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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-08-19 16:03:01 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2003-08-19 16:03:01 +0000
commit510c7bd0c1f73c5eefd5b26eae291c756609f03c (patch)
tree74d373439235cb38bd665a1fe2c0354fed31d775 /release
parente29bbbe0d15ac2171955708a057f91d371d3032c (diff)
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New release note: WITH_DYNAMICROOT.
Modified release note: Fix up some typos and improve markup in rescue(8) note.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml16
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml16
2 files changed, 26 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 495d6fa..0a208eb 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -396,12 +396,22 @@
statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in
<filename>/rescue</filename>. This functionality is similar to
the <filename>/stand</filename> directory installed by
- &man.sysinstall.8;, but it <filename>/rescue</filename> includes
- more functionality and is updated by as part of
- buildworld/installworld operations. More details can be found in
+ &man.sysinstall.8;, but <filename>/rescue</filename> includes
+ more functionality and is updated as part of
+ <literal>buildworld</literal>/<literal>installworld</literal> operations. More details can be found in
&man.rescue.8;.
</para>
+ <para>It is now possible to build <filename>/bin</filename> and
+ <filename>/sbin</filename> directories containing
+ dynamically-linked executables. This feature brings support for
+ loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in
+ those directories. It also reduces the storage requirements for
+ the root filesystem due to the use of shared libraries. This
+ feature can be enabled in a <literal>buildworld</literal> by
+ defining the Makefile variable
+ <varname>WITH_DYNAMICROOT</varname>.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 495d6fa..0a208eb 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -396,12 +396,22 @@
statically-linked <quote>crunched</quote> binary that lives in
<filename>/rescue</filename>. This functionality is similar to
the <filename>/stand</filename> directory installed by
- &man.sysinstall.8;, but it <filename>/rescue</filename> includes
- more functionality and is updated by as part of
- buildworld/installworld operations. More details can be found in
+ &man.sysinstall.8;, but <filename>/rescue</filename> includes
+ more functionality and is updated as part of
+ <literal>buildworld</literal>/<literal>installworld</literal> operations. More details can be found in
&man.rescue.8;.
</para>
+ <para>It is now possible to build <filename>/bin</filename> and
+ <filename>/sbin</filename> directories containing
+ dynamically-linked executables. This feature brings support for
+ loadable PAM and NSS modules to base system utilities located in
+ those directories. It also reduces the storage requirements for
+ the root filesystem due to the use of shared libraries. This
+ feature can be enabled in a <literal>buildworld</literal> by
+ defining the Makefile variable
+ <varname>WITH_DYNAMICROOT</varname>.</para>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 id="contrib">
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