The Amazon apitools and
amitools packages are commandline
tools for managing EC2. The ec2-sources are the Amazon-tweaked Xen sources.
Requirements: Ruby, Java.
Use this overlay to install using Gentoo's layman.
As root:
emerge -av layman
$EDITOR /etc/layman/layman.cfg # Add to 'overlays' section:
http://github.com/gentoo/portage-ec2/blob/master/overlay.xml?raw=true
layman -a portage-ec2
layman -S
layman -l # should show 'portage-ec2'
echo 'source /usr/portage/local/layman/make.conf' >> /etc/make.conf
emerge -av sys-cluster/ec2-ami-tools sys-cluster/ec2-api-tools
# and if you want to build custom kernels:
emerge -av sys-kernel/ec2-sources
These tools need environment vars. Check where the tools are installed:
stat -t -c %N `which ec2run` # use for EC2_HOME
stat -t -c %N `which ec2-bundle-vol` # use for EC2_AMITOOL_HOME
then add to ~/.bash_profile or equivalent:
export EC2_HOME=/opt/ec2-api-tools-1.3.33670
export EC2_AMITOOL_HOME=/opt/ec2-ami-tools-1.3.31780
or add this experimental hack -- please improve!
export EC2_HOME=`ruby -e 'p %x{stat -t -c %N /usr/bin/ec2run}.split[2].split("/")[0..-3].join("/")[1,999]'| sed -e 's/"//g'`
export EC2_AMITOOL_HOME=`ruby -e 'p %x{stat -t -c %N /usr/bin/ec2-bundle-vol}.split[2].split("/")[0..-3].join("/")[1,999]'| sed -e 's/"//g'`
Feedback via github please.