changed this due to the undesirable side effects that putting KERNEL
in /etc/make.conf was having on people's lives. Also update the
instructions as well.
o cvs 1.11
o /dev/random
o sendmail
o password default change
Please look at these entries and let me know if I've forgotten anything,
or if my understanding doesn't match reality.
SMPng merge. Suggest 4.x-stable for a while for those people that are
unable or unwilling to cope with problems.
After 6 hours of use tonight, my gut tells me that we're going to have
lots of problems crop up in the coming weeks.
that causes in updating.
Submitted by: Robert Watson
[[ NB: marko and I are trying an experiment: he'll try to fix typos
quickly in UPDATING, while I concentrate on content. ]]
cookbook section about needing to copy GENERIC.hints to
/boot/device.hints, as well as a footnote about exceptions to this
rule.
Partially suggested by: obrien
o BUILD_SUIDPERL replaces NOSUIDPERL
o New /etc/rc.conf settings for secure networking may require changes
to those upgrading.
o nullfs in loader.conf.
older versions of FreeBSD.
o Continue to document the old way of doing it with a warning stating if that
doesn't work, to do the {build,install}kernel thing.
o minor wordsmithing on what a make world really is.
files and put it in my freebsd web area. Rewrite the entry in
UPDATING to point to it the message and hopefully not confuse people
like the old one did.
July 4th due to the new sys/modules/sound/drivers/* being added to the
tree. You will need to do this until you do a make installworld with
my bsd.kmod.mk change.
system. Well, not really required if you know what you are doing, but
there's enough people that don't fit into this class that are getting
burned now that we need to say it is required. The actual message
says that one should treat it as if it was required to try to be
weasilly for the nitpickers amoung us :-)Killed by signal 2.
o add note about binutils 2.10 fixing the problems noted on 20000522.
o Add some very brief text to the '612 entry on the config changes.
A better howto would be warmly added to the file.
people have suggested the workaround to me (use only PIO mode) and
I've not seend a message saying ths was fixed. I'll removed the bold
warning stars after the issue is corrected.
into UPDATING. However, in this case I'm making an exception. I'm
adding a recommendation that people update their boot blocks. Old
boot blocks will cause a system to become unbootable if you have
removed /dev/{,r}wd*.
Submitted by: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@freebsd.org>
file and start over.
Also note that we're in the traditional whack-a-ball kernel model/api
reorg for 5.0 and that one needs to be extra careful about making sure
models and kernels are in sync.
those questions that come up all the time (eg, how do I build a
kernel). This is intended to be a very brief reminder for people that
are basically clueful what the steps are to do these common things.
What it lacks in verbosity it makes up in terseness.
correct the buidlworld typo every keeps teasing me about.
I didn't ask Jordan if this was OK, but figured it fell under the
documentation exception in his freeze mail.
named->name: hank@black-hole.com
/etc/rc.conf -> /etc/rc PR: docs/15664 Iiya Naumov
Added radius.conf format change from jdp
Added genassym change from geoff rehmet <geoff@is.co.za>
Yes. I'm still very much the maintainer of this file in -current.
o soren updated the ata driver. Please use 1213 or newer if
you have problems with the old stuff.
o Enshrine the night of bared axes against wd. Strongly push
users to move to ata driver.
o Alpha users need to recompile klds after 11/29.
o Mention the sound driver bridge code commit of 11/22.
o change examples in 1205 entry from wd to ad.
o Talk about new dc driver replacing all of the drivers that
Bill Paul has ever written.[*]
Corrections to these entries welcome.
[*] Well, at least those based on tulip clones...
didn't document the couple day window when the units were in terms of
ticks rather than ms.
Also add note about libreadline major version retrograde motion.
people with this upgrade. Lemme know what you think, or any
corrections that should be made to it.
Corrected a few typos based on submissions from various people.
Add note that make aout-to-elf is currently broken and what to do to
work around it. This is implied by make -DWANT_AOUT being broken, but
that isn't obvious to many people.
problems discussed in -current up through approx april 7th. Those
more in the know please read these changes and send me corrections.
I've only hit a few of the cases, not all of them, so my reporting is
second hand at best.
man page, but I take what I can get)
Submitted by: chuckr
Add warning that vn can't be a loadable module for a while
Submitted by: dillon
Add name change for old atapi cd driver
Submitted by: sos
Add better text for the ppbus changes
Add note about libdevstat changing forcing a recompile of some
things in the tree as well as ports that use devstat.
Thanks to those people that used HEADS UP in their message. Large,
rabid mammals to those that wanted to beat the /etc/rc* horse with the
phrase "heads up" in the subject line.
Submitted by: Joseph Koshy <jkoshy@FreeBSD.ORG>
P.S. Forgive the delay on committing this. I've been out of town at
a funeral until just a few minutes ago.
3.something. We were getting a lot of URL links in this file and it
seemed like a good idea to convert this file to html so people can
follow them easily.
This does not use the doc tools to generate. I'm doing it all by hand
at the moment.
Update /etc/rc* if you are going to run a system with aout
libraries, otherwise ldconfig won't know what to do and all dynamic
aout binaries will fail.
note of this in the updating file. Put it under the 19981224 date
rather than today's date, since that was when the change was.
Submitted by: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
Also added note about floppy tape driver. Didn't add note about
voxware or pcvt as they have been restored to the kernel.
day when the elves sail accross the sea to a new home, which happens
to be in your computer. They will sing glorious songs for the Eldar
days. You machine will shun the darkness that is upon the world.
Errrm, well actually you won't even notice...
Submitted by: peter
Appologies to: tokien
kernel forced migration happening soon.
While still incomplete, and there may be showstoppers along the way,
the advise given here is not incorrect.
Submitted indirectly by: jdk, peter wemm
update their systems from prior versions of FreeBSD. It is only for
November 18, 1998 and newer systems. If you have an older system, you
are on your own.
I'll update this from time to time, and if it shows signs of bitrot
I'll kill it.
