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Subject: [alpine-devel] Understanding alpine-setup
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 04:07:40 -0500

Hi, I recently discovered Alpine, and it looks great! --- like most of
what I'd been hankering for when dissatisfied with Arch or FreeBSD. I've
tried it out on a test system and am eager to start using it in earnest.

I'm trying to do a somewhat custom install (onto a pre-partitioned
LVM-over-luks drive), and thought I should read through the setup
scripts to see what's going on. There's only the thinnest of information
available on the Wiki. (Only for LVM, not for luks, and not for LVM
during installation.)

But it looks like the installation scripts are either using some very
subtle tricks or are very much works in progress. I thought I had better
start asking questions.

In setup-alpine:

1. The "-q" option is parsed but not documented in usage. Intentionally?
2. The "-a" option is bewildering. If I supply it, we create a directory
under /tmp and save its name in ROOT. However we set a trap on exit to
remove this directory, and never cancel the trap. From what I've seen so
far, that ROOT directory is never copied anywhere else, right? So this
functionality doesn't yet work? Also, the ROOT variable isn't exported,
so I don't see how the subroutine scripts like
setup-{hostname,interfaces,keymap} expect to have it populated. Is all
of this just under construction?
3. And if I don't supply the "-a" option, then setup-alpine sets
PKGADD="apk add"; but then so far as I can see, PKGADD is never again
referenced in any of the setup-* scripts.

That's what puzzles me so far. Still reading...
-- 
Jim Pryor
jim@jimpryor.net



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