On Sun, Dec 13, 2020 at 04:04:39PM +0400, antranigv wrote: > Greetings! Hello,
> > freebsd-update is an amazing tool to upgrade the system without > compiling from sources and upgrading jails can be as easy as freebsd- > update -b /path/to/jail upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE, however I have noticed > that when using the utility multiple times, it still fetches the files > multiple times. > > My question is: Is there a way to use FreeBSD-update in a way, that > allows the user to download once and upgrade multiple Jails. I run > dozens of jails on multiple hosts and it's very frustrating to download > the same content. > > I think it's okay for the patch files to be downloaded every time > (freebsd-update fetch install), since they are small and don't require > a lot of time, but the upgrade process is somehow a pain. > > Some things I know I don't want: 1) Thin Jails (I like using zfs clone > on ZFS systems and tar xf base.txz -C jail0/ on UFS) as a solution, > since I change the base a lot. 2) Using network caching (say, via > Varnish), it seems like more overhead, although any new suggestions > would be nice 3) compiling the sources at all (but I'm rethinking this > lately, however my CPU is not that fast). > > Any tips and suggestions would be nice! > > P.S. In an ideal solution, it would be nice to just download the ISO or > tarballs from the mirrors and pass that to freebsd-update, but looks > like that required a lot of work. You could setup a caching proxy for freebsd-update with nginx (or ...) > > -- > antranigv > https://antranigv.am/ > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform (http://www.biodiversity.be) PGP fingerprint: EEF9 F697 4B68 D275 7B11 6A25 B2BB 3710 A204 23C0 No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. _______________________________________________ freebsd-jail@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-jail To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-jail-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
