Alpine Add Package from Edge repository

Question

If I'm using Alpine 3.8, how can I add a specific package from the Alpine Edge repository? Is this even supported? There is no equivalent of backports, from what I can see.

I want to add the new version of this: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/armhf/librdkafka

And not the older version in the 3.8 repo: https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/v3.8/community/s390x/librdkafka

Answer 1

You could specify the exact repo to apk, using the --repository parameter.
In your case:

apk add librdkafka --repository=http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main

Answer 2

Edge repository may be enabled permanently. Just do the following:

sed -i '/edge/s/^#//' /etc/apk/repositories

Answer 3

You can also add the repo:

echo "@testing http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/main" >> /etc/apk/repositories

and reference it with apk via @testing. Example:

apk add package-name@testing