Solved Update a RELEASE jail running inside a STABLE host ?

[ajmcc]

Hi, I have a jail running 13.0-RELEASE, hosted on a system based on a custom build of 13.0-STABLE. The jail was created from base.txz only, and that's all I'm looking to maintain.

Of course when attempting to run freebsd-update is fails with the version message. I tried removing 'kernel' from /etc/freebsd-update.conf but that didn't help.

Is there any way to trick freebsd-update into working in this scenario, or can anyone suggest an alternative method to update the jail, short of rebooting the host into 13.0-RELEASE. The latter option is worst-case, as its a 'critical' system.

TIA

 

[SirDice]

You can use this:

     --currently-running release
                    Do not detect the currently-running release; instead,
                    assume that the system is running the specified release.
                    This is most likely to be useful when upgrading jails.

See freebsd-update(8)

 

[ajmcc]

Darn ! I checked the manpage first, but didn't spot that ! I must have had 'senior moment'...

Many thanks !