AMI building AMI

[Rafal Lukawiecki]

Dear Colin, Julian,

I am afraid the script is not working reliably when it is launched by Colin’s very useful configinit from EC2 user-data. If I run the same script from the shell prompt, it works. The difference is that pkg -r /mnt update -f fails a good few times, each time with these errors:

	/bin/sh: indexinfo: not found
	pkg: POST-INSTALL script failed

Is indexinfo something that I could manually add? I am sorry I am not more familiar with the inner workings of pkg…

Many thanks indeed,
Rafal 
 
> On 2 Jan 2018, at 21:17, Rafal Lukawiecki <raf at rafal.net> wrote:
> 
> Colin, Everyone,
> 
> Here is the final script that has managed to run, unattended! On a c4.x4large it completes the task in 11 minutes, which is impressive, considering the long list of packages (126). Following that, I am able to encrypt the AMI while copying it across regions using:
> 
> aws ec2 copy-image --source-region us-east-1 --region eu-west-1 --source-image-id ami-x --encrypted --name “My FreeBSD"
> 
> If you would like to update your blog post with this, now fully tested script, perhaps others would benefit. Please note credit is due to Julian, who got me unstuck regarding pkg -c and resolv.conf, many thanks, Julian.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> set -x
> export ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES
> PKGS_TO_INSTALL=“list of packages to install"
> pkg -r /mnt fetch -d $PKGS_TO_INSTALL
> pkg -r /mnt update -f
> mv /mnt/etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf.orig
> cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
> yes n | pkg -c /mnt -o ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES install $PKGS_TO_INSTALL
> mv /mnt/etc/resolv.conf.orig /mnt/etc/resolv.conf
> svnlite --non-interactive --trust-server-cert-failures=unknown-ca co https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/11.1/ /usr/src/
> cd /usr/src
> cat > /tmp/kernel.patch <<EOT
> *** patches to apply ***
> EOT
> patch < /tmp/kernel.patch
> make DESTDIR=/mnt kernel -j16
> mkami "FreeBSD 11.1 Custom AMI” “My custom AMI description"
> shutdown -p now
> 
> Rafal
> --
> Rafal Lukawiecki
> Data Scientist 
> Project Botticelli Ltd