CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Wed Jul 14 14:14:35 PDT 2004


At 2:41 PM -0500 7/14/04, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
>Is there ever a reason why someone would want their jail
>environments to be built from a different source checkout
>than the host environment?

Certainly.  Let's say the people in one jail are running a
special package which depends on certain versions of various
utilities or library versions.  And people in a different
jail are running a different package which has a different
set of dependencies.  Bingo.  These jails must be built with
different snapshots of the userland.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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