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From: Jeron Lau <aldaronlau@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 15:05:57 -0500
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Subject: Re: Alpine Repository
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OK, I believe that the issue is due to platform mismatch (I'm building
the package on x86_64 for armhf), so I think I have to use

aports scripts/bootstrap.sh armhf

but I'm not sure what I need to do after that in order to build for
the other architecture.  Any tips appreciated.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:51 PM Jeron Lau <aldaronlau@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to build an Alpine repository but I keep getting this
> error message after running apk add package_name:
>
> ERROR: package_name-0.4.0-r0: package mentioned in index not found
> (try 'apk update')
>
> What does this error mean (what's the internal cause of the failure)?
> apk update does not fix the issue.
>
> I tried searching for the apk tool source code to investigate further
> but couldn't find it.
>
> To make the repository I do,
>
> apk index -vU -o /repo/APKINDEX.tar.gz /repo/package_name.apk
> abuild-sign -k /path/to/key.rsa /repo/APKINDEX.tar.gz
>
> Then copy up the repository (/repo/) to the server.  Am I missing
> anything that might be causing this error?
>
> Thanks,