Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:09:55 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg -c/pkg -j question Message-ID: <511BBAD3.30707@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <511BB811.3050301@qeng-ho.org> References: <511BB811.3050301@qeng-ho.org>
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On 13/02/2013 15:58, Arthur Chance wrote:
> A question for pkgng gurus. When using pkg -c or pkg -j to work within
> chroots or jails, how much of the pkg infrastructure needs to be present
> in the chroot/jail?
>
> The reason I ask is because I'm thinking of building a server which has
> all services running in jails, with the necessary packages being
> manipulated from above.
You need /bin/sh in each jail for pkg to be able to workout what ${ABI}
should be.
You need /var/db/pkg and /var/cache/pkg available and writable in the
jail / chroot (ie. relative to the chroot or root of the jail)
That's basically it.
You might run into problems running some package scripts if you're
trying to manage a chroot designed for a very different CPU arch / OS
version than your system is running: this is something we haven't really
put much thought into yet.
Cheers,
Matthew
PS. This sort of question is what the new freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org list
is for.
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