Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add bind

[John Darrington]

Thanks for the comments,

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 01:52:11PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
     On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 06:36:04PM +0200, John Darrington wrote:
     > * gnu/packages/networking.scm (bind): New variable.
     
     Hi, thanks for this patch! I think it can go in the DNS module.
     
     I wonder, how does it relate to the BIND that replaces the bundled BIND
     in isc-dhcp, which I've noticed often requires security updates?

I don't think it relates at all, except that it is produced by the same group.

However, I noticed in that module, there is bind-utils, which provides about
half of what my patch does, and IMO is unecessarily complicated.  I suppose this
was done because somebody wanted to provide the DNS query tools without the
DNS server.  

I think this would be better achieved by having separate outputs bind:utils and 
bind:daemon


     > +     (modify-phases %standard-phases
     > +         (replace 'check
     > +           (lambda _
     > +             (zero? (system* "make" "force-test")))))))
     
     Does "force-test" mean that the test suite will return success even if
     there are some failures? If so, this should explicitly stated in a
     comment.

Apparently, some tests cannot be run unless one makes some local hacks 
as root.  force-test skips those tests which require that.

J'

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