this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2023
67 points (100.0% liked)

Programming

13269 readers
2 users here now

All things programming and coding related. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
67
The Most Prolific Packager For Alpine Linux Is Stepping Away (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
15 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Heads up if you're using Alpine images to host your services or run build pipelines. Alpine's packages are going to be less current unless some others maintainers are found to pick up the slack.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

For every distro there will be a group of package maintainers that handle this. The original authors will usually provide it in their own repo or a container build. But they (probably) won't have permission to host that on the official repo of every distro cause that's dangerous. You'd have all sorts of stability issues and dependency problems.