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

[Jan Lentfer]

On Thu, 6 May 2010 19:10:07 +0900, YONETANI Tomokazu
<qhwt+dfly at les.ath.cx>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 11:50:25AM +0200, Jan Lentfer wrote:
>> This is the final Call. I will push my BIND removal patch-set sometime
>> really soon, probably today. You can use bind form pkgsrc as a
>> replacement
>> (either build locally or using prebuild binaries). The stability
problem
>> has been worked around in pkgsrc nad packages are available now.
> 
> I'm wondering if you really need to import libldns and drill into
> the base, if you're not planning to replace the resolver in the libc.
> Just removing BIND from the base and adding net/drill to PKGSRC_PACKAGES
> in nrelease/Makefile appears to me to be enough.  The only problem with
> the current patchset, though, is that pkgsrc doesn't know that we have
> libldns in the base, so it'll want to install libldns from pkgsrc first
> then build other things (net/nsd, for instance) linked to it.  Maybe not
> really a big issue.

Ok, I am a little bit puzzled and also frustrated now. I only brought
libldns and drill in because a lot of people on IRC claimed dig or
something like dig needs to be in base. ldns is only used for that, so if
we don't want drill in base I can also kick ldns again, no problem except
of some hours lost on worthless work.

Finally we could also just add BIND from pkgsrc, that would have the
minimum effect on end users, because everything they are used to being is
would still be there, just in /usr/pkg.

Jan

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