The best way to upgrade my FreeBSD and its jails

[Redd Vinylene]

Whatever version you know, right now it's an old 7.0-STABLE to a newer
7.0-STABLE.

Improved the script a little though: http://pastie.org/245821

Enjoy!

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:
> Redd Vinylene wrote:
>
>> My dedicated server is mother, its two jails are camel and box. Is
>> this the best way to upgrade all of them?
>>
>> Pretty cool huh?
>>
>> -
>>
>> # FreeBSD/i386 mother.reddvinylene.no
>>
>> csup /etc/cvsupfile && \
>>
>> cd /usr/src && \
>>
>> make buildworld && \
>>
>> make buildkernel && \
>>
>> make installworld && \
>>
>> make installkernel && \
>>
>> make delete-old && \
>>
>> make delete-old-libs && \
>>
>> mergemaster -U&& \
>>
>> export D=/usr/jail/camel && \
>>
>> make installworld DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> make installworld installkernel DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> make delete-old DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> make delete-old-libs DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> cd etc/ && \
>>
>> make distribution DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> cd .. && \
>>
>> mergemaster -U -D $D && \
>>
>> export D=/usr/jail/box && \
>>
>> make installworld DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> make installworld installkernel DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> make delete-old DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> make delete-old-libs DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> cd etc/ && \
>>
>> make distribution DESTDIR=$D && \
>>
>> cd .. && \
>>
>> mergemaster -U -D $D && \
>>
>> chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/* && \
>>
>> rm -rf /usr/obj/*
>
>
> It would be better if you post what version you are running and to what
> version you want to update / upgrade. If you want to use some RELEASE, you
> can user freebsd-update command for binary update of base and jails.
>
> Also it is not good to do all the above steps as one chained command.
>
> Miroslav Lachman
>