Alpine Template not working about lxc-templates

[cvoges12]

@stgraber Is no one working on these? It seems like all issues are just being left open and no one is progressing them. Very little response in this repo.

[cvoges12]

It seems as if the issue is here: https://github.com/lxc/lxc-templates/blob/master/templates/lxc-alpine.in#L216

[stgraber]

As far as upstream is concerned, lxc-templates is no longer part of LXC proper and so no longer covered by our release process, LTS, ... That's because we've now been using distrobuilder for quite a few years with its images being available through the lxc-download template or using lxc-local for consumption of locally generated images.

We do still review and merge pull requests on this repo though and usually make a release tarball for it as well as for python3-lxc whenever we tag a major release.

[cvoges12]

Got it. Thanks. I'll make a pull request if I have any further work. But I'll probably use the existing upstream methods instead.

[4oo4]

@cvoges12 I'm not an expert with lxc and don't know why the build template did mknod for all those character devices, but you can remove most of them and the container will build OK. When you start the container I believe that's what creates character devices, I verified they were all there. I have built many alpine containers (but none recently) and for some reason that worked OK on all of them until now.

Then there was a separate issue of new apk keys being introduced in alpine 3.15 that aren't listed in the template (and also you had to go to a different URL to grab them), and that is fixed now too.