From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 17:52:44 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C121065672 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:52:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A8388FC19 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:52:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (gate.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.10]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C9A77E821 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:52:33 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:52:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.0; i386; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904161952.27379.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Subject: RELENG_7 jails on current host X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:52:44 -0000 Hi, I'm looking for some confirmation/caveats for using a -current host and RELENG_7 jails. Mostly I'm wondering whether -current is in good enough shape to host RELENG_7 jails. What I'm trying to accomplish is to have the machine that currently builds packages for -stable machines as well as hosting a number of services (low volume httpd/irc/imap/smtp), can be upgraded to current without significant modification to the jails. The only modification I expect to be making is fake uname output and set certain port related variables for the -stable build server. The reason I'm wanting to do this is because I'm happily running current on my work laptop but building ports interferes too much. I figured building ports in a -current jail on a -stable host would not work very well, but I'll happily be corrected on that if that's no problem. Jails have been built as per jail(8) manpage, not using ezjail. Nullfs mounts exist to share binaries and trees like /usr/ports. -- Mel