ports/packages management in jail

Justin Head justin at encarnate.com
Mon Jan 25 05:50:22 UTC 2010


On 1/24/10, Maciej Jan Broniarz <gausus at gausus.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am running a server with several jails. They were created using
> ezjail. What is the best way, to allow jail internal admin to manage
> ports/packages by himself?
> By default ezjail shares ports tree between basejail and otherjails. Is
> there a way for each jail to have a separate ports tree?
>
Inside the jail just rm the symlinked /usr/ports and then recreate
/usr/ports as a regular directory.  After that a simple portsnap to
grab the ports tree.


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