Does bind8.2.3 enough?

[Brian Salomaki]

If you really want an RPM of it, you can download the latest source code and 
./configure it.  Then, instead of running 'make', you can use the 
'checkinstall' program to monitor the install and create an .rpm file which 
you can use to uninstall using 'rpm -e', and also copy to other boxes and 
install as an rpm.  I'm not aware of any recent BIND builds as rpms for 6.2, 
but somebody may have made some already that are available on the internet.  
When running 'configure', you may also have to specify the install path to 
match what was already installed by the rpm, or just uninstall the old rpm 
first.

Checkinstall homepage:

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:46 pm, Me wrote:
> > Just do the Right Thing and install the current release, OK?
>
> I'd love to, however these Red Hat Linux 6.2 DNS servers were set up by the
> only person who knew anything about Linux and then left. The documentation
> is pretty good, but it requires the use of an RPM, which Red Hat does not
> seem to have released. If someone could point me at some instructions on
> how to turn the source code into an RPM, I'd certainly be grateful. Or
> could the Red Hat 7.1 RPM for BIND 9.1 be used instead? These things are
> behind the firewall with only UDP 53 opened and are running 8.2.3.
>
> I'm scheduled for a Linux class, but that's a ways off.
>
> Ray

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