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Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
to him. See end of file for further details.
19990316:
The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has
been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use
"device wcd" instead of "device acd".
19990314:
For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module,
please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to
-4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will
be fixed in the future.
19990309:
New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for
details.
19990225:
struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the
usual suspects. Make world if in doubt.
19990214:
The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver.
See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html
for proper configuration details.
19990210:
The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt'
driver and 'ppbus' controller combination.
19990209:
New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat,
iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required.
make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any
ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well.
19990125:
Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in
the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs
is in order (or better yet a make world).
19990122:
On or about this date there was a small window when the boot
blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to
edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this
problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks.
19990121:
Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For
updates, please see
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current
for details.
Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for
information please see
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current
or
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current
for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody,
but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up.
19990120:
Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this
branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3.
19990119:
More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since
files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No
config file changes are needed.
19990111:
New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to
update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
The instruction can be found in
http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
It has notes on splash screen too.
19990106:
Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
install the new bootblocks:
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with
messages about being unable to find library files. The
mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
recommended.
19990104:
Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
for doing the upgrade.
19981230:
You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will
become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade
your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use
make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile
for more details.
19981224:
The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The
driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change
this in your configuration files.
Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
configured" at boot time.
The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
with no replacement driver.
19981202:
New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
19981201:
New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
src/etc/group:
% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
bind:*:53:
% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
19981118:
PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here,
and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier
version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.
Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that
the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.
$Id: UPDATING,v 1.22 1999/03/10 06:21:28 imp Exp $
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