> > yeah I'm not sure exactly, but it sounds like what you are doing should > work. Does packer > power off the instance before creating a new AMI out of the disk image? If > you try to trace > the steps that packer does on your own (manually) do you get the same > result?
Well, AWS does power down the instance before creating the AMI as shown here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/creating-an-ami-ebs.html Does powering it off have some sort of effect on atomic that might cause this to happen? > The steps there for curling a file into /usr/local/bin/ should work. That > directory > is read/write. > Oh, I thought all of /usr was readonly and not persisted across reboots? Or does that not apply to /usr/local ? Chad
