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Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
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This file is maintained and copyrighted by M. Warner Losh
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<imp@village.org>. See end of file for further details. For commonly
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done items, please see the COMMON ITEMS: section later in the file.
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Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
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/usr/ports/UPDATING. Please read that file before running
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portupgrade. Important recent entries: 20040724 (default X changes).
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[[ The UPDATING file will be trimmed to 20040814 on or about Oct 1, 2004 ]]
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NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 6.x IS SLOW:
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FreeBSD 6.x has many debugging features turned on, in
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both the kernel and userland. These features attempt to detect
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incorrect use of system primitives, and encourage loud failure
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through extra sanity checking and fail stop semantics. They
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also substantially impact system performance. If you want to
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do performance measurement, benchmarking, and optimization,
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you'll want to turn them off. This includes various WITNESS-
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related kernel options, INVARIANTS, malloc debugging flags
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in userland, and various verbose features in the kernel. Many
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developers choose to disable these features on build machines
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to maximize performance.
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20041219:
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Auto-loading of ancillary wlan modules such as wlan_wep has
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been temporarily disabled; you need to statically configure
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the modules you need into your kernel or explicitly load them
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prior to use. Specifically, if you intend to use WEP encryption
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with an 802.11 device load/configure wlan_wep; if you want to
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use WPA with the ath driver load/configure wlan_tkip, wlan_ccmp,
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and wlan_xauth as required.
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20041213:
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The behaviour of ppp(8) has changed slightly. If lqr is enabled
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(``enable lqr''), older versions would revert to LCP ECHO mode on
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negotiation failure. Now, ``enable echo'' is required for this
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behaviour. The ppp version number has been bumped to 3.4.2 to
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reflect the change.
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20041201:
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The wlan support has been updated to split the crypto support
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into separate modules. For static WEP you must configure the
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wlan_wep module in your system or build and install the module
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in place where it can be loaded (the kernel will auto-load
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the module when a wep key is configured).
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20041201:
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The ath driver has been updated to split the tx rate control
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algorithm into a separate module. You need to include either
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ath_rate_onoe or ath_rate_amrr when configuring the kernel.
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20041116:
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Support for systems with an 80386 CPU has been removed. Please
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use FreeBSD 5.x or earlier on systems with an 80386.
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20041110:
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We have had a hack which would mount the root filesystem
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R/W if the device were named 'md*'. As part of the vnode
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work I'm doing I have had to remove this hack. People
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building systems which use preloaded MD root filesystems
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may need to insert a "/sbin/mount -u -o rw /dev/md0 /" in
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their /etc/rc scripts.
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20041102:
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The size of struct tcpcb has changed again due to the removal
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of RFC1644 T/TCP. You have to recompile userland programs that
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read kmem for tcp sockets directly (netstat, sockstat, etc.)
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20041022:
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The size of struct tcpcb has changed. You have to recompile
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userland programs that read kmem for tcp sockets directly
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(netstat, sockstat, etc.)
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20041007:
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The FreeBSD keyword is no longer a requirement for a valid
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rc.d script. The rc(8) and rc.shutdown(8) scripts no longer check
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for the existence of this keyword when ordering rc.d scripts.
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This change touches most of the file in /etc/rc.d; therefore,
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if you have not modified any files in that directory it may
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be easier to rm -rf /etc/rc.d and then use the -i switch with
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mergemaster(8).
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20041007:
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One of the syscalls the 1:1 threading library libthr uses has
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changed, thus breaking ABI compatibility. Make sure you rebuild
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this library with the kernel.
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20041004:
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A major sweep over the tty drivers to elimnate approx 3100
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lines of copy&pasted code have been performed. As a part of
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this change some tty devices have changed names:
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sio devices are now named: {tty,cua}d%d[.init,.lock]
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ucom devices are now named: {tty,cua}U%d[.init,.lock]
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For other drivers see the commit logs.
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20041001:
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The following libraries had their version number bumped up:
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/lib/libm.so.2 -> libm.so.3
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/lib/libreadline.so.4 -> libreadline.so.5
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/usr/lib/libhistory.so.4 -> libhistory.so.5
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/usr/lib/libopie.so.2 -> libopie.so.3
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/usr/lib/libpcap.so.2 -> libpcap.so.3
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FreeBSD 4.10 versions of these libraries will be added to the
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compat4x collection. If you expect to be able to run old 4.X
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executables you will need to remove the old versions of these
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libraries. However note that any 5.X executables you have built
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will stop working once you remove those old libraries. You should
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have all your ports/packages rebuilt before removing the old
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libraries.
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20040929:
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The pfil API has gained an additional argument to pass an inpcb.
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You should rebuild all pfil consuming modules: ipfw, ipfilter
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and pf.
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20040928:
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If named is enabled, the default is now to run it in a chroot
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"sandbox." For users with existing configurations in
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/etc/namedb the migration should be simple. Upgrade your
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world as usual, then after installworld but before
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mergemaster do the following:
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If named is running: /etc/rc.d/named stop
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cd /etc
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mv namedb namedb.bak
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mkdir -p /var/named/etc/namedb
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cp -Rp namedb.bak/* /var/named/etc/namedb/
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mergemaster (with your usual options)
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If using the generated localhost* files:
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cd /var/named/etc/namedb
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/bin/sh make-localhost
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rm -f localhost-v6.rev localhost.rev
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/etc/rc.d/syslogd restart
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/etc/rc.d/named start
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If you are using a custom configuration, or if you have
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customised the named_* variables in /etc/rc.conf[.local]
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then you may have to adjust the instructions accordingly.
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It is suggested that you carefully examine the new named
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variables in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and the options in
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/var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf to see if they might
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now be more suitable.
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20040925:
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BIND 9 has been imported into the base, and is now fully
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functional. BIND 8 has now been removed. There are numerous
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differences between BIND 8 and 9, and users with critical
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named installations should read the migration documentation
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in /usr/share/doc/bind9/misc/migration. There is also a
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new instruction manual in /usr/share/doc/bind9/arm.
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The key differences that most users will experience are in
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how picky BIND 9 is about zone file format. If you are using
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named as a resolving (caching) name server, you will likely
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not have trouble.
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The following files are part of the old BIND 8 installation
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and should be removed:
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/usr/bin/dnskeygen /usr/bin/dnsquery /usr/libexec/named-xfer
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/usr/sbin/named.restart /usr/sbin/ndc
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The following files have moved to /usr/bin, and should be
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removed from their old locations:
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/usr/sbin/nslookup /usr/sbin/nsupdate
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20040914:
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The format of the pflogd(8) logfile "/var/log/pflog" has changed for
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architectures that have a 64 bit long type to make it compatible to
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the standard pcap format. In order to prevent corruption move away
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any old logfile before using a new pflogd(8).
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20040906:
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debug.witness_* has been renamed to debug.witness.*. There are
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compatibility tunables left in for a few days. Update loader.conf
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as necessary.
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20040902:
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The ifi_epoch change has been reverted because the ABI breakage
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was too extensive. If you are running with a kernel/userland
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containing the initial change (20040830), you should heed the
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warning about ifconfig incompatibility when upgrading again.
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With this change, 5.3 and 6.0 ifconfigs and kernels are once
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again interoperable.
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20040830:
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A new variable, ifi_epoch, has been added to struct if_data
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which is part if struct ifnet. This means all network drivers
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and network monitoring applications need to be recompiled.
