Portage on a raspberry pi 1B with raspbian

[stefan11111]

I have tried to install portage on a raspberry pi 1B with raspbian 10.
I have followed this:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Portage/Fixing_broken_portage

I have tried with both portage 3.0.44(the one mention in the instructions) and portage 3.0.49(the latest one).
I get this error at the emerge --info step:

[sam_]

How have you ended up with such an old set of tools to begin with if it's a new install? Or are you trying to install it from inside Raspbian using e.g. emerge --root...? There's various guides (using different methods) on the wiki for how to install Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi.

I can't reproduce this error with Python 3.7 on godbolt. What does python --version return? What's the shebang in bin/emerge?

[stefan11111]

[sam_]

Excuse my brevity as writing on mobile.

I wrote the in-place guide on the wiki and have used it on rpi 1 a bunch of times, it should be ok. But the issue you're hitting seems to be that it's trying to run it with Python 2. You could try python3 bin/emerge but I'd really recommend the in-place install guide instead.

I mentioned --root not to try it now but to ask what your plan was for installing

[stefan11111]

[sam_]

ah, I think that's fake news. Please ignore that. When following the guide just use the right kernel name for 32bit, get armv6 stage3, and don't set the config.txt option for 64

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

Its possible to install Gentoo on a PI (any Pi so far), without needing to chroot at all.

Partition the SD card. Set the bootabale flag on the boot partition.
Make filesystems.

Untar a suitable stage3 to the SD root.
Install suitable boot files to SD Boot
Put the kernel modules into the right directory in /lib/modules

Make some symlinks in /etc/runlevels/* so the services you want start.
Edit /etc/conf.d/<service> te support the above services

Add a root password hash to /etc/shadow

[stefan11111]

I will try to install gentoo on the raspberry pi.
When trying the replace apt with portage route, I got this error:

[stefan11111]

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

Don't emerge on the Pi. Cross compile binpkgs and emerge the binaries on the Pi.

If you will not use a GUI, its possible to reduce the GPU RAM to 16M so that the rest is available for the arm CPU.

Where did you get a Pi1 with only 256M RAM fitted?
They were only made fer a few months, then the 512M Pi1 came out at the same price.

If you can read it the RAM size is contained on the top of the RAM chip, which is what you see looking at the CPU, you may find its a 512MB model with the wrong firmware.

The RAM is actually fitted on top of the CPU on the Pi 1.
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NeddySeagoon

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those that do backups
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[stefan11111]

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

That's a real 256MB Pi 1 :)
It has the same RAM chip as mine.
Your Pi 1 is is older than mine, as mounting holes were added after yours was made. My example has the mounting holes.


Don't use distcc. The Pi will still configure and link. Either use crossdev, or a QEMU chroot to build binaries.
You may even want to use QEMU to chroot into the Pis SD Card filesystem to emerge the binaries.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[stefan11111]

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

arm-none-eabi is for cross compiling for the bare metal. That is. programs that will run with no operating system.

Look at the CHOST in the stage3 and use whatever that is for the tuple.
See the Raspberry Pi Installation page on the Wiki

[stefan11111]

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

Please use a pastebin service. Very few readers here will download random things from the internet.

What do you have in /boot/cmdline.txt and /boot/config.txt?

What is the output of ls -l /boot ?
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[stefan11111]

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

Your image of the boot is very blurred but its not using

[stefan11111]

Adding root=/dev/mmcblk0p3 worked.
I tried emerging utelnetd(it's quite small).
I got this error:
https://github.com/stefan11111/pastebin/blob/main/IMG_20230702_190118.jpg
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INSTALL_MASK="/etc/systemd /lib/systemd /usr/lib/systemd /usr/lib/modules-load.d *udev* /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d *tmpfiles* /var/lib/dbus /usr/bin/gdbus /lib/udev"

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

The fetch failed. Have a look at the end of dmesg.

From memory the Pi 1 has network problems.
There is a sysctl option to fix it.

Does it work if you wget the dstfiles before running emerge.?
You may not be able to do that either.
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NeddySeagoon

Computer users fall into two groups:-
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those that have never had a hard drive fail.

[sam_]

Your /var/db/repos/gentoo might be missing or you don't have a profile selected too, I've seen this kind of failure before then. Or, regrettably, you already started to hit SD card issues when yanking the power (hopefully not).

[stefan11111]

[ShorTie]

Since this is a fresh install I'd do

[NeddySeagoon]

stefan11111,

Don't do

[stefan11111]