Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 11:05:30 +0800 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net>, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> Cc: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMI building AMI Message-ID: <004116c5-0938-5570-f119-fdc21e91b2ad@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <DC1A9FE3-DF1F-4A87-8539-888D09CBA3EA@rafal.net> 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> <DC1A9FE3-DF1F-4A87-8539-888D09CBA3EA@rafal.net>
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On 2/1/18 12:16 am, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: >> On 29 Dec 2017, at 02:44, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote: >> >> 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 “make kernel” 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=YES > PKGS_TO_INSTALL=lots of packages go here > pkg -r /mnt fetch -d $PKGS_TO_INSTALL > pkg -c /mnt install $PKGS_TO_INSTALL please explain to me the use of -r AND -c? if you use -r to populate a chroot for -c then should that be pkg add rater than pkg 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’s kernel on /mnt without messing anything up *** > mkami "FreeBSD 11.1 for PB” “PB 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-cloud-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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