Re: FreeBSD now available on all EC2 instance types

2012-01-24 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 17 January 2012 15:34, Colin Percival cperc...@freebsd.org 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

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 directory

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 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 of