Re: [gentoo-dev] redoing djbdns

[Thilo Bangert]

On Saturday, 23. February 2002 20:26, you wrote:
> * Thilo Bangert (thilo.bangert@×××.net) wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > i am thinking of redoing the djbdns ebuild. i propose the
> > following scheme:
> > because in djbdns the resolver and the nameserver are seperate, i
> > plan on making three seperate ebuilds, one for the nameserver
> > (tinydns), one for an internal resolver/cache (dnscache) and one
> > for an external resolver/cache (dnscachex).
>
> Hi.  I've been reworking the djbdns ebuild too -- though it's not
> quite done. I was thinking of reworking the setup function in the
> init script to be generic and reasonably interactive such that one
> could run /etc/init.d/djbdns setup
> and have options to setup local, or external.  It makes sense to
> have them be one ebuild I think, since only the configuration is
> different, not the binaries.

this sounds good, i just don't know what the gentoo postition is on 
having a setup routine in the startup script... 

does the rc-update script support setup routines? so that if you run
% rc-update add dnscache default
for the first time, the setup routine is started...

IMHO this would be the right thing to do

also i would like to extent the startupscript for svscan to include 
the readproctitle call... haven't looked into this yet though

>
> I agree that tinydns should be seperate.
>
> > what do you think?
> > also, would this be a violation of djb's "license"?
>
> Yeah, the licenseing issue is there, but I don't believe there's an
> issue here.
>

i am not sure - i think as soon as somebody makes binary packages 
from these ebuilds it would be a license violation - but i am by no 
means an expert on this...


> Shall we work on this in tandem?
>

yes - that'd be great

>
> Gontran

Thilo