BIND upgrade from ports....

Eric F Crist ecrist at secure-computing.net
Fri Apr 15 08:30:42 PDT 2005


On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Eric F Crist wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> First off, please reply directly to me (with CC to list), as I'm no 
> longer a member of the list. (Too much erroneous traffic.)
>
> FreeBSD 5.3 uses BIND 9.3.0 and I'm trying to upgrade to 9.3.1.  I 
> know with PERL, you can set an option to use-ports-dist or something 
> like that so that system perl is disabled and perl from ports is used 
> instead.
>
> Is there a similar option for BIND, or do I need to symlink the execs 
> from /usr/sbin/... to /usr/local/sbin?
>
> Thanks.

Sorry for the self-reply, but I answered my own question.  Doing a 
little reading, the following command will do what I require:

 From within /usr/ports/dns/bind9, I executed the following:

# make WITH_PORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9=yes install clean

All is updated!

Thanks.
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Eric F Crist                  "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks              -Homer J Simpson



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