooks that allow package maintainers to customize the build process to suit their needs. Abuild is used in conjunction with the Alpine package repository to ensure that packages are built and maintained correctly.

⁠glibc-abuild Docker Images

The team publishes a Docker image to this repository for each official release.

These images wrap the binary executable, allowing you to build alpine package subcommands by passing in their names and arguments as part of docker run.

⁠Configuration

You will likely need to further configure your container so that can access your configuration files and provider credentials. This could include mounting your configuration into the container, setting the working directory to refer to your configuration, and passing in environment variables and credentials files for the providers you intend to use. The docker run documentation lists the options you can use to customize the container environment.

You could also use these images as a base for your own images. For example, this would be helpful if you wanted to to pre-set CLI Configuration settings as part of your image.

⁠Community

Open issues about abuild binary on the main repository⁠.