Re: misc/59474: BIND9 admin ref manual missing. (From /usr/share/doc/reference/ref8/bind9/arm/)

["David H. Gutteridge via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/59474; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/59474: BIND9 admin ref manual missing. (From
 /usr/share/doc/reference/ref8/bind9/arm/)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:31:49 -0400

 On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 at 01:56:24 -0400, Dave B wrote:
 > Thanks Dave G,
 >=20
 > That's a shame, but entirely understandable.
 >=20
 > Any chance that if I fully rebuild a NetBSD release from src--
 > and I have Python and Sphinx already installed on the build
 > system--the bind9 manual will automatically get added to my
 > output?
 >=20
 > Or was the whole sub area explicitly removed from things like
 > targets and/or flists and/or whatever?
 
 I think from the upstream project's perspective, they're mostly (?)
 expecting people to access the documentation online now, which they
 provide via readthedocs.io:
 
 https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9.20.9/
 
 If you do want to build locally, for offline use, that might be a
 bit more complicated. NetBSD does keep the files in our tree, but
 you'd first have to run autoconf tools to generate a usable
 Makefile, then you may find (as I did with a casual try) that
 other things still choke on the html-generating make targets. (I
 confess I didn't look further than just trying to invoke something.)
 
 I also looked at the net/bind918 package in pkgsrc, but I see it too
 does not build this documentation. (It would also need tweaking, I
 think, to actually work, though it would be farther ahead. Well,=C2=A0
 except for the fact it may be a different version than you'd want.)
 
 Regards,
 
 Dave