RHEL, Centos, Fedora rpm 9.14.6

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson johannbg at gmail.com
Mon Sep 30 11:11:19 UTC 2019


> https://www.five-ten-sg.com/mapper/bind contains links to the source
> rpms, and build instructions.


Bind is already package and maintained in Fedora [1] and derivatives as 
well as ISC having it's ownspecific copr repo [2] in addition to that.

Copr exist to overcome limitation in RHEL/CentOS as in RHEL/CentOS 
consumer wanting newer release then what's available in RHEL/CentOS 
while Fedora packages residing in copr repo would under normal 
circumstance only be needed to provide early testing of branches not yet 
suitable for rawhide ( read as 9.15.x branch of Bind would be made 
available in copr for Fedora while 9.14.x is what should be shipped in 
$CURRENT Fedora releases ).

Now the fact that the copr repo contains newer release of Bind compared 
to what's currently being shipped in Fedora indicates that there is some 
friction between the Fedora maintainer ( which in this case seems to be 
a Red Hat employee not an upstream ISC maintainer ) and ISC community 
about maintaining Bind in the distribution.

That said removing patches implemented by Red Hat for Fedora or it's 
derivative ( RHEL/CentOS etc ) is usually not a smart thing to do and or 
not working with upstream community ( ISC ) to provide and help maintain 
releases for specific platform or downstream distribution in a package 
repository maintained by ISC and it's community ( be it a copr repo or 
repository hosted under the isc domain ) will only cause confusion and 
frustration of consumers of ISC components at the cost of the 
upstream/downstream community surrounding the relevant components.

That said and given that there is no rocket science involved with 
removing patches and building packages I ask...

What's the purpose with these builds, what problems do they solve which 
are unsolvable with upstream ( ISC ) or downstream ( Fedora/RHEL/CentOS 
) and why announcing you are building it and how long are you intending 
to supporting those builds ( encase someone decides to use those builds 
instead of ISC or downstream distribution maintained ones )?

Regards

                Jóhann B.

1. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=314

2. https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/isc/



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