Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 19:53:48 -0500 From: jaredm@openmailbox.org To: tyler@tysdomain.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions re: upgrading current and jail package management Message-ID: <6f4ad778550038ee26887762d02ed81f@openmailbox.org> In-Reply-To: <56EDC48A.6040001@tysdomain.com> References: <56EDC48A.6040001@tysdomain.com>
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> All, > I have a few questions I was hoping someone could help me with. > I'm running FreeBSD 11 using IOCage for jails. Thus far, I have a > couple questions here: > 1) When I portsnap fetch extract in a jail, I get a message telling me > that /usr/ports is not writable. When I touch a file in /usr/ports I'm > told it's a read-only filesystem, but mount only shows the root > directory being mounted. Is this typical? if so, how should ports be > installed? > I read that you should not build ports in a jail, but a few of the > jails I am using have different port builds from the pkg defaults. I > need to build them individually. Is there a better way to do this? > 2) I seen some information about setting a property on IOCage that > allows zfs datasets to be mounted into the jail. There is already a > dataset being used though; is there a way to mount multiples? To > provide some context, I want to run Samba from within a jail. I wish > to nullfs-mount the /storage/media into the jail to enable Samba to > access it. > 3) I am running FreeBSD-11. Is there a good way to update short of > rebuilding everything? I don't mind doing that, but it's somewhat time > consuming. Also mergemaster has a bad habbit of breaking my > /etc/passwd files, etc. > Thanks, > - -- > Take care, > Ty > Twitter: @sorressean > Web: https://tysdomain.com > Pubkey: https://tysdomain.com/files/pubkey.asc Ty, I brought the question to Twitter and the response from the official iocage Twitter account (@iocage) was "The question of using portsnap in an iocage jail would be better directed at the iocage mailing list. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/iocage :)" Hope you can find the answer there! Best regards, Jared M. (@JMBSD)
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