Failure to add new files when updating jails with ezjail-admin

[Ernie Luzar]

Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Kirk Coombs wrote on 2016/12/07 01:20:
> 
>>
>> The following files will be added as part of updating to 
>> 10.3-RELEASE-p13:
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Barnaul
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Famagusta
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Tomsk
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Yangon
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Astrakhan
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Kirov
>> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Ulyanovsk
> 
> Files below are sources, these should not be in jails
> 
>> /usr/src/contrib/libarchive/libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure744.c
>> /usr/src/contrib/libarchive/libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure745.c
>> /usr/src/contrib/libarchive/libarchive/test/test_write_disk_secure746.c
>> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/README.pullrequests
>> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/lib/isc/tsmemcmp.c
>> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/scripts/build/genAuthors.in
>> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/sntp/m4/sntp_problemtests.m4
>> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/tests/libntp/run-tsafememcmp.c
>> /usr/src/contrib/ntp/tests/libntp/tsafememcmp.c
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/CONTRIBUTING
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/LICENSE
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/Makefile
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/NEWS
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/README
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/Theory
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/backzone
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/checklinks.awk
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/checktab.awk
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/leapseconds.awk
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/version
>> /usr/src/contrib/tzdata/zoneinfo2tdf.pl
>>
>> The following files will be updated as part of updating to 
>> 10.3-RELEASE-p13:
>> /var/db/mergemaster.mtree
>> Installing updates...mkdir: /usr/jails/newjail//boot: No such file or 
>> directory
>> mtree: /usr/jails/newjail//boot/kernel: No such file or directory
>> mtree: /usr/jails/newjail//boot/kernel.old: No such file or directory
>> touch: /usr/jails/newjail//boot/kernel.old/.freebsd-update: No such 
>> file or directory
>> Could not create kernel backup directory
> 
> Jails are not using own kernel thus don;t need /boot/kernel directory
> 
>> The output is the same now matter how many times I invoke 
>> "ezjail-admin update -u,” so the new files are clearly not being 
>> inserted into the basejail.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> I don't like ezjail I am rolling jails by hand (few simple shell 
> scripts) so I can't talk about ezjail... but if freebsd-update failed 
> because /boot/kernel was not found inside jail, you can try to create 
> this directory (empty directory) and run update again.
> 
> Miroslav Lachman


qjail which is a fork of ezjail doesn't use the freebsd-update method to 
update its sharedfs directory tree which ezjail calls basejail.  Give it 
a try. You may want to look at jail-primer port for background info on 
jails.