Re: Pending issues with RELENG_5

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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 10:45:10 -0700
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org


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| Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
| Making life hard for others since 1977.                             |
On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:03:21AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Here's a list of things that still concern me so far with RELENG_5,
> particularly with BETA6 (and even more recent than that).  Hopefully
> the appropriate parties can chime in here...
> 
> * No /etc/mergemaster.rc or /etc/defaults/mergemaster.rc
>   Possibly creating this out-of-the-box during install, or keep a
>   template in /etc/defaults/mergemaster.rc ?
> 
> * /etc/rc.d/named does not set up chroot environment properly
>   For example, in the chroot_autoupdate() function, lines 37
>   and 41 call pax blindly, referring to ${named_chrootdir}/dev even
>   if it hasn't been created.
> 
>   The same goes for ${named_chrootdir}/etc/namedb/rndc.key, and the
>   entire ${named_chrootdir}/etc tree (etc/localtime, etc/namedb, and
>   so on).
> 
>   Could we get appropriate if [ -d ...]; then mkdir/chown/chmod; fi
>   statements for creating this structure?  I personally have no idea
>   who the appropriate directories should be owned by, or perm'd to.
> 
> * bind9 chroot tips
>   Possibly some details on how to configure named.conf inside the
>   default named.conf?  We hint at it already...
> 
> * Leftovers from bind8-->bind9 upgrade
>   We now have two versions of nslookup; /usr/bin/nslookup and
>   /usr/sbin/nslookup (deprecated), but we've also /usr/lib/libisc.*
>   I assume this can be deleted and ldconfig -R re-run?  There's also
>   the old dnsquery and dnskeygen binaries, extraneous manpages, etc..
> 
>   [This entry could spawn off quite a long thread about how exactly we
>   plan on handling 'outdated' files.  None of this will matter when
>   actually installing 5.3-STABLE (when released) on a new box, but
>   for all bazillion of us who cvsup+world, it's a long-standing issue.]
> 
> I was in a hurry this morning to get this out, meaning my actual "full
> list" is probably quite a bit longer... just need the time to sit down
> and type it all in.  :-)
> 
> -- 
> | Jeremy Chadwick                                 jdc at parodius.com |
> | Parodius Networking                        http://www.parodius.com/ |
> | UNIX Systems Administrator                   Mountain View, CA, USA |
> | Making life hard for others since 1977.                             |
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