Updating Information for FreeBSD STABLE users This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh . See end of file for further details. For commonly done items, please see the COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file. Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running portupgrade. 20060309: The support for Linux applications the 3dfx kernel module used to provide is in a separate module named 3dfx_linux now. The latter will pull in 3dfx.ko and linux.ko through its dependencies when loaded. 20060211: An IPv6 support of ipfw was enabled by default. If you don't want to filter an IPv6 by ipfw, please add following line into your ipfw rule: pass ip6 from any to any 20060210: Now most modules get their build-time options from the kernel configuration file. A few modules still have fixed options due to their non-conformant implementation, but they will be corrected eventually. You may need to review the options of the modules in use, explicitly specify the non-default options in the kernel configuration file, and rebuild the kernel and modules afterwards. 20060204: The 'audit' group was added to support the new auditing functionality in the base system. Be sure to follow the directions for updating, including the requirement to run mergemaster -p. 20060127: The i386 loader(8) now defaults to the serial speed set by the previous boot stage, if the comconsole is already in use. If you've changed BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED in make.conf(5) and installed a new loader, but have not rebuilt and reinstalled the boot blocks, then your loader will leave the console at 9600 baud. Either install the new boot blocks, or set comconsole_speed in loader.conf(5). Note that the new boot blocks also support a -S flag described in boot(8). 20060122: /etc/rc.d/ppp-user has been renamed to /etc/rc.d/ppp. Its /etc/rc.conf.d configuration file has been `ppp' from the beginning, and hence there is no need to touch it. 20060113: si(4)'s device files now contain the unit number. Uses of {cua,tty}A[0-9a-f] should be replaced by {cua,tty}A0[0-9a-f]. 20051230: A lot of fixes and new features in the soundsystem. To get all benefits, you may want to recompile mplayer (if installed) after booting the new world. 20051222: Bug fixes to the trimdomain(3) function in libutil may result in slight changes to the host names appearing in log files under relatively rare circumstances. 20051220: Scripts in the local_startup directories (as defined in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) that have the new rc.d semantics will now be run as part of the base system rcorder. If there are errors or problems with one of these local scripts, it could cause boot problems. If you encounter such problems, boot in single user mode, remove that script from the */rc.d directory. Please report the problem to the port's maintainer, and the freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list. 20051215: The setkey(8) utility was moved from /usr/sbin/setkey to /sbin/setkey. You may want to update scripts which depend on its location. 20051108: rp(4)'s device files now contain the unit number. Uses of {cua,tty}R[0-9a-f] should be replaced by {cua,tty}R0[0-9a-f]. 20051101: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE 20051001: kern.polling.enable sysctl MIB is now deprecated. Use ifconfig(8) to turn polling(4) on your interfaces. 20050722: The ai_addrlen of a struct addrinfo was changed to a socklen_t to conform to POSIX-2001. This change broke an ABI compatibility on 64 bit architecture. You have to recompile userland programs that use getaddrinfo(3) on 64 bit architecture. 20050711: RELENG_6 branched here. 20050629: The pccard_ifconfig rc.conf variable has been removed and a new variable, ifconfig_DEFAULT has been introduced. Unlike pccard_ifconfig, ifconfig_DEFAULT applies to ALL interfaces that do not have ifconfig_ifn entries rather than just those in removable_interfaces. 20050616: Some previous versions of PAM have permitted the use of non-absolute paths in /etc/pam.conf or /etc/pam.d/* when referring to third party PAM modules in /usr/local/lib. A change has been made to require the use of absolute paths in order to avoid ambiguity and dependence on library path configuration, which may affect existing configurations. 20050610: Major changes to network interface API. All drivers must be recompiled. Drivers not in the base system will need to be updated to the new APIs. 20050609: Changes were made to kinfo_proc in sys/user.h. Please recompile userland, or commands like `fstat', `pkill', `ps', `top' and `w' will not behave correctly. The API and ABI for hwpmc(4) have changed with the addition of sampling support. Please recompile lib/libpmc(3) and usr.sbin/{pmcstat,pmccontrol}. 20050606: The OpenBSD dhclient was imported in place of the ISC dhclient and the network interface configuration scripts were updated accordingly. If you use DHCP to configure your interfaces, you must now run devd. Also, DNS updating was lost so you will need to find a workaround if you use this feature. 20050605: if_bridge was added to the tree. This has changed struct ifnet. Please recompile userland and all network related modules. 