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WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING
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This also breaks ifconfig compatibility. An old ifconfig will
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not work with the new kernel and a new ifconfig will not work
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with the old. It is strongly recommended that you make a copy
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of your old ifconfig before installworld. If you are installing
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remotely, you must copy over a new ifconfig before rebooting in
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to the new kernel.
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20040828:
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The default configuration for the network stack has been changed
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such that it now runs without the Giant lock unless configured
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otherwise. If you experience network-related instability, you
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may wish to try setting "debug.mpsafenet=0" or compiling the
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kernel with "options NET_WITH_GIANT". Details on the netperf
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project may be found at:
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http://www.watson.org/~robert/freebsd/netperf/
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Including the 20040828 announcement of configuration change
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details.
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20040827:
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PFIL_HOOKS are a fixed part of the network stack now and do not
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need to be specified in the kernel configuration file anymore.
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20040819:
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Netgraph changed its message format slightly to align the data
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portion well on 64 bit machines.
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Netgraph using utilities (e.g. ngctl, nghook, ppp, mpd,
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pppoed, bluetooth, ATM) should be recompiled when a new kernel
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is installed.
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20040817:
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IPFW has been converted to use pfil(9). This change is
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transparent to userland and preserves the ipfw ABI. The ipfw
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core packet inspection and filtering functions have not been
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changed, only how ipfw is invoked is different.
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20040814:
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The RANDOM_IP_ID option has been replaced by the sysctl
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net.inet.ip.random_id. If you had RANDOM_IP_ID in your kernel then
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you may want to add "net.inet.ip.random_id=1" to /etc/sysctl.conf.
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20040807:
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The size of 'struct ifnet' has changed due to the addition of the
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if_carp placeholder. All kernel modules implementing network
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interfaces must be recompiled as a result.
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20040806:
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Module loading has been fixed. Some older installations will
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drop proper module_path initialization and modules will fail to
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load properly. If you have a line in /boot/loader.rc that says:
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"initialize drop", do (i386 only):
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cp /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/loader.rc /boot/loader.rc
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chown root:wheel /boot/loader.rc
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chmod 444 /boot/loader.rc
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20040802:
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making /dev/(null|zero) into a module proved to be too unpopular,
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so this bit has been revoked from the previous (20040801) entry.
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20040801:
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The /dev/mem, /dev/io /dev/(null/zero) devices are now modules,
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so you may wish to add them to your kernel config file. See
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GENERIC for examples.
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20040728:
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System compiler has been upgraded to GCC 3.4.2-pre. As with any major
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compiler upgrade, there are several issues to be aware of. GCC 3.4.x
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has broken C++ ABI compatibility with previous releases yet again
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and users will have to rebuild all their C++ programs with the new
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compiler. If you are getting run-time error such as
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/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Undefined symbol "_ZNSs20_S_empty_rep_storageE"
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This entry does apply to you.
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A new unit-at-a-time optimization mode, which is default in this
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compiler release, is more aggressive in removing unused static
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symbols. This is the likely cause of 'make buildworld' breakages
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with non-default CFLAGS where optimization level is set to -O2
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or higher.
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With the upgrade of the system compiler, the kernel has been upgraded
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to match the new system compiler. This makes it impossible to build
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a new kernel with the old compiler. Upgrade your system via
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make buildworld and make kernel (see below) to fix this problem.
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20040727:
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The size of 'struct ifnet' has changed due to the addition of
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the IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag (and what it implies). All kernel
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modules implementing network interfaces must be recompiled as
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a result.
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20040716:
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The sound device drivers are renamed. `sound' is always required,
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while `snd_*' should be configured accordingly to your hardware.
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Refer to NOTES for the detail of the drivers.
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20040710:
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__FreeBSD_version bumped to 502122.
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20040710:
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The console initialization on Alpha has been reworked and is now
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identical to other platforms. This means that the hardcoding of
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the serial console and the debug port has been removed. As such,
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hints (hint.sio.0.flags="0x10") are now required for the sio(4)
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driver to become a console or debug port. The NO_SIO option has
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been decommissioned because of this.
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Running mergemaster is the easiest way to ensure your
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'boot/device.hints' has the needed line.
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20040710:
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A revamp of the debugging code in the kernel with some visible
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changes beyond just the debugging experience:
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o The DDB option is now specific to the DDB debugger backend
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and should not be used any more for conditional compilation
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of debugging code for when debugging is enabled. Use the KDB
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option for this.
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o The WITNESS_DDB, DDB_TRACE and DDB_UNATTENDED options have
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been renamed to WITNESS_KDB, KDB_TRACE and KDB_UNATTENDED
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respectively. This is in line with the first bullet.
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o The remote GDB support has been untangled from DDB and needs
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to be enabled separately now. Use the GDB option for this.
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o The GDB_REMOTE_CHAT option has been removed. Support for this
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homegrown feature is discontinued. The GDB remote protocol
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supports console output and it makes sense to use that.
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o The DDB_NOKLDSYM option has been removed. The DDB debugger
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now supports both direct symbol table lookups as well as KLD
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symbol lookups through the linker.
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20040708:
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Bluetooth code has been marked as non-i386 specific.
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__FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 502121 to mark this change.
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20040702:
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The native preemption has been added to the kernel scheduler.
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There is some report that the ULE scheduler was broken in some
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machines and we encourage users using the ULE scheduler either
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stick with a known good kernel, or temporarily switch to the 4BSD
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scheduler as a workaround.
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20040630:
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The netgraph ABI version number has been incremented to indicate
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an incompatible change in the ABI. Old netgraph nodes will refuse
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to attach until recompiled. Netgraph now uses mbuf tags to move
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metadata and this commit removes its home-grown metadata facility.
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Nodes should just recompile, unless they use metadata, in which
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case the changes are simple; the file ng_ksocket.c serves as an
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example of such changes.
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This also broke i4b, although the compile problem has been papered
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over.
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20040630:
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ACPI has been updated to disable known-bad BIOS revisions. A message
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will be printed on the console indicating that ACPI has been disabled
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automatically and that the user should use a newer BIOS, if possible.
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If you think ACPI does work on your system and want to override
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this (i.e., for testing), set hint.acpi.0.disabled="0" at the
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loader prompt.
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20040623:
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pf was updated to OpenBSD-stable 3.5 and pflogd(8) is privilege
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separated now. It uses the newly created "_pflogd" user/group
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combination. If you plan to use pflogd(8) make sure to run
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mergemaster -p or install the "_pflogd" user and group manually.
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20040622:
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Network interface cloning has been overhauled. This change will
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require a recompile of modules using cloning and modification of
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external ones to the new API. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped
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to 502119 to mark this change. Additionally, users creating
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stf(4) interfaces via "ifconfig stf" will need to update their
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scripts as this will create an interface named "stf" instead of
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"stf0" and ifconfig will not print "stf0" to stdout.
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20040621:
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On 20040524, the /etc/rc.d/nsswitch script was modified to
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automatically create /etc/nsswitch.conf on startup if it did
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not already exist. Unfortunately, an error in the man page
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was carried over to the script, resulting in incorrect
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nsswitch settings. The simplest remedy is to remove both
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/etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/host.conf; they will be recreated
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during the next reboot.
