Re: With poudriere how does one create a jail of a slightly older RELEASE ?

From: Michael Gmelin <grembo_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 22:40:26 UTC

On Sat, 24 May 2025 17:37:06 -0400
Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org> wrote:

> This may seem trivial but trying to create a jail for a release
> from just a few years ago is not working well :
> 
> t# poudriere jails -c -a amd64 -j 132amd64 -v 13.2-RELEASE
> [00:00:00] Creating 132amd64 fs at
> /export/poudriere/jails/132amd64... done [00:00:00] Fetching MANIFEST
> for FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE amd64 fetch: 
> https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/13.2-RELEASE/MANIFEST: 
> Not Found
> fetch: 
> https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/13.2-RELEASE/MANIFEST: 
> Not Found
> [00:00:01] Error: Failed to fetch from 
> https://download.freebsd.org/releases/amd64/amd64/13.2-RELEASE/MANIFEST
> [00:00:01] Error while creating jail, cleaning up.
> [00:00:01] Removing 132amd64 jail... done
> [00:00:01] Cleaning 132amd64 data... done
> t#
> 
> That makes perfect sense.
>

This works:

    poudriere jail -c -j 132amd64 -v 13.2-RELEASE \
    -m url=https://archive.freebsd.org/old-releases/amd64/13.2-RELEASE/

Cheers
Michael

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Michael Gmelin