port install to jail root from host system

[Marc Ramirez]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 02:48:29PM +0200, Aragon Gouveia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've compiled a port as normal (apache13 in this case).  I'd like to run
> 'make install' now and tell it to install the package to the base of the
> root filesystem of a jail from the jail's host.  Possibly also to skip
> registering it in the host's package database.
> 
> Does anyone know an easy way to do this with the ports system?
> 
> I realise apache is dependant on various libraries that may not be in the
> jail, but these dependancies I will resolve manually.

Just off the top of my head, certainly not guaranteed to be the
optimal solution, never tested, etc...

# assuming /jailfs is the root of your jail:
# install in /jailfs/bin, /jailfs/data, etc...

cd /usr/ports/www/apache13
make PREFIX=/jailfs install 

# now in your jail, you'll have /bin/apachectl, but it'll be looking
# for /jailfs/sbin/httpd, so create a symlink

ln -s / /jailfs/jailfs

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