Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:10:07 GMT From: Joe Holden <joe@rewt.org.uk> To: freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/169612: dns/powerdns: Fix botan/cryptopp dependency, make it configurable Message-ID: <201207121510.q6CFA7sE073917@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/169612; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Joe Holden <joe@rewt.org.uk> To: Ralf van der Enden <ralf.vanderenden@deltares.nl> Cc: <bug-followup@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ports/169612: dns/powerdns: Fix botan/cryptopp dependency, make it configurable Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 16:04:01 +0100 On 2012-07-12 08:52, Ralf van der Enden wrote: > Hi Joe, > > I've talked to the author of powerdns and if you disable botan and > cryptopp, pdns will run at half speed when doing DNSSEC stuff. > Therefore I'm not in favor of making them configurable. Large DNS > installations might run into serious performance issues. Or is there > another reason you want them configurable I'm not aware of ? > The default should probably be on, but I added that anyway to avoid pulling in more dependencies if they aren't being used (e.g; if you don't use DNSSEC), or don't have sufficient requirement for it. > Checking out your patch I did find out there's a bug in powerdns' > botan 1.8 support when using ECDSA crypto. Your botan patch > unfortunately doesn't fix things, but I've upgraded botan to 1.10.2 > on > my local system and that does seem to correct the issue. When I have > some more time I will see if the port-maintainer of botan is > interested in creating a 1.10 port besides the now existing 1.8 one. > The problem with the botan port is that it didn't enable the correct module and also deleted some headers after install - on my machines where I use powerdns/botan the patch does allow powerdns to be built correctly and the ECDSA headers for botan are present. Does this not work on your machine? > Best regards, > > Ralf van der Enden > Thanks, J
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