euca2ools: requires EC2 certificate from ec2-ami-tools in multiverse

Bug #479836 reported by Eric Hammond
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Dustin Kirkland 

Bug Description

Binary package hint: euca2ools

When running a Karmic AMI on EC2, I tried to bundle the running instance using euca-bundle-vol but ran into a required --ec2cert option.

In order to create this bundle to create a new AMI on EC2, you need to have the EC2 X509 public key certificate which defaults to /etc/ec2/amitools/cert-ec2.pem but this file is only available in the ec2-ami-tools package which is itself in multiverse.

It might be worth seeing if /etc/ec2/amitools/cert-ec2.pem can be added to the euca2ools package in main so that an EC2 instance can be rebundled without adding packages from multiverse.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 10 07:39:09 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Ec2AMI: ami-1515f67c
Ec2AMIManifest: ubuntu-images-us/ubuntu-karmic-9.10-i386-server-20091027.1.manifest.xml
Ec2AvailabilityZone: us-east-1a
Ec2InstanceType: m1.small
Ec2Kernel: aki-5f15f636
Ec2Ramdisk: ari-0915f660
Package: euca2ools 1.0+bzr20091007-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: User Name 2.6.31-302.7-ec2
SourcePackage: euca2ools
Tags: ec2-images
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-302-ec2 i686

Revision history for this message
Eric Hammond (esh) wrote :
Erik Kronberg (eakron)
Changed in euca2ools (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Changed in euca2ools (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in euca2ools (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
Changed in euca2ools (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote :

Okay, I'm attaching a patch, adding this functionality.

I'm not sure about the feasibility of doing this, though. There may be some legal/political concerns with distributing Amazon's public key within this package. I'm not sure. I'm consulting with the powers that be...

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package euca2ools - 1.1~bzr238-0ubuntu2

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euca2ools (1.1~bzr238-0ubuntu2) lucid; urgency=low

  * debian/cert-ec2.pem, bin/euca-bundle-vol, debian/links: add the ec2
    public cert to this package, such that users can build EC2 images
    without installing ec2-ami-tools from multiverse, LP: #479836
 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:22:22 -0600

Changed in euca2ools (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :
Changed in euca2ools:
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in euca2ools:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Scott Moser (smoser) wrote :

Some notes...
 * I just forwarded this to debian (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=709475)
 * this is now the only ubuntu delta
 * the last remnants of the default '--ec2cert' path of /usr/share/euca2tools/cert-ec2.pem were removed with upstream commit aa1b331513c4c73a3075f1512086ee67ad2af0bc [1], which was usefully annotated "A bunch more of the refactoring completed. ".
 * As it stands right now, I think users either have to set EUCALYPTUS_CERT to /usr/share/euca2ools/cert-ec2.pem or use --ec2cert flag.

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[1] https://github.com/eucalyptus/euca2ools/commit/aa1b331513c4c73a3075f1512086ee67ad2af0bc

Changed in euca2ools (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in euca2ools (Debian):
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in euca2ools (Debian):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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