using freebsd-update to update jails and their host

Michael Butler imb at protected-networks.net
Sun Feb 27 15:13:08 UTC 2011


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Apologies .. correcting myself here ..

>  .. to update the binaries after a full update of the host system and
> something like ..
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> for JAIL in {list-your-jails-here}
> do
>         mv /usr/src /usr/local/jails/${JAIL}/usr
>         JAIL_ID=`jls | grep $JAIL | awk '{ print $1 };'`
>         echo "Updating: ${JAIL}"
>         jexec ${JAIL_ID} mergemaster -scvi
>         mv /usr/local/jails/${JAIL}/usr/src /usr
> done

This should, of course, be ..

#!/bin/sh
rmdir /usr/local/jails/basejail/usr/src
mv /usr/src /usr/local/jails/basejail/usr/src
for JAIL in {list-your-jails-here}
do
        JAIL_ID=`jls | grep $JAIL | awk '{ print $1 };'`
        echo "Updating: ${JAIL}"
        jexec ${JAIL_ID} mergemaster -scvi
done
mv /usr/local/jails/basejail/usr/src /usr
mkdir /usr/local/jails/basejail/usr/src

	imb


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