ezjail and UPDATING20131010

Dirk Engling erdgeist at erdgeist.org
Fri Oct 11 19:09:10 UTC 2013


On 11.10.13 20:55, wishmaster wrote:

> Dirk, one question. For example, I have multiple services (about 5 or
> more) which must be isolated. Each services uses www-server or any
> others dependent software. With ezjail, this software must be in each
> jail. What about updating this software? What about updating whole
> jail when base system was updated (mergemaster, etc)?

Use the right tool for the right task, i.e. freebsd-update inside the
jail to do mergemaster the modern way. For updating software in the
jails, either run portmaster -a or have identical packages mounted into
all jails using nullfs and update them from the host system.

Regards,

  erdgeist


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