UPDATING revision 43210 
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
1019990125:
11	Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in
12	the FreeBSD kernel).  A recompile of all libkvm using programs
13	is in order (or better yet a make world).
14
1519990122:
16	On or about this date there was a small window when the boot
17	blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to
18	edit /etc/fstab.  This has been corrected, if you are seeing this
19	problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks.
20
2119990121:
22	Vinum has changed.  The "vinum read" command has changed.  For
23	updates, please see
24
25http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current
26
27	for details.  
28
29	Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for
30	information please see
31
32http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current
33	or
34http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current
35
36	for details.  These changes will likely not impact anybody,
37	but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up.
38
3919990120:
40	Stable branch created.  You might want to consider using this
41	branch.  It is tagged with RELENG_3.
42
4319990119:
44	More work on the syscons driver has been committed.  Since
45	files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
46	and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel.  No
47	config file changes are needed.
48
4919990111:
50	New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
51	stage of console driver reorganization.  You are required to
52	update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
53	kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
54	The instruction can be found in
55
56		http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
57
58	It has notes on splash screen too.
59
6019990106:
61	Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
62	install the new bootblocks:
63
64		http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
65
66	When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
67	/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
68	elf and aout.  Otherwise things like X will stop working with
69	messages about being unable to find library files.  The
70	mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
71	keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
72	recommended.
73
7419990104:
75	Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
76
77		http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
78
79	about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
80	for doing the upgrade.
81
8219981230:
83	You should install new bootblocks now.  The ELF kernel will
84	become default soon.  In addition, you'll need to upgrade
85	your userland programs to ELF before then as well.  Use
86	make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
87	a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
88	continue to work, even after the upgrade).  See src/Makefile
89	for more details.
90
9119981224:
92	The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel.  The
93	driver that replaces it is named acd.  You'll need to change
94	this in your configuration files.
95
96	Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
97	configured" at boot time.
98
99	The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
100	with no replacement driver.
101
10219981202:
103	New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
104	aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
105
10619981201:
107	New user/group added: bind.  From src/etc/master.passwd and
108	src/etc/group:
109		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group 
110		bind:*:53:
111		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd 
112		tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
113		kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
114		bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
115
11619981118:
117	PAM integrated into the tree.   Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
118	to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
119	See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
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