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Date:      Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:59:29 +0100
From:      Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.4 -> 8.2
Message-ID:  <4EF337C1.60908@my.gd>
In-Reply-To: <20111222134915.GA48825@pcjas.obspm.fr>
References:  <20111124150901.GK87561@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20111222124709.GA48640@pcjas.obspm.fr> <20111222142426.550b55da.freebsd@edvax.de> <20111222134915.GA48825@pcjas.obspm.fr>

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On 12/22/11 2:49 PM, Albert Shih wrote:
>  Le 22/12/2011 à 14:24:26+0100, Polytropon a écrit
>>>
>>> 	For subversion you need to force upgrade neon too.
>>
>> You should basically be able to run v7 programs in a
>> partially installed v8 environment as long as the
>> COMPAT_FREEBSD7 functionality is enabled and the
>> compat7x-i386-7.3.703000.201008_1 port or package
>> has been installed. However, kernel and world should
>> match each other.
>>
>> After an upgrade from one major version to the next
>> one, it's the best solution to update _all_ installed
>> ports. The "man portmaster" manpage contains a nice
>> example for this situation. It should be similarly
>> easy to achieve with portupgrade.
> 
> Yes I known. Thanks for the tips. 
> 
> My problem is with almost 15 jails on each server (I got 3) that's take
> long time, event during this time I don't do many thing some service isn't
> up. 
> 
> So my message is to find the minimal thing to do and make it's working
> until all package is rebuild. 
> 
> Regards.
> 
>> Polytropon
>> Magdeburg, Germany
>> Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
> 
> I'm from 3.2 ;-)
> 
> Regards.


The question is why do you even bother running jails with different
userlands ?

Keep a shared userland for all your jails, just ensure your /etc and
/usr/local are private only to said jails.

This way you only need to rebuild the world once, although you'll still
have to run mergemaster on each jail.


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