Bind Version Upgrade

[Joe Kattner]

When building from source, what I do is leave the old directory there, in
case you have problems, you can just go back into it and do a 'make install'
to get running again. It would be best to use a fresh directory each time in
any case. Leaving the old one there may cause potential problems, that could
be difficult to troubleshoot. The 8 series doesn't use a configure script,
but the 9 series and a lot of other things do, and having things like the
config.cache laying around through different versions probably is not a good
idea. 

Most unix admins keep these in /usr/src, but it's entirely up to you. I
suggest /usr/src/bind-8.x.x, labeling it with the version number to make it
easier to know what is there. Once you have a proven working installation,
then go back and delete the older directory, or if you have the space, leave
them there until after the next upgrade.

--Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: David Frank [mailto:david at datachannel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 5:44 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Bind Version Upgrade



Greetings,

We are currently running Bind 8.2.3. on Solaris 7 and 8 on our DNS servers.
I am still fairly new to the Unix OS and have only built 4 Bind DNS servers.
What is the best recommended way to upgrade your version of bind? For
instance if I untar the src directory over the top of the current src
directory and install from there, am I asking for trouble? Should I delete
the current src directory and install from a different location?

I have upgraded one of our backup DNS boxes by untarring(sp*) over the
current directory and installing from there and I seem to have no problems.
It seems like I should have maybe deleted the old src directory and then
untar'd and installed Bind from there. In any case any advice you can offer
would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time,

David Frank