From owner-freebsd-jail@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 14:54:30 2007 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 B39AE16A41A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:54:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc3-s31.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc3-s31.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.231]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567F613C46A for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:54:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com) Received: from BAY102-W41 ([64.4.61.141]) by bay0-omc3-s31.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:42:31 -0800 Message-ID: X-Originating-IP: [217.133.1.92] From: Andrew Hotlab To: FreeBSD-Jail Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:42:31 +0000 Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Dec 2007 14:42:31.0304 (UTC) FILETIME=[6287C880:01C8424D] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: 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, 19 Dec 2007 14:54:30 -0000 Hi to all. =20 That's my first post to this list, and I want to tanks all the guys who spe= nd their time helping the FreeBSD Community to obtain the most from this wo= nderful OS, and I'll be glad to grow my experience as fast as possible to b= e able to donate my modest contribute too. =20 Coming from a MSFT professional experience, I've been particularly impresse= d by the FreeBSD jail system, and I'm using the ezjail framework to manage = some jails on a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE host in a pre-production environment. To track the security branch both on the host and the jails I'm using the "= update from source" method: I synchronize the source tree with csup(1), bui= ld and install the kernel, build and install the userland for the host firs= t and then for the jails (using the ezjail-admin(1) "update -i" switch). =20 All that is working fine now, but I wonder if I could speed up the whole pr= ocess, by switching to the binary update method. By using the freebsd-updat= e(8) utility on the host I think to maintain the system cleaner (this utili= ty only updates the installed distributions) and to reduce the administrati= ve effort (no mergemaster(8) required, I'm right?). =20 Do you think my thinking is right, or there are some aspects I'm missing? (= As I said, I'm not a very experienced FreeBSD sysadmin) :) =20 TIA =20 Andrew =20 _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/=