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Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:00:56 +0200
From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
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Subject: Re: The best way to upgrade my FreeBSD and its jails
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Redd Vinylene wrote:

> My dedicated server is mother, its two jails are camel and box. Is
> this the best way to upgrade all of them?
> 
> Pretty cool huh?
> 
> -
> 
> # FreeBSD/i386 mother.reddvinylene.no
> 
> csup /etc/cvsupfile && \
> 
> cd /usr/src && \
> 
> make buildworld && \
> 
> make buildkernel && \
> 
> make installworld && \
> 
> make installkernel && \
> 
> make delete-old && \
> 
> make delete-old-libs && \
> 
> mergemaster -U&& \
> 
> export D=/usr/jail/camel && \
> 
> make installworld DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> make installworld installkernel DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> make delete-old DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> make delete-old-libs DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> cd etc/ && \
> 
> make distribution DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> cd .. && \
> 
> mergemaster -U -D $D && \
> 
> export D=/usr/jail/box && \
> 
> make installworld DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> make installworld installkernel DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> make delete-old DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> make delete-old-libs DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> cd etc/ && \
> 
> make distribution DESTDIR=$D && \
> 
> cd .. && \
> 
> mergemaster -U -D $D && \
> 
> chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/* && \
> 
> rm -rf /usr/obj/*


It would be better if you post what version you are running and to what 
version you want to update / upgrade. If you want to use some RELEASE, 
you can user freebsd-update command for binary update of base and jails.

Also it is not good to do all the above steps as one chained command.

Miroslav Lachman