ZeroTier package in Alpine

[ramarnat]

Creating this here for tracking purposes.

ZeroTier should be available in the Alpine Linux Repo (especially for docker installations).

https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages

[kyleparisi]

Absolute noob about this but I gave it a shot and got the following error after running make:

osdep/LinuxEthernetTap.cpp:35:22: fatal error: linux/if.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
<builtin>: recipe for target 'osdep/LinuxEthernetTap.o' failed
make: *** [osdep/LinuxEthernetTap.o] Error 1

Probably not a great idea to do it in the alpine docker image? If not, I can image an old computer I have with alpine at some point.

[adamierymenko]

There is a package in Alpine with kernel headers like this. Forget what it is called.

[adamierymenko]

Alpine is designed to be super minimal and does not install such things by default, while other distros do.

[kyleparisi]

Ok, I'll try to look those up after the holiday.

[kyleparisi]

Got slightly further this time. Needed to install linux-headers, bash, man-pages (maybe?), nodejs. I ran make selftest and didn't see any problems. I presume all I need to do now is to finish following this wiki.

I'm thinking I'll start with the init.d script part. Is there something I can reference for this?

[kyleparisi]

Does anyone know OpenRC (Alpine init system)? Struggling at getting the init script in.

[adamierymenko]

You're telling me Linux now has another init system?

I've got the solution! (goes off to write yet another init system)

[dafyre]

You can call it YAInit!

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[bonki]

You're telling me Linux now has another init system?

I've got the solution! (goes off to write yet another init system)

You need not worry, OpenRC is ~10 years old already :-) (primarily developed for and by a then-Gentoo developer but it's used by other Linux and even BSD distributions IIRC).

Does anyone know OpenRC (Alpine init system)? Struggling at getting the init script in.

That's what I use on Gentoo, couldn't be more basic:

#!/sbin/runscript

ZEROTIERONE_PIDFILE="/var/run/${SVCNAME}.pid"

depend() {
    need net
}

start() {
    ebegin "Starting zerotier-one"
    start-stop-daemon --start \
        --exec /usr/bin/zerotier-one --make-pidfile --pidfile "${ZEROTIERONE_PIDFILE}" --background
    eend $?
}

stop() {
    ebegin "Stopping zerotier-one"
    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile "${ZEROTIERONE_PIDFILE}"
    eend $?
}

[kyleparisi]

@bonki I tried something similar but I'll give what you posted a try. Thanks.

[kyleparisi]

@bonki Looks like that worked. My issue was trying to run it on a docker alpine. Works fine on a vm.

Just need to button up the package. I'll post back here when you can view it in my fork for any feedback.

[kyleparisi]

kyleparisi/aports@e12828d

Feedback welcome. Will create PR after a few days.

[kyleparisi]

Just waiting on the PR to be merged or rejected: alpinelinux/aports#344

[kyleparisi]

So it ended up being this PR instead: alpinelinux/aports#533

I'm not entirely sure when I can have the package be part of the main apk. If you want to test/start using in the mean time it'd be something like

vi /etc/apk/repositories
apk update
apk add zerotier-one@testing
/etc/init.d/zerotier-one start

[kyleparisi]

@ramarnat, @adamierymenko has taken over via: alpinelinux/aports#1379

You think it possible to also close: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/36370440-zerotier-package-in-alpine 😀

[zar3bski]

Got slightly further this time. Needed to install linux-headers, bash, man-pages (maybe?), nodejs. I ran make selftest and didn't see any problems. I presume all I need to do now is to finish following this wiki.

I'm thinking I'll start with the init.d script part. Is there something I can reference for this?

Experienced similar issue: linux-headers should become a reflex while building alpine based image