To ease the development of Wolfi OS, you can use the sdk
Chainguard Image that already includes both apko and melange.
On Linux and Mac it is also possible to install both the above tools directly into your system.
If you choose not to install the tooling onto your local machine, you can start a container based development environment using
make dev-container
What it does is start the chainguard-images/sdk
image and mount the current working directory into it.
Now, the Makefile
script assume that there're melange folder & melange binary the upper level dir (../melange
). I change it locally to the following because it's where they are in chainguard-image/sdk
.
MELANGE_DIR ?= /usr/share/melange
MELANGE ?= $(shell which melange)
Wolfi packages are built using melange. If you want to learn how packages are built, you can see all the details in the ci-build
workflow and in the Makefile.
Start by cloning this repository and create a YAML file named <your-package-name>.yaml
in its root directory. If you have any patches, create a folder with the same name and put them there.
Add a new entry for your package in the Makefile like this
$(eval $(call build-package,<your-package-name>,<version>-r<epoch>))
Once you're done writing the new package configuration file, you can test it by triggering a build with make packages/<your-package-name> BUILDWORLD=no
.
note: If you see GCS auth related errors, your gcloud auth credentials might be the issue. Try running gcloud auth login && gcloud auth application-default login
.
Your build packages should be found in the generated ./packages
directory.
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When bumping version of a package, you will need to update the version, epoch & shasum (sha256 or sha512) in package YAML file. The version and epoch also need to be bumped in Makefile.
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epoch
needs to be bump when package version remains the same but something else changes.epoch
needs to be reset to 0 when it's a new version of the package. -
melange
CLI has a commandbump
to make it easier. More details are available here.
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melange has a few built-in pipelines. You can see their source code in the melange repository.
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You don't need to add
environment.contents.repositories
andenvironment.contents.keyring
. Those are added automatically in theci-build.yaml
script during CI. -
For patching CVEs, you can follow the documentation here.
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If you don't want to build all the packages locally, you can install
gsutil
and use it to sync the prebuilt packages fromgs://wolfi-production-registry-destination/os/
bucket:
gsutil -m rsync -r gs://wolfi-production-registry-destination/os/ ./packages
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If you dont want to install
gsutil
locally, you can use this imagegcr.io/google.com/cloudsdktool/google-cloud-cli:slim
which is the official SDK image from GCP and already includegsutil
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When deciding how to add
update:
configuration see the update docs -
When you're ready to submit a PR for a new package or to update a package, make sure your YAML file(s) are formatted correctly, so that they'll pass CI. We use yam for YAML formatting. You should be able to run the
yam
command from the root of this repo to get all files formatted correctly.