packages and base jails

[Jonathan Chen]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 09:26, Michael W. Lucas
<mwlucas at michaelwlucas.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a book on jails and am looking for BCP. I'd like to
> present either "This is the approved solution and should work" or
> "these are the gotchas with any of these, choose your pain."
>
> Folks want base jails to include packages, but also want to install
> additional packages--which won't happen if /usr/local is mounted
> read-only in the base jail.

IIRC, ezjail uses a standard basejail tree, but mounts a writable
/usr/local, /etc. You can replicate the jails easily, and populate
them with a standard set of packages which can then be added by the
end-user.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>