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20040614:
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The return value of sema_timedwait(9) has been changed to
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make it consistent with cv_timedwait(9). Be sure to recompile
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the ips module and any third-party modules which call
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sema_timedwait.
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20040613:
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ALTQ is now linked to the build. This breaks ABI for struct ifnet.
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Make sure to recompile modules and any userland that makes use of
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sizeof(struct ifnet). In order to get the altq headers in place
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please recompile and reinstall world.
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20040607:
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Splitting kern_thread.c into 2 files (adding kern_kse.c)
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requires that you re-run config after updating your tree.
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20040601:
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The MIDI drivers have been removed. Until the new module-friendly
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ones are merged, remove or comment out midi and seq from your
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kernel configuration.
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20040423:
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Due to a new option in ipfw (versrcreach) the ipfw(8) command
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needs to be recompiled. Normal accept/reject rules without
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options are not affected but those with options may break until
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ipfw(8) is recompiled.
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20040420:
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Due to changes in the callout ABI, kernels compiled after this
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date may be incompatible with kernel modules compiled prior to
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20040406.
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20040414:
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The PCI bus power state stuff has been turned on. If this causes
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problems for your system, please disable it using the tunable
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hw.pci.do_powerstate=0.
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20040412:
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The bulk of the pci problems have been fixed, although the floppy
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drive is still broken.
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20040410:
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A substantial update to the pci bus resource and power management
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have been committed. Expect a bumpy ride for a few days until
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the unanticipated problems have been resolved.
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20040409:
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Due to changes in the the Yarrow initialization process,
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/dev/random needs to be fed before operations requiring
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temp files can succeed in single user mode. This includes
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running "make installworld". /dev/random may be fed by running
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"/etc/rc.d/initrandom start" or with 20040415 source by running
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"/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom".
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20040322:
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The debug.mpsafenet tunable controls whether the kernel Giant
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lock is held across the lower levels of the network stack, and
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by default is turned off. In the few days following 20040322,
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the behavior of debug.mpsafenet will change such that this
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tunable controls Giant over all levels of the network stack.
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If you are currently setting debug.mpsafenet to 1, you should
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set it back to 0 (the default) again during the change-over.
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An additional note will be added to UPDATING when sufficient
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locking is merged to permit this to take place.
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20040310:
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The FreeBSD/sparc64 platform is changing time_t from 32-bits to
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64-bits. This is a very major incompatible change, so people
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using FreeBSD/sparc64 *must* read the UPDATING.64BTT file for
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detailed instructions on how to make this upgrade. People
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upgrading FreeBSD on other platforms can ignore this event.
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20040308:
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The packet filter (pf) is now installed with the base system. Make
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sure to run mergemaster -p before installworld to create required
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user account ("proxy"). If you do not want to build pf with your
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system you can use the NO_PF knob in make.conf.
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The pf system consists of the following three devices:
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device pf # required
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device pflog # optional
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device pfsync # optional
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20040303:
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|
If you are having trouble with the libc_r -> libpthread transition
|
|
(see the 20040130 entry), place the following lines at the top of
|
|
/etc/libmap.conf:
|
|
|
|
libc_r.so.5 libpthread.so.1
|
|
libc_r.so libpthread.so
|
|
|
|
This will cause all programs and libraries linked against libc_r
|
|
to use libpthread instead.
|
|
|
|
20040226:
|
|
Some sshd configuration defaults have changed: protocol version 1
|
|
is no longer enabled by default, and password authentication is
|
|
disabled by default if PAM is enabled (which it is by default).
|
|
OpenSSH clients should not be affected by this; other clients may
|
|
have to be reconfigured, upgraded or replaced.
|
|
|
|
20040225:
|
|
The ABIs defined in <resolv.h> and <netdb.h> have been updated
|
|
to support improved reentrancy. Multi-threaded programs that
|
|
reference the "_res" or "h_errno" symbols may experience some
|
|
problems if they are not recompiled. Single-threaded programs
|
|
should remain unaffected.
|
|
|
|
20040225:
|
|
routed has been updated in the base system from the vendor
|
|
sources, routed v2.27, from rhyolite.com. This change means that
|
|
for users who use RIP's MD5 authentication feature, FreeBSD
|
|
-CURRENT's routed is now incompatible with previous versions
|
|
of FreeBSD; however it is now compatible with implementations
|
|
from Sun, Cisco and other vendors.
|
|
|
|
20040224:
|
|
The tcpcb structure has changed and makes a recompile of libkvm
|
|
and related userland network utilities necessary.
|
|
|
|
20040222:
|
|
The cdevsw structure has changed in two externally visible ways.
|
|
First, the sense of the D_GIANT flag has changed to D_NEEDSGIANT.
|
|
Second, the d_version field must be filled in with D_VERSION.
|
|
Drivers outside the tree will need to be updated.
|
|
|
|
20040207:
|
|
The /etc/rc.d/ttys script has been removed. It is no longer
|
|
necessary since devfs has been mandatory for some time.
|
|
|
|
20040130:
|
|
libkse has been renamed back to libpthread and is now the
|
|
default threads library. The gcc -pthread option has also
|
|
been changed to link to libpthread instead of libc_r. For
|
|
alpha and sparc64 machines, libkse is not renamed and links
|
|
are installed so that libpthread points to libc_r. Until
|
|
the ports system is updated to handle this change, it is
|
|
recommended that folks install an /etc/libmap.conf(5) that
|
|
maps libc_r to libpthread. If you have any binaries or
|
|
libraries linked to libkse, then it is also recommended
|
|
that you map libkse to libpthread. Anyone that is using
|
|
nvidia supplied drivers and libraries should use a libmap.conf
|
|
that maps libpthread to libc_r since their drivers/libraries
|
|
do not work with libpthread.
|
|
|
|
20040125:
|
|
ULE has entered into its probationary period as the default scheduler
|
|
in GENERIC. For the average user, interactivity is reported to be
|
|
better in many cases. On SMP machines ULE will be able to make more
|
|
efficient use of the available parallel resources. If you are not
|
|
running it now, please switch over, replacing the kernel option
|
|
SCHED_4BSD with SCHED_ULE.
|
|
|
|
20040125:
|
|
Move LongRun support out of identcpu.c, where it hardly
|
|
belongs, into its own file and make it opt-in, not mandatory,
|
|
depending on CPU_ENABLE_LONGRUN config(8) option.
|
|
|
|
20031213:
|
|
src/lib/libc/gen/initgroups.c:1.8 now causes logins to fail
|
|
if the login process is unable to successfully set the
|
|
process credentials to include all groups defined for the
|
|
user. The current kernel limit is 16 groups; administrators
|
|
may wish to check that users do not have over 16 groups
|
|
defined, or they will be unable to log in.
|
|
|
|
20031203:
|
|
The ACPI module has been reactivated. It is no longer required
|
|
to compile ACPI support into kernels statically.
|
|
|
|
20031112:
|
|
The statfs structure has been updated with 64-bit fields to
|
|
allow accurate reporting of multi-terabyte filesystem
|
|
sizes. You should build world, then build and boot the new kernel
|
|
BEFORE doing a `installworld' as the new kernel will know about
|
|
binaries using the old statfs structure, but an old kernel will
|
|
not know about the new system calls that support the new statfs
|
|
structure.
