[bind10-dev] BIND 10 Adventures on a Debian Super-Stable System

[Anand Kumria]

Hi,

On 18 July 2011 16:28, Shane Kerr <shane at isc.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> I installed BIND 10 on box running the previous version of Debian stable
> last week (Debian "lenny", version 5.0.8 to be precise). Debian is
> always a bit stale, and running the previous version means "really old".
> However, it will still be supported until 2012-04, and there are people

Does that mean that BIND 10 is expected to be released before then?

If not, and the criteria for BIND 10 is that it compiles on the
previous version of Debian stable, why not target Debian 6.0 (lenny) -
which is already fairly old. Note Debian 6.0 has two different kernels
(Linux and kFreeBSD), will that impact BIND?

> running various "enterprise Linux"; which as far as I can tell is a
> codeword for "never change anything until I retire" (RHEL has a 7-year
> 'regular life cycle' and another 3-year 'extended life cycle).
>
> Anyway, I don't know that we need to worry about installing on systems
> from 2001, but I thought I would relate the issues I had getting BIND 10
> installed on this system.

[snip]

Whilst I can, somewhat, understand the desire to see if things works
since BIND 10 is being developed wouldn't it make more sense to spend
time targeting existing systems and, once you get closer to feature
completion, ask to see what your customers want to run BIND 10 on?

Regards,
Anand