recommended poudriere jail versions?

[Mark Martinec]

2015-10-01 10:32, Marko Cupać wrote:
> what is the recommended poudriere jail version for building ports? So
> far I was trying to be on latest binary patchlevel for every minor
> version for both base system, poudriere jails and clients, but I ended
> up with three jails just for amd64 (9.3, 10.1 and 10.2), where I need 
> to
> rebuild all the ports every time I patch poudriere jails. This is
> starting to take too much of my time.
> 
> I see that pkg.freebsd.org hosts just one set of ports per
> architecture of major version. What is the OS version they are built
> on? Are there any downsides in building all the ports for
> 10.2-<latestpathclevel> on 10.1-<nopatches>?

I used to have poudriere jails based on a minor version like you have,
but ended up in a simplified setup, building ports only on 10.0-RELEASE
and installing them on 10.1 or 10.2 and 10-STABLE. I think the
official packages are also built based on 10.0-RELEASE .

This mostly works, except for a port like virtualbox-ose-kmod,
which causes a kernel crash when built on 10.0-RELEASE and run
on 10.2. So after each ports upgrade when noticing that pkg
is reinstalling virtualbox-ose-kmod, I re-build this one from
ports on a target host, otherwise the next reboot will end up
crashing on loading a vboxdrv kernel module during startup.

   Mark