UPDATING revision 42649 
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
1019990111:
11	New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
12	stage of console driver reorganization.  You are required to
13	update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
14	kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
15	The instruction can be found in
16
17		http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt</a>
18
19	It has notes on splash screen too.
20
2119990106:
22	Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
23	install the new bootblocks:
24
25		http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt</a>
26
27	When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
28	/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
29	elf and aout.  Otherwise things like X will stop working with
30	messages about being unable to find library files.  The
31	mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
32	keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
33	recommended.
34
3519990104:
36	Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
37
38		http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html</a>
39
40	about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
41	for doing the upgrade.
42
4319981230:
44	You should install new bootblocks now.  The ELF kernel will
45	become default soon.  In addition, you'll need to upgrade
46	your userland programs to ELF before then as well.  Use
47	make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
48	a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
49	continue to work, even after the upgrade).  See src/Makefile
50	for more details.
51
5219981224:
53	The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel.  The
54	driver that replaces it is named acd.  You'll need to change
55	this in your configuration files.
56
57	Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
58	configured" at boot time.
59
60	The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
61	with no replacement driver.
62
6319981202:
64	New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
65	aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
66
6719981201:
68	New user/group added: bind.  From src/etc/master.passwd and
69	src/etc/group:
70		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 
71		bind:*:53:
72		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 
73		tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
74		kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
75		bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
76
7719981118:
78	PAM integrated into the tree.   Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
79	to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
80	See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
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82$Id: UPDATING,v 1.11 1999/01/12 20:11:29 imp Exp $
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