AMI building AMI

[Rafal Lukawiecki]

Ah, perhaps pkg -c simply cannot access /var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite because it is chrooted?

> On 2 Jan 2018, at 19:19, Rafal Lukawiecki <raf at rafal.net> wrote:
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> 
>> On 2 Jan 2018, at 03:05, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org <mailto: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: <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: <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