Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2018 17:42:44 +0000 From: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net> To: Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> Cc: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMI building AMI Message-ID: <0C1308D4-AFD6-4216-83A6-4687157EC8D3@rafal.net> In-Reply-To: <01000160a0283ad5-12b330d3-3f4b-43ea-9cdc-2524f5f42f4a-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <085D225B-2E99-4540-B693-223087B14A27@rafal.net> <0100016099578ea7-02da1d5c-997d-47be-9cd8-dc6b75bbeda6-000000@email.amazonses.com> <8BCB67B8-DE56-491A-8E6A-95AFB83F71D6@rafal.net> <0100016099671dff-32d986bf-3979-40a3-accf-4d17c2020403-000000@email.amazonses.com> <8538BFB9-B82C-4520-ADB3-E25040EA1B30@rafal.net> <01000160a0283ad5-12b330d3-3f4b-43ea-9cdc-2524f5f42f4a-000000@email.amazonses.com>
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PS. Could it be as easy as make DESTDIR=3D/mnt installkernel in the = config init? > On 29 Dec 2017, at 02:44, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote: >=20 > us-east-1 ami-e6a6ea9c is a FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE AMI-building AMI. Many thanks, Colin. And a Happy New Year! May I ask you if what I am hoping to do makes sense? Taking the gist = from = http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-21-FreeBSD-AMI-builder-AMI.html = I plan to make an AMI, install packages, patch and install the kernel, = all in one go. I am unsure how to =E2=80=9Cmake kernel=E2=80=9D so that = it ends up in the new AMI, rather than just in the builder AMI. Firs, I create an IAM role with a policy which grants access to the EC2 = CreateImage API. Then I launch your AMI building AMI ami-e6a6ea9c in = us-east-1 using config init script as follows, on a sufficiently large = c5: #!/bin/sh export ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=3DYES PKGS_TO_INSTALL=3Dlots of packages go here pkg -r /mnt fetch -d $PKGS_TO_INSTALL pkg -c /mnt install $PKGS_TO_INSTALL svnlite co https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/11.1/ /usr/src/ cd /usr/src cat > /tmp/kernel.patch <<EOT Patch goes here EOT patch < /tmp/kernel.patch make kernel -j16 *** How to copy the new kernel into the AMI=E2=80=99s kernel on /mnt = without messing anything up *** mkami "FreeBSD 11.1 for PB=E2=80=9D =E2=80=9CPB Customised FreeBSD" shutdown -p now Afterwards I copy my new AMI to eu-west-1. Does this make sense? Is there documentation to mkami? I could not find = it. I am curious if I could parametrise it to create an encrypted volume = snapshot of a given target size. Many, many thanks and my regards from Ireland, Rafal=
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