Automatic Update FreeBSD & Jails From Sources in BackGround

[bryn1u]

Hey,

Process updating is:

# rm -rf /usr/obj     
# cd /usr/src
# svnlite update
# make buildworld       
# make kernel           
# make installworld     (for jail make installworld DESTDIR=/jails/Oksymoron)
# mergemaster -Ui      (for jail make mergemaster -Ui -D /jails/Oksymoron)    
# shutdown -r now
# cd /usr/src
# make check-old

mergemaster -Ui asks a lot of questions, so how can I add default answer example 'delete'

I want to add this all process to cron but I don't how to do it with showing questions on screen.

 

[SirDice]

Re: Automatic Update FreeBSD & Jails From Sources in BackGro

I want to add this all process to cron but I don't how to do it with showing questions on screen.

Don't do this process automatically. It may run quite nicely but if there's any kind of issue you'll end up with a completely hosed system. Just do it by hand.

 

[bryn1u]

Re: Automatic Update FreeBSD & Jails From Sources in BackGro

Yes, i know but i'm using Stable version of FreeBSD and there are so many and so often updates and i don't have a enough strength to update day by day. Ehhhh

 

[wblock@]

Re: Automatic Update FreeBSD & Jails From Sources in BackGro

Read the man page for mergemaster(8). There are two ways to speed it up tremendously. First, see the options -U and -i. These options let it automatically upgrade unmodified files, which is likely to be most of them. This only asks a lot of questions the first time, after that, it will fly past. Then read about /etc/mergemaster.rc to have it skip over files that should not be updated.

 

[SirDice]

Re: Automatic Update FreeBSD & Jails From Sources in BackGro

Yes, i know but i'm using Stable version of FreeBSD and there are so many and so often updates and i don't have a enough strength to update day by day. Ehhhh

You don't need to update it every day.

 

[kpa]

Re: Automatic Update FreeBSD & Jails From Sources in BackGro

Yes, i know but i'm using Stable version of FreeBSD and there are so many and so often updates and i don't have a enough strength to update day by day. Ehhhh

You don't need to update it every day.

You really don't want to do automated updates on a stable branch. What you want to do instead is first read the commit logs at https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/<yourversion> and possibly take a look at the freebsd-stable mailing list for any recent problem reports and only then decide if you need to and want to update. We are talking about a development branch of FreeBSD and there is always a possibility that some change results in an unbootable system after the update.