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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2026 17:29:39 +0000
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From: "V.Krishn" <vkrishn4@gmail.com>
Subject: how to maintain a set of local packages, probably a feature request
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Hi,

I am planing to build/maintain a small set of packages locally,
(after some experimental changes),
below is a versioning method I was thinking to do,

For packages that are already in aports,
a. have same version as in aports, so as to keep in track/update with 
upstream alpine-aports version.
b. add some sort to policy marker in version, eg. package
    abc-xyz-1.2.3-r0-vkr

Entry in APKBUILD would look like:
-------------
pkgname=abc-xyz
pkgver=1.2.3
pkgrel=0
brand=vkr
-------------

Here "brand" value is a keyword for apk-tools to sort and handle both 
original package and custom package.

Make an entry in /etc/conf.d/apk(default), /etc/apk/policy

eg, policy configs

[brand]
vkr >= ""
vkr >= pmo
deb <= alp
sel >= ""

so, based on brand apk-tool should be able sort and install the package 
if both version is same.

Any guide and suggestion on other approaches would be helpful.

-- 
Regards,
V.Krishn