How to reinstall bind9?

[Edmund Craske]

Whoops I never sent that to the list! I'll CC it back in now...

It's all very well saying you installed from the CD... But there are a 
hell of a lot of FreeBSD CDs out there, all containing different 
versions of FreeBSD! What's the output of uname -a?

mergemaster is something which is used as part of a 'make world' system 
upgrade from source. What it does is check that your /etc directory is 
up to date. In this case, if you have the source for the same version 
you are already using installed, it will just check that your /etc 
directory has everything in it that it should. Try reading the manpage :)

Try running a 'make config' when you're in the bind9 port directory, and 
check that you haven't got it set to 'REPLACE_BASE'. That's the only 
reason I can see for bind9 installing somewhere other than /usr/local. 
The way it is configured in the port Makefile, it will still put its 
zone files and named.conf in /var/named.

Ed

Stephen Allen wrote:
> Thanks Edmund,
> 
> I use FreeBSD and installed from the CD.  I use 'portsnap fetch update' 
> on a regular basis to keep my ports tree up-to-date, so does that mean I 
> have an up-t-date src tree?  And what is mergemaster?
> 
> This problem all came around originally because Bind installed into base 
> rather than userland.  I suppose it was possible I installed it as part 
> of the system install then when it upgraded it kept the same locations.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Steve :)
> 
> 
> Edmund Craske wrote:
>> That's because they come with FreeBSD... If you have an up-to-date
>> src tree, just run mergemaster. That will make sure that everything
>> that should be in /etc is there.
>>
>> As for why bind9 is installing into your base rather than userland,
>> what version of FreeBSD are you using, and are your ports up to date?
> 
> 
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