From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 16 19:48:13 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 3762F1065670 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:48:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66818FC16 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from sarevok.dnr.servegame.org (gate.lan.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.10]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 519FD7E818; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:48:08 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:48:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.0 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.2.0; i386; ; ) References: <200904161952.27379.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <49E77CF4.70008@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <49E77CF4.70008@elischer.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200904162148.06315.mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Julian Elischer 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 19:48:13 -0000 On Thursday 16 April 2009 20:46:12 Julian Elischer wrote: > 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. I don't actually share host binaries. I have a template RELENG_7 jail where installworld occurs, then share those binaries across stable jails. Does the above still apply? Meaning, I need to copy -current version of the above into the RELENG_7 template jail, including libc.so.8 and friends? -- Mel