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In short: no. While processes like the compiling do not need root privileges other parts like mounting the to be assembled image to a loop device or installing mandatory packages needs those. There is no easy way to differentiate this without interrupting the building process like asking for a sudo password. Since fully automated build train operates on the very same build script that you find on GitHub building hundreds of images in parallel would be impossible without hacks like modified sudoers file. Usage of virtualization is recommended by documentation. Building errors are often the result of a modified or compromised building environment, the users operating system to say. Solution for this is to start over with a clean build environment which makes usage of either physical or virtual isolation the logical conclusion in that matter. Of course adjustments could be made to shrink the needs of privileges down to a absolute minimum but that would need lots of time and effort to develop and test those. Armbian is unfortunately running on very low resources and therefore need to choose wisely where to spend these. Thank you!

ROCK Pi 5B has been added to upcoming hardware. @rpardini@amazingfate A few upcoming hardware forums have been "demoted" to sub-forums within News due to lack of activity

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For further discussion please create individual topics per issue/question. Lots of information gets lost in those insanely long topics. Thanks for understanding.

Just for the heck of it have you tried to set chattr +i on the file?

Maybe there are undocumented revisions of this board out there which causes some to boot and others not. Mine has on the back side: Only for fairly new accounts. This restrictions lifts automatically once you have just a few posts. This measure is unfortunately necessary in order to fight spam in forums. A rather small price to pay for having a perfectly clean forums

Never heard from that before. Sources are there. I suggest you take a look for yourself and decide https://github.com/armbian/build

Nobody wants to wait but also very few of those are a willing to do something to decrease waiting time. One year was a rough estimation. Mainline development of arm platform is very slow in comparison to x86. For example it took several years to bring RK3399 SoC to a well matured state and still not all functions are well supported yet. Now think about how long it might take for a mid-grade SoC like H616

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I'd keep the sub-forums like they are in the overview now. Would look like this But of course it calls "Tv boxes" in top and below instead of Clearfog ist says: "Allwinner, Rockchip, General...." and so on. That would be my approach.

Thinking about completely removing clubs. Other clubs that tvboxes are pretty much unused and latter could be migrated into unsupported forums. Clubs themselves can be confusing. They work similar to forums but have different arrangement of things. Also they partially lack of moderating options that common forums provide. Thoughts?

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