Bind 9.1 RPM for Red Hat 6.2?

[Bob Vance]

Well, it's very, very easy to do it from source on RH:
(at least, it's been so for me, so far :)

 . mkdir -p /usr/local/src/bind/bind-9.1.0   # (let's say :)
 . cd /usr/local/src/bind/bind-9.1.0
 . download the gz file
 . tar zxvf bind-9.1.0.tar.gz
 . cd bind-9.1.0
 . ./configure        # these are the actual creation steps
 . make               # hard, huh?
 . make install
 . cd ..
 . rm -r bind-9.1.0   # to remove the source directory for space

However, I do it slightly differently:
  ...
 . make  install  DESTDIR=/usr/local/src/bind/bind-9.1.0/instdir
 . cd ..
 . rm -r bind-9.1.0

This creates all the files that *would* be put into the normal
installation locations into "instdir".  This allows me to easily back
out to a previous release (which I did from 9.1.0 back to 8.2.3 :)
by simply copying the files out of "instdir".

   (Note that on 8.x, it's slightly different,
    but still *very* easy:
        tar zxvf ...
        cd src
        make depend
        make all
        change DESTDIR= in the ".settings" file
        make install
   )

Of course, you have to keep a copy of the previous /etc/named.conf
in case of any release-specific changes.  I also keep these in
/usr/local/src/bind/<particular-bind-version>


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-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of Ray
Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2001 12:08 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Bind 9.1 RPM for Red Hat 6.2?


Hi,

Does anyone know why Red Hat has not released an RPM for BIND 9.1? I'm
not
proficient enough to know how to do it from the source code (yet) and
I'm a
bit puzzled why they are sticking with 8.2.3.

Thanks,

Ray