ports/58588: port dns/bind9: PORTEPOCH must be increased
Oliver Eikemeier
eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Tue Oct 28 05:50:59 PST 2003
Doug Barton wrote:
> I specifically stated that I did not want to bump portepoch for this port.
>
> I realize that my error in version numbering previously caused some confusion
> about 9.2.3 being a more up to date version than 9.2.3.4, but this will quickly
> be resolved with the next version, ...
9.2.1: 8/01 2002
9.2.2: 3/04 2003
9.2.3: 10/24 2003
The average release cycle is ~ 5 Months, I don't consider this to be `quickly'.
> ... and affected only a few users who installed the release candidate.
That means everybody who upgraded bind9 between 9/24 and 10/24.
And I assume lots of people did, to get the new delegation-only option to evade
Verisign's sitefinder, see for example the thread on freebsd-hackers@:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2003-September/thread.html#3177
> The portepoch change is permanent, and perpetuates a silly kludge for no good
> reason.
The good reason is that people will get the upgrade. Hell, there are a lot of
silly kludges in the FreeBSD port tree, and I welcome every proposal that point
out a better solution.
> Please do not change this again without discussing it with me.
Ok, here we go.
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