On Fri, 16 Oct 2015, User Phryk wrote: > PS: I found this mail address below the documentation, not sure if its > an ML i need to join - if so please don't hesitate to tell me to join > so this question can be answered publicly.
I think https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions is a somewhat better place to ask this quesion; the freebsd-doc list is for making updates to the documentation. But, I think I have an answer for you here anyway. > > I set up my jails like described in [1]. > > My setup differs a tiny bit in directory naming, and the fact > that I've foregone creating skel/etc/make.conf because I'm > using a central poudriere installation for all my port-building > needs. I am assuming this doesn't change anything for updating > the basesystem, but please do correct me if I'm wrong. > > I can update the packages just fine using "pkg upgrade -j<n>", > but I'm kind of at a loss on what the equivalent of doing the > "freebsd-update fetch/install" and "freebsd-update upgrade -r" > procedures is for these kinds of jails. > > I've already searched through the docs and asked in freenode/#freebsd a > number of times, but sadly nobody seemed to be able to answer my question… > > I'm strongly suspecting that "freebsd-update" is not the way to go and > that I have to have my machine compile the basesystem itself. Indeed, freebsd-update works based on binary diffs, so you need to have started from an official release install medium in order to use it. (Well, or go through a lot of effort to set up your own freebsd-update build environment, which seems overkill here.) > Is this the case? And if so, do I just need to follow[2] and then > do "make installworld DESTDIR=/my/jailroot"? Basically, yes. DESTDIR need not be set for buildworld, and does need to be set for installworld. I normally end up re-running 'make distribution DESTDIR=/my/jailroot' instead of dealing with mergemaster, since my jails to not really get customizations to things in /etc, but mergemaster should work as well. You'll need to pass the -D argument to mergemaster, and possibly -m as well if the source tree in question is not in /usr/src/. Be sure to set DESTDIR for delete-old and delete-old-libs! -Ben > [1] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-application.html > [2] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html _______________________________________________ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
