From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 28 05:50:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2468216A4D1; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:50:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx2.fillmore-labs.com (lima.fillmore-labs.com [62.138.193.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE04543FE0; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com) Received: from pd951a236.dip.t-dialin.net ([217.81.162.54] helo=fillmore-labs.com ident=bsj7tj36sv46guj5) by mx2.fillmore-labs.com with asmtp (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD 4.9) id 1AEUFM-000Pbz-Hm; Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:50:56 +0100 Message-ID: <3F9E743E.1050206@fillmore-labs.com> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 14:50:54 +0100 From: Oliver Eikemeier MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton References: <200310272118.h9RLIOmJ076007@freefall.freebsd.org> <3F9DA174.6050000@fillmore-labs.com> <20031028031035.P66902@qbhto.arg> In-Reply-To: <20031028031035.P66902@qbhto.arg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated-Sender: eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 Organization: Fillmore Labs GmbH X-Complaints-To: abuse@fillmore-labs.com cc: FreeBSD ports Subject: Re: ports/58588: port dns/bind9: PORTEPOCH must be increased X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:50:59 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > I specifically stated that I did not want to bump portepoch for this port. > > I realize that my error in version numbering previously caused some confusion > about 9.2.3 being a more up to date version than 9.2.3.4, but this will quickly > be resolved with the next version, ... 9.2.1: 8/01 2002 9.2.2: 3/04 2003 9.2.3: 10/24 2003 The average release cycle is ~ 5 Months, I don't consider this to be `quickly'. > ... and affected only a few users who installed the release candidate. That means everybody who upgraded bind9 between 9/24 and 10/24. And I assume lots of people did, to get the new delegation-only option to evade Verisign's sitefinder, see for example the thread on freebsd-hackers@: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-September/thread.html#3177 > The portepoch change is permanent, and perpetuates a silly kludge for no good > reason. The good reason is that people will get the upgrade. Hell, there are a lot of silly kludges in the FreeBSD port tree, and I welcome every proposal that point out a better solution. > Please do not change this again without discussing it with me. Ok, here we go.