-------------------------------------------------- From: "Jon Passki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 5:48 AM To: "Andrew Hotlab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "FreeBSD-Jail" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: How to better update a jail host system
You can re-create your binary jail setup easily from sysinstall: sysinstall _ftpPath=ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ nonInteractive=yes mediaSetFTP releaseName=6.2-RELEASE dists=base distSetCustom installRoot=/path/to/jail installCommit Then, the only thing you have to manage is packages. With a patched freebsd-update [2], you can even update from 6.2 to 6.3. If ezjail supports a binary tarball update, it would be trivial to take the output of the sysinstall and freebsd-update and roll one.
I had not ever considered using sysinstall(8) as an option to create jails: it sounds good, expecially to a sysadmin who had never had to compile nothing, like me!
As you pointed out, until ezjail(5) doesn't support that procedure I won't likely use it in production, since the advantages that Dirk's framework brings in managing jails are more valuable to me than the "annoyance" of compiling from sources! :)
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