|
|
Note that the backwards compatibility is only present when the
|
|
kernel is configured with the COMPAT_FREEBSD4 option. Since
|
|
even /bin/sh will not run with a new kernel without said option
|
|
you're pretty much dead in the water without it. Make sure you
|
|
have COMPAT_FREEBSD4!
|
|
Running an old kernel after a `make world' will cause programs
|
|
such as `df' that do a statfs system call to fail with a bad
|
|
system call. Marco Wertejuk <wertejuk@mwcis.com> also reports
|
|
that cfsd (ports/security/cfs) needs to be recompiled after
|
|
these changes are installed.
|
|
|
|
****************************DANGER*******************************
|
|
|
|
DO NOT make installworld after the buildworld w/o building and
|
|
installing a new kernel FIRST. You will be unable to build a
|
|
new kernel otherwise on a system with new binaries and an old
|
|
kernel.
|
|
|
|
20031112:
|
|
Some netgraph string length constants have been changed. This
|
|
change requires the netgraph kernel modules and all netgraph
|
|
userland components to be in sync. Especially users who require
|
|
netgraph to boot need to make sure to have world and kernel in
|
|
sync before rebooting.
|
|
|
|
20031111:
|
|
Hyperthreading logical CPU's are no longer probed by default
|
|
when using the MP Table. If ACPI is being used, then logical
|
|
CPUs will be probed if hyperthreading is enabled in the BIOS.
|
|
If ACPI is not being used and hyperthreading is enabled in the
|
|
BIOS, logical CPUs can be enabled by building a custom kernel
|
|
with the option MPTABLE_FORCE_HTT enabled.
|
|
|
|
20031103:
|
|
The i386 APIC_IO kernel option has been replaced by
|
|
'device apic'. The ACPI module has also been temporarily
|
|
disabled, so ACPI must be statically compiled into your
|
|
kernel using 'device acpi' if you wish to use the ACPI driver.
|
|
|
|
20031031:
|
|
The API and ABI of struct ifnet have been changed by removing
|
|
the if_name and if_unit members and replacing them with
|
|
if_xname, if_dname, and if_dunit. All network drivers and most
|
|
userland programs which include net/if_var.h must be updated
|
|
and recompiled. __FreeBSD_version has been bumped to 501113 to
|
|
reflect this change.
|
|
|
|
20030928:
|
|
Changes to the cdevsw default functions have been made to remove
|
|
the need to specify nullopen() and nullclose() explicitly.
|
|
__FreeBSD_version bumped to 501110.
|
|
|
|
20030926:
|
|
kiconv(3) has been added. mount_msdosfs(8), mount_ntfs(8) and
|
|
mount_cd9660(8) need to be in sync with kernel.
|
|
|
|
20030923:
|
|
Fix a bug in arplookup(), whereby a hostile party on a locally
|
|
attached network could exhaust kernel memory, and cause a system
|
|
panic, by sending a flood of spoofed ARP requests. See
|
|
FreeBSD-SA-03:14.arp.
|
|
|
|
20030915:
|
|
A change to /etc/defaults/rc.conf now causes inetd to be started
|
|
with `-C 60' if it is not overridden in /etc/rc.conf. This
|
|
causes inetd to stop accepting connections from an IP address
|
|
that exceeds the rate of 60 connections per minute.
|
|
|
|
20030829:
|
|
The following rc.d scripts have been removed and should be
|
|
deleted from your installation: atm2.sh atm3.sh devdb
|
|
localdaemons network1 network2 network3. Depending on when
|
|
you last updated world and used mergemaster(8) you may or
|
|
may not have problems during the rc boot sequence. The simplest
|
|
solution is an 'rm -rf /etc/rc.d/*' and then 'mergemaster -i'.
|
|
The atm2.sh atm3.sh and devdb scripts were removed some time
|
|
ago, so depending on when you installed -CURRENT these scripts
|
|
may or may not exist on your system.
|
|
|
|
20030824:
|
|
ATAng has been committed. You need to build world as sys/ata.h
|
|
has changed, and userland atacontrol depends on it.
|
|
If you use ATA SW raids you need "device ataraid" in your
|
|
kernel config file, as it is no longer pulled in automatically.
|
|
|
|
20030819:
|
|
The OFW_NEWPCI option has been turned on in the Sparc64 GENERIC kernel.
|
|
Among other things, this changes the device enumeration to be
|
|
closer to Solaris. Be aware that, this can even cause the machine
|
|
to not boot without manual intervention before the fstab is adjusted.
|
|
|
|
20030728:
|
|
All current USB and Firewire quirks in da(4) have been deprecated
|
|
and will be removed for 5.2. If this causes failure for your
|
|
umass(4) devices, enable "options DA_OLD_QUIRKS" in your kernel
|
|
and send the output of "camcontrol inquiry da0" to scsi@freebsd.org
|
|
so the quirk can be re-enabled.
|
|
|
|
20030724:
|
|
Problems with entry 20030714 have been corrected and no known issues
|
|
with /rescue and -j exist for host systems after this point in time.
|
|
|
|
20030722:
|
|
FPU-less support has been removed from FreeBSD. Chances are you won't
|
|
notice. 386+387 support should still work after this change, but
|
|
it is now a minimum requirement for the i386 port that you have real
|
|
FPU hardware.
|
|
|
|
20030714:
|
|
Some people are having problems with changes related to /rescue.
|
|
If you are building -j N, you will need to define NO_RESCUE. Others
|
|
will need to define it if /rescue has issues with their environment.
|
|
People should report those issues to current@.
|
|
|
|
20030711:
|
|
gcc was upgraded to 3.3. You are advised to not build -DNOCLEAN
|
|
across this point. Further, it might be a good idea to remove
|
|
/usr/obj.
|
|
|
|
20030610:
|
|
Remove deprecated locale names and transition period code
|
|
for them, finishing switching to the new scheme. Check your
|
|
LANG environment variable.
|
|
|
|
20030609:
|
|
CCD has been changed to be a fully GEOMified class. Kernel
|
|
and ccdconfig(8) needs to be in sync, this is particularly
|
|
important to remember beforehand if your source tree is on
|
|
a ccd device. Consider making a copy of the old ccdconfig
|
|
into /boot/kernel.good or wherever you keep your backup
|
|
kernel.
|
|
|
|
20030605:
|
|
There was a small window in which sed(1) was broken. If you
|
|
happen to have sed(1) installed during that window, which is
|
|
evidenced by an inability to build world with the failure
|
|
given below, you need to manually build and install sed(1)
|
|
(and only sed(1)) before doing anything else. This is a one-
|
|
time snafu. Typical failure mode:
|
|
|
|
In file included from /usr/src/contrib/binutils/bfd/targets.c:1092:
|
|
targmatch.h:7:1: null character(s) ignored
|
|
targmatch.h:12:1: null character(s) ignored
|
|
targmatch.h:16:1: null character(s) ignored
|
|
:
|
|
|
|
The window of "sed(1)-uction" is from Wed Jun 4 15:31:55 2003 UTC
|
|
to Thu Jun 5 12:10:19 2003 UTC (from rev 1.30 to rev 1.31 of
|
|
usr.bin/sed/process.c).
|
|
|
|
20030505:
|
|
Kerberos 5 (Heimdal) is now built by default. Setting
|
|
MAKE_KERBEROS5 no longer has any effect. If you do NOT
|
|
want the "base" Kerberos 5, you need to set NO_KERBEROS.
