Sorry for hijacking the thread, but are there plans to provide base binary tarballs or even modularize it into several packages for use with pkg? For a stable branch to be used on servers, it'd be much, much easier.
On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Matthew Dillon <[email protected]> wrote: > Its easiest just to mess around until you have what you need. What I would > do is first create an 'empty' jail with a fresh install and load up the > minimum of you know you need, such as the apache server. But then set that > jail aside and use it as a template for your experiments. That is, create a > second jail using the first as a template (by copying the directory tree > over), and then play inside the second jail with 'pkg install' until you are > happy with the package set. > > That way if you mess up and can't clean it up inside the second jail, you > can just recopy the template and not have to start quite from scratch again. > > -Matt > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Konrad Neuwirth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello there, >> >> I’m currently thinking a lot about how to optimize what we do with our >> hosting. I’d love to run a number of processes in service jails. For that, >> I’d like to figure out what the minimal requirement of files to each service >> are (php-fpm, apache, nginx, mysql, postgresql — that kind of thing). Also, >> I’m not sure I need all that there is even in the install that is right on >> the machine. Coming from NetBSD, I’m used to sets like base.tar.gz and >> etc.tar.gz — those would have been sufficient to get a system going. >> >> Is there anything like that I could use as a starting point? Would I have >> to bounce off everything and see where things break if I just put php-fpm >> into a jail and then start supplying file by file for what it needs? That >> seems rather a time-consuming task to me … >> >> Thank you, >> Konrad > >
