Jails without pkg?!

This is interesting:

I just created a new jail on my server.

Solely operating from the base system I did the initial setup of tools like this:

pkg -j jail install …

Still from the base system I did that later on:

jexec jail pkg install …

At that moment the famous

The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.

Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]:

message came up, installing pkg inside the jail.

The reason I write this post: Does it mean it is possible to run jails without any pkg installation inside it? Seems so. Needs further investigation, but I like what I see so far 🙃

freebsd-version currently outputs 14.3-RELEASE-p9.

How much pkgbase is involved there I cannot say, haven’t switched to it yet.

So long