20050603: The n_net of a struct netent was changed to an uint32_t, and 1st argument of getnetbyaddr() was changed to an uint32_t, to conform to POSIX-2001. These changes broke an ABI compatibility on 64 bit architecture. With these changes, shlib major of libpcap was bumped. You have to recompile userland programs that use getnetbyaddr(3), getnetbyname(3), getnetent(3) and/or libpcap on 64 bit architecture. 20050528: Kernel parsing of extra options on '#!' first lines of shell scripts has changed. Lines with multiple options likely will fail after this date. For full details, please see http://people.freebsd.org/~gad/Updating-20050528.txt 20050503: The packet filter (pf) code has been updated to OpenBSD 3.7 Please note the changed anchor syntax and the fact that authpf(8) now needs a mounted fdescfs(5) to function. 20050415: The NO_MIXED_MODE kernel option has been removed from the i386 amd64 platforms as its use has been superceded by the new local APIC timer code. Any kernel config files containing this option should be updated. 20050227: The on-disk format of LC_CTYPE files was changed to be machine independent. Please make sure NOT to use NO_CLEAN buildworld when crossing this point. Crossing this point also requires recompile or reinstall of all locale depended packages. 20050225: The ifi_epoch member of struct if_data has been changed to contain the uptime at which the interface was created or the statistics zeroed rather then the wall clock time because wallclock time may go backwards. This should have no impact unless an snmp implementation is using this value (I know of none at this point.) 20050224: The acpi_perf and acpi_throttle drivers are now part of the acpi(4) main module. They are no longer built separately. 20050223: The layout of struct image_params has changed. You have to recompile all compatibility modules (linux, svr4, etc) for use with the new kernel. 20050223: The p4tcc driver has been merged into cpufreq(4). This makes "options CPU_ENABLE_TCC" obsolete. Please load cpufreq.ko or compile in "device cpufreq" to restore this functionality. 20050220: The responsibility of recomputing the file system summary of a SoftUpdates-enabled dirty volume has been transferred to the background fsck. A rebuild of fsck(8) utility is recommended if you have updated the kernel. To get the old behavior (recompute file system summary at mount time), you can set vfs.ffs.compute_summary_at_mount=1 before mounting the new volume. 20050206: The cpufreq import is complete. As part of this, the sysctls for acpi(4) throttling have been removed. The power_profile script has been updated, so you can use performance/economy_cpu_freq in rc.conf(5) to set AC on/offline cpu frequencies. 20050206: NG_VERSION has been increased. Recompiling kernel (or ng_socket.ko) requires recompiling libnetgraph and userland netgraph utilities. 20050114: Support for abbreviated forms of a number of ipfw options is now deprecated. Warnings are printed to stderr indicating the correct full form when a match occurs. Some abbreviations may be supported at a later date based on user feedback. To be considered for support, abbreviations must be in use prior to this commit and unlikely to be confused with current key words. 20041221: By a popular demand, a lot of NOFOO options were renamed to NO_FOO (see bsd.compat.mk for a full list). The old spellings are still supported, but will cause annoying warnings on stderr. Make sure you upgrade properly (see the COMMON ITEMS: section later in this file). 20041219: Auto-loading of ancillary wlan modules such as wlan_wep has been temporarily disabled; you need to statically configure the modules you need into your kernel or explicitly load them prior to use. Specifically, if you intend to use WEP encryption with an 802.11 device load/configure wlan_wep; if you want to use WPA with the ath driver load/configure wlan_tkip, wlan_ccmp, and wlan_xauth as required. 20041213: The behaviour of ppp(8) has changed slightly. If lqr is enabled (``enable lqr''), older versions would revert to LCP ECHO mode on negotiation failure. Now, ``enable echo'' is required for this behaviour. The ppp version number has been bumped to 3.4.2 to reflect the change. 20041201: The wlan support has been updated to split the crypto support into separate modules. For static WEP you must configure the wlan_wep module in your system or build and install the module in place where it can be loaded (the kernel will auto-load the module when a wep key is configured). 20041201: The ath driver has been updated to split the tx rate control algorithm into a separate module. You need to include either ath_rate_onoe or ath_rate_amrr when configuring the kernel. 20041116: Support for systems with an 80386 CPU has been removed. Please use FreeBSD 5.x or earlier on systems with an 80386. 20041110: We have had a hack which would mount the root filesystem R/W if the device were named 'md*'. As part of the vnode work I'm doing I have had to remove this hack. People building systems which use preloaded MD root filesystems may need to insert a "/sbin/mount -u -o rw /dev/md0 /" in their /etc/rc scripts. 