Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:46:12 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 jails on current host Message-ID: <49E77CF4.70008@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200904161952.27379.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> References: <200904161952.27379.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Mel Flynn wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for some confirmation/caveats for using a -current host and > RELENG_7 jails. Mostly I'm wondering whether -current is in good enough shape > to host RELENG_7 jails. What I'm trying to accomplish is to have the machine > that currently builds packages for -stable machines as well as hosting a > number of services (low volume httpd/irc/imap/smtp), can be upgraded to > current without significant modification to the jails. The only modification I > expect to be making is fake uname output and set certain port related > variables for the -stable build server. > > The reason I'm wanting to do this is because I'm happily running current on my > work laptop but building ports interferes too much. I figured building ports > in a -current jail on a -stable host would not work very well, but I'll > happily be corrected on that if that's no problem. > > Jails have been built as per jail(8) manpage, not using ezjail. Nullfs mounts > exist to share binaries and trees like /usr/ports. should work but you may need to have current versions of: netstat, ifconfig, ps, top and new versions of the libraries they want, or, as I sometimes do, copies of those from /rescue.
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?49E77CF4.70008>