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1141104ShartiUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users 21590Srgrimes 31590SrgrimesThis file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 41590Srgrimesdirectly to him. See end of file for further details. 51590Srgrimes 61590Srgrimes19990929: 71590Srgrimes The sigset_t datatype has been changed from an integral type 81590Srgrimes to a compound type and can hold 128 signals. Syscalls directly 91590Srgrimes or indirectly using the new sigset_t have been added as to 101590Srgrimes maintain compatible with existing binaries. A new kernel must 111590Srgrimes be made and installed and booted with before a make world can 121590Srgrimes be done. 131590Srgrimes 141590Srgrimes19990919: 151590Srgrimes New jail syscall format requires recompilation of jail(8) with 161590Srgrimes fresh headers installed (or a make world will do it for you). 171590Srgrimes 181590Srgrimes19990914: 191590Srgrimes Matt Dillon checked in many vm related things and sent a heads up 201590Srgrimes to -current urging caution and to report vm problems to him. 211590Srgrimes As of the 19th, no killer problems have been reported, but you 221590Srgrimes have been warned. 231590Srgrimes 241590Srgrimes19990908: 251590Srgrimes The new miibus has been added to the system. If you are using 261590Srgrimes the dm, rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, wb or xl drivers, you need to 271590Srgrimes add "controller miibus0" to your config file. 281590Srgrimes 291590Srgrimes19990905: 301590Srgrimes /var/cron/log has been moved to /var/log/cron to get all the 311590Srgrimes log files in one place. 321590Srgrimes 331590Srgrimes19990831: 341590Srgrimes tn3270 has been removed from the based system and added as a port. 351590Srgrimes 361590Srgrimes19990830: 3762833Swsanchez User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead 3862833Swsanchez of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under 391590Srgrimes ``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior. 401590Srgrimes 4162833Swsanchez19990828: 4294587Sobrien RCS Id tags changed to FreeBSD. This will cause huge cvsup 431590Srgrimes updates. 441590Srgrimes 451590Srgrimes19990821: 461590Srgrimes On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to 471590Srgrimes readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version 481590Srgrimes number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that 491590Srgrimes the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was 501590Srgrimes not suffient to warrant the version number bump. 511590Srgrimes 521590Srgrimes Thus I have reverted it back to "3". You will need to perform 531590Srgrimes the below immediately before your next ``make world'': 541590Srgrimes cd /usr/lib 55144026Sharti ls -l libreadline.so.4 56144026Sharti (if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4) 57144026Sharti mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3 58144026Sharti rm -f libreadline.so 591590Srgrimes ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so 60144026Sharti 61144026Sharti19990801: 62144026Sharti Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile 63144026Sharti pccardd for new kernel. 64144026Sharti 651590Srgrimes19980725: 66144026Sharti The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed. You will need to 67144026Sharti recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel. 68144026Sharti 69144026Sharti19990715: 70144026Sharti The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf. You will need to 711590Srgrimes change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels. 721590Srgrimes 73144341Sharti19990704: 74141104Sharti src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to 751590Srgrimes src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc. 76141104Sharti 77141104Sharti19990702: 7827644Scharnier Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See 79141104Sharti the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat, 80141104Sharti mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED 81141104Sharti CONFIGURATION section. 82141104Sharti 83141104Sharti19990628: 841590Srgrimes Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous, 85141104Sharti change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was 86141104Sharti user.group, while the new syntax is user:group. 87141104Sharti 88145683Sharti19990627: 891590Srgrimes Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated 90141104Sharti man page for details. 91141104Sharti 921590Srgrimes19990623: 93141104Sharti Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida. 94141104Sharti 95141104Sharti19990622: 96141104Sharti The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some 97141104Sharti functionality has been made optional. For details, see 981590Srgrimes http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt 991590Srgrimes Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old 100144341Sharti binaries will work with the new kernel. 1011590Srgrimes 1021590Srgrimes19990620: 1031590Srgrimes IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This 1041590Srgrimes breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of 1051590Srgrimes ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially 106138916Sharti ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers 107138916Sharti installed. 108138916Sharti 109138916Sharti19990618: 110144026Sharti Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals. 111144026Sharti Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf 1121590Srgrimes and hosts.allow should be checked. 113144026Sharti 1141590Srgrimes19990509: 115144026Sharti Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but 116144026Sharti it is still current and evolving. 117144026Sharti 118144026Sharti libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and 119144026Sharti any ports that use it. 120126824Sru 121144341Sharti19990427: 122144341Sharti Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed 123144341Sharti things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP 124144341Sharti machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the 125144341Sharti CVS repository (or run an MP kernel). 126144341Sharti 127144341Sharti19990420: 128144341Sharti Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or 129144341Sharti most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some, 130144341Sharti but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for 131144341Sharti all people. 