Setting up a packaging environment for Alpine Linux (introducing alpkg)

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  • minideb

    A small image based on Debian designed for use in containers

  • postgres:15-bullseye 2bb008a38e7c 379MB

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  • docker-debian-artifacts

    Official builds of debuerreotype-generated Debian tarballs for use in Docker

  • What's different between debian:bullseye-slim and debian:bullsye (assuming you are talking about https://hub.docker.com/_/debian)

    let me try to answer/research this question myself to find the answer/go on this journey:

    takes me to

    non slim: https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/tre...

    slim: https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/tre...

    https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/blo... versus https://github.com/debuerreotype/docker-debian-artifacts/blo...

    two files are identical

    so at a quick glance i have no clue what is going into rootfs.tar.xz that makes one slim and one not

    go to google:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59794891/how-does-debian...

  • Shameless plug, but I've done the same as the author a couple of years ago, but _have_ used docker. Docker is just chroot on steroids right?

    Not sure what the persistent storage requirement is about, but what I do, after installing my tool https://gitlab.com/esbs/package_builder-alpine/

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