Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:20:38 +0100 (CET) From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BIND chroot environment in 10-RELEASE...gone? Message-ID: <20141215.082038.41648681.sthaug@nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <20131203.223612.74719903.sthaug@nethelp.no> References: <CAN6yY1sVGiQFNkoi0mGZs7grJ5SMAui-rDO1e8UDAs0PTUVL9g@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1312031407090.78399@roadkill.tharned.org> <20131203.223612.74719903.sthaug@nethelp.no>
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> > > It was a deliberate decision made by the maintainer. He said the chroot > > > code in the installation was too complicated and would be removed as a > > > part of the installation clean-up to get all BIND related files out of > > > /usr and /etc. I protested at the time as did someone else, but the > > > maintainer did not respond. I thnk this was a really, really bad > > > decision. > > > > > > I searched a bit for the thread on removing BIND leftovers, but have > > > failed to find it. > > > > > > > You're probably thinking about my November 17 posting: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2013-November/075895.html > > > > I'm glad to see others finally speaking up; I was beginning to think I was > > the only one who thought this was not a good idea. I'm a bit surprised > > that no one has responded yet. > > I agree with the protesters here. Removing chroot and symlinking logic > in the ports is a significant disservice to FreeBSD users, and will > make it harder to use BIND in a sensible way. A net disincentive to > use FreeBSD :-( I have now installed my first 10.1 based name server. I had to spend some hours to recreate the changeroot environment that I had so easily available in FreeBSD up to 9.x. <rant> Removing the changeroot environment and symlinking logic is a net disservice to the FreeBSD community, and disincentive to use FreeBSD. </rant> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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