From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 1 07:57:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA24648 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 07:57:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA24643 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 07:57:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) id QAA26394; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:57:26 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199805011457.QAA26394@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: bind-8 import In-Reply-To: <199805011050.SAA22923@spinner.netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "May 1, 98 06:50:36 pm" To: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm) Date: Fri, 1 May 1998 16:57:26 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message