[SOLVED] Building image

[Magikarp]

Hello.
I would like to build a RPi image. I'm running x86_64 Arch on my main rig. Can anybody point me in the right direction? How do you build official images?

Thanks.

[pepedog]

Is this for yourself, or to distribute?

[Magikarp]

Just for myself, I want to understand cross compiling, toolchains, etc.

[pepedog]

We don't need to build that way, just boot on the device, install/change, delete downloaded packages in cache, then tidy up on an x86
Cross compiling is used in the distcc environment, you probably want to go down the qemu route?

[Magikarp]

Oh, I thought you used some script, tool or whatever to build images.
Distcc is fine and I will use it, but I was wondering if it is possible to build packages with makepkg on x86_64 machine.
Ideally I would download (or write) pkgbuild, change arch to arm, edit flags and run makepkg -e.
Is this even possible?

EDIT: What do you mean by qemu route?

[pepedog]

You don't have to change the arch, ie makepkg -A

The emu in qemu stands for emulator, if you search google for "qemu raspberry pi" it will explain

[Magikarp]

Thank you very much.
And the idea of emulating RPi sounds very interesting.