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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2017 20:58:17 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Marco Beishuizen <mbeis@xs4all.nl>
To:        Matt Smith <matt.xtaz@gmail.com>
Cc:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>, mueller6722@twc.com, fullermd@over-yonder.net, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Status of portupgrade and portmaster?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.21.1710022053440.2025@yokozuna>
In-Reply-To: <20171002180931.GC48518@gmail.com>
References:  <201710021712.v92HCmdW033734@gw.catspoiler.org> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1710021956350.2025@yokozuna> <20171002180931.GC48518@gmail.com>

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On Mon, 2 Oct 2017, the wise Matt Smith wrote:

>> I'm running 11.1-STABLE now, upgrading every few months or when there 
>> is an important security fix. Do I have to build a new system twice in 
>> that case (once my running system and once the poudriere jail)?
>> 
>
> What I do is to initially create the jail using poudriere jail -c -j 11 
> -m src=/usr/src and then I upgrade the jail using poudriere jail -u -j 
> 11.
>
> These commands use the existing /usr/src and /usr/obj trees from the 
> host system buildworld/kernel. It doesn't need to be rebuilt.

Did a make cleanworld last time I upgraded so /usr/obj is empty now, but 
next time I'll try this out. Didn't know poudriere could do this (although 
it's in the manpage I see now). Thanks for the info!

Regards,
Marco
-- 
This sentence no verb.



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