From owner-freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org Tue Jan 2 19:30:42 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cloud@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54CEEB4D98 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:30:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raf@rafal.net) Received: from smtp-out-1.mxes.net (smtp-out-1.mxes.net [67.222.241.250]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8BF8E6EB78; Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:30:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from raf@rafal.net) Received: from [192.168.40.37] (86-40-118-125-dynamic.agg2.bri.bbh-prp.eircom.net [86.40.118.125]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.mxes.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 546A727505; Tue, 2 Jan 2018 14:30:39 -0500 (EST) From: Rafal Lukawiecki Message-Id: <1832FE6C-5A3E-448C-8B6A-81A49C3C952E@rafal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.2 \(3445.5.20\)) Subject: Re: AMI building AMI Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 19:30:37 +0000 In-Reply-To: <559A9E86-6E97-4A8D-96CC-95FC9180A483@rafal.net> Cc: Colin Percival , freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org To: Julian Elischer References: <085D225B-2E99-4540-B693-223087B14A27@rafal.net> <0100016099578ea7-02da1d5c-997d-47be-9cd8-dc6b75bbeda6-000000@email.amazonses.com> <8BCB67B8-DE56-491A-8E6A-95AFB83F71D6@rafal.net> <0100016099671dff-32d986bf-3979-40a3-accf-4d17c2020403-000000@email.amazonses.com> <8538BFB9-B82C-4520-ADB3-E25040EA1B30@rafal.net> <01000160a0283ad5-12b330d3-3f4b-43ea-9cdc-2524f5f42f4a-000000@email.amazonses.com> <004116c5-0938-5570-f119-fdc21e91b2ad@freebsd.org> <559A9E86-6E97-4A8D-96CC-95FC9180A483@rafal.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.5.20) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.25 X-BeenThere: freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: "FreeBSD on cloud platforms \(EC2, GCE, Azure, etc.\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2018 19:30:42 -0000 Ah, perhaps pkg -c simply cannot access /var/db/pkg/repo-FreeBSD.sqlite beca= use it is chrooted? > On 2 Jan 2018, at 19:19, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote: > > >> On 2 Jan 2018, at 03:05, Julian Elischer > wrote: >>> #!/bin/sh >>> export ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=3DYES >>> PKGS_TO_INSTALL=3Dlots 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 ra= ter than pkg install? > > Julian, I am afraid I have blindly followed the suggestion from http://ww= w.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=3DYES > pkg -r /mnt fetch -d apache24 > pkg -c /mnt install apache24 > echo apache24_enable=3DYES >> /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 th= e 3 minutes of the initial package installation process, in our case. I have= tried your suggestion of =E2=80=9Cadd=E2=80=9D 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 resu= lts 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: <= http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/quarterly/packagesite.txz:> No addre= ss 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