(UNOFFICIAL) Fedora 8: Developer (with 2.6.21 kernel source)

Fedora 8 "Developer" AMI with developer tools, libraries, and the 2.6.21 kernel source. AMI built by Eric Hammond [update 2008-04-11]

About This AMI

Compiling Kernel Modules

If you wish to compile the kernel modules from source, the following steps may be used on this AMI. [TBD: Update this documentation to show how to upgrade to the latest source version.]

  cd /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)
  time make modules # 70 minutes
  make INSTALL_MOD_STRIP=1 modules_install

  tar cvzf /tmp/ec2-kernel-modules-$(uname -r).tar.gz \
    /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/*

Build Process

The following steps were taken to build this AMI starting with the Fedora 8 AMI (ami-f51aff9c).

Install required packages:

  yum upgrade -y
  yum install -y rpmdevtools sparse

Download kernel source, patch, and configure:

  time curl -O http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel-xen-2.6/2.6.21.7/2.fc8/src/kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.21.7-2.fc8.src.rpm
  rpm -ivh kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.21.7-2.fc8.src.rpm 2>&1 |
    egrep -v '(user|group) mockbuild does not exist'

  arch=i686
  cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
  rpmbuild -bp --target=$arch kernel.spec
  mv /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.21/linux-2.6.21.$arch \
     /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)
  rm -rf /usr/src/redhat

  cd /usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)
  mv .config .config.orig
  cp /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
  echo "-2.fc8xen" > localversion-ec2

Add other packages to (sort of) match the FC4 developer AMI from Amazon:

  yum install -y \
    Glide3 Glide3-libGL audit automake bind bison checkpolicy crash \
    flex freeglut gdb gimp gmp grub htmlview httpd ipsec-tools \
    jpackage-utils ksh libxml2-python lockdev lrzsz mgetty minicom \
    mkbootdisk mtools mysql-server nasm ncurses-devel neon php \
    php-mysql php-pear ppp prelink pyOpenSSL redhat-menus rootfiles \
    rp-pppoe screen setarch statserial strace tcl tcsh termcap vnc \
    vnc-server xterm

Rebundle the running instance, upload, and register the AMI.

History

ami-2e769347 - alestic/fedora-8-i386-developer-20080411.manifest.xml

• Initial release

Credits

Special thanks go to:

• anourkey
• Marcin@AWS