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Date:      Fri, 1 May 1998 16:57:26 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za>
To:        peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: bind-8 import
Message-ID:  <199805011457.QAA26394@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <199805011050.SAA22923@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "May 1, 98 06:50:36 pm"

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> Advance warning:  a bind-8.1.2-T3B import is in the pipeline.
> 
> This will not go smoothly, because a 'make world' will replace
> /usr/sbin/named with a version that DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE OLD CONFIG 
> FILE!
> 
> ...
> 
> I'm tempted to try and tweak named so that it filters it's config file 
> through a modified version of the converter script in a pipeline (which 
> will convert an old config or pass through a new one unchanged).  This is 
> not a good long-term solution.

I would say that if we could live through the addition of login.conf and
the slice changes in the -STABLE branch, this could just stay a manual
config file update with a HEADS UP in the commit message.

John
-- 
John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za

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