Re: BIND DNS from base vs. pkg

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

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

> Maybe a followup question would help clarify: how often does something
> 3rd-party like BIND get upgraded in NetBSD base? E.g. in minor releases,
> or only in major releases? I confess I haven't tracked it closely.

It gets updated in NetBSD current when... someone updates it.  Often
there is a push before a branch to update things.  Bringing in new micro
releases to a branch seems in the spirit of the branch, and 9.18 to 9.20
feels to me like too much.  But I would say it's a judgment call, not a
hard rule.

> It sounds like 9.20.30 in pkgsrc is wip so I have no big complaints.
> I may give it a try here myself, even though I'm pretty happy with
> binary packages.

wip packages get better when people test them!~