HEADS UP: BIND Removal. Short instructions for migration to pkgsrc-BIND

Justin C. Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Tue Apr 13 08:54:25 PDT 2010


On Tue, April 13, 2010 6:26 am, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> 2010/4/12, Justin C. Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com>:

>> If this causes a problem, we could add BIND from pkgsrc as part of the
>> install.  I'd like to see more stuff done that way, really.
>
> We can move a lot of contrib/ into pkgsrc, but, hey, we still need
> patches and maintenance, so what's the point? It would be only harder,
> because we need to keep cross-platform nature of pkgsrc then.

This patching and maintenance is already done as part of pkgsrc; it's a
big help to us (as in DragonFly) to have that additional labor for free. 
Plus, it makes sense.  Having BIND and other packages broken out in pkgsrc
means that security upgrades don't require a rebuild of world, and they
can be tracked for security issues the same as we already do by default in
2.6+.






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