Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:59:25 -0500 From: "Daniel Goepp" <freebsd@goepp.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: BIND 8/9 Message-ID: <003d01c2cc66$6618b160$6432a8c0@dpg> References: <C71C507A-3851-11D7-8DEA-000A27E2A402@mail.dionysia.org> <20030204152042.GC3115@catflap.home.slightlystrange.org>
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I'm glad that someone else is questioning the way this works. The last time I brought this up, people responded in a similar way of "just ignore it". Which to me is bad system administration. It's not necessarily about disk space, but more about being a responsible operator. For example, if it was a security application that we were talking about instead, leaving around old versions, with security holes, would be considered dangerous. And beyond that, is it not presumptuous to think that all users want programs like bind on every machine? I understand the need to integrate contributed software to a core install, but why do this without giving options about how to control it? So in a more general sense, does anyone know what the planned future is for better control of what is and isn't installed? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Bye" <dan@slightlystrange.org> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 10:20 AM Subject: Re: BIND 8/9 > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 10:03:11AM -0500, Dan Delaney wrote: > > Hello all. I have a few questions about BIND on FreeBSD. > > > > 1) Since BIND 8 comes in the base installation of FreeBSD (4.8 and 5), > > why is there a BIND 8 port in the ports collection? > > Don't know, but I guess it's so you can install it with different options > than the one in the base system. > > > > > 2) Why doesn't FreeBSD 5 come with BIND 9 in the base installation > > instead of BIND 8? Is there some problem with BIND 9 that I'm not aware > > of? > > Don't know this either... > > > > > 3) If I install BIND 9 from the ports collection, can I uninstall BIND > > 8 off of my system? > > You shouldn't need to - the version form the ports gets installed in > /usr/local/. All you need to do is define named_program in /etc/rc.conf, > and the system will do the right thing. The amount of disk space you > would save by removing named and all associated libs and docs is minimal. > > If you really want rid of it, you can remove it all, install the BIND9 > port, and make sure not to build BIND8 next time you do a buildworld, > by setting NO_BIND=true in /etc/make.conf. > > Dan > > -- > Daniel Bye > > PGP Key: ftp://ftp.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey/dan.asc > PGP Key fingerprint: 3D73 AF47 D448 C5CA 88B4 0DCF 849C 1C33 3C48 2CDC > _ > ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) > - against HTML, vCards and X > - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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