From owner-freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 12:10:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FC0916A417 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:10:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc1-s1.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc1-s1.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49C9513C447 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 12:10:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com) Received: from BAY138-DS1 ([64.4.49.28]) by bay0-omc1-s1.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 2 Jan 2008 04:10:54 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [217.133.1.92] X-Originating-Email: [andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com] Message-ID: From: "Andrew Hotlab" To: "Jon Passki" In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 13:10:53 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Unsent: 1 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V12.0.1606 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Jan 2008 12:10:54.0106 (UTC) FILETIME=[85F607A0:01C84D38] Cc: FreeBSD-Jail Subject: Re: How to better update a jail host system X-BeenThere: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion about FreeBSD jail\(8\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:10:54 -0000 -------------------------------------------------- From: "Jon Passki" Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 5:48 AM To: "Andrew Hotlab" Cc: "FreeBSD-Jail" Subject: Re: How to better update a jail host system > You can re-create your binary jail setup easily from sysinstall: > > sysinstall _ftpPath=ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ > nonInteractive=yes mediaSetFTP releaseName=6.2-RELEASE dists=base > distSetCustom installRoot=/path/to/jail installCommit > > Then, the only thing you have to manage is packages. With a patched > freebsd-update [2], you can even update from 6.2 to 6.3. If ezjail > supports a binary tarball update, it would be trivial to take the > output of the sysinstall and freebsd-update and roll one. > I had not ever considered using sysinstall(8) as an option to create jails: it sounds good, expecially to a sysadmin who had never had to compile nothing, like me! As you pointed out, until ezjail(5) doesn't support that procedure I won't likely use it in production, since the advantages that Dirk's framework brings in managing jails are more valuable to me than the "annoyance" of compiling from sources! :) Andrew