Hi Grant,

On 25/10/24 04:45, Grant Edwards wrote:

Portage suddenly wants to install net-dns/bind so it can update
bind-tools from 9.16 to 9.18. I've always had bind-tools installed,
but it has never required that I install the bind server and its
dependencies (for which I have no use). Older versions of bind-tools
didn't require bind. The ebuilds for bind-tools 9.20 that I've found
at on overlays don't require bind.

What's so special about bind-tools 9.18 that it has to have bind
installed?

The commit that added 9.18.0[1] gives some context:

>This is just a proxy for net-dns/bind. Splitting the ebuilds is *way* too
>fragile and gains nothing because the same software gets built again
anyway,
>just thrown away at the end.

Is there another package that will provide a command line dns lookup
tool that can be used for troubleshooting that doesn't require me to
install a DNS server all of its extra faff?

Try net-dns/doggo[2]


1: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/commit/754524d4345dd41ff9e31cba85afb4f104a9815a
2: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-dns/doggo

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Hi Rainer,

Doesn't that mean that best practice would be to just ditch "net-dns/ bind-tools" and solely install "net-dns/bind" instead? At least up to
now the latter _also_ provides "nslookup" and "dig".

That is correct. The package now even says as much (since about 12
hours ago!):

net-dns/bind-tools is now merged into net-dns/bind and
net-dns/bind-tools serves as a dummy package until it is
eventually removed. The split was already a maintenance burden
because of lack of build system support for it, but this became
more severe with >=9.18.0.

Please run the following commands:
* emerge --deselect net-dns/bind-tools
* emerge --noreplace net-dns/bind

Regards,

Matt

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