Once again, thanks for your help, Colin. The suggested steps worked and I have managed to build an updated ARM AMI with all the extra packages. I am testing it now and seems quite good. Shutdown behaviour does not bother me.
Indeed, there was not enough space for make in /usr/obj (and not enough for pkg either) so I had to add a couple of memory disks. FYI, the below user data script works well. I run it on a spot instance of a c6g.8xlarge and it was done in just under 30 mins. I wonder if I am replicating what your AMI maker does anyway by building things using make, or is this still the right way to go around. I’ve one more question: where can find out the currently *available* level of the patches, ie. the “-p2” in "12.2-RELEASE-p2”? There is nowhere I could see on freebsd.org <http://freebsd.org/> that publishes that, and I assume it has to be somewhere in the svn trees but I cannot find it. I would like a way of being able to check if I am current. My user data script, perhaps I should post it somewhere…: #!/bin/sh PKGS_TO_INSTALL=“Lots of package names go here :)" export ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" mount -t devfs devfs /mnt/dev mdconfig -a -t swap -s 8G -u 2 newfs -U md2 mount /dev/md2 /usr/src mdconfig -a -t swap -s 20G -u 3 newfs -U md3 mount /dev/md3 /bits/usr/obj svnlite co https://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/12.2/ /usr/src/ make -j 32 -C /usr/src DESTDIR=/mnt buildworld buildkernel installkernel installworld yes | /usr/bin/env PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" pkg -r /mnt fetch -d $PKGS_TO_INSTALL pkg -r /mnt update -f cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf yes | /usr/bin/env PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" pkg -c /mnt -o ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES=YES install $PKGS_TO_INSTALL rm /mnt/etc/resolv.conf # You may need to check if there was already another resolv.conf and perhaps restore it (11.1: yes, 12.x: none) sleep 10 sync; sync; sync; umount /bits/usr/obj umount /mnt/src umount -f /mnt/dev sync; sync; sync; sleep 10 sync; sync; sync; sleep 10 umount -f /mnt sleep 10 mkami "FreeBSD 12.2 PB 3.16" "Project Botticelli Ltd Customised FreeBSD 12.2" shutdown -p now The two memory disks are bit oversized. The pkg cache only needs 4 GB (not 8) and /usr/obj needs just under 10 (not 20) but it saves me from surprises, I hope, as I continue using it over the next few months. Thanks a lot and regards from Ireland, Rafal -- Rafal Lukawiecki Data Scientist Project Botticelli Ltd _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cloud To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
