Freebsd-update and update of jails

[lveax]

On 5/6/07, Patrick Lamaizière <patfbsds+questions at davenulle.org> wrote:
> EHLO,
>
> Is there a way to use freebsd-update and use it to update the main host and
> serveral jails ?
>
> To update my jails (from the main host) i make a buildworld and then :
> mergemaster -p -D /thejail
> make installworld DESTDIR=/thejail
> mergemaster -D /thejail
>
> How i can use binary update and then update the jails? I would like to avoid
> a make buildworld, so may be i can use freebsd-update for the main host and
> another method for the jails?
>
> (I just discovered freebsd-update, it is cool).

just use

freebsd-update -b /thejail fetch update