Patches to support EC2 AMI building in base system

Simon L. B. Nielsen simon at qxnitro.org
Mon Nov 24 11:30:17 UTC 2014


On 24 November 2014 at 09:41, Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have some patches to support building EC2 AMIs from the FreeBSD base
> system.  I hope that these will be merged soon, but in the mean time
> you can apply them to your tree.
>
> My patches are based off gjb's release-vmimage branch, but they build
> images which take advantage of the 'growfs' rc.d script in HEAD (which
> hasn't been merged to gjb's branch) so you'll want to check out HEAD and
> then get gjb's release bits on top of that:

Are there any reason not just to get them committed to head? They look
mostly straight forward.

I started playing with GCE (Google Compute Engine), so time permitting
I'm going to try and make a similar config for GCE, therefor less
manual patching the better :-).

-- 
Simon L. B. Nielsen


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