Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:43:12 +0100 From: Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iocage specific 12.0-RELEASE -> STABLE/12 Message-ID: <1547736192.1830253.1637132208.7549F368@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <85740e12-819d-ba05-74b3-51f318f52d5c@pinyon.org> References: <85740e12-819d-ba05-74b3-51f318f52d5c@pinyon.org>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, at 21:41, Russell L. Carter wrote: > Greetings, > > While I wait on poudriere to build both firefox and chromium (32 > threads, and it will still take a while), so that I can install iocage > and dive into this newfangled technology called "jails" ;-), I have a > basic question. > > I had a flash in the brain (be nice, I'm a geezer and slow, it's only > taken me 20 years to figure this out) and realized I might be able to > use iocage jails to quickly spin up dev environments that are skeletal > compared to my desktop environment and so can minimize package version > collisions that happen when I try to port stuff to FreeBSD. So I want > the FreeBSD version of the jail to match the commit of my stable/12 > host, including packages. However the iocage docs don't seem to > mention this possibility. Is this something people do? I am guessing > I can nfs mount my (different) build box's /usr/src, /usr/obj, and my > package export directories into the jail, and use my source upgrade > scripts and pkg upgrade as usual, correct? Are there any gotchas I > should be aware of? Will the template mechanism make it easy to do > the configuration just once, or is iocage expecting a point RELEASE, > as suggested by the docs? > > I got to this point pondering how to install gnutls with guile > bindings, so that I can see if I can get guix working on stable/12. poudriere has an interactive mode, so you get dropped into a working jail: sudo poudriere bulk -j 12_0_amd64 -i category/port This probably does everything you need without needing iocage. A+ Dave
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