Easiest way to update jails from 9.0 to 9.1

[Fabian Keil]

Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd at quip.cz> wrote:

> Fabian Keil wrote:
> >> How about mergemaster for jails (in dealing with updates to /etc )
> > I don't use mergemaster for jails. I just checked and in the
> > privoxy-jail mentioned above, most files in /etc are from 2006
> > when I created that jail.
> >
> > I frequently run mergemaster on the system hosting the jails and
> > if there were updates that would matter for the jails as well,
> > I'd update them manually. I don't see the point of updating files
> > in the jails that aren't used anyway.
> 
> They are used. There are frequently changes in /etc/rc.d files. I don't 
> use ezjail and I use mergemaster after every jail upgrade in each jail, 
> it always found some changes.

To clarify: In my jails the /etc/rc.d files are mostly "used" to
not start services and the old ones can do that as good as the new
ones.

I'm not saying that frequently updating /etc files in jails is
useless in general.

On systems I use mergemaster I mainly upgrade most files because
it reduces the noise the next time I run mergemaster, not because
I think the changes are needed.

As I don't run mergemaster in the jails reducing the noise doesn't
matter and a lot of the changes that affect my host systems don't
affect the jails.

Fabian
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