Publish Yarn to the Alpine Linux package repository (APK)

[ide]

This is a feature request to publish Yarn to Alpine Linux's package repository. The primary motivation is to be able to more easily use Yarn when building Docker images built on top of Alpine Linux. (Alpine is a distro that's much lighter than Ubuntu and earlier this year there was some discussion that Docker was moving its official images to Alpine: https://www.brianchristner.io/docker-is-moving-to-alpine-linux/.)

Feb 2017 Edit: Following the discussion below, if you are running Alpine in a Docker image that already includes Node (ex: mhart/alpine-node:base-7), you might want to install Yarn by copying the files directly:

ENV YARN_VERSION 0.20.0
ADD https://yarnpkg.com/downloads/$YARN_VERSION/yarn-v${YARN_VERSION}.tar.gz /opt/yarn.tar.gz
RUN yarnDirectory=/opt/yarn && \
    mkdir -p "$yarnDirectory" && \
    tar -xzf /opt/yarn.tar.gz -C "$yarnDirectory" && \
    ln -s "$yarnDirectory/dist/bin/yarn" /usr/local/bin/ && \
    rm /opt/yarn.tar.gz

[Daniel15]

Hi James! 😄

Looks like fpm added support for Alpine Linux packages. We're already using fpm to build the CentOS/RHEL .rpm, so I should be able to build an Alpine Linux package too.

[SimenB]

Any news here? There will be official Alpine images for node shortly (docker-library/official-images#2334), being able to install a self-contained yarn into that would be sweet

[Daniel15]

I'll try to take a look this weekend.

It looks like Alpine only has Node.js 6.7.0 at the moment: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.4/main/x86_64/nodejs. I guess that's fine, I wonder how well-maintained the Node.js packages are though.

[ide]

https://github.com/mhart/alpine-node is a popular image that is regularly maintained. These Alpine images already have Node installed, apk add yarn just needs to install Yarn -- if it pulls in an extra copy of Node that defeats the purpose of using a small image like Alpine.

[SimenB]

I'd prefer it if it just installed yarn yes, as it will only be used where Node is already available

[Daniel15]

Sure, I can do that. I wonder if Alpine has something like a "recommends" relation between packages. Debian does that - We "recommend" the Node.js package, but people can ignore the recommendation if they have Node.js installed via alternate means (for example, nvm, or compiled from source).

[Daniel15]

Currently blocked by jordansissel/fpm#1227

As an aside:

Alpine is a distro that's much lighter than Ubuntu

Have you considered using Debian? It's also much lighter than Ubuntu.

[CpuID]

Have you considered using Debian? It's also much lighter than Ubuntu.

$ docker images | grep ubuntu
ubuntu    16.04               42118e3df429        4 months ago        124.8 MB
$ docker images | grep debian
debian     jessie              1b088884749b        6 months ago       125.1 MB
$ docker images | grep alpine
alpine      3.4                 4e38e38c8ce0        5 months ago      4.795 MB

Self explanatory.

[lukasoppermann]

Any news here?

[Daniel15]

Currently blocked by the fpm bug linked earlier in the thread. Sent from my phone.

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