Can't upgrade jails to 8.0 using freebsd-update

[Martin Turgeon]

Eirik Øverby a écrit :
> On 8. okt. 2009, at 19.58, Martin Turgeon wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone!
>>
>> I just upgraded a 7.2-REL to 8.0RC1 using freebsd-update. The upgrade
>> went fine on the base system following the procedure written in the
>> announcement email by Ken Smith. My problem is when I try to upgrade my
>> jails, I get this message:
>>
>> # freebsd-update -b /usr/jail/mysql/ fetch install
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-RC1 from update5.FreeBSD.org... 
>> done.
>> Fetching metadata index... done.
>> Inspecting system... done.
>> Preparing to download files... done.
>>
>> No updates needed to update system to 8.0-RC1-p0.
>> No updates are available to install.
>> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
>>
>> But, if I compare the dates of the files in the base system to the files
>> in the jails, it's obvious that the jails are not up to date.
>>
>> It seems like freebsd-update doesn't care about the basedir I specified.
>
> It does, but if you do a 'uname -a' - inside or outside the jail - 
> you'll see that it reports the OS revision of the host. So you should 
> have updated your jails first, then the host ...
>
Ok but if I update in the process of upgrading the first jail, the new 
kernel will be installed and asked to reboot. After that, I will have 
the same problem when upgrading the other jails and the base system, 
right? There must be something I don't  understand well. Thanks a lot 
for your answer.

Martin
> One way to get around it is to replace /usr/bin/uname with a shell 
> script, which calls the original uname (which you have renamed) and 
> pipes through something like sed to replace the revision with what you 
> used to have:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/uname.org $* | sed s/"8.0-RC1-p0"/"7.2-RELEASE_p3"/g
>
> And this is a seriously butt ugly hack.
>
> /Eirik
>
>> Thanks a lot for your help,
>>
>> Martin
>>
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