Re: ec2 amis

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2011 at 08:50:38PM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> 
> Borked pkg_add. I chroot()ed in the partition for 5.1, and executed a
> pkg_add bluntly, which creates /dev/null through a pipe redirection.
> Will fix that for other regions too.

But why wasn't /dev populated?  Or did you run MAKEDEV after?

> Hmm. I have a problem there. While I can maintain NetBSD x.y
> approximately sane from an "up-to-date" point of view, I won't rebuild
> AMIs just for the fun of repackaging src/ and pkgsrc/ on a regular basis.

If you include an up to date (when you build the AMI) checkout of
/usr/src, the consumer can just run "cvs update" as desired to fetch the
new revisions.  It saves a lot of I/O.

Thor