This is incredible work Paul!

If I were running Alpine, would I be able to install an OpenWrt repository in 
/etc/apk/repositories and install OpenWrt packages?

Would I be able to copy my APKBUILDS over from Alpine's aports repository and 
easily port them over to OpenWrt?

I look forward to reading the documentation.

Regards,

On February 12, 2022 1:16:05 PM UTC, Paul Spooren <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>For the last year or so[1] I’ve been working on replacing the package manager 
>OPKG with APK (Alpine Package Keeper)[2]. Different from our OPKG fork is APK 
>an actively developed project. OPKG is replaced entirely, both on device as 
>well as the build system.
>
>Using some CI I started to build all available snapshot firmware images and 
>published them for others to test[3]. Some targets fail to build but I’m 
>working on it. Please feel free to give it a try and provide feedback!
>
>At this point only the base system is compiled without the community feeds, 
>the installation of remote packages already works (e.g. `apk add tc-full`). 
>Other commands like `apk audit` allow system integrity checks and more.
>
>The SDK already works to create `.apk` packages, the ImageBuilder requires a 
>bit more work. Overall APK still depends on OpenSSL and libfetch, after 
>getting the base up and running I’ll start to look into replacing those with 
>more lightweight alternatives like WolfSSL and uclient-fetch.
>
>Within the next month I hope to create documentation in collaboration with 
>Daniel to explain how APK, uvol and uxc can work together. Essentially it 
>allows to install containers on OpenWrt devices. Just a few days ago we ran 
>Alpine Linux within a container on a Belkin RT3200, simply installed from an 
>`alpine.apk` package, the same works for Debian containers. In future this 
>could allow to run arbitrary container setups on routers.
>
>This work required a bunch of help, so thanks to John, Timo, Ariadne and 
>Daniel!
>
>Best,
>Paul
>
>[1]: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/4294
>[2]: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/apk-tools
>[3]: https://downloads.asu.aparcar.org/apkwrt/targets/
>
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