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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>

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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.





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