Atomic and ASL installers on EC2 Amazon Linux

[Highland]

So I've been playing more with EC2 lately and I decided to give the stock Amazon Linux a whirl. It's based on EL5 with its own repos which give you most everything (Apache 2.2.21, PHP 5.3.8, etc) but there are still things in Atomic that I would like (mysql 5.5, e-accelerator, atop, etc) so I tried the old installer and it crashed and burned because there's no /etc/redhat-release

Any chance you could update them to support the stock EC2 images or do we have to go play "find the flavor you want" with the community releases running CentOS proper? I got around it, btw, by manually creating the repo and installing the GPG key.

[scott]

It would help to know more about what it really is (rebranded centos 5?) and what their /etc/redhat-release looks like.

[Highland]

It's hard to tell. It's definitely EL, although the EPEL repo the came with it points to it being rebranded EL6

[epel]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 6 - $basearch
mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metal ... =$basearch
failovermethod=priority
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-EPEL-6

There is no /etc/redhat-release file

The official page
https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/

[scott]

what does it use?

[Highland]

Apparently this

]# cat /etc/system-release
Amazon Linux AMI release 2011.09

I am using several EL5 packages from the ART repo without issue so I would assume it's EL5 but the EPEL thing is confusing.

[mikeshinn]

According to this link:

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/message.j ... eID=194752

"The Amazon Linux AMI is based on RHEL 5.x and parts of RHEL6. One of our goals is binary compatibility with RHEL 5.x, and therefore CentOS5.x."

I can't find any download links for it, but it sounds like they use their own repos from an REHL5 5 base install with some
RHEL6 rpms and a newer kernel. But its their fork. It may be compatible with RHEL5/C5, sounds like it is and they say its one of their goals. So we'll assume its RHEL5/C5.