Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:48:05 +0200 From: Mel Flynn <mel.flynn+fbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Subject: Re: RELENG_7 jails on current host Message-ID: <200904162148.06315.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> In-Reply-To: <49E77CF4.70008@elischer.org> References: <200904161952.27379.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.current@mailing.thruhere.net> <49E77CF4.70008@elischer.org>
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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
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