From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 01:53:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E689016A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:53:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F18EA43D1F for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:53:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DEe0H-0007kT-Tq for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:52:49 +0100 Received: from pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net ([68.83.169.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:52:49 +0100 Received: from apeiron+usenet by pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:52:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Christopher Nehren Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:52:07 +0000 (UTC) Organization: /usr/bin/false Lines: 33 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pcp08490587pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) Sender: news X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Gmane-MailScanner-SpamScore: s X-MailScanner-From: freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org X-MailScanner-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Installing 4.x inside a 5.x jail / chroot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:53:14 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've been submitting a number of ports recently, mostly Perl-based ones. Sometimes they don't work on old Perls (and Kris Kennaway has always been there to inform me; shame that I couldn't respond before Simon Barner did this morning). At the moment I don't have a 4.x machine configured to run the six or seven year old 5.005_03 release that's in the 4.x base system. This means that I can't (easily; switching the 4.x box to use 5.005_03 is a mess and I've broken my installation that way) test my ports before submitting them for systems running this ancient (but still supported) version of Perl. I've been considering installing RELENG_4 inside of a jail on my 5.x machine (the 4.x machine is too starved for resources now as it is, I don't want to make its life any harder), but I'm not sure how well that would work. Has anyone had any experiences with this? Any caveats? Can I simply replicate the instructions in jail(8) but with RELENG_4 bits? Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Christopher Nehren -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCQ298k/lo7zvzJioRAioQAJ9GUOK8GUMToYmy3vCTIAJeo99fRACfTg6Q XXWwdphsI8PJNcfGaOBOYbs= =/5nI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- I abhor a system designed for the "user", if that word is a coded pejorative meaning "stupid and unsophisticated". -- Ken Thompson If you ask the wrong questions, you get answers like "42" and "God". Unix is user friendly. However, it isn't idiot friendly.