Related tasks for Alpine (musl) x64 promotion to Tier 2
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 55/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Active
- Tech stack
- docker, dockerfile, nodejs
- Domain
- build-system, devops, documentation
Research direction
Start with README, Dockerfile-alpine.template, update.sh, and build-automation.mjs, then review the linked Node.js promotion and other Alpine issues. Update the documented support process, use the regular Node.js release source for Alpine x64, and remove obsolete unofficial-builds checks and security-release handling when the Tier 2 promotion is in place.
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Description
Current status
Platform list currently contains the following entry:
| Operating System | Architectures | Versions | Support Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNU/Linux | x64 | kernel >= 3.10, musl >= 1.1.19 | Experimental | e.g. Alpine 3.8 |
Other architectures are unlisted, and have no designated support type.
Official binary platforms and toolchains does not list any Alpine / musl build.
node Docker images for Alpine are built from https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org/download/release/v<node-version>/node-v<node-version>-linux-x64-musl.tar.xz
- Alpine
x64images are built using thex64-muslbuild directly - Alpine
arm64,arm32ands390ximages are built from source
Update automation treats security releases differently and proceeds with these releases without waiting for musl build availability.
Proposed Node.js change
PR https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/63737 proposes the promotion of Alpine/x64 to Tier 2.
This can be expected to add Alpine/x64 to the Platform list and to Official binary platforms and toolchains.
An x64-musl build can be expected to be available through the regular https://nodejs.org/download/release/ website.
Impact
Expected update tasks and impact will include:
- Documentation README references to support category and process
- Dockerfile-alpine.template to source the musl build from https://nodejs.org/download/release/
- update.sh script so that the
-s(security) option does not exclude Alpine builds, or for more simplification, remove the-soption entirely, since it becomes a no-op - build-automation.mjs remove checks against https://unofficial-builds.nodejs.org
Review other Alpine-related issues and PR for relevance and applicability.
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