From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jan 29 21:46:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A34F37B400 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:46:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1098) id 4622D2B5C4; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:46:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:46:03 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola To: Roger Marquis Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bind8.2.3 and installation problem Message-ID: <20010129234603.U57121@elvis.mu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from marquis@roble.com on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:32:18PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-FEARSOME-20001103 i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:32:18PM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote: > Bind was written on BSD. What's the point of using a port to > upgrade it? All FreeBSD's bind port does is increase your chances > of errors, reduce your system's overall QA, and install duplicate > files in non-standard places. The following steps have worked > flawlessly over this and several bind upgrades: You seem to have missed a major benefit of (the possibly confusingly named) ports system: How do you uninstall all the files it just installed in your method? How do you know what version is currently installed? The ports tree is more then just "ported software", its a package management system. -- Bill Fumerola - security yahoo / Yahoo! inc. - fumerola@yahoo-inc.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message