I do not quite understand why a BIND upgrade needs to touch soo much.

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 21:20:49 UTC 2014


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:15 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw at digiware.nl>
wrote:
>
> So I'm building my packages with poudriere and using pkg (1.4.0)
> to upgrade bind. With the sort of shocking result:
> ======================
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>         gettext-0.18.3.1_1
>

That first one is the key. Bind depends on gettext --- as does pretty much
every other package in existence --- and gettext underwent a massive
breaking change, which is kinda deranging everything else. The recent
/usr/ports/UPDATING entry for gettext has the gory details.

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