Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:42:31 +0000 From: Andrew Hotlab <andrew.hotlab@hotmail.com> To: FreeBSD-Jail <freebsd-jail@freebsd.org> Subject: How to better update a jail host system Message-ID: <BAY102-W41E0DDC536BD8491761400F65C0@phx.gbl>
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Hi to all. =20 That's my first post to this list, and I want to tanks all the guys who spe= nd their time helping the FreeBSD Community to obtain the most from this wo= nderful OS, and I'll be glad to grow my experience as fast as possible to b= e able to donate my modest contribute too. =20 Coming from a MSFT professional experience, I've been particularly impresse= d by the FreeBSD jail system, and I'm using the ezjail framework to manage = some jails on a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE host in a pre-production environment. To track the security branch both on the host and the jails I'm using the "= update from source" method: I synchronize the source tree with csup(1), bui= ld and install the kernel, build and install the userland for the host firs= t and then for the jails (using the ezjail-admin(1) "update -i" switch). =20 All that is working fine now, but I wonder if I could speed up the whole pr= ocess, by switching to the binary update method. By using the freebsd-updat= e(8) utility on the host I think to maintain the system cleaner (this utili= ty only updates the installed distributions) and to reduce the administrati= ve effort (no mergemaster(8) required, I'm right?). =20 Do you think my thinking is right, or there are some aspects I'm missing? (= As I said, I'm not a very experienced FreeBSD sysadmin) :) =20 TIA =20 Andrew =20 _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/=
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