rameplayerorg/armbuild-alpine repository overview

⁠armbuild-alpine

Based on https://github.com/armbuild/alpine⁠

rootfs.tar is built with build.sh script from that repo.

⁠How to make new rootfs.tar

The easiest way to make new rootfs.tar is to have running Alpine system with target architecture.

⁠Example for Alpine 3.7:

1. Create temp directory for the image: mkdir /tmp/rootfs

2. Download: apk --repository http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/main --update-cache --allow-untrusted --root /tmp/rootfs --initdb add alpine-base

3. Add repository file: echo "http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/main" > /tmp/rootfs/etc/apk/repositories

4. Write image file: tar --numeric-owner -C /tmp/rootfs -c . > rootfs.tar