|
|
|
|
20030502:
|
|
groff has been updated. If you try to do a buildworld and
|
|
get an infinite loop in troff, update to May 4th or newer. If you
|
|
have a newer kernel than userland, you may need to set the OSRELDATE
|
|
to 500110 in your environment before starting a buildworld.
|
|
|
|
20030501:
|
|
The old rc system has been removed. Please report any problems
|
|
to freebsd-rc@yahoogroups.com, and/or freebsd-current@freebsd.org.
|
|
Your personal versions of these files will not be removed, so you can
|
|
continue to use them. However, you should take great care when updating,
|
|
especially when using mergemaster, since the compatibility code that
|
|
utilizes these old scripts has also been removed.
|
|
|
|
20030423:
|
|
A bug has been fixed in /dev/devctl which would cause devd
|
|
to hang on boot, were it not for a workaround in devd. The
|
|
work around in devd will be removed around 20030507. You
|
|
have until then to upgrade your kernel before updating
|
|
userland. In general, you should have a userland and
|
|
kernel that's in sync with each other. However, given the
|
|
effects of this bug (hang on boot when starting devd), some
|
|
allowances are made.
|
|
|
|
20030329:
|
|
Alphas with libc from between 20030312 and 20030329 exhibit
|
|
floating point exceptions (FPEs), most notably in awk(1)
|
|
while upgrading the system through a buildworld.
|
|
|
|
So, to successfully upgrade your Alpha, you must either
|
|
downgrade your libc.so to a pre-20030312 version, or update
|
|
/usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk to revision 1.26 which adds -mieee
|
|
to CFLAGS, then forcibly rebuild and install libc:
|
|
|
|
cd /usr/src/lib/libc && \
|
|
make cleandir && make obj && \
|
|
make -DNOMAN -DNOPROFILE all && \
|
|
make -DNOMAN -DNOPROFILE install
|
|
|
|
20030208:
|
|
sendmail 8.12.7 has been imported. It has one important
|
|
change for IPv6 users. The default submit.mc now uses
|
|
'[127.0.0.1]' instead of 'localhost' meaning only IPv4 is
|
|
used to connect to the MTA. Users on IPv6-only machines
|
|
will need to edit /etc/mail/submit.mc appropriately.
|
|
|
|
20030128:
|
|
NODEVFS option has been removed and DEVFS thereby made standard.
|
|
This makes all references to MAKEDEV obsolete, and they should
|
|
be removed when convenient.
|
|
|
|
20030126:
|
|
The name of the device for the ofw console has changed, sparc64 users
|
|
must run mergemaster to update their installed /etc/ttys.
|
|
|
|
20030125:
|
|
The scheduler framework has grown a second scheduler and consequently
|
|
you must specify one and only one scheduler in your kernel config.
|
|
The cvs config files have been updated to use the old scheduler
|
|
which may be selected via 'options SCHED_4BSD'. If you would like
|
|
to try the new, much more experimental, scheduler please try
|
|
'options SCHED_ULE' and contribute to the arch@ discussion.
|
|
|
|
20030115:
|
|
A new version of the wi driver has been imported into the tree.
|
|
One now must have device wlan in the config file for it to operate
|
|
properly.
|
|
|
|
In addition, there have been some changes to how wi devices are
|
|
configured for point to point links to bring it more in line
|
|
with the former way of doing things, as well as compatibility
|
|
with NetBSD.
|
|
|
|
20021222:
|
|
For a period after the GCC 3.2.1 import (from 12/04 to 12/22), GCC
|
|
used an incompatible form of ABI for returning structures and unions
|
|
which FreeBSD's GCC maintainers were not aware of relative to previous
|
|
versions of FreeBSD. We have gone back to the ABI for now, and any
|
|
code compiled which is required to interoperate with other code (not
|
|
built at the same time) returning structs or unions should be
|
|
rebuilt.
|
|
|
|
20021216:
|
|
A name change in /etc/netconfig has been reverted to stay
|
|
compatible with suns TIRPC and also with NetBSD. You need
|
|
to run mergemaster after make world. A new libc does still work
|
|
with an outdated /etc/netconfig for some time, but you'll get
|
|
a warning. This warning will be removed in 20030301.
|
|
|
|
20021202:
|
|
The recent binutils upgrade marks a kernel flag day on
|
|
sparc64: modules built with the old binutils will not work
|
|
with new kernels and vice versa. Mismatches will result in
|
|
panics. Make sure your kernel and modules are in sync.
|
|
|
|
20021029:
|
|
The value of IPPROTO_DIVERT has changed. Make sure to keep
|
|
your kernel, netstat, natd and any third-party DIVERT
|
|
consumers in sync.
|
|
|
|
20021024:
|
|
Old, compatibility slices have been removed in GEOM kernels.
|
|
This means that you will have to update your /etc/fstab to
|
|
not use disk devices of the form /dev/ad0a. Instead, you
|
|
now must specify /dev/ad0s1a, or whatever slice your FreeBSD
|
|
partition really is on. The old device names have gone
|
|
away, so if you use them anywhere else, you must also adjust
|
|
those uses. (This doesn't affect the disks formatted in
|
|
the ``dangerously-dedicated'' mode.)
|
|
|
|
20021023:
|
|
Alphas with kernels from between 20020830 and 20021023 and/or
|
|
rtld (ld-elf.so.1) older than 20021023 may experience problems
|
|
with groff while doing a buildworld (kernel: "out of memory",
|
|
fixed in rev 1.129 of kern/imgact_elf.c; rtld: "too few PT_LOAD
|
|
segments", fixed in rev 1.8 of libexec/rtld-elf/map_object.c).
|
|
|
|
So, to successfully upgrade your Alpha, you must either
|
|
upgrade your kernel and rtld first (which might be a bit
|
|
tricky), or avoid running the bootstrapped groff during the
|
|
"transitional" buildworld. To avoid running groff during the
|
|
transitional upgrade run make buildworld with -DNOMAN,
|
|
-DNO_SHAREDOCS, and -DNO_LPR.
|
|
|
|
20020831:
|
|
gcc has been upgraded to 3.2. It is not all binary compatible
|
|
with earlier versions of gcc for c++ programs. All c++
|
|
programs and libraries need to be recompiled.
|
|
|
|
Also, if you encounter g++ issues, rm /usr/include/g++/* before
|
|
doing an installworld to make sure that stale files are removed.
|
|
|
|
20020827:
|
|
Our /etc/termcap now has all the entries from the XFree86 xterm
|
|
almost unchanged. This means xterm now supports color by default.
|
|
If you used TERM=xterm-color in the past you now should use
|
|
TERM=xterm. (xterm-color will lead to benign warnings).
|
|
|
|
20020815:
|
|
A "bug" in gcc(1) that was hiding warning in system headers was
|
|
fixed. It's probably time to add -DNO_WERROR to your make line
|
|
again.
|
|
|
|
20020729:
|
|
COPY is being deprecated. The 20010530 change was reverted, as
|
|
it causes far more pain than was expected, and to always compare
|
|
before installing, please use INSTALL="install -C" again. The
|
|
-C option is now silently ignored when used with the -d option.
|
|
|
|
20020702:
|
|
Problems with libc_r clients like KDE and GNOME have been resolved.
|
|
There are still some minor problems with some signals but the
|
|
system is stable enough for general use again. SMP is less so than UP
|
|
but each can successfully complete multiple buildworlds.
