Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2016 08:31:07 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> To: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: questions re: upgrading current and jail package management Message-ID: <20160320083107.75c54638@X220.alogt.com> In-Reply-To: <56EDC48A.6040001@tysdomain.com> References: <56EDC48A.6040001@tysdomain.com>
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Hi, On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 17:28:42 -0400 "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler@tysdomain.com> wrote: > 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: I do not use IOCage. > 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? /usr/ports is writable in my jails. > I read that you should not build ports in a jail, but a few of the I do this all the while. There might be some restrictions I never have met. > 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. I do not run mergemaster most of the time. If I do, I only allow to write the changes to /var something and do editing manually afterwards. But I run the jails on systems running 10 since it was current. Release versions have the advantage that sudden changes will not interrupt your work suddenly. Erich
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