Patching jails

[Frank Knobbe]

On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 14:28, John Kozubik wrote:
> No special procedure is necessary.  Log into the jail, su to root, and
> follow the instructions in the SA - they will work just fine.
> 
> You may or may not have a populated /usr/src/secure though - you can get
> it with cvsup, however it is faster and easier to simply tar up the
> /usr/src/secure on the base system and untar it in the jail.  I presume
> this to be safe, as there should never be a version mismatch between the
> base system and the jails running on it.

I would imagine that a /usr/src/secure;make install DESTDIR=/usr/jail
would work just as well. Or is using DESTDIR not recommended for
updating binaries?

Regards,
Frank

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