From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 30 14:12:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vimfuego.saarinen.org (saarinen.org [203.79.82.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDCA537B6B3 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:11:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from dendennis.saarinen.org ([192.168.1.2] helo=DENDENNIS) by vimfuego.saarinen.org with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 14Nj0D-0007z6-00; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:11:53 +1300 From: "Juha Saarinen" To: "Gerald T. Freymann" , Subject: RE: Upgrading just bind Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:14:07 +1300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <02cf01c08b06$e60955d0$0f10a7d1@phantom> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG %-> Yuck. Kinda makes me curious as to what advantage the "ports" %-> provide at %-> times. %-> %-> You know? %-> %-> Scenario 1: go into the bind91 port, make, make install. done. %-> versus %-> Scenario 2: updating the source tree, checking /etc/make.conf, delete %-> /usr/obj, make buildworld, make buildkernel, go to single user %-> mode, make %-> installworld, mergemaster, makedev all, updating sysinstall, reboot. %-> %-> Not to mention you're taken from your current version of FreeBSD into a %-> new, and possibly somewhat unstable version. %-> %-> Guess I have some work ahead of me! ;-) Wait... I had a reply from Joe Guetler, which mentioned a thread on freebsd-security. Says to do: make PREFIX=/usr DESTETC=/etc install in /usr/ports/net/bind9. Tried that... nope, didn't work. Sigh. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message