Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:02:11 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: davidcollins001@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade jails Message-ID: <44ws7x5kho.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <1b30fd140905291235q7f45e6c3x7dcba8a8e88cf3ca@mail.gmail.com> (David Collins's message of "Fri\, 29 May 2009 20\:35\:45 %2B0100") References: <1b30fd140905291235q7f45e6c3x7dcba8a8e88cf3ca@mail.gmail.com>
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David Collins <davidcollins001@gmail.com> writes: > I have several jails for the purpose of not trashing my root partition > with junk programs that I may not need and also to learn how to run > various system services, ie dns, http, mysql, samba etc. I have been > running them for a while and have only just updated the jail root > after rebuilding world. > > I have been using portupgrade to rebuild the host ports I have > installed. What I would like it know is if it is possible to use > portupgrade on the host system to update the jail ports. So like when > rebuilding world a destdir is specified and is populated with the new > world, is it possible to do the same with portupgrade? The reason is > because I don't want to have to install portupgrade and ruby several > times, also I can script the upgrade easily too. > > I have been reading through the ports and portupgrade man pages and > setting environment variables to the appropriate directories in the > jail to try to get this to work but so far no luck. Portupgrade wants > to upgrade the host ports > > Here is what I have tried so far: > > viper:~$ export DISTDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/tmp/ > viper:~$ export WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/jails/xserver/var/tmp/ > viper:~$ export PREFIX=/usr/jails/xserver/usr/local/ > viper:~$ export BATCH=yes > viper:~$ export PORT_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/p > viper:~$ export PORT_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/ports > viper:~$ export PKG_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/pkg/ > viper:~$ export PORTS_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/ports > viper:~$ > viper:~$ sudo portupgrade -narR It sounds like PREFIX is the one you're not picking up. Perhaps it's being overridden by one of your makefiles, or by portupgrade's configuration files? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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