From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 30 7:28:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C29FC37B4EC; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 07:28:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05004; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:28:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA06593; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:28:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14966.56732.156003.558368@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:28:28 -0700 (MST) To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro , Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BIND 8.2.3 upgrade available In-Reply-To: <20010129164711.K26076@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010129143300.A38419@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010129153144.H26076@fw.wintelcom.net> <14966.3324.107528.104198@horsey.gshapiro.net> <20010129164711.K26076@fw.wintelcom.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > * Gregory Neil Shapiro [010129 16:38] wrote: > > bright> Is there any chance that the bind and sendmail people could backport > > bright> -DNO_SENDMAIL and -DNO_NAMED to 3.x (and maybe 2.x)? > > > > What does the BIND bug have to do with sendmail? > > It was related in that, the sendmail and bind shipped with 2.2.x > and 3.x is pretty bad, and upgrades shouldn't get clobbered by make > world in case there's a system change. > > It's nice to be able to clobber the /usr instead of installing into > /usr/local for older versions of FreeBSD. Why? I've got a number of 2.x/3.x systems, and it's trivial just to stick them in /usr/local. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message