RPi-Distro/pi-gen
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Tool used to create the official Raspberry Pi OS images
7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2017-08-31 · latest 2025-11-24
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…you want with the image generation tools, as it goes: https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-image-gen https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen Customising the OS with pi-gen is not that bad. It's an idiosyncratic tool but it works; I've not used…
comment by exasperaited · 2025-11-24 · in A New Raspberry Pi Imager -
Use RPIOS [pi-gen]( https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen ), it's pretty versatile and stupid simple, I could not wrap my head around Yocto and Buildroot. Even set it up in CI so GitHub would build the image and id just get the final tar.gz…
comment by written-beyond · 2025-07-17 · in Mkosi – Build Bespoke OS Images -
Maybe https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen works for you.
comment by dirkhe · 2025-02-22 · in Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images -
…tooling for people building products with Raspberry Pi devices. -- Raspberry Pi provide pi-gen ( https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen ), which allows you to build a customised Debian-based OS that uses our package list to get updates as we…
comment by aquilum · 2024-08-20 · in So you want to build an embedded Linux system? -
…to tinker you can use pi-gen to customise builds from a desktop without all that much difficulty: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen Worth a play.
comment by bemusedthrow75 · 2024-01-20 · in The Orange Pi 5 Plus -
This small patch of mine to raspbian may be useful for you, then: https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen/pull/207 The minor downside is that you have to build the image yourself, but fortunately that is a single command once docked is…
comment by sneak · 2018-11-24 · in Raspberry Pi WLAN setup -
…a lot of opportunities to save power and make the bootup quicker if you look through the scripts. https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen
comment by cfstras · 2017-08-31 · in A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it