Confused about 9.6.2-P1 and 9.6-ESV

[Doug Barton]

On 03/16/10 20:57, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <4BA04E63.8090200 at dougbarton.us>, Doug Barton writes:
>> I noticed that the patchfix releases of BIND came out today, so
>> congratulations on that. :)  However I was confused by the existence of
>> both a 9.6.2-P1 and a 9.6-ESV (with the same code inside). Is 9.6.2-P1
>> the last release on the 9.6 branch? For the purpose of "following" a
>> branch in the FreeBSD ports and base am I better off with one or the
>> other? The issue is trivial now since the code is the same, but are they
>> expected to diverge?
>>
>> I understand the purpose of the -ESV branch, and I think it's great that
>> ISC is doing this. I would just like to make some plans and need some
>> guidance.
> 
> BIND 9.6-ESV is the extended support version of BIND 9.6.  It will
> get security patches and other critical fixes added to it.  BIND
> 9.6-ESV is supported until March 31, 2013.  It's for the vendors
> that need longer support with less changes.
> 
> BIND 9.6.3 will be the next maintenance release and will have less
> significant fixes in it in addition to security patches and other
> critical fixes.  BIND 9.6.x (other than 9.6-ESV) will be EoL'd 6
> months after the release of BIND 9.8.0 or March 31, 2013 which ever
> comes first.

Ok, thanks for the response. I'm trying to parse what you wrote in terms
of what to do with BIND in the FreeBSD base. The fact that at the point
9.6.x will be EOL'ed 9.6-ESV won't have the most up to date 9.6 code is
a bit disturbing. When the plans for -ESV were first announced I thought
the plans were to do what was done for 9.4, after the last release on
that branch the -ESV version would come out. If I understand what you're
proposing correctly, it's going to make my decisions down the road more
difficult.


Doug

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