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Alpine Linux

We are pleased to announce the release of Alpine Linux 3.20.0, the first in the v3.20 stable series.

This is the first stable release that includes Risc-V 64 support thanks to Milk-V.

Upgrades includes among others:

- Rust 1.78
- Python 3.12
- KDE 6

alpinelinux.org/posts/Alpine-3

Thanks to all the contributors who worked hard on getting this release out!

#AlpineLinux

7 comments
Adam :lsio:

@alpinelinux re: yq change, unless I'm missing something aliases/metapackages don't show up in the pkgs search site or using "apk search", you have to go look at the APKBUILD file of the thing it's an alias to, which kind of defeats the point.

Is there actually a way to tell that a "yq" package exists and what it actually links to, other than already knowing it?

Kevin

@spad @alpinelinux apk search cmd:yq is the best way to find what packages provide specific tools.

Adam :lsio:

@ikke @alpinelinux that's useful, but still doesn't tell me that a metapackage called "yq" exists or what it installs.

Jakub Jirutka πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

@spad @ikke @alpinelinux `apk search yq` or `apk add -s yq`.
You’re right that pkgs.a.o is not very helpful for this.
BTW, the goal is to make ppl stop using the old package name.

Adam :lsio:

@jakub @ikke I know the intent in this case but it applies to anything with a metapackage. The case I was envisioning was I find a dockerfile using 3.20 and installing the package yq. I don't know what that package does so I search on pkgs and get zero results. I do apk search yq and get some results but none of them are "yq", they're "yq-go", "yq-python" etc. So apart from actually installing it myself to see what it is, there's no simple way to find out.

Kevin

@spad @jakub These are not meta packages in that sense (there is no explicit package with that name in the index).

There is nothing indexing or exposing these virtual provides at the moment, except by looking at what each package provides (apk info --provides <package>).

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