Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 08:36:02 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: as i progress with jails... Message-ID: <20070401083602.0fe922f5.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <5FD20E62-A4A8-4E6F-8873-9BE5FCC3E85D@shire.net> References: <20070330064629.C54F916A508@hub.freebsd.org> <20070401061634.GA22699@ns.umpquanet.com> <5FD20E62-A4A8-4E6F-8873-9BE5FCC3E85D@shire.net>
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:20:04 -0600 "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2007, at 12:16 AM, James Long wrote: > > >> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:14:16 -0600 > >> From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> > >> Subject: Re: as i progress with jails... > >> To: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> > >> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >> Message-ID: <E3CF1B5E-2B96-463F-86CB-07F4950FB383@shire.net> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > >> > > [deleted] > >> That needs to be updated per jail. I use a master jail I nullfs > >> mount so I just ave to update userland once but if major etc changes > >> happen still have to do that in each > >> > >> Chad > > > > And is mergemaster useful inside jails, or do changes to jails' > > /etc tree have to be handled manually? > > To be honest I have not yet tried. I tend to do it by hand when > things break by not doing it :-) > > Chad > > --- > Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC > Your Web App and Email hosting provider > chad at shire.net > after the previous reply to do the 'make installworld DESTDIR=/path/to/jail' (which seemed to work great), i just re-entered the jail, switched to /usr/src (nullfs mounted from the host, along with /usr/obj), and did mergemaster from the jail. it did identify files that were not up to date with 6.2-RELEASE-p3, and hitting 'i' to install them did seem to remove the old, and put in the new (example, my /etc/motd was full text again, which i always keep mine cut down to just the first 2 lines). so id say that using mergemaster within the jail is the way to go. cheers, jonathan
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