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Making my pkg.conf configuration version independent

In this post, I will talk about how I modified my pkg configuration so I don’t have to modify it after upgrading a host/jail from one version of FreeBSD to another. You might say that you don’t have to do that. Perhaps you have a different configuration and aren’t doing what I’m doing. HEADS UP: …

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Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail

Mark Felder and I have been working on a minimalist set of jail scripts for creating and updating jails. All jail management is accomplished via standard vanilla FreeBSD jails. No jail managers are involved. Everything goes through jail.conf. In this post: FreeBSD 13.0 host, recently update from FreeBSD 12.2 FreeBSD 12.s jail on that host, …

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What files installed by this package have been modified post-install?

You’ve seen it. A package gets installed. Some shell scripts are included. They get modified. It happens. But how do you know what has changed? I know there is a tool in pkg for this. I know there is a periodic script which uses it. Let’s go looking. In this post: FreeBSD 12.1 periodic $ …

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