Help! My system "lost" my bind94 package...

[pormogo]

Let me preference this by saying I am first and foremost a linux user. So much of my experience with freebsd thusfar can be summerized by saying it's been "difficult" for me. So I installed the latest STABLE branch of FreeBSD (7.0) on this box with the intention of setting up a DNS server. After the install I decided to fetch the ports collection so I could install additional software. I assumed that this collection would be up to date, it turns out it wasn't.

I started by installing some of my personal "essential" utilities (vim, bash, screen, etc.). I finished off by navigating into /usr/ports/dns/bind9 and building the latest version of bind, which ended up being 9.4.x. I built this port using the basic

$ make && make install

command. It built fine, however i wanted the newest version of bind (as well as my other ports that I had installed). So I did the following

$ portsnap update && portsnap extract

I then built the portupgrade port and performed a portupgrade -a to update all of my installed ports. For some strange reason it decided to install bind-9.3 along side bind-9.4.... At this point my bind9.4 package I had originally install had disappeared from the output of pkg_info. However it was still the main version of named installed (as returned by the which) command.

First I used the pkg_deinstall command to remove bind-9.3 this seemed to work perfectly. However it looked like the bind-9.4 package was totally lost. So I tried to go into /usr/ports/dns/bind95 to build the newest version and just install that over whatever old files happened to be present from 9.4. (in between these steps I tried to use pkg_which and pkgdb -F in order to get the package showing up again, no dice, output from pkg_which on the binary yields only ?).

So I used the command $ portinstall bind95 and it started building bind95. I got an ncurses looking screen with some options. I tried selecting the option to "replace bind" thinking maybe this would replace my version of bind with 9.5. Not dice. Shortly after making the confirmation I got an exit code...

hmmm ok.....

So I tried going into bind9's directory and doing a make deinstall no dice. Out of what I'm sure was pure frustration I navigated back into the bind95 directory and did a make clean && make && make install with that port. Below is the output at the end of the install (unfortunately being a n00b I didn't capture the output so I only have the end).

/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/sbin
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man5
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man8
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 named /usr/sbin
(cd /usr/sbin; rm -f lwresd; ln named lwresd)
install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./named.8 /usr/share/man/man8
install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./lwresd.8 /usr/share/man/man8
install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./named.conf.5 /usr/share/man/man5
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/rndc
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/rndc/unix
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/rndc/unix
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/sbin
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man8
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man5
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rndc /usr/sbin
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 rndc-confgen /usr/sbin
install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./rndc.8 /usr/share/man/man8
install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./rndc-confgen.8 /usr/share/man/man8
install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./rndc.conf.5 /usr/share/man/man5
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/dig
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/bin
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man1
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555  dig /usr/bin
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555  host /usr/bin
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555  nslookup /usr/bin
for m in dig.1 host.1 nslookup.1; do  install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./$m /usr/share/man/man1;  done
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/dnssec
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/sbin
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man8
for t in dnssec-keygen dnssec-signzone; do  install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 $t /usr/sbin; done
for m in dnssec-keygen.8 dnssec-signzone.8; do install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./$m /usr/share/man/man8; done
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/db
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/dst
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/master
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/mem
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/names
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/net
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/rbt
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/sockaddr
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/tasks
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/timers
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system/lwresd
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system/tkey
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/db
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/dst
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/master
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/mem
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/names
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/net
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/rbt
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/sockaddr
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/tasks
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/timers
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system/lwresd
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system/tkey
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system/lwresd
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/tests/system/tkey
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/nsupdate
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/bin
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man8
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 nsupdate /usr/bin
install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./nsupdate.8 /usr/share/man/man8
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/bin/check
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/sbin
/bin/sh ../../mkinstalldirs /usr/share/man/man8
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 named-checkconf /usr/sbin
install  -s -o root -g wheel -m 555 named-checkzone /usr/sbin
(cd /usr/sbin; rm -f named-compilezone; ln -s named-checkzone named-compilezone)
for m in named-checkconf.8 named-checkzone.8; do install  -o root -g wheel -m 444 ./$m /usr/share/man/man8; done
(cd /usr/share/man/man8; rm -f named-compilezone.8; ln -s named-checkzone.8 named-compilezone.8)
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/arm
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/misc
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/xsl
making all in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/doxygen
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/arm
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/misc
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/xsl
making install in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2/doc/doxygen
/bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/bin  /var/run /etc/namedb
mkdir /etc/namedb
mkdir: /etc/namedb: File exists
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/dns/bind95/work/bind-9.5.0-P2.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/dns/bind95.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/dns/bind95.

Now while this did error out and give me a stop code it did appear to over write my previous installation of bind.

$ named -v
BIND 9.5.0-P2

So now I have the newest version of bind up and running (I checked and it's answering queries and serving zones as it should). But it's still not showing up in pkg_info. How can I get this package to be targetable by the pkg system again? named is really the only application I need the package system to actually manage (as it's the reason for this machines existence). Any help is most appreciated. I will gladly provide any other information that might be needed. Thanks in advance for any help.

[Carpetsmoker]

Move /etc/named out of the way, then try installing bind again.

In addition, I would not use portupgrade and related tools, in my experience it only makes things more difficult rather than easier by adding a ``magic'' abstraction layer over a relatively simple system, while this does provide some benefits, IMO the disadvantages greatly outweigh the benefits.

$ make && make install

This is the same as just using make install, no need to run make twice.

$ portsnap update && portsnap extract

This is the same as:
# portsnap update extract

[pormogo]

Thanks for the help, I'm going to give that a try today. I'll take your word for it and try and avoid using pkgtools in order to manage ports. After it randomly decided downgrading Bind was a good idea I started questioning how good of an idea using that tool is.

Once again thanks for the help

EDIT: So I moved that folder out of the way and did a make install on bind95 again and low and behold

bind95-base-9.5.0.2

YAY!!! Thanks for the help! I'll be taking your advice and staying away from portupgrade in the future