Is it safe to change compat.linux.osrelease inside a jail?

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Mon Aug 6 09:22:01 UTC 2007


On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:33:03AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Quoting Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> (from Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:00:35 
> +0400):
> 
> >Hi!
> >
> >
> >I'm porting some Fedora Core 6 applications. Since the FreeBSD
> >package of a FC6 port should be build with non-default
> >compat.linux.osrelease and pointyhat is using jails to create
> >packages, here is the question at the Subject.
> >
> >I know it _may_ be changed (I've tried and succeeded). Can someone
> >say that it's quite OK to do so (without bad effects to jail/host)?
> >Sure I ask about -CURRENT.
> 
> Roman did some work to make this a per-jail feature. I haven't seen  
> any obvious stuff in the code which would make using this a bad idea.  
> So: there are no known side-effects to use this in a jail.

I didnt do anything.. this has always been per-jail attribute :)


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