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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>
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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
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