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Comment by mattomata

Alpine is built around musl libc, which has numerous compatibility differences from a traditional glibc: http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/Functional_differences_from_g...

Some folks solve this by adding glibc to Alpine (IIUC this is what Envoy is building upon).

It has a package manager, but it is far from as comprehensive. The security database is still essentially an experiment with much less richness than Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, ...

If what you want is a package manager, you probably want minideb from the Bitnami folks.

parent mattomata 9 years ago

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