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Date:      Wed, 1 Oct 2003 14:20:07 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Aragon Gouveia <aragon@phat.za.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: port install to jail root from host system
Message-ID:  <20031001132007.GB11691@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20031001124829.GA15390@phat.za.net>
References:  <20031001124829.GA15390@phat.za.net>

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On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:48:29PM +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:

> I've compiled a port as normal (apache13 in this case).  I'd like to run
> 'make install' now and tell it to install the package to the base of the
> root filesystem of a jail from the jail's host.  Possibly also to skip
> registering it in the host's package database.
>=20
> Does anyone know an easy way to do this with the ports system?
>=20
> I realise apache is dependant on various libraries that may not be in the
> jail, but these dependancies I will resolve manually.

It actually works quite well if you use mount_null(8) to re-mount your
/usr/ports tree inside the jail, and set the WRKDIRPREFIX environment
variable to something like /usr/obj so that you don't actually write
into the /usr/ports tree while compiling.

A line something like:

  /usr/ports      /jail/192.168.0.2/usr/ports     null rw 0 0

in /etc/fstab in the host system should do the trick nicely.

That way, you can just ssh(1) into your jailed system and manage
ports/packages exactly as you do in the host system.  This will also
avoid, in a trivially simple way, problems caused by corrupting the
/var/db/pkg database in the host system.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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