unapproved update

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> Sonny St-Pierre (Cablevision) wrote:
> 
> > I have Freebsd 3.2 and I use, named 8.2.2-P5-NOESW ... Can I do a
> > upgrade to bind 9, or I need to update to 8.2.4 first ?
> 
> you can upgrade to 9.x, but it will probably be installed in
> /usr/local/* instead of /usr/* - so you will have to rename or remove
> the old binaries so that they don't take precedence.
> 
> if you use cvsup at all (i'm guessing not since you run 3.2), but if you
> do, put 
> NO_BIND=       true
> 
> to avoid upgrading bind if / when you upgrade your base system.
> 
> i would suggest installing one of the 9.2 release candidates and
> installing from source (which is really easy and should compile
> perfectly on bsd) as opposed to from the ports.
> 
> w
> 
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