Michael Jones

@afritz1 Normally you would be right that most projects wouldn't host a package file (such as a .deb or .rpm file) in their repository. However, a very large number of...

TL;DR: Personally I think package scripts should be kept around, even if just as an archive of what once happened, as long as the scripts in question are updated by...

Hrmm. What do you think about an approach where the root filesystem is shrunk to the left before creating the image file, and then first-boot expands it to the right...

I just installed the 'zram-init' ebuild, and then ran systemctl enable --now zram_swap zram_tmp zram_var_tmp You're also supposed to edit /boot/cmdline.txt and /etc/modprob.d/zram.conf, but i'm not sure how necessary that...

zswap is not the same as zram. Yes, enabling zram_var_tmp speeds up small package compilations enormously.

Why is compressed in-memory "swap" more appropriate for rpi3/4 for purposes of reducing disk access to /var/tmp/ while emerging packages? I used zram via zram-init for /var/tmp/. I did not...

I am also interested in this functionality. @Mithrandil do you have any scripts from when you used to make these netbook images?

I'm also interested in the compilation scripts, I want to work on a net-bootable, systemd based version of this.

As a followup on my previous comment, I'm a software engineer and have about 10 years of exp with Gentoo. I'm interested in using Gentoo on raspi for some work...

Sorry to be a bother, I won't poke this issue again unless there's a question or something, but just to reiterate, this is something that I'm very interested in working...