In this post, I’m going to create a second jail in a FreshPorts ingress node. The first jail (named freshports) is used for running various scripts, typically of the make -V nature, to extract values from a ports tree. It is run in a jail without network connections and without installed packages. This avoids the
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This post replaces Updating a jail by replacing it – 1.0.1 This version is 2.0.0 because it is the first using pkgbase and the first using bsdinstall. It is based upon work done for this mkjail issue. Preparation Within the ingress jail, stop and disable the main services This is my attempt at making fewer
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This post replaces Updating a jail by replacing it This post is a proof-of-concept for creating a new jail instead of upgrading one in-place. I think the process is easier, given there are no packages installed in the jail. The host names may not be consistent within this post. It has been constructed over multiple
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This post is a proof-of-concept for creating a new jail instead of upgrading one in-place. I think the process is easier, given there are no packages installed in the jail. Re https://github.com/FreshPorts/freshports/issues/622 Each ingress node in a FreshPorts instance contains a FreeBSD jail. It has some shell scripts, but no installed packages. I think it
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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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