Updating poudriere jail

[Carmel NY]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 12:49:07 -0700, Adam Weinberger stated:

>On Thu, Dec 13, 2018 at 12:43 PM Carmel NY <carmel_ny at outlook.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am using FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p6. If I use freebsd-update to install the
>> new version 12, what do I have to do to update the poudriere jail? Plus,
>> if I do update, will I have to rebuild all of my installed applications?  
>
>It's not really possible to cleanly upgrade a poudriere jail to a new
>major. You'll need to delete the jail and recreate it.
>  poudriere jail -d -j $jailname
>  poudriere jail -c -j $jailname -v 12.0-RELEASE
>
>If the jail name stays the same, it will retain all the options,
>make.conf, and poudriere.conf. If the jail name has changed, you'll
>most likely want to move those things over:
>  cd /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d
>  mv oldjailname-{make.conf,poudriere.conf,options,etc....} newjailname-...
>
>You will, unfortunately, need to rebuild everything. After rebuilding,
>be sure to run "pkg upgrade -f" BEFORE the final "freebsd-update
>install"!
>
># Adam

I build my packages. Do I really have to do the "pkg upgrade -f" procedure?

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Carmel