Re: removal of gdnsd

Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 10:53:57 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Wouldn't it be better to keep it, even if outdared, so updates aren't
broken for existing users? (presumably it's not actually broken?)

Feel free to drop maintainer, of course.

On 2026/08/04 21:16, Joerg Jung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was thinking of dropping/removing current version 2 of gdnsd,
> so that somone can just start from scratch with a 3 version port.
> 
> The update is not trivial because they changed a lot of things 
> from version 2->3, see: https://github.com/gdnsd/gdnsd/blob/main/VERSION3.md
> 
> Most important, they dropped service support and expect systemd 
> alike to handle. I believe rc system supports this nowadays via rc_bg=NO 
> and similar. I also believe ports tree contains already very similar n
> on-daemon rc script examples, i.e. audio/navidrome.
> 
> Still, last time (months ago) I looked into gdnsd latest version needed 
> some minor patches to compile, but I eventually got it working.
> 
> However, unfortunately ENOTIME right now to update it.
> 
> So any objections or OKs for removing it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Joerg (jung@)
>