Aristedes Maniatis wrote on 02/22/2016 03:18:
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Have I just now outgrown ezjail and should set off on my own? I'm afraid of how
I'd go about upgrading the basejail for new FreeBSD host versions without your
tool :-)
I don't know your environment and your FreeBSD jails skills but it seems
you think jails are something complex and "magic". It is not.
Managing jail by "hand" (own simple tools and scripts) is really simple
and straight forward.
Creating new base jail is just 'make installworld
DESTDIR=/vol/jail/_basejail_XYZ' (or extracting base.txz installation
archive)
Movin your old jail to newer basejail is metter of change in fstab file
where you will change path to new basejail.
Once you tried it you will found how simple it is to write some own
script perfectly fitting your needs. It is just a file manipulation -
installing, unpacking, movin, deleting. Nothing more.
As time and projects passed by, I had scripts to create+update jail from
FTP, or from NFS mounted src and obj (by make installworld), or
unpacking TGZ archive, or updated by rsyncing fails from hosts base or
another directory...
There are so many ways you can do this and I don't think you will find
any existing tool fitting all your needs.
Just don't be afraid of writing simple shell scripts :)
For your problem with installing old versions of packages - I think you
are still able to install whatever version you need if you have it
locally on disk. Then you can use "pkg install my-package-1.2.3.txz"
(you need all dependencies as well)
Miroslav Lachman
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