From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Mar 20 00:54:03 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09ADBACE68B for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:54:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaredm@openmailbox.org) Received: from mail2.openmailbox.org (mail2.openmailbox.org [62.4.1.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C056A211 for ; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:54:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaredm@openmailbox.org) Received: by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 783252ACA4CB; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 01:53:59 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=openmailbox.org; s=openmailbox; t=1458435239; bh=eo7enyCc3MWX6Kt0x9JlBwnEVxRZJAzFqb8dBmw2EZs=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=TGHP3TOcyF2XNNucIa2lWV/OFw035o2Gzp6oB54UtGUAT2GqXtmSUs+kA72e8lwuk qVbSiIxAwpkVkXV+V7/LvTcXyoJpXFjgby6xAiJpGpITe6RKIkN+GvRdYBNW8OiNgo fI40TFrnk438tzBU8L21fSodk5Ocf1HAlkitBHQE= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on openmailbox-b2 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50, DKIM_ADSP_ALL,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from www.openmailbox.org (openmailbox-b2 [10.91.69.220]) by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4116F2ACA4CB; Sun, 20 Mar 2016 01:53:49 +0100 (CET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:53:48 -0500 From: jaredm@openmailbox.org To: tyler@tysdomain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions re: upgrading current and jail package management In-Reply-To: <56EDC48A.6040001@tysdomain.com> References: <56EDC48A.6040001@tysdomain.com> Message-ID: <6f4ad778550038ee26887762d02ed81f@openmailbox.org> X-Sender: jaredm@openmailbox.org User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.0.6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 00:54:03 -0000 > All, > I have a few questions I was hoping someone could help me with. > I'm running FreeBSD 11 using IOCage for jails. Thus far, I have a > couple questions here: > 1) When I portsnap fetch extract in a jail, I get a message telling me > that /usr/ports is not writable. When I touch a file in /usr/ports I'm > told it's a read-only filesystem, but mount only shows the root > directory being mounted. Is this typical? if so, how should ports be > installed? > I read that you should not build ports in a jail, but a few of the > jails I am using have different port builds from the pkg defaults. I > need to build them individually. Is there a better way to do this? > 2) I seen some information about setting a property on IOCage that > allows zfs datasets to be mounted into the jail. There is already a > dataset being used though; is there a way to mount multiples? To > provide some context, I want to run Samba from within a jail. I wish > to nullfs-mount the /storage/media into the jail to enable Samba to > access it. > 3) I am running FreeBSD-11. Is there a good way to update short of > rebuilding everything? I don't mind doing that, but it's somewhat time > consuming. Also mergemaster has a bad habbit of breaking my > /etc/passwd files, etc. > Thanks, > - -- > Take care, > Ty > Twitter: @sorressean > Web: https://tysdomain.com > Pubkey: https://tysdomain.com/files/pubkey.asc Ty, I brought the question to Twitter and the response from the official iocage Twitter account (@iocage) was "The question of using portsnap in an iocage jail would be better directed at the iocage mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iocage :)" Hope you can find the answer there! Best regards, Jared M. (@JMBSD)