[nycbug-talk] managing jails without installing src

[Marc Spitzer]

cool thanks.

marc

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Charles Sprickman <spork at bway.net> wrote:
> ezjail is awesome in many ways.  It does offer support for a binary install either remotely or by pointing to local install media.
>
> http://erdgeist.org/arts/software/ezjail/
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> A number of other features are just terribly handy - the shared base is read-only inside the jail, which helps mitigate any replacement of base utilities by miscreants, it integrates very well with zfs, handling the creation of zfs mounts for you, and has a nice built-in archiving setup for backups.  I run it in production all over the place and it's my number one "not part of base" FreeBSD feature.
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> C
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> On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:58 PM, Marc Spitzer wrote:
>
>> I have been looking into setting up a bunch of jails, all of the
>> howto's I have found use a source build as a first step to installing
>> binaries.  is there any reason to not just the packages that come with
>> the CD and then freebsd-update to keep it patched?  I have found no
>> docs for this route.  Any pointers/advice more then welcome
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> marc
>>
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>>
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>>
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-- 
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
--Albert Camus

 The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people's money.
--Margaret Thatcher

Do the arithmetic or be doomed to talk nonsense.
--John McCarthy