Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:33:45 -0400 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update 11.3 > 11.4 Message-ID: <20200619103345.7b6160e8@scorpio.seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <e7efcabd-8d5f-1fbf-3ddd-cee1a4422660@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20200617134146.00004ce8@seibercom.net> <e7efcabd-8d5f-1fbf-3ddd-cee1a4422660@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:16:20 +0100, matthew@FreeBSD.org stated: >On 17/06/2020 18:41, Jerry wrote: >> Now, since I am primarily using poudriere, all I need to do is update >> the poudriere jail and then update all the applications on the >> system. > >Not necessarily. In general packages compiled in an 11.3-RELEASE jail >will work fine on an 11.4-RELEASE machine. The important exception is >Kernel Loadable Modules, which need to be compiled on the same system >version as where they will be run. > >So: if you don't need to build any Kernel modules, then you don't need >to update your poudriere jail. Since updating the poudriere jail will >force poudriere to rebuild _all_ of the packages from that jail (which >could take quite some time) not upgrading or delaying upgrading can be >quite a useful move. > > Cheers, > > Matthew Thanks Matthew. I had to read the documentation on poudriere to force it to update to a new version. It is not something I would remember off the top of my head. I created a simple shell script that handles the usual day-to-day operations like updating the [port tree, building packages and installing them, etc. In any case, I rebuilt the system overnight. I have four cores running, so it really doesn't take that much time. With the exception of "web-gui" or something like that which takes 5+ hours, the rest is quick. I have ccache installed and that takes a lot of time off the build. It might be useful if there was a notation in the "4.6 Building Packages With Poudriere" section about the possibility that the "/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/*.conf" file might need to be modified after updating to a new jail version. In any case, I will remember your suggestion the next time I update. Just my 2ยข. -- Jerry
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