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1This file is maintainted by imp@village.org.  Please send new entries
2in it to him.  It contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of
3major breakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed
4here, and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998.  If you have an
5earlier version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18,
61998.
7
819980106:
9	Robert was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
10	install the new bootblocks:
11		http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
12
13	When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
14	/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
15	elf and aout.  Otherwise things like X will stop working with
16	messages about being unable to find library files.  The mergemaster
17	utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to keep critical
18	files like this in sync, and its use is recommended.
19
2019990104:
21	Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
22	  http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
23	about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
24	for doing the upgrade.
25
2619981230:
27	You should install new bootblocks now.  The ELF kernel will
28	become default soon.  In addition, you'll need to upgrade
29	your userland programs to ELF before then as well.  Use
30	make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
31	a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
32	continue to work, even after the upgrade).  See src/Makefile
33	for more details.
34
3519981224:
36	The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel.  The
37	driver that replaces it is named acd.  You'll need to change
38	this in your configuration files.
39
40	Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
41	configured" at boot time.
42
43	The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
44	with no replacement driver.
45
4619981202:
47	New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
48	aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
49
5019981201:
51	New user/group added: bind.  From src/etc/master.passwd and
52	src/etc/group:
53		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 
54		bind:*:53:
55		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 
56		tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
57		kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
58		bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
59
6019981118:
61	PAM integrated into the tree.   Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
62	to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
63	See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
64
65YYYYMMDD:
66	What happened and what you need to do.
67
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