Natanael Copa

We still have 400+ packages to build for riscv64 before we can do first release candidate of Alpine Linux 3.24.

#AlpineLinux

meh, apparently 2 parallel rust builds + erlang at the same time was too much for the milk-v pioneer riscv64 builder.

Anyone using NodeJS willing to help upstream support Alpine/musl so it can be promoted to a tier 2 platform?

https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/62764

https://github.com/nodejs/admin/issues/1065

#nodeJS #AlpineLinux

Seems like it is increasingly difficult to ship stable kernels without breaking anything.

- 6.6.140 broke ppc64le build:
drivers/crypto/nx/nx-common-pseries.c:1023:35: error: initialization of 'void * (*)(struct crypto_scomp *)' from incompatible pointer type 'void * (*)(void)' [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]

- 6.6.141 broke s390x build:
drivers/s390/cio/css.c:1387:10: error: 'struct bus_type' has no member named 'driver_override'

TIL about IPv8
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

I just pushed python 3.14 to alpine linux edge. It will keep the builders busy for a while to rebuild the 1900+ packages. There will probably be some inconsistency between main and community (we upload main before starting to build community). Hopefully it will not cause too much pain.

Thanks for your patience!

#AlpineLinux #Python

spent hours today trying to figure out why cmake removed the cflag for include directory to python 3.14 when building some packages.

Turns out it was thanks to ccache 🤦‍♂️

@ectaacte@mastodon.social I think rpi 2 zero has 64 bit support, so you could still use it.

I would like to drop armhf (armv6) support in #AlpineLinux. The only current hardware I am aware of that is armv6 is Raspberry Pi Zero series (EOL 2030). I don't think it is worth the extra effort to support both armhf (armv6) and armv7 at this point.

Do you think we should drop armhf to free up some resources?

If you want help with upgrade to python 3.14 for #AlpineLinux

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/18025

I'd like to start upgrade python in alpine which currently is 3.12. Should we upgrade to 3.13 for next stable release or should skip 3.13 and go directly for 3.14?

If you do security fix releases for your OSS software, please don't remove methods at the same time. And if you introduce anything that potentially could break things, please bump the major version number.

https://github.com/urllib3/urllib3/blob/8864ac407bba8607950025e0979c4c69bc7abc7b/CHANGES.rst#removals

Not there are critical security fixes that cannot be pushed to a linux distro without risking that stuff breaks.

I think we have a pretty awesome team, and a pretty awesome community.

#AlpineLinux

We finally got Alpine Llinux 3.23 out the door. It comes with 6.18 (LTS) kernel and zfs-2.4.0-rc4 (just like FreeBSD 15...). You may want verify that you have backup before upgrade if you use ZFS.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed one way or the other.

#AlpineLinux

Alpine Linux 3.23.0 RC2 is out. This comes with the 6.18 kernel and zfs-2.4.0-rc4. Please test and report back!

This is hopefully the last release candidate.

#AlpineLinux

linux-lts kernel upgraded to 6.18.0

Please wait with upgrading if you use zfs.

#AlpineLinux