diff --git a/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
index 1a3c69d0c..8714735c1 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-base/APKBUILD
@@ -1,15 +1,23 @@
 pkgname=postmarketos-base
 pkgver=44
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="Meta package for minimal postmarketOS base"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
 arch="noarch"
 license="GPL-3.0-or-later"
 makedepends="postmarketos-initramfs"
+# Several of these dependencies come from alpine - base, as the upstream
+# recommendation to not depend on openrc has been to copy them here:
+# https: // gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/71686#note_435428
 depends="
-	alpine-base
+	alpine-baselayout
+	alpine-release
+	apk-tools
+	busybox
+	busybox-suid
 	devicepkg-utils>=0.2.0
 	eudev
+	musl-utils
 	openssh-server-pam
 	postmarketos-keys
 	postmarketos-mvcfg
@@ -41,6 +49,14 @@ replaces="
 	"
 replaces_priority=100  # leave plenty for alpine
 
+# Every postmarketos installation with pmbootstrap <= 3.3.2 has
+# alpine-base in /etc/apk/world. But for multiple reasons, we do not
+# want to depend on it. So have a versioned provides that conflicts
+# with it. See the commit that introduced this message for more details
+# THE LINE BELOW MUST NOT BE REMOVED UNTIL WE ARE READY TO DEPEND ON
+# alpine-base AGAIN
+provides="alpine-base=1000-r0"
+
 _source440="
 	etc/sudoers
 	etc/doas.d/10-postmarketos.conf
@@ -160,6 +176,9 @@ openrc() {
 		"
 	depends="
 		!systemd
+		alpine-conf
+		busybox-mdev-openrc
+		busybox-openrc
 		eudev-openrc
 		logbookd
 		logbookd-openrc
diff --git a/pmaports.cfg b/pmaports.cfg
index 7e4cea8a6..f55b3af49 100644
--- a/pmaports.cfg
+++ b/pmaports.cfg
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Reference: https://postmarketos.org/pmaports.cfg
 [pmaports]
 version=7
-pmbootstrap_min_version=2.3.2
+pmbootstrap_min_version=2.3.3
 channel=edge
 supported_root_filesystems=btrfs,ext4,f2fs
 supported_firewall=nftables
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ supported_heimdall_depends=heimdall,android-tools
 [repo:systemd]
 pmaports_dir=systemd
 # Build forks of Alpine packages that support usr_merge
-bootstrap_1=abuild alpine-base
+bootstrap_1=abuild
 bootstrap_2=systemd
 # Build systemd related pkgs without deps on each other
 bootstrap_3=dbus linux-pam-pmos