Bug 942104

Summary:	>=net-dns/bind-9.18.0: Add server flag to replace >=net-dns/bind-tools-9.18.0
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Gino McCarty <onigino>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Patrick McLean <chutzpah>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	negril.nx+gentoo, onigino
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=832218
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Gino McCarty 2024-10-25 05:45:04 UTC

Looks like without any notice , we have dropped net-dns/bind-tools, its not basically an empty shim for net-dns/bind.

https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/754524d4345dd41ff9e31cba85afb4f104a9815a

For us few tin foil hats that do not wish to have a full DNS server on systems, but would like to have dig,nslookup,etc. A nice fig leaf would be to add a server flag to net-dns/bind to remove the server side functionality.

Seems there is little appetite to maintain this, but it would be a very nice functionality to have

Please consider this as an alternative for bind-tools.. 



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge -v bind-tools
Actual Results:  
installs bind server tools

Expected Results:  
install bind client tools

Comment 1 Sam James archtester

2024-10-25 06:38:40 UTC

> Looks like without any notice , we have dropped net-dns/bind-tools, its not basically an empty shim for net-dns/bind.

Please see the extensive discussion in bug 832218 and at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1170658.html.

Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev

2024-10-25 21:31:52 UTC

The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=49f33ad56886ad76c89e079ba9931732adf6f989

commit 49f33ad56886ad76c89e079ba9931732adf6f989
Author:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2024-10-25 21:31:01 +0000
Commit:     Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2024-10-25 21:31:19 +0000

    net-dns/bind-tools: add ewarn explaining the package is obsolete
    
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/942104
    Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>

 net-dns/bind-tools/bind-tools-9.18.0.ebuild | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2024-10-25 21:32:46 UTC

As for the request itself, no, it's not going to happen, per the extensive discussion.