Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 17 January 2012 15:34, Colin Percival wrote: > * ec2.patch is just tweaking some configuration files, so that doesn't > need to > be merged and isn't really a patch anyway. > > There's also some new rc.d scripts which get installed and more > configuration > files; I'm not sure if it makes se

Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-24 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/24/12 09:49, Adrian Chadd wrote: > On 17 January 2012 15:34, Colin Percival > wrote: > * ec2.patch is just tweaking some configuration files, so that doesn't > need to > be merged and isn't really a patch anyway. > > There's also some new rc.d scrip

Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-17 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/17/12 14:49, Carsten Heesch wrote: >> What gave you that idea? The patches in that directory are the differences >> between the 9.0-RELEASE source tree and the one I used to build the AMI. > > Oh, must have been wishful thinking then that it might go into FreeBSD and > not remain a bunch o

Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-17 Thread Carsten Heesch
> What gave you that idea? The patches in that directory are the differences > between the 9.0-RELEASE source tree and the one I used to build the AMI. Oh, must have been wishful thinking then that it might go into FreeBSD and not remain a bunch of separate patches... :) >> The csup'ed source

Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-17 Thread Colin Percival
On 01/17/12 13:06, Carsten Heesch wrote: > There's a folder ec2-bits in the root directory, which contains a bunch of > patches. From your blog post I gather that they will not (much longer) be > required if one was to build their own kernel? What gave you that idea? The patches in that directo

Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-17 Thread Carsten Heesch
> > Details at > http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-16-FreeBSD-now-on-all-EC2-instance-types.html That's fantastic news! Really great stuff, Colin, especially the support for m1.small instances! Just two questions if I may, with regards to the m1.small AMI in particular:- There's a fol

FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-16 Thread Colin Percival
Details at http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2012-01-16-FreeBSD-now-on-all-EC2-instance-types.html -- Colin Percival Security Officer, FreeBSD | freebsd.org | The power to serve Founder / author, Tarsnap | tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _