From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 6 19: 4:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8A037B406 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from DougBarton.net (db-cvad-2-tmp.yahoo.com [216.145.48.243]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86AF8B5AE; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 19:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3BBFB81E.C2E3A545@DougBarton.net> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:04:14 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Juha Saarinen Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Updating BIND 9 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Juha Saarinen wrote: > > On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Doug Barton wrote: > > > The "right places" for a port are in /usr/local, which is what > > the port does. That said, having an option to install the bind ports > > in the base is often requested, and something I'm working on as time > > allows. > > Yes, but I would say "most ports", not all of them. No, ports by defintion. > I can't see any reason > to run both BIND 8 (from the base system) and BIND 9 (from the ports > collection), on the same system. A) BIND is more than just named. I frequently want to have both versions of BIND available. B) Don't let your lack of vision prevent you from being open to learning things beyond your experience. > Perhaps a /usr/ports/base-system-upgrades (clumsy name, I know) would be > an idea? That would be useful for upgrading e.g. BIND, Sendmail, > OpenSSH/SSL and so forth, if you wish. Congratulations, you're the 89,512nd person to suggest that. Please see the mail archives for more exciting discussion on the same topic. In any case this thread is way off topic for -stable, so this'll be my last comment on it. -- "We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail." - George W. Bush, President of the United States September 20, 2001 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message