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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 101999121: 11 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 12 updates, please see 13http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 14 for details. 15 16 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 17 information please see 18http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current 19 or 20http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current 21 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody, 22 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up. 23 2419990120: 25 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this 26 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3. 27 2819990119: 29 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since 30 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel, 31 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No 32 config file changes are needed. 33 3419990111: 35 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first 36 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to 37 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel. 38 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation. 39 The instruction can be found in 40 41 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 42 43 It has notes on splash screen too. 44 4519990106: 46 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to 47 install the new bootblocks: 48 49 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt 50 51 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your 52 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for 53 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with 54 messages about being unable to find library files. The 55 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to 56 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is 57 recommended. 58 5919990104: 60 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in 61 62 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html 63 64 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions 65 for doing the upgrade. 66 6719981230: 68 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will 69 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade 70 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use 71 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old 72 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will 73 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile 74 for more details. 75 7619981224: 77 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The 78 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change 79 this in your configuration files. 80 81 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not 82 configured" at boot time. 83 84 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel, 85 with no replacement driver. 86 8719981202: 88 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they 89 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have. 90 9119981201: 92 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and 93 src/etc/group: 94 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 95 bind:*:53: 96 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 97 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 98 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 99 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin 100 10119981118: 102 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file 103 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc). 104 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample. 105 106$Id: UPDATING,v 1.14 1999/01/19 21:04:22 imp Exp $ 107