|
|
Libkvm needs to be recompiled due to KSE.
|
|
|
|
20020701:
|
|
Now would be a bad time to upgrade. Something in or near the
|
|
KSE commit totally broke programs using libc_r like KDE and
|
|
GNOME.
|
|
|
|
20020511:
|
|
The k5su utility installed as part of Kerberos 5 is no longer
|
|
installed with the set-user-ID bit set by default. Add
|
|
ENABLE_SUID_K5SU=yes to /etc/make.conf to have it installed
|
|
with the set-user-ID bit set.
|
|
|
|
20020510:
|
|
Gcc 3.1 debugging format (cc -g) has changed from STABS to DWARF2.
|
|
Unfortunately our native GDB (at version 4.18) does not understand
|
|
the DWARF2 debugging format. Thus you must use `gcc -gstabs+' to
|
|
generated debugging information for our native GDB.
|
|
|
|
20020510:
|
|
Due to the way CVS works, it may not properly update src/contrib/gcc
|
|
to the 3.1 sources. The easiest fix is to `rm -rf' src/contrib/gcc
|
|
and then do a cvs update.
|
|
|
|
20020421:
|
|
When exec'ing set[ug]id executables, the kernel now ensures that the
|
|
stdio file descriptors (0..2) are open. See FreeBSD-SA-02:23.stdio.
|
|
|
|
20020404:
|
|
New sendmail startup scripts have been installed to make it
|
|
easier to use alternative MTAs with FreeBSD. Setting the rc.conf
|
|
variable sendmail_enable to "NO" no longer prevents any sendmail
|
|
daemons from starting. Instead, either set sendmail_enable to
|
|
"NONE" or change mta_start_script to a script for starting
|
|
an alternative MTA. Setting mta_start_script to "" will
|
|
also prevent any MTA from being started at boot.
|
|
|
|
20020403:
|
|
UCONSOLE is no longer a valid kernel option.
|
|
|
|
20020315:
|
|
FreeBSD 5.0 DP-1 was basically branched today.
|
|
|
|
20020225:
|
|
Warnings are now errors in the kernel. Unless you are a developer,
|
|
you should add -DNO_WERROR to your make line.
|
|
|
|
20020217:
|
|
sendmail 8.12.2 has been imported. The sendmail binary is no
|
|
longer a set-user-ID root binary and the infrastructure to support
|
|
command line mail submission has changed. Be sure to run
|
|
mergemaster (especially for updating /etc/rc, /etc/defaults/rc.conf,
|
|
and /etc/mail) and read /etc/mail/README for more details.
|
|
|
|
Due to the import of sendmail 8.12.2, a new user and group are
|
|
required in order for sendmail to run as a set-group-ID
|
|
binary. A 'make installworld' will use the new user and group
|
|
to set the owner and group of /var/spool/clientmqueue and will
|
|
fail if the new user and group do not exist. The 'smmsp' user
|
|
and group must be merged from src/etc/group and
|
|
src/etc/master.passwd before using 'make installworld'.
|
|
'mergemaster -p' will do this. You may need to install
|
|
mergemaster before this will work if you are updating from a
|
|
very old version of current. The updating recipe has changed
|
|
as of this date.
|
|
|
|
20020112:
|
|
The preferred configuration method for PAM is now /etc/pam.d/
|
|
rather than /etc/pam.conf. If you have an unmodified
|
|
pam.conf, just delete it after your next mergemaster run. If
|
|
you have local modifications, you can use
|
|
/usr/src/etc/pam.d/convert.pl to incorporate them into your
|
|
/etc/pam.d.
|
|
|
|
Please see the following url for more details:
|
|
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=<xzp6667fyoa.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
|
|
20011229:
|
|
If anyone here is already using the new rc.conf(5) variable
|
|
networkfs_types, please note that it has changed
|
|
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=<9744.1009655556@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za>
|
|
|
|
20011220:
|
|
sys/i4b/driver/i4b_ispppsubr.c has been retired. This file
|
|
started out its life in the ISDN4BSD project as an offspring
|
|
from sys/net/if_spppsubr.c, which eventually got a life of its
|
|
own. All the accumulated features and bug fixes of the i4b
|
|
version have now been merged back into the base system's
|
|
version now. The only user-visible change resulting from this
|
|
is that i4b's sppp(4) interfaces are to be managed with
|
|
spppcontrol(8) again, since ispppcontrol(8) has been retired
|
|
as well. (There has never been rc file support for
|
|
ispppcontrol in -current, but only in -stable. That will be
|
|
reverted by the time the changes are MFCed.)
|
|
|
|
20011215:
|
|
The fdc(4) driver has been updated and now automatically
|
|
recognizes media in `standard' formats (like 1440 KB and
|
|
720 KB for a 3.5" high-density drive) when accessing the
|
|
default device node (e. g. /dev/fd0). The old variety of
|
|
floppy device nodes /dev/fd*.* is no longer present by
|
|
default, devices can be created (in DEVFS) on demand. They
|
|
will need to be customized then for `odd' densities using
|
|
fdcontrol(8).
|
|
|
|
20011209:
|
|
The bugs in procfs' debugging support code have been fixed,
|
|
and truss(1) now works again.
|
|
|
|
20011207:
|
|
Daily security checks have been split out to use the periodic(8)
|
|
scripts. Some change in configuration may be necessary. Please
|
|
see
|
|
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?db=mid&id=<20011207155805.R8975@blossom.cjclark.org>
|
|
for details.
|
|
|
|
20011204:
|
|
sos added VCD/SVCD support to ata driver and that needs the
|
|
kernel and burncd to be in sync.
|
|
|
|
20011203:
|
|
The procfs pseudo-filesystem has now been converted to use the
|
|
pseudofs framework. If you have 'options PROCFS' in your
|
|
kernel config, you'll need to add 'options PSEUDOFS' if it's
|
|
not there already.
|
|
|
|
This change temporarily breaks truss(1); use ktrace(1) instead
|
|
until the issue has been resolved.
|
|
|
|
20011202:
|
|
A security hole in OpenSSH involving `UseLogin yes' has been
|
|
patched.
|
|
|
|
20011126:
|
|
You need to remove /usr/obj/.../usr.bin/tip before rebuilding
|
|
after this date. You need to do this only once.
|
|
|
|
20011103:
|
|
Most of the awk issues have been resolved. Some rough
|
|
edges may be left, but for the most part things should be
|
|
back to "normal." For CURRENT's usual definition of "normal."
|
|
|
|
20011030:
|
|
Awk has been upgraded to the one true awk from bell labs. Expect
|
|
choppy waves in the upgrade process.
|
|
|
|
20011030:
|
|
The asr driver problem has been resolved.
|
|
|
|
20011027:
|
|
Due to changes in other parts of the system, the asr driver
|
|
now causes the system to panic on boot. Do not use it pending
|
|
correction. Comment it out of any kernel config file that you
|
|
try to use from this date forward.
|
|
|
|
20011025:
|
|
When crossbuilding, use TARGET=xxx where you used to use
|
|
MACHINE=xxx. You don't need to set TARGET_ARCH and TARGET,
|
|
unless you are changing both of them. To cross build pc98 on
|
|
an alpha, for example, you need to set TARGET=pc98 and
|
|
TARGET_ARCH=i386.
