CentOS - Dec 2017 - CAA records using PowerDNS from EPEL

PowerDNS supports CAA records beginning with version 4.0, but the pdns 
package in EPEL for most recent centos versions is stuck at around 
version 3.4 (3.4.11 is what I have).

Do I have no other choice but to manually compile and maintain my own 
pdns installation? I prefer to avoid this but I need up-to-date 
features.

Perhaps there is a PowerDNS specific work-around? Maybe the EPEL 
maintainers backported CAA record support?

Thank you for any assistance.

--On Friday, December 08, 2017 7:54 PM +0000 MRob <mrobti at
insiberia.net>
wrote:
> PowerDNS supports CAA records beginning with version 4.0, but the pdns
> package in EPEL for most recent centos versions is stuck at around
> version 3.4 (3.4.11 is what I have).
>
> Do I have no other choice but to manually compile and maintain my own
> pdns installation? I prefer to avoid this but I need up-to-date features.
Rawhide has version 4. With any luck you could just rebuild the SRPM with 
no issues. I've done that with packages where I need a bleeding edge 
feature on a CentOS system. Sometimes I have to tweak the spec file so that 
it will build with the older tools.

The worse problem is when it depends on much newer other packages. Then one 
gets into dependency hell. In such a case, you might want to try using 
Fedora COPR to assemble a custom build system.

On 2017-12-08 20:37, Kenneth Porter wrote:
> --On Friday, December 08, 2017 7:54 PM +0000 MRob 
> <mrobti at insiberia.net> wrote:
> 
>> PowerDNS supports CAA records beginning with version 4.0, but the pdns
>> package in EPEL for most recent centos versions is stuck at around
>> version 3.4 (3.4.11 is what I have).
>> 
>> Do I have no other choice but to manually compile and maintain my own
>> pdns installation? I prefer to avoid this but I need up-to-date 
>> features.
> 
> Rawhide has version 4. With any luck you could just rebuild the SRPM
> with no issues. I've done that with packages where I need a bleeding
> edge feature on a CentOS system. Sometimes I have to tweak the spec
> file so that it will build with the older tools.
> 
> The worse problem is when it depends on much newer other packages.
> Then one gets into dependency hell. In such a case, you might want to
> try using Fedora COPR to assemble a custom build system.
Thank you for that reply. It turns out PowerDNS hosts their own 
repositories:

https://repo.powerdns.com/