Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:02:30 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Time to stop buildling named (and friends) by default in 6-current? Message-ID: <423963C6.10903@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200503161749.24588.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <42380A1D.1010005@freebsd.org> <200503161749.24588.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 March 2005 05:27 am, Doug Barton wrote:
> If we are going to do this, then why not just have users install bind from
> ports and only install the client as part of the base system? This is what
> we do with DHCP for example. Basically, if it's going to be an optional
> component, I think it belongs in ports, not the /usr/src.
I have a certain sympathy with that position, however the two situations are
a bit different. With dhcp you're only talking about a couple of binaries.
For reference, here's the relevant section of make.conf(5):
NO_BIND_DNSSEC
(bool) Set to avoid building or installing the DNSSEC
related binaries, dnssec-keygen(8) and
dnssec-signzone(8).
NO_BIND_ETC (bool) Set to avoid installing the default files to
/var/named/etc/namedb.
NO_BIND_LIBS_LWRES
(bool) Set to avoid installing the lightweight resolver
library in /usr/lib. The library that is private to the
build system may still be built as needed.
NO_BIND_MTREE
(bool) Set to avoid running mtree(8) to create the chroot
directory structure under /var/named, and avoid creating
an /etc/namedb symlink to the chroot directory. This
option should typically be used together with
NO_BIND_ETC.
NO_BIND_NAMED
(bool) Set to avoid building or installing named(8),
named.reload(8), named-checkconf(8), named-checkzone(8),
rndc(8), and rndc-confgen(8).
NO_BIND_UTILS
(bool) Set to avoid building or installing the BIND user-
land utilities, dig(1), host(1), nslookup(1), and
nsupdate(8).
WITH_BIND_LIBS
(bool) Set to install BIND libraries and include files.
The community has said that they want to keep everything that's in _UTILS in
the base. We've already made installing the libraries optional, except for
lwres which nectar has plans for. So we could lose the binaries under named,
and probably dnssec as well, but because the lwresd daemon uses a lot of the
same code as named, we can't get rid of the sources.
So in the end, My view of the thing is that we're better off having the
whole thing in the tree, but defaulting the parts that are less likely to be
used to off. But, I'm willing to listen to other arguments.
Doug
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