Alpine package for `grpc-cli` is broken in alpine 3.16

[Alison Monteith]

# apk add grpc-cli

fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/main/aarch64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/community/aarch64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

ERROR: unable to select packages:

  grpc-cli (no such package):

    required by: world[grpc-cli]

[X-MAC Pro]

I have another issue

fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.16/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz

ERROR: unable to select packages:

[Sergii Tkachenko]

IRRC we don't publish any packages to the alpine repo (see supported platforms), alpine folks do it on their own.

grpc-cli package is not available for alpine 3.16 (see https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/packages?name=grpc-cli&branch=v3.16), the last alpine that had this package published is 3.15.

That said, we recommend using grpcurl: https://github.com/fullstorydev/grpcurl.

You can download the binary from the releases page. Just confirm the latest release grpcurl v1.8.7 works on alpine 3.16.

Best regards.

Sergii