From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jul 19 18:21:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA20934 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pulp.nildram.co.uk (root@pulp.nildram.co.uk [195.112.4.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA20928 for ; Sat, 19 Jul 1997 18:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by pulp.nildram.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id BAA24285; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 01:07:32 GMT Received: from i.vaudrey (i.vaudrey [10.0.0.5]) by mail.nemko.ltd.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id BAA08662; Sun, 20 Jul 1997 01:56:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <33D161AE.9B9D3449@test.nemko.ltd.uk> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1997 01:54:06 +0100 From: Ian Vaudrey X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: m230761@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co CC: "Justin M. Seger" , FreeBSD-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/4118: New Port: bind 8.1.1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: <199707191111.HAA13753@freebsd.scds.com> <33D0FC06.30BF@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > Justin M. Seger wrote: > > > > I was thinking about pulling in bind-doc, but I wasn't sure whether > or not it > > was worth the extra 1 MB download. I suppose we could have a > separate bind-doc > > port.... > > > > Any suggestions? > > > Perhaps you should ask this in the documentation list, after all, the > place for BIND is the base distribution ;). > > Pedro. > > > -Justin Seger- I would agree that the place for bind-8 is in the base distribution, and would hope to see it there as soon as possible. But what about all the existing FreeBSD installations? Bind-4 is now deprecated, and according to the ISC "You should be using BIND-8". I think a bind-8 port is perfectly valid, and the question of documentation is therefore appropriate for this list. - Ian