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Updating some jails from FreeBSD 14.0 to FreeBSD 14.1 via mkjail

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I’ve updated all my hosts to FreeBSD 14.1 – but not all the jails. I’m going to do some of that today. In this post: FreeBSD 14.0 FreeBSD 14.1 mkjail-0.0.4 What’s on r730-03 to update? Full disclosure: mkjail was originally written by Mark Felder, and I joined him in maintaining it. I use it for: Creating jails Updating jails (patching, like freebsd-update fetch install) Upgrading jails (as in going from FreeBSD 14.0 to […]

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Excluding some jails from upgrade

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I have some jails already updated to FreeBSD 14 – let’s get a list of what needs to be updated. This cold just as easily be used to get a list of what not to upgrade, if you didn’t want to update all jails right now. These jails are already updated: [15:30 r730-01 dvl ~] % file /jails/*/bin/sh | grep 14 /jails/bacula/bin/sh: ELF 64-bit LSB pie executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked,

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FreeBSD 14 upgrade – files not removed by delete-old

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I was upgrading a jail (dns1) on r730-01 and I noticed this output from mkjail: In this post: FreeBSD 13.2 (upgrading from) FreeBSD 14.0 (upgrading to) mkjail-0.0.4 (upgrading with) EDIT: 2023-12-05 : This happened again when I updated the tallboy host. Looking at the mkjail source, I realized it had just completed the pkg upgrade and delete-old steps. I manually ran the delete-old command: [14:01 r730-01 dvl ~/src/scripts] % sudo jexec dns1 make

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Upgrading a FreeBSD 12.2 jail to FreeBSD 13 using mkjail

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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, about to be updated to FreeBSD 13 These jails were NOT created with mkjail Jails are mounted at

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