freebsd-update and pkg install from air-gapped system

[tegaP0PwkubtXdsK]

Hello,

I have four air-gapped freebsdFreeBSD 10.1 systems.

1. How do I go about freebsd-update fetch? I tried copying /var/db/freebsd-update/ from an online machine to the air-gapped machines, but that did not work.

2. How do I install packages (from source or from pkg)?

Thank you,
Chris

 

[tobik@]

From what I understand freebsd-update fetch stores the updates in /var/db/freebsd-update so that step isn't necessary once you copied everything.

 

[tegaP0PwkubtXdsK]

From what I understand freebsd-update fetch stores the updates in /var/db/freebsd-update so that step isn't necessary once you copied everything.

That doesn't work. After copying those contents and issuing freebsd-update install, I get the message "run freebsd-update fetch first". When I run freebsd-update fetch it tells me it cannot connect to server (of course).

Chris

 

[tobik@]

How did you copy those contents? freebsd-update looks for symlinks in that directory. cp won't preserve symlinks by default. For cp use the -a (archive) option. tar(1) would be yet another option.

chrisstankevitz tegaP0PwkubtXdsK
Are you using two accounts? Or do you two just have the same problem?

 

[tegaP0PwkubtXdsK]

Yes, I'm using two accounts... although strange as this is going to sounds I cannot figure out how I logged in with an account called "chrisstankevitz" -- because according to my "master list" I don't have an account with that name!??

BTW, Colin Percival (author of freebsd-update) explained yesterday regarding copying /var/db/freebsd-update from one machine to another:

It's not really designed for that. Once upon a time I had a clean way of doing this, but nobody seemed to be using that functionality so I dropped it in favour of improving the protocol.

Chris

 

[tegaP0PwkubtXdsK]

For cp use the -a (archive) option. tar(1) would be yet another option.

tobik,

This worked! Thank you for your help,

Chris