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1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users 2 3This file is maintainted by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4in it to him. It contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of 5major breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed 6here, and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an 7earlier version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 81998. 9 101999121: 11 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 12 updates, please see 13 14http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 15 16 for details. 17 18 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 19 information please see 20 21http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 22 or 23http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 24 25 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 26 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 27 2819990120: 29 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 30 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 31 3219990119: 33 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 34 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 35 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 36 config file changes are needed. 37 3819990111: 39 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 40 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 41 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 42 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 43 The instruction can be found in 44 45 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 46 47 It has notes on splash screen too. 48 4919990106: 50 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 51 install the new bootblocks: 52 53 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 54 55 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 56 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 57 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 58 messages about being unable to find library files. The 59 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 60 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 61 recommended. 62 6319990104: 64 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 65 66 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 67 68 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 69 for doing the upgrade. 70 7119981230: 72 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 73 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 74 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 75 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 76 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 77 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 78 for more details. 79 8019981224: 81 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 82 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 83 this in your configuration files. 84 85 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 86 configured" at boot time. 87 88 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 89 with no replacement driver. 90 9119981202: 92 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 93 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 94 9519981201: 96 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 97 src/etc/group: 98 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 99 bind:*:53: 100 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 101 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 102 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 103 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 104 10519981118: 106 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 107 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 108 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 109 110$Id: UPDATING,v 1.15 1999/01/21 20:13:41 imp Exp $ 111