some notes about ceropackages

[Dave Taht]

I'm trying to write this to a general audience, forgive me for
redundant information:

openwrt uses a 'feeds' system for out of tree package databases.

It's possible to use it for
everything that is out of 'core'. Core unfortunately includes dnsmasq,
iptables, and iproute2,
and udhcpd which means that the default openwrt tree needs to be
patched to modify those,
rather than supplied via a feed. I will have a cerowrt-3.3 out on
github soon that has my
mods to those packages.

Presently I use dnsmasq as a dhcp server only.

It would be very easy to add a 'isc' or 'juniper' feed that would be
private-ish for other
packages.

The ceropackages feed includes isc's latest bind (9.9rc2) at present,
which works.
I like to think that it's the most robust version of bind ever
shipped, in that it
runs out of xinetd (so it restarts after a crash), and is also chrooted.

dnssec's circular dependency on time is handled via an ugly hack,
there is an alternate
ntp in there that evan and I have been working on that attempts to use
unvalidated dns
queries to get the time, which doesn't work yet.
http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt/issues/113

There is a dhcp-latest in there which has isc-4.2.1-P1 in it. That has
a failed attempt at getting dhcp to work with bind's shared libs, that
could be stripped out, and it can be updated to head.

The latest version of dibbler (0.8.1) is now in the main openwrt
package repository (not core), as is an older version of isc-dhcp

There are numerous other advanced forms of packages in there as well.

-- 
Dave Täht
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