Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:04:54 -0400 From: Martin Turgeon <freebsd@optiksecurite.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net> Cc: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't upgrade jails to 8.0 using freebsd-update Message-ID: <4ACE37D6.9040908@optiksecurite.com> In-Reply-To: <295A1256-A620-4DD1-8B7F-22BDB216D164@anduin.net> References: <4ACE2829.6030804@optiksecurite.com> <295A1256-A620-4DD1-8B7F-22BDB216D164@anduin.net>
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Eirik Øverby a écrit : > On 8. okt. 2009, at 19.58, Martin Turgeon wrote: > >> Hi everyone! >> >> I just upgraded a 7.2-REL to 8.0RC1 using freebsd-update. The upgrade >> went fine on the base system following the procedure written in the >> announcement email by Ken Smith. My problem is when I try to upgrade my >> jails, I get this message: >> >> # freebsd-update -b /usr/jail/mysql/ fetch install >> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. >> Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RC1 from update5.FreeBSD.org... >> done. >> Fetching metadata index... done. >> Inspecting system... done. >> Preparing to download files... done. >> >> No updates needed to update system to 8.0-RC1-p0. >> No updates are available to install. >> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first. >> >> But, if I compare the dates of the files in the base system to the files >> in the jails, it's obvious that the jails are not up to date. >> >> It seems like freebsd-update doesn't care about the basedir I specified. > > It does, but if you do a 'uname -a' - inside or outside the jail - > you'll see that it reports the OS revision of the host. So you should > have updated your jails first, then the host ... > Ok but if I update in the process of upgrading the first jail, the new kernel will be installed and asked to reboot. After that, I will have the same problem when upgrading the other jails and the base system, right? There must be something I don't understand well. Thanks a lot for your answer. Martin > One way to get around it is to replace /usr/bin/uname with a shell > script, which calls the original uname (which you have renamed) and > pipes through something like sed to replace the revision with what you > used to have: > > #!/bin/sh > /usr/bin/uname.org $* | sed s/"8.0-RC1-p0"/"7.2-RELEASE_p3"/g > > And this is a seriously butt ugly hack. > > /Eirik > >> Thanks a lot for your help, >> >> Martin >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >
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