Raspberry Pi OS 12 (Bookworm) released

[TheOldPresbyope]

@TheOldPresbyope my image is also just below the 1.5GB (1.35), but here it takes a lot less time to build.

Used environment:

• PI5/8G
  
• 1GB wired network connection
  
• Decent internet connection (~200Mb all packages are downloaded) 
  
• Synology NAS with nfs mount as build storage
  

If you are using the the SD card for build storage I can imagine that it slows down the build.

Interesting. My Internet connectivity is perhaps slower; even so, downloading 200MB should have taken less than 30 seconds. Yes, I was using the SD card for build storage. Naively, I wouldn't have thought it would slow things down by a factor of 2 or so. Still, the elapsed build times for both main and bookworm branches are overly long.

I'll have to spin up an NFS server on another Ethernet-connected host with a decent disk and try again to see what difference that might make. Too bad I don't (yet) has an M.2 hat to plug an SSD stick into.

As as aside, twice at different times today the r837 build failed during pi-gen-64/stage2/04-moode-install/01-packages with the error message

Code:

E: Failed to fetch http://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libavcodec58_4.3.6-0%2bdeb11u1%2brpt5_arm64.deb  Error reading from server - read (104: Connection reset by peer) [IP: 2a00:1098:82:47::1 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Whatever was going, the third time I tried (always from a fresh clone of imgbuild to be sure the conditions are the same) the build succeeded.

Thanks for putting together and maintaining this automation. I used the manual process many times in the past but never enjoyed herding it.

Regards,
Kent