[bind10-dev] It's too hard to figure out how to install BIND 10

Shane Kerr shane at isc.org
Wed Jan 30 16:57:03 UTC 2013


All,

People experience pain trying to get BIND 10 installed.

I'd like to introduce a very visible "landing page" explaining the
easiest ways to install BIND 10, and put that on the bind10.isc.org
site where it is difficult to miss.

Here's the first cut:

http://bind10.isc.org/wiki/InstallStartPage

I used the pages on our "system specific install" page that seemed to
be a complete HOWTO, and chose a straightforward method of installing
(basically excluding guides that recommend building lots of extra
things from source - that is perfectly acceptable but does not match
the goal of making things simple and easy to install).

Systems that I did not include, but should be:

* Fedora 17 - only documents the prerequisite setup, not the actual
  build/install process
* FreeBSD - we have ports that Jeremy put together, but no instructions
  on how to use them
* OpenBSD - the page we have says "you may have to build some
  dependencies from source", but doesn't walk one through the process
* NetBSD - the page documents the prerequisites, but not the actual
  build/install process
* Solaris 10 - I hear bad reports from Solaris installs... does this
  page work?
* Solaris 11 - see Solaris 10
* Unbuntu 12.10 - just missing

Systems that I did not include, but don't mind:

* Fedora 16 - it's about to EOL
* Gentoo - small user base, and people are happy to figure out builds
  on their own, the existing notes are plenty
* Raspbian - not an expected user group. :)

Note that Debian wheezy needs its own page, instead of using the
Raspbian page.

Anyway, please let me know if this seems reasonable. I'll ask for some
cleanup on the various pages if so to get them moved to the start page.

Cheers,

--
Shane


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