Fwd: Re: Some questions about jails on FreeBSD9.0-RC1

[Stas Verberkt]

On 26.10.2011 10:33, carlopmart wrote:
> On 10/26/2011 10:09 AM, legolas at legolasweb.nl wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2011 08:09 AM, legolas at legolasweb.nl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>>     I have setup one jail using ezjail. My first surprise is 
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> ezjail only installs -RELEASE versions and not RC versions. Ok, 
>>>>>> I
>>>>>> supouse that it is normal. But my first question is: can I 
>>>>>> install a
>>>>>> FreeBSD 8.2 jail under a FreeBSD 9.0 host??
>>>>
>>>> I have upgraded my ezjails using something like:
>>>> env UNAME_r="8.2-RELEASE" freebsd-update -b /usr/jails/basejail -r
>>>> 9.0-RC1
>>>> upgrade install
>>>>
>>>> This is some hassle, for example, one has to upgrade /etc and /var 
>>>> in
>>>> /usr/jails/newjail by hand. (And maybe even more, not completely 
>>>> sure
>>>> there.)
>>>>
>>>
>>> is not possible to update the jail using "ejzail-admin update -u"
>>> instead of use freebsd-update directly??
>>>
>> Updating can be done, upgrading not. (Thus, a security update can be 
>> done,
>> a full version not, if I understand it correctly.)
>>
>> This functionality exists (prematurely) in CVS:
>> 
>> https://erdgeist.org/cvsweb/ezjail/ezjail-admin.diff?r1=1.263&r2=1.264&f=h
>>
>
> Me too ... But downloading latest ezjail-admin code from cvs:
>
>     885     # Make the host systems os version our target version
>     886     # Users can override this by setting the UNAME_r
> environment variable
>     887     ezjail_osversion_target="`uname -r`"
>     888
>     889     # Finally run freebsd-update to upgrade our basejail
>     890     env UNAME_r="${ezjail_osversion_source}" freebsd-update
> -b ${ezjail_jailbase} -r ${ezjail_osversion_target} upgrade install
>
>  If I am not wrong, it is possible to do a full upgrade between
> releases, right??
>
>  ezjail-admin cvs's version is 1.269:
>
> # $Id: ezjail-admin,v 1.269 2011/07/27 11:20:32 erdgeist Exp $

I think the installing of the new world is not included. (Thus, the 
part after the first reboot when doing a freebsd-update to 9.0-RC1 on 
the host system.)