Populating a jail with "make world"???

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Sun Jun 15 05:54:38 UTC 2008


> I'm about to learn how to use jails and I've some confusions after
> reading the handbook and some other ressources.

> I've never used "make world" or "make buildworld" until now. I used
> the install.sh scripts from RELEASE images to install a new machine
> or to "update" (reason for this: I don't know what make **** is
> doing). Can someone please explain me the disadvantages if I use
> the install.sh scripts for my (service-) jails?

If you want jails without the hassles of buildworld and friends,
can I suggest to use sysutils/ezjail?

See http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/ for more details.

Edwin

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