From 347daa0f17510300b4f18377860ca8814f753da1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Julian Elischer Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:54:51 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note that the size of /boot has blown oout to 140 MBytes unless the right options are used. Tell how to avoid this. --- UPDATING | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING index 60d59f64b2a3..bf11bfabda74 100644 --- a/UPDATING +++ b/UPDATING @@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 7.x IS SLOW: developers choose to disable these features on build machines to maximize performance. +20060118: + This actually occured some time ago, but installing the kernel + now also installs a bunch of symbol files for the kernel modules. + This increases the size of /boot/kenrnel to about 67Mbytes. You + will need twice this if you will eventually back this up to kernel.old + on your next install. + If you have a shortage of room in your root partition, you should add + -DINSTALL_NODEBUG to your make arguments or add INSTALL_NODEBUG="yes" + to your /etc/make.conf. + 20060113: libc's malloc implementation has been replaced. This change has the potential to uncover application bugs that previously went unnoticed.