On 22/02/2016 9:56pm, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > I don't know your environment and your FreeBSD jails skills but it seems you > think jails are something complex and "magic". It is not. ... > Just don't be afraid of writing simple shell scripts :)
You are right, and perhaps I should just bite the bullet. I am afraid of only two things. * upgrade the basejail with FreeBSD upgrades. I am sure this is a simple bit of chroot magic, but freebsd-update is a bit of a black box to me. * nullfs. I've never used it before and need to play with it more As for shell scripts: my only goal in life is to write *fewer* shell scripts. My adoption of saltstack was spurred by shell everywhere, mostly not under version control. So less shell and more python centrally managed and versioned is my dream. > For your problem with installing old versions of packages - I think you are > still able to install whatever version you need if you have it locally on > disk. Then you can use "pkg install my-package-1.2.3.txz" > (you need all dependencies as well) I think 'pkg add' is needed there, but dependencies are very complicated to make work in this way. And I need a new package distribution model not based on the standard repo that poudriere makes. Which is why I started this whole exploration. Thanks for your ideas. I should be less afraid of letting go of the jail management tools. Ari -- --------------------------> Aristedes Maniatis ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A
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