On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, Ivan Voras wrote: *snip*
The details: imagine there are two or more full FreeBSD installation trees in the file system (e.g. complete jails). The utility would transfer (installed) packages from one tree to the other. The easy, brute-force way would be to generate package files (tbz) from the installed tree and then install them to the other tree, but I can't do that because of performance and disk space reasons.
I do not know of any such scripts but a possible solution is to use nullfs. I personally install all needed ports into the base system and use nullfs read-only to pull everything into the jails. Almost everything, files from /usr/local/etc are manually copied as needed into each jail. It lowers the disk usage and reduces risk due to most files (even system) being read-only. You just need individual /etc/fstab.<jailname> files like this: /bin /usr/local/jails/<jaildir>/bin nullfs ro 0 0 And similar lines for these (at least all that you require): /boot /lib /libexec /sbin /usr/bin /usr/games /usr/include /usr/lib /usr/libdata /usr/libexec /usr/local/bin /usr/local/cyrus /usr/local/etc/periodic /usr/local/etc/php /usr/local/etc/rc.d /usr/local/info /usr/local/lib /usr/local/libdata /usr/local/libexec /usr/local/man /usr/local/sbin /usr/local/share /usr/sbin /usr/share /var/db/pkg A basic jail runs about 9MB (mainly /etc and /usr/local/etc). Does this help? Sean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
