Re: BIND DNS from base vs. pkg

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Steve Rikli <sr%genyosha.net@localhost> 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.