Running pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 host to convert a jail

Not long ago, I ran pkgbasify on a FreeBSD 15.0 jail – this time I’m going to do it slightly differently. I’m going to run the script on the host. In this post: FreeBSD 15.0 the jail is named dns1 I’ll use the variable MYJAIL to make your copy/paste easier and my future runs easier Following the instructions at https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify I did the following. Download [23:03 r730-01 dvl ~/bin] % fetch https://github.com/FreeBSDFoundation/pkgbasify/raw/refs/heads/main/pkgbasify.lua pkgbasify.lua 21 kB 5699 kBps 00s [23:03 r730-01 dvl ~/bin] % chmod +x ./pkgbasify.lua Prepare the jail Based on previous runs, I added the following to my jail configuration and restarted the jail: # added for pkgbasify allow.chflags; securelevel = -1; Snapshot the jail [23:12 r730-01 dvl ~/bin] % sudo zfs snapshot data02/jails/dns1@before.pkgbasify [23:12 r730-01 dvl ~/bin] % Run the script [23:13 r730-01 dvl ~/bin] % export MYJAIL=dns1 [23:13 r730-01 dvl ~/bin] % sudo ./pkgbasify.lua…