Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 12:39:42 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: davidcollins001@gmail.com Subject: Re: portupgrade jails Message-ID: <ade45ae90905311139y670e2e7eq55ffe84f77eaf865@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44ws7x5kho.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> References: <1b30fd140905291235q7f45e6c3x7dcba8a8e88cf3ca@mail.gmail.com> <44ws7x5kho.fsf@lowell-desk.lan>
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On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > David Collins <davidcollins001@gmail.com> writes: > > > I have several jails for the purpose of not trashing my root partition > > with junk programs that I may not need and also to learn how to run > > various system services, ie dns, http, mysql, samba etc. I have been > > running them for a while and have only just updated the jail root > > after rebuilding world. > > > > I have been using portupgrade to rebuild the host ports I have > > installed. What I would like it know is if it is possible to use > > portupgrade on the host system to update the jail ports. So like when > > rebuilding world a destdir is specified and is populated with the new > > world, is it possible to do the same with portupgrade? The reason is > > because I don't want to have to install portupgrade and ruby several > > times, also I can script the upgrade easily too. > > > > I have been reading through the ports and portupgrade man pages and > > setting environment variables to the appropriate directories in the > > jail to try to get this to work but so far no luck. Portupgrade wants > > to upgrade the host ports > > > > Here is what I have tried so far: > > > > viper:~$ export DISTDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/tmp/ > > viper:~$ export WRKDIRPREFIX=/usr/jails/xserver/var/tmp/ > > viper:~$ export PREFIX=/usr/jails/xserver/usr/local/ > > viper:~$ export BATCH=yes > > viper:~$ export PORT_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/p > > viper:~$ export PORT_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/ports > > viper:~$ export PKG_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/pkg/ > > viper:~$ export PORTS_DBDIR=/usr/jails/xserver/var/db/ports > > viper:~$ > > viper:~$ sudo portupgrade -narR > > It sounds like PREFIX is the one you're not picking up. > > Perhaps it's being overridden by one of your makefiles, or by > portupgrade's configuration files? > Or portupgrade is using the same souce as pkg_* tools, /var/db/pkg Or portupgrade is using pkg_* tools.
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