132144026Sharti 133138916Sharti19990416: 134144341Sharti new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were 1351590Srgrimes initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a 136144341Sharti new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that 137144341Sharti GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when 138144341Sharti upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the 139138916Sharti breakage to current@freebsd.org). 140144020Sharti 141138916Sharti As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are 142138916Sharti 143144020Sharti o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected, 144138916Sharti but the new pccard code needs to be completed. 145144026Sharti o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems 1461590Srgrimes inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke. 1471590Srgrimes o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously 1481590Srgrimes they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common 1491590Srgrimes duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people 1501590Srgrimes that wired their scsi disk entries. 1511590Srgrimes o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the 152144026Sharti isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details. 153144026Sharti o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not 154144026Sharti probe the second pci bus. 155145971Sharti o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change 156144026Sharti with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double 157144026Sharti check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true 158144026Sharti for cards on different buses. 159144026Sharti o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when 160144026Sharti it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this. 161144026Sharti o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not 162144026Sharti guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this 163144026Sharti in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well 164144026Sharti as scripts that parse dmesg output. 165144026Sharti 166144026Sharti19990414: 167144026Sharti cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g 168144026Sharti from those compilation units affected until this is corrected. 169144026Sharti 170144026Sharti cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries, 171144026Sharti so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time. 172144026Sharti 173144026Sharti Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do 174144026Sharti make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around 175144026Sharti this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a 176145679Sharti pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you 177144026Sharti the rest of the way with a -current source base. 1781590Srgrimes 1791590Srgrimes19990413: 1801590Srgrimes Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with 18118730Ssteve care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting 1821590Srgrimes problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before 1831590Srgrimes reporting the problem with -j). 18469527Swill 1851590Srgrimes19990413: 1861590Srgrimes Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to 187144026Sharti egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like 1881590Srgrimes XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or 1891590Srgrimes progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work. 1901590Srgrimes 1911590Srgrimes19990409: 1921590Srgrimes NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from 1931590Srgrimes the old compiler and vice versa. 1941590Srgrimes 1951590Srgrimes19990408: 196145616Sharti In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number 197144026Sharti of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight 198144026Sharti of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make 199144026Sharti -j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed. 2001590Srgrimes 201145616Sharti c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we 202144026Sharti changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++ 203144026Sharti working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new 204144026Sharti compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being 205144026Sharti undefined. 206145971Sharti 207144026Sharti cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp 208144026Sharti would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is 209144026Sharti cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc 210144026Sharti make clean 211144026Sharti make all 212144026Sharti make install 213144026Sharti and this should correct your problems. See the -current 214144026Sharti archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning. 215144026Sharti 216144026Sharti Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work, 217144026Sharti I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th. 218144026Sharti 219144026Sharti19990329: 220144026Sharti Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building 221144026Sharti the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to 222144026Sharti build them. 223144026Sharti 224144026Sharti19990316: 225144026Sharti The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has 226144026Sharti been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use 227144026Sharti "device wcd" instead of "device acd". 228144026Sharti 229144026Sharti19990314: 230144026Sharti For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module, 231144026Sharti please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to 232144026Sharti -4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will 233144026Sharti be fixed in the future. 234144026Sharti 235145679Sharti19990309: 236145616Sharti New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for 2371590Srgrimes details. 238145616Sharti 2391590Srgrimes19990225: 240144894Sharti struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 241144894Sharti usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 242144894Sharti 243144894Sharti19990214: 244144894Sharti The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 245144894Sharti See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 246144894Sharti for proper configuration details. 