Question about ISC BIND COPR repositories for 9.16->9.18 ESV transition

[Michał Kępień]

Hi Brian,

> We’ve been using the ISC BIND 9 COPR repositories at https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/isc/ for a few years now, but I had a question – is there a planned date to update the “bind-esv” channel to provide BIND 9.18 rather than BIND 9.16?  Since 9.16 is now EOL we’ve switched to using the stable channel to get 9.18, but I just want to make sure that we switch back to the ESV channel once it provides 9.18 so we don’t accidentally switch to a new version once 9.20 becomes the new stable release.

If you have been using our repositories for a few years indeed, you
might remember that such a switch already happened about two years ago,
when "bind-esv" moved from 9.11 to 9.16 (and the other two repositories
were "rolled over" accordingly).

While I don't have a specific date for you, we plan to do such a
"rollover" again when BIND 9.20.1 or 9.20.2 gets released, i.e. in about
2-3 months from now.  We will definitely roll all three repositories at
the same time, i.e.:

  - "bind-esv" will move from 9.16 to 9.18,
  - "bind" will move from 9.18 to 9.20,
  - "bind-dev" will move from 9.19/9.20 to 9.21.

If you would like to see how things turned out in the past in a similar
situation, please consult the lists of past builds in all our Copr
repositories:

  - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/isc/bind-esv/builds/
  - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/isc/bind/builds/
  - https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/isc/bind-dev/builds/

Hope this helps,

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Kępień