Subject: Re: openbgpd 3.7
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/23/2006 01:58:38
In article <20060123013646.GX22428@che.ojctech.com>,
David Young  <dyoung@pobox.com> wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 08:22:48PM +0100, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 01:59:49PM +0000, Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
>> > I have finished my port of OpenBGPd 3.7, with support for TCP MD5 
>> > signatures.
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> > The Makefile is a bit of a kludge, and doesn't set the right 
>> > modes/uids/gids on the rcscript and sample bgpd.conf yet (the 
>> > 'etcinstall' target). This code will go once openbgpd is integrated in base.
>> 
>> Hm... I would have thought that openbgpd is a candidate for pkgsrc, not
>> for base.
>
>It would be a shame to squander openbgpd's *.mk-based build and
>cross-buildability by putting it into pkgsrc instead of into base.

I'd like to see openbgpd in base. With syspkgs it would not add a lot
of bloat.

christos