20041104: FreeBSD 5.3 shipped here. 20041102: The size of struct tcpcb has changed again due to the removal of RFC1644 T/TCP. You have to recompile userland programs that read kmem for tcp sockets directly (netstat, sockstat, etc.) 20041022: The size of struct tcpcb has changed. You have to recompile userland programs that read kmem for tcp sockets directly (netstat, sockstat, etc.) 20041016: RELENG_5 branched here. For older entries, please see updating in the RELENG_5 branch. COMMON ITEMS: General Notes ------------- Avoid using make -j when upgrading. From time to time in the past there have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or installworld. This is especially true when upgrading between "distant" versions (eg one that cross a major release boundary or several minor releases, or when several months have passed on the -current branch). Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its environment when searching for values for global variables. To run your build attempts in an "environmental clean room", prefix all make commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual page for more details. Due to several updates to the build infrastructure, source upgrades from versions prior to 5.3 no longer supported. When upgrading from one major version to another it is generally best to upgrade to the latest code in the currently installed branch first, then do an upgrade to the new branch. This is the best-tested upgrade path, and has the highest probability of being successful. Please try this approach before reporting problems with a major version upgrade. To build a kernel ----------------- If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just a few days old), you should follow this procedure. With a /usr/obj tree with a fresh buildworld, make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE To test a kernel once --------------------- If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide debugging information) run make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel nextboot -k testkernel To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up -------------------------------------------------------------- This assumes you are already running a 6.X system. Replace ${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", "alpha", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", etc). cd src/sys/${arch}/conf config KERNEL_NAME_HERE cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE make depend make make install If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. ----------------------------------------------------------- # Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than # is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [1] [3] mergemaster -p [5] make installworld make delete-old mergemaster [4] To cross-install current onto a separate partition -------------------------------------------------- # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition # holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in # size. make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} cd src/etc; make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable or higher to 6.x-stable ----------------------------------------------------------- make buildworld [9] make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] [1] [3] mergemaster -p [5] make installworld make delete-old mergemaster -i [4] Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of the UPDATING entries. Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update your sources that you have read and understood all the recent messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has much fewer pitfalls. [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you should disable them at this point so they don't crash your system on reboot. [3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do fsck -p mount -u / mount -a cd src adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. [4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists for potential gotchas. [5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following step. It never hurts to do it all the time. [8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 5.x binaries needed to do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 option in your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system that is hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 is required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the last time you updated your kernel config file. [9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have cvs prune empty directories. If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the "?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will warn if it is improperly defined. FORMAT: This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major breakages in tracking -STABLE. Not all things will be listed here, and it only starts on October 16, 2004. Updating files can found in previous releases if your system is older than this. Copyright information: Copyright 1998-2005 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this document are permitted without further permission from the author. THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. 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