From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 24 5:40: 4 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9648637B401 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:40:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from anand.org (natgw.msi-cellular.com [217.113.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75B3343ED8 for ; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:39:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arb@anand.org) Received: from arb by mobile.anand.org with local (Exim 4.12) id 18c43j-00042L-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:39:51 +0100 Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:39:51 +0100 From: Anand Buddhdev To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: How to cleanly remove bind before using bind9 Message-ID: <20030124133951.GA15457@anand.org> References: <20030123232922.GA12051@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030123232922.GA12051@teddy.fas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:29:22PM -0500, stan wrote: > I want to use bind 9 from the ports tree. I see how to prevent the bundled > bind from being built the next time I make world, and I see how to change > the init files et all to use the ports bind9. > > What I _don't_ see (and I'm certain it's just my lack of knowledge here), > is a clean way to remove all teh traces of the existing bersion of bind > which was built the last time I did a make world. I have always found this to be a problem with FreeBSD: why can't sendmail, bind and the other contributed software be made optional at install time, so that the base system is not cluttered with old software when we install new versions? The tight coupling of contributed software into the base system is in my opinion not a good idea. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message