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