Steve Rikli <[email protected]> writes: > Is there a NetBSD project standard or policy etc. about BIND versioning > in base vs. pkgsrc? Or are they simply separate? I've historically > assumed it's basically best effort for both, with time and resource > constraints permitting.
That's basically right. Except that there is effort, there is realizing something needs doing, and there is understanding that some actual people care. If you find the 9.20 vs 9.18 matters to you, explaining why would be useful. If it's just "I'd like them to be the same so I don't have to deal with variation", that's fair enough. In base, we generally try not to make possibly destablizing changes on branches. In pkgsrc, we aim to have the most recent version that upstream declares as a stable release. We have older branches if that seems necessary for users. > As an aside, as much as I didn't care for it at the time, these days I > can understand why FreeBSD decided to remove BIND from base and only > ship it in pkg, e.g. from "latest" (vs. "quarterly") pkg repository: I can see that but I don't think you are suffering from it being in base. If anything, you are troubled by pkgsrc being behind.