247144894Sharti 248144894Sharti19990210: 249144894Sharti The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 250144894Sharti driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 251144894Sharti 252145612Sharti19990209: 253144894Sharti New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 254144894Sharti iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 255144894Sharti make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 256144894Sharti ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 257144894Sharti 258144894Sharti19990125: 259144894Sharti Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 260144894Sharti the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 261144894Sharti is in order (or better yet a make world). 262144894Sharti 263144894Sharti19990122: 264144894Sharti On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 265144894Sharti blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 266144894Sharti edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 267144894Sharti problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 268144894Sharti 269144894Sharti19990121: 270144894Sharti Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 271145612Sharti updates, please see 272144894Sharti 273144894Shartihttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 274144894Sharti 2751590Srgrimes for details. 276145616Sharti 2771590Srgrimes Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 2781590Srgrimes information please see 2791590Srgrimes 280145616Shartihttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 2811590Srgrimes or 282145616Shartihttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 283145616Sharti 2841590Srgrimes for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 285145616Sharti but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 2868874Srgrimes 287145616Sharti19990120: 288145616Sharti Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 289145616Sharti branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 290145616Sharti 291145616Sharti19990119: 2921590Srgrimes More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 2931590Srgrimes files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 2941590Srgrimes and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 2951590Srgrimes config file changes are needed. 2961590Srgrimes 2971590Srgrimes19990111: 2981590Srgrimes New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 2991590Srgrimes stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 3001590Srgrimes update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 3011590Srgrimes kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 3021590Srgrimes The instruction can be found in 3031590Srgrimes 3041590Srgrimes http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 3051590Srgrimes 3061590Srgrimes It has notes on splash screen too. 3071590Srgrimes 30898136Sjmallett19990106: 3091590Srgrimes Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 3101590Srgrimes install the new bootblocks: 31193056Simp 3121590Srgrimes http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 313144745Sharti 314144745Sharti When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 315144745Sharti /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 3161590Srgrimes elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 317138232Sharti messages about being unable to find library files. The 318138232Sharti mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 3191590Srgrimes keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 320138232Sharti recommended. 321138232Sharti 3221590Srgrimes19990104: 3231590Srgrimes Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 3241590Srgrimes 3251590Srgrimes http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 326144341Sharti 327144341Sharti about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 328144341Sharti for doing the upgrade. 329144341Sharti 330144341Sharti19981230: 331144341Sharti You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 332144341Sharti become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 333144341Sharti your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 334144341Sharti make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 335144341Sharti a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 336144341Sharti continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 337144341Sharti for more details. 338144341Sharti 339144341Sharti19981224: 340144341Sharti The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 341144341Sharti driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 342144341Sharti this in your configuration files. 343144341Sharti 344144341Sharti Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 345144341Sharti configured" at boot time. 346144341Sharti 347144341Sharti The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 348144341Sharti with no replacement driver. 349144341Sharti 350144341Sharti19981202: 351144341Sharti New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 352144341Sharti aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 353144341Sharti 354144341Sharti19981201: 355144341Sharti New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 356144341Sharti src/etc/group: 357144341Sharti % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 358144341Sharti bind:*:53: 359144341Sharti % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 360144341Sharti tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 361144341Sharti kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 362144341Sharti bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 363144341Sharti 364144341Sharti19981118: 365144341Sharti PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 366144341Sharti to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 367144341Sharti See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 368144341Sharti 369144341ShartiThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 370144341Shartibreakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 371144341Shartiand it only starts on November 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 372144341Shartiversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 373144341Sharti 374144341ShartiPlease filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 375144341Shartithe style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 376144341Sharti 377144341Sharti$FreeBSD: head/UPDATING 51817 1999-09-30 14:54:48Z imp $ 378144341Sharti