Fwd: Registering ebs-snapshot with euca2ools
I don't need the tools on the image we are creating. The image is a
vanilla debian installation (plus some startup scripts).
The tools are only required on the bootstrapper. However, I designed
it to be fully automated. Clone my tool and run the command - you're
done.
The project is not only intended for the official aws images, other
people use it as well (there are currently 10 forks and one fork of a
fork).
I cannot simply add the testing mirrors automatically and require
people to upgrade python to 2.7 on a squeeze installation they might
be using for other stuff as well.
So for now I think this is the best solution.
Anders
On 13 November 2012 16:02, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:31:38PM +0100, Anders Ingemann wrote:
>> I solved it, hopefully you guys don't think it's too messy.
>> I install python-boto and python-m2crypt with apt.
>> Then i download the euca2ools-1.3.2 archive from github and install it
>> with make.
>> The installer puts it in /usr/local, which I think is fine.
>> So now the bootstrapper is and uses 100% free software :-)
>>
>> Any comments?
>
> Thanks for this hack! However, yes, it does seem a tad too messy :)
> (and, more importantly, not reliable, e.g. what if the GitHub project
> disappears?)
>
> I confess I'm a bit confused though.
>
> Is it you on your machine that needs the testing version? (meaning that
> one would need to use testing to *build* stable images)
>
> Or is it rather that we need newer euca2ools version to ship *inside*
> the images?
>
> In the former case, it wouldn't be a big deal. It just means we need a
> testing Debian machine to bootstrap stable AMIs. I think we can live
> with that.
>
> Can you clarify which is which?
> TIA,
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