Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 09:28:43 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: freebsd-jail@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The best way to upgrade my FreeBSD and its jails Message-ID: <48940CAB.9040001@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <489398AD.6000900@webanoide.org> References: <f1019d520808011026n6c25d047y4b04e77022f8817@mail.gmail.com> <489398AD.6000900@webanoide.org>
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Mikhail Goriachev wrote: > Redd Vinylene wrote: > >> My dedicated server is mother, its two jails are camel and box. Is >> this the best way to upgrade all of them? > > > We probably should keep this to freebsd-jail@ only. > > Had a look at http://pastie.org/245821 and have a few notes for you: > > 1.- As Miroslav already mentioned - it is not a good idea to daisy chain > everything. You should break the procedure into two steps. Firstly > upgrade the host and make sure the upgrade went well. Once you're > certain that everything is ok, then proceed upgrading jails. > > I personally disable jails (jail_enable="NO"), then reboot (to avoid any > zombie jails), perform upgrade on all jails and then enable them back on. > > 2.- Your upgrading sequence is a bit off. Have a look at > /usr/src/Makefile for further details and correct sequence: > > # make buildworld > # make buildkernel > # make installkernel > # reboot > # mergemaster -p > # make installworld > # make delete-old > # mergemaster > # reboot > # make delete-old-libs > > 3.- You don't need kernels inside your jails. Having them won't hurt > you, but they consume space. In other words, you shouldn't execute the > following (or similar): > > # make DESTDIR=$D installkernel > > 4.- The "make distribution DESTDIR=$D" should be executed only once - > when a jail is created. Otherwise you're nuking your configurations in > jail's /etc and probably somewhere else. One thing to note - If you do delete-old delete-old-libs you probably need to recompile all installed ports because of lib dependencies. > Have a go at this, you might find some use for it: > > ----------------------- > JAILSDIR=/usr/local/jails > > cd /usr/src > > for jail in `ls ${JAILSDIR}`; do > mergemaster -pD ${JAILSDIR}/${jail} > make installworld DESTDIR=${JAILSDIR}/${jail} > mergemaster -iD ${JAILSDIR}/${jail} > done > -----------------------
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