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[Michael Hudson <michael.hudson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Hudson wrote:
> Bjorn Tillenius wrote:
> 
>>>>> If you can get
>>>>> launchpad-developer-dependencies updated, I can do the EC2 test images
>>>>> on my Monday -- drop me a mail.
>>>> You wouldn't happen to know which extra packages were installed to get
>>>> it to work? I'm assuming xvfb needs to be there. But what about firefox,
>>>> which packages where installed to get it to run? Plain 'firefox', or
>>>> something else?
>>> My IRC logs suggest this was the magic line:
>>>
>>> apt-get -y install xvfb firefox xfonts-base
>> Cool. The launchpad-developer-dependencies 0.59 now depends on the extra
>> packages. If you could create new ec2 images, it would be great. If you
>> could explain how to update the images, even better :)
> 
> I first run a command like this:
> 
> ./utilities/ec2 update-image --public launchpad-ec2test112 -m
> based-on:ami-e6f6158f
> 
> Then test it and use ec2-modify-image-attributes to make it public.
> 
> This is a bit inefficient as it builds an image completely from scratch
> rather than updating our existing one, but the code that does that
> doesn't actually upgrade the installed packages currently (I finally got
> around to filing a bug about this:
> 
> https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/493774
> 
> ).  Anyone can run the above command of course, but only images created
> by myself, Gary or Francis are considered by ./utilities/ec2 for running
> currently.
> 
> The new image is building.

And is now public as machine version 112.  I tried to run the windmill
tests and it looked ok to me, although two failed; you can see my
command and the output at http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/336965/ .

Cheers,
mwh