Different Repositories in Alpine Linux
Explore the different repositories in Alpine Linux, including main, community, and testing, to understand their roles and usage in package creation and management. Learn how these repositories interact, how to enable them, and best practices for using each to ensure your packages are compatible with the desired Alpine Linux version.
Preface
Alpine Linux has several repositories available for its users. All of them have different purposes. It’s important to understand these when creating our packages to make sure they work on the version of Alpine Linux we want to use.
The main repository
The main repository contains the core components of Alpine Linux, like musl, busybox, and openrc. As such, the main repository is enabled by default on all Alpine Linux installations. Packages in this repository are supported for two years (meaning through four stable releases of Alpine). During this time, they receive security bug fixes. In total, the main repository contains over 1,500 packages.
The community repository
This repository contains most of the other packages of Alpine Linux, clocking in at about 4,500 packages. ...