One of the known limitations of mkjail is updating of jails within jails. Unless you’re running a FreshPorts node or poudriere while you’re running mkjail, this is unlikely to affect you. For me, to avoid this stoppage, this is my plan: ssh to each jail: csshX [dev,test,stage]-ingress01 disable commit processing: sudo service freshports stop stop […]
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This post is the latest in a series of posts documenting the process of converting from using a chroot to using a full proper jail. I spent about 2 hours of this fine Saturday morning writing this up and carrying out the steps. As a result, both dev and test are now using a FreeBSD
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I have no write up of the jails used by FreshPorts. The following originated in an email I sent this morning. FreshPorts runs on a FreeBSD host, hosting four jails. db – the PostgreSQL database server – the source for all content. connections via TCP/IP mx – Postfix takes incoming emails from subversion mailing list
This just came to my attention. The processing of pkg-descr since we moved to using a jail-based solution is wrong. The function which reads and processes the contents of pkg-descr is not using the jail to read the file. I’ll fix the bug soon, and refresh all commits which touched pkg-descr. Noted by koobs with
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Earlier today I run cvsup on the main website and pulled down the code for running make -V in a ‘jailed’ environment. It’s not actually a jail; it’s more of a chroot. You can read up on previous jail posts first, but the idea came from Ryan Steinmetz (zi@). I found the idea incredibly simple
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The jail approach mentioned in previous articles has been implemented on the dev system. It took about 4 hours of coding this afternoon. The setup script I spent some time today gathering together the stuff I’d mentioned in the two previous posts on this topic. The result is a one-line command which will create a
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Recently, I wrote about using a jail to get better results. Today, I’m altering the scripts so they make use of this jail. For the most part, this will involve the creation of scripts that will run in the jail and duplicate the functionality of the existing FreshPorts code. What needs to be changed? I’m
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FreshPorts has always strived to be correct. Even when it’s difficult. One issue which always always proven difficult is ports that rely upon other ports. or cannot be installed with other ports. Case in point, sysutils/msktutil, which includes this message: IGNORE: cannot install: SASL support requested and openldap-client-2.4.20 is installed That’s not really appropriate on
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