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From: Roman Shaposhnik <roman@zededa.com>
Date: Sat, 8 May 2021 19:50:47 -0700
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Subject: Progress on Alpine for RISC-V (and BeagleV)
To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
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Hi!

A few updates for anyone interested in Alpine bringup on the board:

I=E2=80=99ve bootstrapped quite a bit of Alpine packages and published upda=
ted
aports here https://github.com/rvs/aports

A growing collection of packages is now available under
   https://eve-alpine-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/edge/{main,community}

It is enough to generate basic images, so for example, here=E2=80=99s a min=
irootfs
published that can be used to bootstrap your own containers
   https://eve-alpine-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/edge/images/alpine-miniroot=
fs-210509-riscv64.tar.gz

I still need TONS of help to fix/bootstrap more packages =E2=80=94 and for =
that
I published a builder environment =E2=80=94 so if you (on a latest Docker f=
or Mac
or docker + qemu-user-riscv64) do:
         $ docker build -t alpine-riscv64
https://eve-alpine-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/edge/images/Dockerfile
         $ docker run -it --rm alpine-riscv64
         builder$ cd aports
You will end up in an environment that I=E2=80=99m using to build all of th=
ese
packages and can help me with:
          cd <YOUR FAVORITE PACKAGE>
          hack APKBUILD (or not)
          abuild -r

Now, for the most perplexing question of all: it is pretty clear that
it may be a bit overwhelming for a single person (like me) to make
sure that we do ALL of the packages at once to support RISC-V.

So I'm wondering if there's any way to do it steps -- where we bring
up progressively more and more packages into the release, but at
least the ones that are already supported are not allowed to bitrot
anymore on RISC-V. Is there any process around Alpine releases
that would allow us to do that?

Thanks,
Roman.