AMI building AMI

[Rafal Lukawiecki]

> On 2 Jan 2018, at 03:05, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> #!/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?

Julian, I am afraid I have blindly followed the suggestion from http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-21-FreeBSD-AMI-builder-AMI.html <http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2015-11-21-FreeBSD-AMI-builder-AMI.html> which suggested this script to preinstall the packages in the system mounted on /mnt 

#!/bin/sh
export ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES
pkg -r /mnt fetch -d apache24
pkg -c /mnt install apache24
echo apache24_enable=YES >> /mnt/etc/rc.conf
mkami "FreeBSD 10.2 w/ Apache 2.4" "FreeBSD with Apache pre-installed"
shutdown -p now

Perhaps Colin might be able to chime in on the original intent?

My goal is to have packages installed, together with the patched kernel, then to power off the machine and use it as a template for others, saving the 3 minutes of the initial package installation process, in our case. I have tried your suggestion of “add” but it did not work, either. I wonder if this somehow related to inability of pkg -c to resolve names in this AMI.

When I try this manually, not using the above scripts, these are the results and errors I get:

$ pkg -r /mnt update -f
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: access repo file(/mnt/var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory
Fetching meta.txz: 100%    944 B   0.9kB/s    00:01
Fetching packagesite.txz: 100%    6 MiB   6.1MB/s    00:01
Processing entries: 100%
FreeBSD repository update completed. 26993 packages processed.
All repositories are up to date.

$ pkg -c /mnt install awscli
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/meta.txz: No address record
repository FreeBSD has no meta file, using default settings
pkg: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.txz: No address record
Unable to update repository FreeBSD
Error updating repositories!

$ pkg -c /mnt add awscli
pkg: awscli: No such file or directory
pkg: Was 'pkg install awscli' meant?
Failed to install the following 1 package(s): awscli

Many thanks, everyone.
Rafal