multiple iocage upgrade speed-ups?

[KenNashua]

I'm currently running TrueNas 12.2-U8 and have a number of iocage jails still running the 11.3 release. Upgrading each jail to 12.2 is VERY SLOW. Any way to speed this up? It seems like a large portion of the upgrade is downloading patches which would be nice if it could somehow be cached.

Thoughts?

 

[danb35]

It won't help the overall time to do it, but a little bit of scripting would make it much less interactive:

Code:

for jail in foo bar baz; do
  iocage upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE $jail
done

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

For some reason iocage thinks it's a good idea to keep a complete FreeBSD source tree inside each jail. rm -rf /usr/src inside the jail before upgrading speeds up the process significantly.