UPDATING revision 44311
1Updating Information for FreeBSD current users 2 3This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries 4to him. See end of file for further details. 5 619990225: 7 struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the 8 usual suspects. Make world if in doubt. 9 1019990214: 11 The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver. 12 See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html 13 for proper configuration details. 14 1519990210: 16 The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 17 driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 18 1919990209: 20 New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat, 21 iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required. 22 make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any 23 ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well. 24 2519990125: 26 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in 27 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs 28 is in order (or better yet a make world). 29 3019990122: 31 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot 32 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to 33 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this 34 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks. 35 3619990121: 37 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 38 updates, please see 39 40http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 41 42 for details. 43 44 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 45 information please see 46 47http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 48 or 49http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 50 51 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 52 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 53 5419990120: 55 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 56 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 57 5819990119: 59 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 60 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 61 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 62 config file changes are needed. 63 6419990111: 65 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 66 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 67 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 68 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 69 The instruction can be found in 70 71 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 72 73 It has notes on splash screen too. 74 7519990106: 76 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 77 install the new bootblocks: 78 79 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 80 81 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 82 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 83 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 84 messages about being unable to find library files. The 85 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 86 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 87 recommended. 88 8919990104: 90 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 91 92 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 93 94 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 95 for doing the upgrade. 96 9719981230: 98 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 99 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 100 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 101 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 102 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 103 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 104 for more details. 105 10619981224: 107 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 108 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 109 this in your configuration files. 110 111 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 112 configured" at boot time. 113 114 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 115 with no replacement driver. 116 11719981202: 118 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 119 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 120 12119981201: 122 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 123 src/etc/group: 124 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 125 bind:*:53: 126 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 127 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 128 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 129 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 130 13119981118: 132 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 133 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 134 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 135 136This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major 137breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here, 138and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier 139version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998. 140 141Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that 142the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained. 143 144$Id: UPDATING,v 1.20 1999/02/17 05:32:40 imp Exp $ 145