On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 12:45:39PM -0400, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: > On Sun, June 6, 2010 5:12 am, Jan Lentfer wrote: > > Jan Lentfer schrieb: > >> After another discussion I have decided to do the following: > >> I will only remove BIND from base, no ldns and drill import. So anyone > >> wanting to have either of the both will have to install them from pkgsrc > >> (before updateing their world, I would recommend). > >> > >> We will see until next release how we will proceed with this. I prefer > >> to just leave it this way and add pkgsrc-BIND to the Live-CD. > > > > Due to public demand I have now also committed ldns and drill. > > Does this mean that we now have a live CD that contains BIND from pkgsrc > (and so has host, dig, nslookup, etc) _and_ the lnds/drill tools? The > whole point of Jan's work was making it so we have less third-party code > to update in base, I thought. > > My understanding is that nobody should be without the normal BIND tools - > they'll just be from the pkgsrc package. It would come on the CD/DVD. If > you happened to have an older (2.5 -> 2.7) system that was upgraded to > remove BIND, it's fixable with 'pkg_radd bind96', rather than needing > these additional tools. Someone correct me if I'm not describing reality.
+1 The first thing I did on my 2.7 test machine was to install the bind96 package. I just cannot live without host and dig. Of course, the server part of the package is completely useless to me. A minimal bind9-client pkgsrc package would be ideal, IMHO. -- Francois Tigeot