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README for Adélie Linux Package Set
Authors: |
A. Wilcox, Distro Lead
Elizabeth Myers, Platform Group Horst Burkhardt, Platform Group Síle Ekaterin Liszka, Platform Group Adélie Linux Developers and Users, contributions |
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Status: | Production |
Copyright: | © 2017-2022 Adélie Linux Team. NCSA open source licence. |
Introduction
This repository contains the Adélie Linux package set. It is used by the Adélie Linux build system for package building to create the repository used by Adélie's APK package manager.
Licenses
As the Adélie Linux project is an open-source Linux distribution, packages contained in this repository must also be provided under a license recognised by the OSI. No exceptions will be made.
Changes
Any changes to this repository - additions, removal, or version bumps - must be reviewed before being pushed to the master branch. There are no exceptions to this rule. For security-sensitive updates, contact the Security Team at sec-bugs@adelielinux.org.
Contents
This section contains a high-level view of the contents of this repository. It does not list every package available; it is merely a guide to help you find what you need.
system
: System-level packages
The system
directory contains packages used by Adélie for core system
functionality, or for building of the system itself. Special care should be
taken before bumping these packages.
user
: User packages
The user
directory contains packages that a user would typically be
interested in installing. Desktop applications, server software (also known as
daemons), and other useful packages can be found here.
legacy
: Orphaned, unmaintained, or deprecated packages
The legacy
directory contains packages that were at one time supported by
Adélie, but are no longer. This could be because upstream no longer maintains
the software, its Adélie maintainer has dropped it and nobody has taken it, or
it has been deprecated or replaced with something else.
Use of packages in legacy
are highly discouraged, and packages may be
removed at any time.
experimental
: Unstable packages
The experimental
directory contains packages that are highly unstable or
are not yet fully ported to Adélie. They may not build properly, fail tests,
or exhibit runtime failures.
Please note that a package appearing in experimental
does not denote that
the package will ever be available for Adélie Linux.
Use of packages in experimental
is at your own risk.
Usage
This section contains usage information for this repository.
As an overlay
The user
repository can be added as an overlay to any system running APK,
which at the time of this writing includes Alpine Linux, postmarketOS, and a
few others. However, please ensure you are fully aware of the concerns
surrounding mixing packages in such a manner. There may be different ABIs or
library versions between each distribution, and packages may crash, experience
instability, or fail to launch at all. Please be careful.
The domain distfiles.adelielinux.org
is a round-robin for all available
Adélie mirrors. You may add a repository named above to
/etc/apk/repositories
:
https://distfiles.adelielinux.org/adelie/$version/$repo
Where $version
is the version of Adélie Linux you are running, or
stable
for automatic stable upgrades, or current
for a rolling-release
style distribution (which may be unstable - you have been warned!).
$repo
should be replaced with the name of the repository you are wanting
to use, such as user
.
Run apk update
to update the package index on your local system. The
packages will then be available to you.
If you are using the repository on a non-Adélie system, you should use repository pinning for the Adélie repositories you add. Please consult the APK manual for more information about repository pinning.
As a repository
The Adélie Linux system is preconfigured to use packages in system
and
user
for APK. No further configuration should be required.