I am trying to balance "don't break things" vs "move forward" in #AlpineLinux. Right now it feels like everything is broken, but at least we are moving forward(?).
One thing that does feel good though, is that a lot of friendly people are working hard to fix things as quick as possible. None of this would be possible without you.
@ncopa if it is, i hadn't noticed! lots of VMs running 3.20 over here...
@silhouette Using 3.20 instead of edge was probably a good idea
@ncopa Not using alpine but out of curiosity what is broken?
- abuild. Hopefully it is not broken anymore, after various emergency fixes.
- I am also wrestling with llvm/clang 19
and there are various issues, but thankfully Celeste has helped a lot. I believe something will break once I push (build of firefox?)
- /usr merge. driven by pm OS people. I'm trying to stay out of the way. they do good.
- fortify-header upgrade. third try. still no go, segfault in kernel build (no time to follow up)
llvm19 and fortify-headers are not merged yet so not yet broken. It is also why I said "*feels* broken". Feels like everything I touch breaks. Hopefully it is not as bad as it feels.
@ncopa let me just say, I 110% know the feeling of breaking everything I touch
On the bright side, it's usually not as bad as I think it is.
You're doing an excellent job w/ Alpine
@ncopa You are doing a great job
@f
Thanks!
Right now it feels like I'm only pressing "merge", observe things break, and then observing it getting fixed by others and then hit "merge" again.
@ncopa sounds like the default state of linux to me...
@ncopa it's not surprising #AlpineLinux hits bumps. It's the risk of trying so many different and often cutting edge things with a relatively small user base. Good luck getting all the bits to align again. Alpine is cool. I do a lot of distro testing for #inxi in vm, and Alpine stood out to me as very interesting.
@ncopa honestly Alpine has been the most long-term stable, lightweight, simple, intuitive distro I have used.