Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 10:53:49 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Aleksandr Miroslav <alexmiroslav@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: src upgrading jails (no ezjail, no "service" jails) Message-ID: <4DE7A3FD.5020505@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=cq%2BGssKKz_d41x7K4Xiif%2BH3pGg@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTikSu4HyM_EfMZHk6d4xkwxy3WjhGw@mail.gmail.com> <4DE63A9D.2090509@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTi=Aw5XbqNFPQpxkJmxJ1ENoQSue8Q@mail.gmail.com> <4DE6A4B1.70105@FreeBSD.org> <BANLkTi=cq%2BGssKKz_d41x7K4Xiif%2BH3pGg@mail.gmail.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/2/11 10:42 AM, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Greg Larkin <glarkin@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Those commands will update the base system in the jail directory >> "jaildir1" with the latest bits that were previously compiled with >> "make buildworld". don't believe they will disturb any other data in >> /usr/local, if that's what you are concerned about. > > Yeah, I ran it and it mostly worked, although running "mergemaster -p -D > /path/to/jail" before installworld didn't really back up files like it > normally does, but I was able to pull the most recent backup and fix > that. > >> I use ezjail here, and it will automate a lot of these steps for you. >> Is there a reason that you can't use it? > > I didn't create these jails with ezjails, so I was working under the > impression that I could not use ezjail to upgrade them. Is that not > correct? I should have written that sentence a bit differently. I was wondering why you didn't use ezjail to create the jails in the first place, not that you weren't using it to upgrade them now. Would it be painful to migrate your current jails to ezjail to make future updates easier? Regards, Greg - -- Greg Larkin http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve http://www.sourcehosting.net/ - Ready. Set. Code. http://twitter.com/cpucycle/ - Follow you, follow me -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk3no/0ACgkQ0sRouByUApASpwCfccMPb2A9vLvvHRNPX7if/A95 F+IAnR2pBsKioXWwqoyPcBMZDQ4P8GGk =uKBs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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