Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:46:03 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bind8.2.3 and installation problem Message-ID: <20010129234603.U57121@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101292123050.958-100000@roble.com>; from marquis@roble.com on Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:32:18PM -0800 References: <bulk.36235.20010129204800@hub.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101292123050.958-100000@roble.com>
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On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:32:18PM -0800, Roger Marquis wrote:
> Bind was written on BSD. What's the point of using a port to
> upgrade it? All FreeBSD's bind port does is increase your chances
> of errors, reduce your system's overall QA, and install duplicate
> files in non-standard places. The following steps have worked
> flawlessly over this and several bind upgrades:
You seem to have missed a major benefit of (the possibly confusingly named)
ports system:
How do you uninstall all the files it just installed in your method?
How do you know what version is currently installed?
The ports tree is more then just "ported software", its a package
management system.
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