apk not found error during compilation on armhf

[encodeering]

Hi,

it seems that the environment is either cleared to greedy with su -, especially the $PATH variable, or that the path of apk has changed in the meantime, which is /sbin/apk now.

I receive the following error when building on arm.

/usr/bin/abuild: line 1233: apk: not found
>>> ERROR: nginx*: create_apks failed
>>> ERROR: nginx: rootpkg failed

I fixed this temporarily by dropping - from the command and won't expect any problems with the parental environment here -- the $HOME variable is also set the beginning.

Hope that this info can help. Cheers

[thresheek]

Hi @encodeering. I don't think we hit that issue with the official images otherwise I'd be notified when it broke. Can you please elaborate on how you're building things? Thank you.

[encodeering]

Hi @thresheek, yes that's also a good point.

I am using an alpine image that has been generated with mkimage-alpine from moby. I had to call RUN apk fix afterwards. A typical build log looks like this
That image contains qemu-arm-static in version 2.6.0 in order to build this on public CI servers, but I do this for many images and haven't seen any bigger issue with qemu so far - besides some go topics from time to time.

However, you are right, that the offical alpine image from the docker hub behaves different to the image that I described above in terms of the su command. I tested a few commands inside of each container, but don't get to the point where they differ and am not sure where su is configured on alpine at all.

Would you be willing to accept a PR regarding the slash? I would otherwise keep it as a patch internally.

Cheers

[thresheek]

Please do a PR.

[encodeering]

Thank you @alessfg and @thresheek for taking the time to bring this into master.