February 2021 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

Feb 28 2021

Converting an iocage jail to a vanilla jail

3 Comments / iocage, Jails, py-iocage / By Dan Langille / February 28, 2021

Tonight I got blocked by iocage and handling a ZFS filesystem from within an iocage jail. These are the steps I followed to convert that jail from iocage to a vanilla jail. The variable To make this solution easier to use, at least for me, on future jail migrations, I have these variables: For example, my devgit-nginx01 jail is at: [dan@knew:~] $ zfs list system/iocage/jails/mysql56 NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT system/iocage/jails/mysql56 11.5G 20.6T […]

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Preventing a given package from being installed

I have a few development jails dedicated to my work on FreshPorts. It’s been a hobby of mine since the late 1990s. The code I create gets packaged, ready to deploy onto the test, stage, and production hosts. EDIT 2025-12-23 Since writing this post pkg-2.5.0 has a feature for this very goal. See this reddit post. In short: pkg install -U –register-only FreeBSD-vi FreeBSD-vi-dbg I haven’t used it. What I absolutely do not