From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 18:46:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F0F106566C for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:46:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outF.internet-mail-service.net (outf.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BD578FC08 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:46:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from idiom.com (mx0.idiom.com [216.240.32.160]) by out.internet-mail-service.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7FA95BA7E; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:46:03 -0700 (PDT) X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (unknown [64.244.102.2]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850FB2D606A; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:45:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <49E77CF4.70008@elischer.org> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:46:12 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mel Flynn References: <200904161952.27379.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <200904161952.27379.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELENG_7 jails on current host X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:46:04 -0000 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.