I'm certainly not interested in building Gentoo on an RP4 but I'd be happy to do some limited testing. Not a good target for cross-compiling. Way outside my comfort zone and all my machines are now Ubuntu anyway.
I did not see an 'alpha9' so I downloaded and unzst-ed the 'latest' version. I'll have to sort through my pile of 32GB Micro SD's and pick one to burn the image file on, possibly this weekend. Thanks for the info. Good to see interesting stuff getting worked on. Mark On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 2:19 PM Michael Jones <gen...@jonesmz.com> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 11:31 AM Laurence Perkins <lperk...@openeye.net> > wrote: >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> >> > Sent: Friday, November 12, 2021 12:19 AM >> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance? >> > >> > On Thursday, 11 November 2021 22:43:17 GMT Mark Knecht wrote: >> > > On Thu, Nov 11, 2021 at 3:21 PM Laurence Perkins >> > > <lperk...@openeye.net> >> > wrote: >> > > > The genpi64 project is supposedly back up and running, so you can >> > > > get newer images that need fewer updates again. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > From: Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> >> > > > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2021 8:06 PM >> > > > To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> >> > > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions for NAS appliance? >> > > >> > > Do you have a better URL than I have? >> > > >> > > https://github.com/sakaki-/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit >> > >> > I gogled for 'genpi64 project' and got this: https://github.com/GenPi64 . >> > >> > -- >> > Regards, >> > Peter. >> >> Yes, that one. I think the build.dist is the repo you want. I don't know >> if they're providing finished images yet or not, but it should at least be >> capable of building them for you on something more powerful than the pi >> itself. >> >> LMP > > > I am one of the contributors to the new/reincarnated GenPi64 project. > > The build.dist repository contains our image builder, and you should be able > to run it on the raspberry pi itself, or on an x86_64 machine. I recommend > using the alpha9 branch of the repository, it has the latest improvements. > > It basically downloads an aarch64 stage3, and chroots into it and runs > various configuration commands, including emerge to install new packages. > > The builder doesn't currently setup a distcc cross-compiler for you, but > there are patches available for that if you really want to give that a try. > It's tricky to set up. > > You might have some trouble with the kernel build, or the final image > partition setup, but we're happy to help out if you just open an issue on > github. > > We do have hosted images here: https://packages.genpi64.com/ -- be warned, > these are not considered high quality yet. But they work well enough for the > several people who've reported back to us. > and our readme here: https://github.com/GenPi64/gentoo-on-rpi-64bit > > We're actively looking for more contributors. Currently it's just 3 very busy > people, so any help is good help. >
