riscfive/archlinux repository overview

⁠Quick reference

• Maintained by:
  Arch Linux user XeroX

• Where to get help:
  the Docker Community Slack⁠, Server Fault⁠, Unix & Linux⁠, or Stack Overflow⁠

⁠Supported tags and respective Dockerfile links

• latest, base, base-<YearMonthDay.HourMinute>⁠
• base-devel, base-devel-<YearMonthDay.HourMinute>⁠

⁠Quick reference (cont.)

• Where to file issues:
  https://github.com/felixonmars/archriscv-packages⁠

• Supported architectures:
  riscv64

• Source of rootfs:
  PKGBuild.com⁠ - https://riscv.mirror.pkgbuild.com/⁠

⁠What is Arch Linux?

Arch Linux, is a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Currently, we have packages optimized for the riscv64 architecture. We complement our official package sets with a community-operated package repository that grows in size and quality each and every day.

Our strong community is diverse and helpful, and we pride ourselves on the range of skill sets and uses for Arch that stem from it. Please check out our forums and mailing lists to get your feet wet. Also glance through our wiki⁠ if you want to learn more about Arch.

⁠About this image

The root filesystem tarball for this image is fetched from PKGBuild.com and updated to date. Given the rolling-release nature of Arch Linux, images are tagged with the included package group / meta package and the timestamp of the date they were generated. For example, archlinux:base-20230201.1612 was generated the First of Feburary 2023 at 16:12. The latest tag will always match the latest base tag.

Besides base we also provide images for the base-devel package group.

This image is intended to serve the following goals:

• Provide the Arch experience in a Docker Image
• Provide simplest but complete image to base every other upon
• pacman needs to work out of the box
• All installed packages have to be kept unmodified

⁠Availability

Root filesystem tarballs are provided by PKGBuild.com⁠ - https://riscv.mirror.pkgbuild.com/images/⁠ .

⁠Updating

Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution, so a full update is recommended when installing new packages. In other words, we suggest to either execute RUN pacman -Syu immediately after your FROM statement or as soon as you docker run into a container.

⁠License

The Docker image creation scripts contained under the repository archlinux are licensed under GPLv3. All the licensing information for the packages contained in it can be found under /usr/share/licenses/ inside of the image.

As with all Docker images, these likely also contain other software which may be under other licenses (such as Bash, etc from the base distribution, along with any direct or indirect dependencies of the primary software being contained).

Some additional license information which was able to be auto-detected might be found in the repo-info repository's archlinux/ directory⁠.

As for any pre-built image usage, it is the image user's responsibility to ensure that any use of this image complies with any relevant licenses for all software contained within.