jails Thick jails: Creation instructions changed?

[lloyd]

The handbook page on jails used to show bootstrapping a thick jail could be done simply with bsdinstall jail /your/jail (here's an example I found on an outdated handbook translation page).

But now there's a bunch of manual commands to run: Fetching a tar, extracting files, copying resolv.conf and localtime, etc. It's not as elegant is as it used to be.

Anyone know why all of this changed? Is bsdinstall being phased out because of pkgbase / 15.0?

 

[Alain De Vos]

I just make a zfs dataset, grab base.txz untar. And start the jail. Few commands needed.

 

[gotnull]

The handbook page on jails used to show bootstrapping a thick jail could be done simply with bsdinstall jail /your/jail (here's an example I found on an outdated handbook translation page).

But now there's a bunch of manual commands to run: Fetching a tar, extracting files, copying resolv.conf and localtime, etc. It's not as elegant is as it used to be.

Anyone know why all of this changed? Is bsdinstall being phased out because of pkgbase / 15.0?

Honestly I don't think that anything really changed, both methods existed before pkgbase
IIRC the handbook already described them before, it's just two different way to accomplish the same thing, just pick the one you prefer.

To create pkgbase jails it's different, the handbook is a bit behind in that regard, but pkgbase is not official yet so there is no rush.
If you are interested there is a wiki page, one how-to and this thread.