Confused with jails (ezjail) and mergemaster

Doug Poland doug at polands.org
Tue Dec 19 21:14:55 PST 2006


Hello,

Sorry for the confusion here, but I just am not getting it ...

I have just built and installed world on a 6.1-STABLE i386 machine and
run mergemaster.  For the jails, I have run:

	root# ezjail-admin update -i

and it performed an installworld.  Cool so far.

What about mergemaster on the jails?  Do I need to run mergemaster on
the basejail and each jail instance?

	root# mergemaster -D /usr/jails/basejail 
	root# mergemaster -D /usr/jails/jail-01 
	root# mergemaster -D /usr/jails/jail-99

Or just mergemaster on basejail?  If I do just run mergemaster on
basejail, how do the config file changes make it into the individual
jails?  Ezjail is a great utility but running mergemaster on every jail
instance seems daunting, not to mention the potential problems with
end-user modified config files.
	
Many thanks for clarification, pointers, slaps upside the head, etc.


-- 
Regards,
Doug


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