Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: > Fabian Keil wrote: > >> How about mergemaster for jails (in dealing with updates to /etc ) > > I don't use mergemaster for jails. I just checked and in the > > privoxy-jail mentioned above, most files in /etc are from 2006 > > when I created that jail. > > > > I frequently run mergemaster on the system hosting the jails and > > if there were updates that would matter for the jails as well, > > I'd update them manually. I don't see the point of updating files > > in the jails that aren't used anyway. > > They are used. There are frequently changes in /etc/rc.d files. I don't > use ezjail and I use mergemaster after every jail upgrade in each jail, > it always found some changes.
To clarify: In my jails the /etc/rc.d files are mostly "used" to not start services and the old ones can do that as good as the new ones. I'm not saying that frequently updating /etc files in jails is useless in general. On systems I use mergemaster I mainly upgrade most files because it reduces the noise the next time I run mergemaster, not because I think the changes are needed. As I don't run mergemaster in the jails reducing the noise doesn't matter and a lot of the changes that affect my host systems don't affect the jails. Fabian
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