UPDATING revision 44056 
1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
2
3This file is maintainted by imp@village.org.  Please send new entries
4in it to him.  See end of file for further details.
5
619990214:
7	The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver.
8	See lpt(4) and/or nlpt(4) for proper configuration details.
9
1019990210:
11	The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete.  Replace it with the 'nlpt'
12	driver and 'ppbus' controller combination.
13
1419990125:
15	Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in
16	the FreeBSD kernel).  A recompile of all libkvm using programs
17	is in order (or better yet a make world).
18
1919990122:
20	On or about this date there was a small window when the boot
21	blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to
22	edit /etc/fstab.  This has been corrected, if you are seeing this
23	problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks.
24
2519990121:
26	Vinum has changed.  The "vinum read" command has changed.  For
27	updates, please see
28
29http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current
30
31	for details.  
32
33	Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for
34	information please see
35
36http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current
37	or
38http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current
39
40	for details.  These changes will likely not impact anybody,
41	but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up.
42
4319990120:
44	Stable branch created.  You might want to consider using this
45	branch.  It is tagged with RELENG_3.
46
4719990119:
48	More work on the syscons driver has been committed.  Since
49	files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
50	and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel.  No
51	config file changes are needed.
52
5319990111:
54	New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
55	stage of console driver reorganization.  You are required to
56	update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
57	kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
58	The instruction can be found in
59
60		http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
61
62	It has notes on splash screen too.
63
6419990106:
65	Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
66	install the new bootblocks:
67
68		http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
69
70	When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
71	/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
72	elf and aout.  Otherwise things like X will stop working with
73	messages about being unable to find library files.  The
74	mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
75	keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
76	recommended.
77
7819990104:
79	Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
80
81		http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
82
83	about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
84	for doing the upgrade.
85
8619981230:
87	You should install new bootblocks now.  The ELF kernel will
88	become default soon.  In addition, you'll need to upgrade
89	your userland programs to ELF before then as well.  Use
90	make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
91	a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
92	continue to work, even after the upgrade).  See src/Makefile
93	for more details.
94
9519981224:
96	The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel.  The
97	driver that replaces it is named acd.  You'll need to change
98	this in your configuration files.
99
100	Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
101	configured" at boot time.
102
103	The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
104	with no replacement driver.
105
10619981202:
107	New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
108	aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
109
11019981201:
111	New user/group added: bind.  From src/etc/master.passwd and
112	src/etc/group:
113		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 
114		bind:*:53:
115		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 
116		tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
117		kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
118		bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
119
12019981118:
121	PAM integrated into the tree.   Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
122	to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
123	See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
124
125This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
126breakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
127and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998.  If you have an earlier
128version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.
129
130$Id: UPDATING,v 1.18 1999/02/14 05:18:35 imp Exp $
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