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Tristan Israël edited this page Mar 11, 2026 · 6 revisions

This page explains how to build or rebuild Alpine packages for your products.

Requirements

This section describes the requirements for building a development computer.

Docker scripts

The Alpine environement is necessary to calculate de checksums of the sources for the packages and verify they cen be generated. The following scripts are made to helper developers achieving these tasks.

The docker scripts can be used on any computer capable of running Docker, with any processor architecture. Nevertheless the packages will be targeted to the x86_64 architecture.

The files are located in the folder setup/docker.

File Description 
create-dev-image.sh This shell script creates an Alpine build environment image with all the necessary to build Safecor. The image is named alpine-dev. 
docker-cmd.sh This shell script can be used to execute a single command in a container based on alpine-dev. The container is destroyed at the end. Usage: $ ./docker-cmd.sh 'uname -a' (don't forget the quotes). 
docker-shell.sh  This shell script can be used to create a container based on alpine-dev and get a shell on it. The container is destroyed when the shell is quit.
Dockerfile This is the recipe for the image alpine-dev. 
repositories This file can be used to override the default repositories located on Internet. To use it, set the environment variable OVERRIDE_REPOSITORIES=1. Example: OVERRIDE_REPOSITORIES=1 ./docker-shell.sh 
safecor.rsa.pub This is the Safecor repository official public key that is injected into the alpine-dev image. 
update-all-checksums.sh This script can be used to calculate the checksums for every APKBUILD file in the project.

Build the packages (Alpine environment)

The steps for building the packages are:

  • git clone the project.
  • Enter each source folder in the setup directory.
  • Run abuild checksum && abuild -r.

The packages will be available in the folder ~/packages/safecor/<arch>.

Build the packages (Docker environement)

The docker environment can be used to calculate the checksums and build the packages for local tests.

Create a local abuild key

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Update the checksums

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Build the packages

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