I’ve been running pihole for a minute now, and I think I’ve devised a process for upgrading that’s short, sweet, and to the point. It provides quick upgrades and might even be something possibly automated.

So here goes.

First thing you need is to make a folder somewhere on the system that your compose file and config files will live in. Throw it anywhere, it’s your system with your security practices, I don’t really give a damn. That’s my warning for “do at your own risk, you assume all liability”. Once you have your compose file, start your container with:

After a brief downtime, I’ve re-provisioned (due to my incredibly cheap VPS situation) and I’m back up and running with a much newer instance and updated software. I’m also changing distros to experiment with resource management on my incredibly small allocation.

I’m sure it’ll work out better than Fedora Core did. FC seems to be a bit of a resource hog.

I’ve been trying to shoehorn Rust onto my FreeBSD 10.2 x86 machine, but it just isn’t happening. I can’t compile it. There are no functional x86 packages (only x86_64), and I’m pretty much giving up on having remote access to a Rust compiler of my own. Oh well.