Bug 203393 – net-dns/pdns-2.9.21 doesn't install development headers

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description meyerm 2007-12-26 19:21:43 UTC]

When installing PowerDNS (2.9.21 in my case) using the ebuild no header files are installed into the system. Normally that would be ok, since what's the use for headers on a server. But Gentoo puts them always onto the machine (hm, perhaps some USE-flags someday when using binary packages? ;-) ) I expected them to be there too when writing my own backend library for it.

It's nothing severe since I can extract the PDNS archive manually into my building directory. But it's a little annoyance and not usual when using Gentoo.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge pdns
2. q list pdns

Actual Results:  
There are only the binaries, some docs and the init/config file installed. No headers are brought into the system.

Expected Results:  
I would expect the powerdns .hh-files to be in /usr/include or /usr/include/pdns.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-26 22:56:40 UTC]

There's no powerdns anywhere... 

[Comment 2 meyerm 2007-12-27 14:33:00 UTC]

I'm confused. What do you mean by that? I double checked and it's not in any overlay but in the regular portage (and that's great ;-) ).

After thinking again I think you thought (thoughtfull, eh? *g*) the packagename would be "powerdns" and not "pdns" (as shown in "Steps to Reproduce")? That's a valid argument, I'd prefer "powerdns" as name too since in the filesystem the full name is used (see /usr/lib/powerdns). But currently it is named pdns.

I reopened the bug, hoping this was our misunderstanding. Feel free to close it again if you meant something else.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-12-27 14:40:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> I'm confused. What do you mean by that?

I mean that there's no ebuild named powerdns anywhere. So please stick with existing ebuild names in bugs.

[Comment 4 Sven Wegener 2008-01-01 14:39:34 UTC]

OK, development headers are now installed into /usr/include/pdns. I have chosen pdns here, because that's what the other pdns modules use (#include <pdns/...>)

And the point of renaming the package, actually Debian also ships it as package pdns and uses powerdns for directory names. The upstream RPM packages also place the files into /etc/powerdns and the package and tarball is named pdns. So we're consistent here.