Re: building ec2 amis

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jean-yves.migeon%espci.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011 22:25:42 -0500, Jan Schaumann 
<jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to follow http://wiki.netbsd.org/amazon_ec2/ to build a 
> new
> AMI, but I've not been successful.  After
>
> su root ./build.sh -O ../obj -T ../tools -D ../dest -R ../release -U 
> -V \
>         INSTALLSETS="base etc" install=/mnt/ec2
>
> I find that /mnt/ec2 looks not completely populated.  
> /mnt/ec2/etc/rc.d/ is
> empty, as is /mnt/ec2/etc/ssh/; running
>
> makefs -t ffs -B le -s 256m -N /mnt/ec2/etc/ -o density=32k \
>         /tmp/NetBSD-AMI.img /mnt/ec2/
>
> then yields:
>
> makefs: Unable to use user and group databases in `/mnt/ec2/etc'
>
> Is it possible that there are some steps missing from the wiki?

Most likely, the etc set is not extracted, because of [1].

You need a -current updated src/; patch for -5 has a pull-up request. 
But it's still in the pipe, as it is a commodity fix.

[1] 
http://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes-full%netbsd.org@localhost/msg22423.html

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Jean-Yves Migeon
jean-yves.migeon%espci.fr@localhost