|
|
|
|
20011001:
|
|
The kernel interface that burncd depends on has changed.
|
|
You must recompile both the kernel and userland applications
|
|
at the same time.
|
|
|
|
20010929:
|
|
When crossbuilding, please set TARGET_ARCH rather than
|
|
MACHINE_ARCH to indicate the target. In the future, one will
|
|
set TARGET_MACHINE where you set MACHINE now. At the moment,
|
|
setting MACHINE alone for same MACHINE_ARCH machines works
|
|
(eg, you can build pc98 on an i386 machine and vice versa).
|
|
|
|
20010927:
|
|
Some weird problems result from using ACPI on some machines.
|
|
To disable ACPI you can add
|
|
hint.acpi.0.disabled="1"
|
|
to /boot/loader.conf (or by putting set X=Y at the boot
|
|
loader "ok" prompt).
|
|
|
|
Alternatively, you can remove it from /boot/kernel/acpi.ko
|
|
or use the MODULES_OVERRIDE function in your kernel config
|
|
file and not list acpi in that list.
|
|
|
|
20010924:
|
|
The buildworld has been fixed. You may need to install
|
|
the 4.x compatibility libraries for some old binaries
|
|
to work. Add COMPAT4X=true to your /etc/make.conf to
|
|
get them installed on every installworld, or execute the
|
|
following to get them installed only once:
|
|
cd src/lib/compat/compat4x.<arch>
|
|
make all install
|
|
You will see ``__stdoutp undefined'' until you do this.
|
|
|
|
20010919:
|
|
There's a bug in the world build process. The cross-tools
|
|
are build with the NEW headers, but the OLD libc.a. This
|
|
leads to all kinds of problems with the new libc. A temporary
|
|
workaround is to add
|
|
CFLAGS="-O -pipe -D_OLD_STDIO"
|
|
before building world when upgrading from 4.x to current. This
|
|
can be removed afterwards.
|
|
|
|
A proper fix to the buildworld target is needed.
|
|
|
|
20010918:
|
|
Peter has committed his new kthread nfs client/server code.
|
|
NFS may be unstable after this date.
|
|
|
|
20010912:
|
|
KSE has hit the tree. Lots of things are now different in
|
|
the kernel. While a few problems were introduced in the
|
|
initial commit, most of the major ones have been found and
|
|
corrected.
|
|
|
|
20010901:
|
|
In OLDCARD, CardBus bridges appear to be stable. The work
|
|
arounds described in the 20010604 entry are now no longer
|
|
necessary and will be ignored. Most insert/remove problems
|
|
have been rectified around this date.
|
|
|
|
20010823:
|
|
named now runs as user bind and group bind rather than as
|
|
root. If named_enable is set to YES in /etc/rc.conf, ensure
|
|
that user bind is available in /etc/passwd (using vipw(8))
|
|
and that group bind is available in /etc/group. Also make
|
|
sure that user or group bind has read (and not write)
|
|
permission for your name server configuration and that it
|
|
has read and write permission for your slave zone files and
|
|
directory.
|
|
|
|
If you wish to continue to run named as root (a less secure
|
|
alternative), add a line to /etc/rc.conf saying
|
|
|
|
named_flags=
|
|
|
|
20010709:
|
|
The PAM libraries have had an API upgrade that is beyond
|
|
the ability of the shared library major number to handle.
|
|
It is manifested by PAM-using ports dumping core. The
|
|
solution is to rebuild those ports.
|
|
|
|
20010628:
|
|
The kernel compile module has moved from src/sys/compile/FOO
|
|
to src/sys/${MACHINE}/compile/FOO.
|
|
|
|
20010625:
|
|
The pccard modem issue from 20010613 has been corrected.
|
|
OLDCARD support is still a little weak in -current. slot 1 is
|
|
known not to work on some TI based cardbus bridges. Some
|
|
cardbus bridges do not properly detect insert/removal events.
|
|
IRQ configuration needs more safety belts.
|
|
|
|
20010617:
|
|
Softupdates problems have been corrected.
|
|
|
|
20010614:
|
|
Peter ripped out the linkerset support. You must, as always,
|
|
rerun config after you cvsup if you are using the traditional
|
|
kernel building methods.
|
|
|
|
20010613:
|
|
pccard modems may not work with current after 20010604 date. Some
|
|
do, others result in panics. *MAKE*SURE* that you update your
|
|
config and /etc/rc.conf ala the 20010604 entry, or you will have
|
|
problems (this issue will be fixed, it just hasn't been yet).
|
|
|
|
20010613:
|
|
SOFTUPDATES seem to be broken since the middle of May or so. Do not
|
|
use them in current. You can disable softupdates on all mounted
|
|
partitions, or remove SOFTUPDATES the kernel config file.
|
|
|
|
20010612:
|
|
After Peter's commits to the hints code, people have been noticing
|
|
that certain devices are attached (or try to) twice. This is due
|
|
to having both static hints as well as a /boot/device.hints. To
|
|
work around this issue, please use only one or the other mechanism
|
|
until this bug is fixed.
|
|
|
|
Please note that a feature of config is that if you have config
|
|
file FOO and FOO.hints, it automatically adds FOO.hints to the
|
|
hints.c file, whether you want it to or not.
|
|
|
|
20010610:
|
|
Locale names have changed to match other systems better.
|
|
|
|
20010604:
|
|
pccard support for pci cards has been committed. You must change
|
|
your /etc/pccard.conf irq lines. It must match the irq used by
|
|
pcic device. Interrupt storms may result if you fail to do this.
|
|
Interrupt storms look a lot like a hang.
|
|
|
|
You must also install a new pccardd, otherwise you will get an
|
|
interrupt storm at card reset time (just after it tells you what
|
|
it is).
|
|
|
|
pccardd_flags="-I" is necessary for the time being. It tells pccardd
|
|
not to ask the kernel if the interrupt is really free or not before
|
|
using it. You can either change the /etc/pccard.conf irq lines to
|
|
match pcic, or add "-i X" to the pccardd_flags.
|
|
|
|
20010530:
|
|
INSTALL=install -C is being deprecated. If you want to do this,
|
|
use COPY=-C instead. The former method will be supported for only
|
|
a limited time. If you see
|
|
|
|
install: warning: the -d and -C options may not be specified together
|
|
|
|
in your makeworld, then you need to migrate towards using
|
|
COPY=-C.
|
|
|
|
20010525:
|
|
It appears that vm is now stable enough to use again. However,
|
|
there may be other problems, so caution is still urged. alpha
|
|
definitely is in bad shape.
|
|
|
|
20010521:
|
|
Minor repo damage has happened. This may cause problems
|
|
with cvsup of ports. If you get errors, please see
|
|
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=27495
|
|
at the bottom for details on a workaround. The error message
|
|
is
|
|
Updater failed: Cannot delete "/usr/ports/www/jakarta-tomcat/files": Directory not empty
|
|
|
|
20010520:
|
|
Vm and/or swapping are busted on -current. Please be patient.
|
|
|
|
20010519:
|
|
pccard has had much reorganizational work done to it over
|
|
the past few days. Everything should still work, but if
|
|
not, please contact imp@freebsd.org.
|
|
|
|
20010517:
|
|
ata ioctl changed. Make sure to recompile both kernel and
|
|
userland at the same time.
|
|
|
|
20010517:
|
|
New ncurses imported.
