Ability to use the pre compiled base from other sources. about cbsd HOT 5 CLOSED

Hello.

Summarily: implement in two ways:

1. Populate base directory from existing master-host environment (only if version of master-host and jail is equal. No internet connection required).
2. Add user's input on get_base stage to be able to specify path for archive ( somewhere within this commit: olevole@3ca1c87 ).

Will be included in CBSD 10.3.2.
Thanks for contribution's and any ideas/comments.

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Ok, after reading the PS under #52(to use our own repo), I tried extracting the base.txz by creating a new directory /path/basejail/base_amd64_amd64_10.2/ on a new installation of CBSD.

# tar xJf /mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/base.txz -C /path/basejail/base_amd64_amd64_10.2/

This worked!
I could list the base and create new jails:

# cbsd basels
NAME  ARCH   TARGET_ARCH  VER
base  amd64  amd64        10.2

Please close the ticket if this is ok.

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Hi! Thanks for feedback.
This ticket is interesting because it is the second one: https://github.com/olevole/cbsd/issues/52
I probably make possible to obtain a minimum base of working copy (ie, from / environment) in the next version of CBSD.

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Thanks!
Let us know if you would like some testing.
I also tried changing the repo value to file:///mnt/usr/freebsd-dist/ but it did not work.

Btw, I am proposing CBSD as a container management system where people are inclining towards Docker/CoreOS/Kubernetes, etc.

In my opinion CBSD does not introduce new layers of management, it makes use of the good old tools(rsync, zfs, etc).

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Stage1/2 done (within olevole@79c51fe ): Implement populate base from current system. No source tree or object file needed. This work only if the version of container == base system version

Stage2/2: implement local repo, documentation on site: work in progress.

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