[Pdns-users] Confused about PDNS versions in distro package repos

[Nicholas Williams]

Thanks, all! I'll use repo.powerdns.com. Pretty disappointing about the
messed up history of the Ubuntu repo and how many important bug fixes it's
missing. I get that they don't update minor versions between Ubuntu
releases, but they really should stay up to date with patch versions.

On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 2:59 AM Erik Winkels <erik.winkels at open-xchange.com>
wrote:

> Hello Nick (and Brian),
>
> "Brian Candler" wrote on Sunday, 2019-01-06 19:07:
> > On 06/01/2019 17:54, Nick Williams wrote:
> >
> >  The PDNS Authoritative version reported in Ubuntu’s repo (
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/pdns-server) is 4.1.1-1. But 4.1.1-1
> isn’t an actual PDNS version. So is it actually 4.1.1,
> >  or is it 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, or 4.1.5? Does anyone here even know the
> answer to that (seems like a big mystery of the universe to me)? Or maybe
> know where I can find this
> >  information?
> >
> > Actually it's very simple: it just means powerDNS 4.1.1, packaging
> version 1.  This allows the same underlying version 4.1.1 to be
> repackaged/re-released as (say) 4.1.1-2.
>
> I was curious as well so under the assumption that the Ubuntu maintainers
> do not edit our version number:
>
>     $ docker run -it ubuntu:bionic /bin/bash
>     root at b2adea4802ca:/# apt-get update
>     root at b2adea4802ca:/# apt-get install pdns-server
>     root at b2adea4802ca:/# pdns_server --version
>     Jan 07 08:43:16 PowerDNS Authoritative Server 4.1.1 (C) 2001-2017
> PowerDNS.COM BV
>     Jan 07 08:43:16 Using 64-bits mode. Built using gcc 7.3.0.
>     Jan 07 08:43:16 PowerDNS comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is
> free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it according to the
> terms of the GPL version 2.
>     Jan 07 08:43:16 Features: sodium openssl lua
>     Jan 07 08:43:16 Built-in modules:
>     Jan 07 08:43:16 Configured with: " '--build=x86_64-linux-gnu'
> '--prefix=/usr' '--includedir=${prefix}/include'
> '--mandir=${prefix}/share/man' '--infodir=${prefix}/share/info'
> '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--localstatedir=/var' '--disable-silent-rules'
> '--libdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu'
> '--libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu' '--disable-maintainer-mode'
> '--disable-dependency-tracking' '--sysconfdir=/etc/powerdns'
> '--with-dynmodules=bind ldap pipe gmysql godbc gpgsql gsqlite3 geoip lua
> mydns remote random opendbx tinydns' '--with-modules=' '--enable-libsodium'
> '--enable-tools' '--without-protobuf' '--enable-unit-tests'
> '--enable-reproducible' '--enable-systemd'
> '--with-systemd=/lib/systemd/system' 'build_alias=x86_64-linux-gnu'
> 'CFLAGS=-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/pdns-a_uLpP/pdns-4.1.1=.
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security'
> 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro' 'CPPFLAGS=-Wdate-time
> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' 'CXXFLAGS=-g -O2
> -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/pdns-a_uLpP/pdns-4.1.1=. -fstack-protector-strong
> -Wformat -Werror=format-security -DPACKAGEVERSION='\''"4.1.1-1.Ubuntu"'\'''"
>
> Which confirms what Brian said: it is version 4.1.1 packaging version 1.
>
> Like others suggested use https://repo.powerdns.com/ if you want the most
> recent and up-to-date versions.  This repository is updated with every new
> release.
>
> Regards,
> Erik
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