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Re:WTF is a container? by bboreham on Monday October 17, 2016 @08:05AM (#12724274)
Takes about 2 seconds to fix:

  $ docker run -ti alpine /bin/sh
  / # apk add --update curl
  fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
  fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
  (1/4) Installing ca-certificates (20160104-r4)
  (2/4) Installing libssh2 (1.7.0-r0)
  (3/4) Installing libcurl (7.50.3-r0)
  (4/4) Installing curl (7.50.3-r0)
  Executing busybox-1.24.2-r9.trigger
  Executing ca-certificates-20160104-r4.trigger
  OK: 6 MiB in 15 packages
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Re:WTF is a container? by sigjuice on Monday October 17, 2016 @12:04PM (#12726303)
Hitting dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org repeatedly for simple things is probably not nice. Is there an easy way to have a local alpine mirror?
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Re:WTF is a container? by bboreham on Monday October 17, 2016 @02:36PM (#12727873)
I'm not suggesting this would be done repeatedly. Just when you need to debug something.

Nonetheless: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_setup_a_Alpine_Linu...

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