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

[Kirk Coombs]

> On Dec 6, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Ernie Luzar <luzar722 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> 

Thanks, I’ll take a look at those suggestions.