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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OK so I took some time to understand and hack amazon linux 1 and… based on the docker container I created a kvm guest VM build node.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I could have used the docker container but I like a static VM much more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The result packages are at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://ngtech.co.il/repo/amzn/">http://ngtech.co.il/repo/amzn/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>which have packages for both amzn 1 and 2 and for both 3.5.27 and 4.0.24.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>While working on the VM and the SPEC files I noticed that there was a typo in all of my older versions until today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>For some reason despite to the typo Squid was built and ran fine in production for a long time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I was unsure if to patch 3.5.27 with the latest 2018.03 patch… but since I worked on the different SPEC files I assume that in the next couple weeks I will release 3.5.27+patches.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>…If there will be another release as 3.5.28 I will not create a specially patched RPM release.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The AMI RPM build sources(else then the SRPMS at the repo) are at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://gogs.ngtech.co.il/NgTech-LTD/squid-amzn2-squid35-rpms">http://gogs.ngtech.co.il/NgTech-LTD/squid-amzn2-squid35-rpms</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://gogs.ngtech.co.il/NgTech-LTD/squid-amzn2-squid4-rpms">http://gogs.ngtech.co.il/NgTech-LTD/squid-amzn2-squid4-rpms</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://gogs.ngtech.co.il/NgTech-LTD/squid-amzn1-squid4-rpms">http://gogs.ngtech.co.il/NgTech-LTD/squid-amzn1-squid4-rpms</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>And the amzn1 3.5.27 has SRPM:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://ngtech.co.il/repo/amzn/1/SRPMS/squid-3.5.27-2.amzn1.src.rpm">http://ngtech.co.il/repo/amzn/1/SRPMS/squid-3.5.27-2.amzn1.src.rpm</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Which should be enough for any AWS developer that works with AMI 1 or 2.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The AMI amzn1 qcow2 image is available at:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://ngtech.co.il/static/amzn/amzn1-rc1.qcow2">http://ngtech.co.il/static/amzn/amzn1-rc1.qcow2</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>just add “faster.” To the domain and it should push the packets faster.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>AMI machines are based on a combination of stability and cutting edge so amzn1 is pretty solid.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>However amzn2 offers systemd which I recommend to plan to use if you don’t already.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I also noticed that there are couple tiny things which blocks amzn2 LTS moving from the RC state of it but compared to Ubuntu I think it get’s more development and upgrades.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It’s probably because globally there is more money opportunity in it..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OK this is it for today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Eliezer</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif'>----<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold",sans-serif'><a href="http://ngtech.co.il/lmgtfy/">Eliezer Croitoru</a><br>Linux System Administrator<br>Mobile: +972-5-28704261<br>Email: eliezer@ngtech.co.il<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=183 height=69 style='width:1.9062in;height:.7187in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.png@01D3FD81.25E96E60"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>