FYI: FreeBSD: upgrade to protobuf-c 1.4.1_6 breaks dig

[Steve Rikli]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 01:42:28PM +0200, Peter wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:26:58AM +0100, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> ! On 14 Oct 2024, at 6:19, Peter wrote:
> ! 
> ! > I cannot reproduce:
> ! 
> ! Thanks.  I've been made aware, off list, of people who can.
> 
> Interesting.
> I for my part do normally not link dig against protobuf at all:
> 
> $ pkg info bind-tools | grep DNSTAP
>         DNSTAP         : off
> 
> Currently, I am still building the 2024Q4, so I was grateful for your
> heads-up, there might be a problem with dns/protobuf.
> I started a test, switched the DNSTAP to on, and rebuilt. And there
> were no problems.
> 
> ! One of these has let me know that, for them, re-installing
> ! bind[-tools]
> 
> Well then I might assume, something broken was installed before.

I don't believe so, at least not obviously. That is, both 'dig' and
'named' were previously running and functional.

> That is probably one of the examples for why I recommend to run
> your own deploy-chain, build on-site, and know exactly what you build.

Yes, whatever the remedy, this is almost certainly a FreeBSD pkg
issue.

Cheers,
sr.