Hello!
thanks for your interesting work!
Out of curiosity - did you use extroot or some other mean to run the Alpine
Linux Container?
Thanks!
Enrico
On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Paul Spooren wrote:
Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2022 14:16:05
From: Paul Spooren <m...@aparcar.org>
To: openwrt-devel <openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org>
Cc: Ariadne Conill <aria...@dereferenced.org>,
Daniel Golle <dan...@makrotopia.org>, Timo Teras <timo.te...@iki.fi>,
John Crispin <j...@phrozen.org>
Subject: [RFC] ApkWrt
Hi all,
For the last year or so[1] I’ve been working on replacing the package manager
OPKG with APK (Alpine Package Keeper)[2]. Different from our OPKG fork is APK
an actively developed project. OPKG is replaced entirely, both on device as
well as the build system.
Using some CI I started to build all available snapshot firmware images and
published them for others to test[3]. Some targets fail to build but I’m
working on it. Please feel free to give it a try and provide feedback!
At this point only the base system is compiled without the community feeds, the
installation of remote packages already works (e.g. `apk add tc-full`). Other
commands like `apk audit` allow system integrity checks and more.
The SDK already works to create `.apk` packages, the ImageBuilder requires a
bit more work. Overall APK still depends on OpenSSL and libfetch, after getting
the base up and running I’ll start to look into replacing those with more
lightweight alternatives like WolfSSL and uclient-fetch.
Within the next month I hope to create documentation in collaboration with
Daniel to explain how APK, uvol and uxc can work together. Essentially it
allows to install containers on OpenWrt devices. Just a few days ago we ran
Alpine Linux within a container on a Belkin RT3200, simply installed from an
`alpine.apk` package, the same works for Debian containers. In future this
could allow to run arbitrary container setups on routers.
This work required a bunch of help, so thanks to John, Timo, Ariadne and Daniel!
Best,
Paul
[1]: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4294
[2]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools
[3]: https://downloads.asu.aparcar.org/apkwrt/targets/
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