there is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
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Sorry, mostly found it interesting because it gets a bit into symbol versioning which in my experience isn’t something everyone is familiar with.

  • adrianmalacoda
    3·
    3 years ago

    What exactly is the appeal of “glibc based Alpine” anyway? Isn’t the whole point of Alpine to get away from the GNU userland?

    • AiwendilOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      I assume the major reason is trying to get pre-compiled proprietary software to work…hardly any proprietary software offers a musl version in addition to their glibc version.

    • AiwendilOP
      2·
      3 years ago

      Ahm…the article is about how that package creates a broken system and that the alpine project doesn’t want to be associated with images that have the package preinstalled. So not sure if suggesting to try it is a good idea ;)