alpine-base directly depends on openrc. We have had different[1]
conversations[2] with upstream. And the main conclussion[3] has been:
if you want to do something different, just depend on things
yourself. This is indeed what docker images do. So let's just get the
things that we want from alpine base (quite some!), and ignore what we
don't want (openrc, busybox openrc and init packages). Up until commit
12d125ab8b72f0249fd6aae000170a4fa78a83ab in pmbootstrap every
postmarketOS installation would have alpine-base in
/etc/apk/world. Therefore, we add a versioned provides to
postmarketos-base with a very high version, which conflicts with the
upstream version but should be chosen instead.
alpine-conf is now a dependency of postmarketos-base-openrc, since it
dependes on openrc for calling setup-*
scripts. postmarketos-base-systemd already implements those needed.
Contrary to the first attempt[4], I have kept the dependency on
alpine-release. Changes to that are independent to the usr-merge, and
can be done as a follow-up.
This should allow to drop the fork of alpine-base currently in the
systemd-extra repository!
To this day, every single pmOS installation will have alpine-base in
the world file, which means that systemd installs will the forked
package until users specifically run "apk del alpine-base". We must
add this to release notes and to an edge blog post. Alternatively we
could have an empty package with a very high version providing
alpine-base. This also means that to get installs to work, we need a
pmbootstrap release with[5] on it.
[1] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/63935
[2] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/71686
[3] https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/71686#note_435428
[4] https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/5026
[5] https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2580Fixes#2806
Part-of: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/6475
Pablo Correa Gómez
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