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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-28 19:50:56 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-11-28 19:50:56 +0000
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+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/early-adopter/article.sgml
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
<para>More information on &os; release engineering processes can be found
on the <ulink
url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releng/index.html">Release
- Engineering Web pages</ulink> and in the &os; <ulink url="http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html">Release
+ Engineering Web pages</ulink> and in the &os; <ulink url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html">Release
Engineering</ulink> article.</para>
</sect1>
@@ -164,8 +164,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>GCC: The compiler toolchain is now based on GCC
- 3.<replaceable>X</replaceable>, rather than GCC
+ <para>GCC: The compiler toolchain is now based on a GCC
+ 3.2.1 pre-release snapshot, rather than GCC
2.95.<replaceable>X</replaceable>.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@
<listitem>
<para>Because of changes in kernel data structures and
ABIs/APIs, third-party binary device drivers will require
- modifications to work correctly under &os; 5.0.</para>
+ modifications to work correctly under &os; 5.0. There is
+ a possibility of more minor ABI/API changes before the
+ 5-STABLE branch is created.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
@@ -265,6 +267,14 @@
5.2-RELEASE.)</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Documentation (such as the &os; <ulink
+ url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html">Handbook</ulink>
+ and <ulink
+ url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/index.html">FAQ</ulink>)
+ may not reflect changes recently made to &os; 5.0.</para>
+ </listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
<para>Because a number of these drawbacks affect system stability, the
@@ -335,14 +345,17 @@
<para>As of this time, the binary upgrade option in
&man.sysinstall.8; has not been well-tested for
cross-major-version upgrades. Using this feature is not
- recommended.</para>
+ recommended. In particular, a binary upgrade will leave
+ behind a number of files that are present in &os;
+ 4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> but not in 5.0. These obsolete
+ files may create some problems.</para>
<para>On the i386 and pc98 platforms, a UserConfig utility
exists on 4-STABLE to allow boot-time configuration of ISA
devices when booting from installation media. Under &os;
5.0, this functionality has been replaced in part by the
&man.device.hints.5; mechanism (it allows specifying the same
- parameters, but is not interactive).</para>
+ parameters, but with a very different interface).</para>
<para>Floppy-based binary installations may require downloading
a third, new floppy image holding additional device drivers
@@ -383,7 +396,15 @@
difficulties which made updates problematic.
The base system utilities that used Perl have either
been rewritten (if still applicable) or discarded (if
- obsolete).</para>
+ obsolete).<para>
+
+ <para>Some scripts expect to find a Perl interpreter at
+ <filename>/usr/bin/perl</filename>. The
+ <filename>use.perl</filename> command, a part of the Perl
+ port, can be used to create an appropriate set of symbolic
+ links for them. In particular, <command>use.perl
+ port</command> will generally set things up as
+ expected.</para>
<para>It is generally possible to run old
4.<replaceable>X</replaceable> executables under
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