yoebuild/yoe v0.8.4

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• Networking picks the better DHCP client when available. The default
  S10network runs dhcpcd if it's on PATH (IPv6 SLAAC, DHCPv6, IPv4LL
  fallback) and falls back to busybox udhcpc otherwise — so an image that
  ships dhcpcd gets the modern client without changing the init script.
• File conflicts in image builds now fail loudly. Units can declare
  replaces = ["pkg", ...] to opt into shadowing another package's files (e.g.
  util-linux over busybox's /bin/dmesg); apk honors that at install time and
  rejects any conflict that wasn't declared. Image assembly no longer passes
  --force-overwrite, so a new shadow becomes a real error instead of a buried
  warning.
• Unit edits no longer get masked by stale cache hits. Editing a unit's
  description, license, runtime deps, replaces, conffiles, build environment,
  scope, image partitions, image excludes, or install-step files now invalidates
  the cache as it should — previously these silently kept the old apk. A new
  test in internal/resolve fails if a future Unit field is added without being
  incorporated into the cache key.
• ip works again on dev-image. iproute2 no longer pulls in libelf at
  link time, so /sbin/ip runs without "Error relocating /sbin/ip: elf_getdata:
  symbol not found" on images that don't ship elfutils.
• Boot no longer hangs when DHCP fails. The default network init script
  waits briefly for the link to come up before starting udhcpc, runs udhcpc in
  the background, and limits its retries — so dev-image reaches a login shell
  even when no DHCP server is reachable, instead of looping on "Network is
  down".
• Image rootfs is assembled by upstream apk add. yoe no longer loops
  tar xzf over each apk; image builds run apk add against the project's
  local repo, getting real dependency resolution, file-conflict detection, and
  an installed-package database in /lib/apk/db for free. On-target you can now
  apk info, apk verify, and (once apk-tools ships as a unit) apk add and
  apk upgrade against the same repo.
• Service symlinks ship inside the apk. A unit's services = [...]
  declaration is materialized as real /etc/init.d/SXX<name> symlinks inside
  the package's data tar at build time. On-target apk add <pkg> produces the
  same rootfs as image-time assembly — yoe never patches the rootfs after
  install.
• Repo layout switched to Alpine-native —
  repo/<project>/<arch>/<pkg>-<ver>-r<N>.apk plus a per-arch
  APKINDEX.tar.gz. .apk filenames no longer carry a scope suffix. Existing
  repo/ directories are obsolete; the next build repopulates the new layout.
• Yoe-built apks install with upstream Alpine apk-tools. .apk files and
  APKINDEX produced by yoe now round-trip through stock
  apk add --allow-untrusted: no checksum errors, no format warnings, and
  package metadata (name, version, arch, deps, origin, commit, install size)
  matches what apk index itself would emit.
• Nine new units in dev-image — e2fsprogs (mkfs.ext4 / fsck.ext4 /
  tune2fs on the target), eudev (full udev for dynamic /dev), iproute2 (full
  ip/tc), dhcpcd (a DHCP client beyond busybox udhcpc), bash, less,
  file, procps-ng (real ps/top/free/vmstat), and htop are now
  built and included in dev-image so they're available out of the box on a
  booted dev system. gperf is also added as a build-time dependency for eudev.
• Updated units roadmap — util-linux, kmod, and ca-certificates are
  marked done; dropbear is dropped (the project standardizes on openssh);
  remaining work is now nftables (blocked on libmnl/libnftnl/gmp deps) and
  dbus.
• Documented when NOT to use provides — docs/naming-and-resolution.md
  now spells out that provides is for leaf artifacts only (kernel, base-files,
  init, bootloader). Using it for build-time libraries or runtime alternatives
  forks every transitive consumer into a per-machine apk. Runtime alternatives
  like mdev vs eudev should ship side-by-side and be selected at boot from
  init scripts.
• Image rootfs assembly now warns on path collisions — when two packages
  install to the same path (e.g., busybox's /sbin/ip symlink vs iproute2's
  full binary), the later package silently overwrote the earlier one with no
  trace. Image assembly now emits a warning: line per collision naming the
  surviving package and the shadowed ones, plus a total count. The warnings
  appear in the image's build.log (and on terminal when yoe build -v is
  used). Existing dev-image builds surface 27 expected shadows of busybox
  applets by full alternatives — no behavior change, just visibility.

To update, run: yoe update
Or download the binary for your architecture and place it in your PATH.
Note: Yoe-NG is in heavy development. We recommend cleaning your build directory and re-creating projects (yoe init) with each new release.