Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:30:10 +0100 From: "'Thomas Spreng'" <spreng@socket.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing additional ports in a jail! Message-ID: <20021210083010.GA95261@rock.stable.ch> In-Reply-To: <20021209092542.GA76303@ei.bzerk.org> References: <20021209085617.GA64454@rock.stable.ch> <000001c29f61$fcf58c70$952b6e94@lucifer> <20021209092542.GA76303@ei.bzerk.org>
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On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:25:42AM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:04:32AM +0100, Didier Wiroth typed: > > Thanks for the reply! > > > > >where have you read that it's not recommended to do so? I'm installing > > >ports from inside the jail all the time and have not encountered any > > >problems so far. > > > > I have read this from the "Absolute BSD - The ultimate guide to > > FreeBSD", the author recommends not to build from the ports as it could > > take up a lot of CPU times. > > > > Actually I would like to recompile and install the apache2 daemon! I > > thought that this would be a real big task as the machine also hosts a > > primary dns. > > > > Are there other people installing their jail software from the ports > > collection, and compiling it from inside the jail? > > I usually follow this procedure (on the host system, not inside the jail): > > cd /usr/ports/<someport> > make > mount_null /usr/ports /jails/jailX/usr/ports > chroot /jails/jailX > cd /usr/ports/<someport> > make install > exit > mount_null /usr/ports /jails/jailY/usr/ports > chroot /jails/jailY > ... etcetera have you read the BUGS section in the mount_null manual? they dont recomment using it, because it's not really finished yet. > So I only have to compile once. > > cheers, > Ruben cheers, tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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