GenPi64 on Raspbarry Pi: Dead yet?

jesnow · l33t Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 856

For a brief moment I got Genpi4's most recent public build running:

https://github.com/GenPi64

It was glorious. Possibly the easiest gentoo install I've ever done. Just a little bit of fussing, reassigned some repo addresses, and I was ready to to go.

But alas the binhost is either dead or so badly behind that there were no binary builds. I got an emerge -e world going that looked like it could go the distance. But I just have a Pi 4 with no heat sink, it's not up to building all of gentoo. It was getting searingly hot just a few packaged in (of 650) when I killed it. I was really hoping for a binhosted gentoo to run my poor pi4 off of.

The big problem appears to be, the alpha 9 build (from last May?) is python 3.9 and the current one is 3.11. That's just too big a mountain to climb. If you try to upgrade inccrementally everything you do creates a million slot blocks.

But when I look on the github site, it does look like there are people making changes in the overlay. they mention a discord server. Is there a secret gentoo binary image for the Pi, and a secret binhost? Continuing the work of sakaki, maybe If that were the case I would surely like to know. I have a dual xeon server I could dedicate to the cause full time in exchange.

Cheers,
Jon.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 7:25 am Post subject:

jesnow,

https://github.com/GenPi64/Build.Dist looks like its still alive.
The ML still gets some traffic too.

I run a Pi 4 binhost. Only the gcc-13 versions is maintained.
Its all a bit haphazard as it started out a long time ago for adding ~arm64 keywords.
You may want to set

jesnow · l33t Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 856

That's very useful. After my initial success, the second boot didn't go so well, and now I'm back to trying to get it to recognize the network and graphics.