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Date:      Mon, 11 Mar 2019 19:24:54 +0000
From:      Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to base64 encode and upload userdata for EC2 Launch Template
Message-ID:  <A599F311-0169-44B3-99DC-9A6E9799F112@rafal.net>
In-Reply-To: <cf173794-32c0-b898-4b23-8ecc7abb039e@freebsd.org>
References:  <16C73F7C-3673-44CC-B59E-DA247A0C2DF7@rafal.net> <cf173794-32c0-b898-4b23-8ecc7abb039e@freebsd.org>

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I have been using =E2=80=9Ctar cvyf fff ddd=E2=80=9D, which I think is a =
compressed tarball using bzip. Should I use something else?

I have also noticed odd behaviour in the Console for LCs, but different =
behaviour in the Console for LCs, and yet different for CLI=E2=80=A6

Thank you, Colin.
Rafal

> On 11 Mar 2019, at 19:21, Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 3/11/19 2:42 AM, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote:
>> I hope someone can explain, as I have been lost in this for over a =
week. I would like to pass a small (4-5kB) tarball of files for the =
built-in cloud init script of the official FreeBSD 12.0 EC2 AMI to get =
untarred and processed (>, >>, or #!) upon instance launch. I have =
successfully done it for over 2 years using Launch Configurations but I =
cannot make it work using the new Launch Templates.
>=20
> Is this a tarball, or a compressed tarball?
>=20
> There's a longstanding bug (which I'm told is going to get fixed =
eventually!)
> in the AWS Console whereby any non-7-bit-clean user-data files get =
mangled
> and come out with each byte UTF-8 encoded.  I was only aware of this =
as an
> issue with the Console but it's entirely possible that someone at =
Amazon wrote
> the same bug in multiple places.
>=20
> --=20
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly =
paranoid




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