|
|
|
|
20010512:
|
|
DEVFS is now opt out, not opt in. Barring major problems, this
|
|
will be the only way to go starting July 1.
|
|
|
|
20010504:
|
|
OpenSSH has been updated to 2.9. Some defaults are different,
|
|
including RhostsRSAAuthentication, which changes from yes to no.
|
|
|
|
20010502:
|
|
Perl breakage in 20010501 was corrected at 14:18:33 PDT.
|
|
|
|
20010501:
|
|
Building perl was broken at 02:25:25 PDT.
|
|
|
|
20010430:
|
|
The bug in 20010429 was corrected at 07:35:37 PDT. It is safe to
|
|
go back in the water.
|
|
|
|
20010429:
|
|
A bad bug was committed at 04:48:42 PDT. Don't use kernels after
|
|
this date, but before the correction date.
|
|
|
|
20010423:
|
|
old fsck and new kernel interactions appear to have been fixed.
|
|
|
|
20010411:
|
|
fsck and the kernel were changed to handle some optimizations
|
|
to directory layout. This breaks backward compatibility.
|
|
Update only if you understand that you must not use the old
|
|
fsck with the new kernel ever.
|
|
|
|
20010330:
|
|
fsck has changed the meaning of the pass column in /etc/fstab.
|
|
Please see the cvs commit to fsck.8 or the fsck.8 man page for
|
|
details. It is unclear if changes to /etc/fstab are necessary.
|
|
|
|
20010319:
|
|
portmap had changed name to rpcbind for maximum POLA in your
|
|
current world. /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} needs changes. nfs and
|
|
other rpc based programs that rely on portmapper will not work
|
|
without updates to /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} and /etc/netconfig.
|
|
|
|
20010315:
|
|
ata subsystem changes. ATA_ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA, ATA_ENABLE_WC
|
|
and ATA_ENABLE_TAGS are no longer kernel options. They have
|
|
been replaced by tunables. See ata.4 for details.
|
|
|
|
20010312:
|
|
The fxp driver was converted to use miibus. If you compile
|
|
fxp into your kernel statically, you will need to add miibus.
|
|
|
|
20010312:
|
|
The wi device now defaults to BSS (infrastructure) mode
|
|
instead of ad-hoc.
|
|
|
|
20010310:
|
|
/dev/urandom should be a symbolic link to /dev/random now.
|
|
Users of current not using DEVFS need to run MAKEDEV std.
|
|
ssh might not work if you don't.
|
|
|
|
20010303:
|
|
The ed driver has been updated. It now allows mii attachments,
|
|
which means that you must include the miibus in your kernel if
|
|
you use the ed driver.
|
|
|
|
20010220:
|
|
The problems with libc have been corrected. It is now mostly
|
|
safe to go back into the water.
|
|
|
|
20010211:
|
|
The size of FILE was changed. This breaks upgrading. If
|
|
you must upgrade, be prepared for pain. It also breaks almost
|
|
all binaries that you've compiled on -current. You are warned
|
|
that before upgrading would be a good time to do a level 0
|
|
dump of your system. No, really, I mean it this time.
|
|
|
|
To get to the new system, you'll need to use the following
|
|
workaround. Hopefully this can be sorted out so that we
|
|
don't have to move this to the updating section.
|
|
|
|
To get around the installworld problem, do:
|
|
# cd /usr/src/usr.bin/sed
|
|
# make install
|
|
# cd /usr/src
|
|
# make installworld
|
|
If that doesn't work, then try:
|
|
# make -k installworld
|
|
# make installworld
|
|
|
|
20010207:
|
|
DEVFS is now the default. If you use vinum, make sure that you
|
|
do not include devfs in your kernel as problems result.
|
|
|
|
20010205:
|
|
FFS_ROOT and CD9660_ROOT have been removed or deprecated.
|
|
Remove them from your config.
|
|
|
|
20010122:
|
|
****************************** WARNING ******************************
|
|
buildkernel has been changed slightly
|
|
****************************** WARNING ******************************
|
|
KERNCONF replaces the variable KERNEL for buildkernel. You
|
|
should update your scripts and make.conf accordingly.
|
|
|
|
20010119:
|
|
config has changed to allow DEV_FOO as a replacement for NFOO.
|
|
This requires a new config to build correctly.
|
|
|
|
20010116:
|
|
The kernel option I386_CPU is now mutually exclusive with the
|
|
other cpu types. If you have an i386 system, be sure that it
|
|
only had this line. Remove it for all other configurations.
|
|
|
|
20010110:
|
|
Changes to the kernel require it and burncd be in sync.
|
|
|
|
20010102:
|
|
Everyone who has hw.sndunit set to something in
|
|
/etc/sysctl.conf, it is now hw.snd.unit.
|
|
|
|
20010101:
|
|
ex and vi were broken by some changes to sys/queue.h. If you
|
|
have a bad vi, you will see make buildworld fail with a core
|
|
dump while building termcap. You can work around this problem
|
|
by adding -k to your make buildworld. This will cause the
|
|
build to complete and install a new vi. Once that's done, you
|
|
can rebuild again without the -k to pick up anything that
|
|
might have been ignored by the -k option.
|
|
|
|
Others have suggested that you can just rebuild libc if your
|
|
vi/ex is dynamically linked, but I've not received any reports
|
|
of this working.
|
|
|
|
20001228:
|
|
There have been some changes to libcrypt in -current. The
|
|
libscrypt/libdescrypt symlink silliness is gone and the installed
|
|
libcrypt is fully functional. Be aware of this.
|
|
|
|
20001218:
|
|
Linksys Fast Ethernet PCCARD cards supported by the ed driver
|
|
now require the addition of flag 0x80000 to their config line
|
|
in pccard.conf(5). This flag is not optional. These Linksys
|
|
cards will not be recognized without it.
|
|
|
|
20001205:
|
|
Important new FreeBSD-version stuff: PAM support has been worked
|
|
in, partially from the "Unix" OpenSSH version. This requires
|
|
adding the following in pam.conf:
|
|
|
|
sshd auth sufficient pam_skey.so
|
|
sshd auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass
|
|
sshd session required pam_permit.so
|
|
|
|
20001031:
|
|
cvs updated to 1.11.
|
|
|
|
20001020:
|
|
The random device needs more entropy, so you need to make sure
|
|
that you've run mergemaster to get a /etc/rc which will seed
|
|
/dev/random. If you don't and the system hangs after ldconfig,
|
|
then banging on the keyboard randomly until it unhangs is one
|
|
workaround.
|
|
|
|
20001010:
|
|
****************************** WARNING ******************************
|
|
Sendmail has been updated.
|
|
****************************** WARNING ******************************
|
|
o mail.local(8) is no longer installed as a set-user-id binary.
|
|
o sendmail(8) is now built with STARTTLS support unless NO_OPENSSL
|
|
is set.
|
|
o The default /etc/mail/sendmail.cf disables the SMTP EXPN and VRFY
|
|
commands.
|
|
o Now using sendmail's version of vacation(1).
|
|
o The sendmail cf building tools (contrib/sendmail/cf) are installed
|
|
in /usr/share/sendmail/cf.
|
|
o sendmail.cw changed to local-host-names
|
|
|
|
More details can be found at
|
|
http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/UPDATING/sendmail-20001010
|
|
|
|
20001009:
|
|
The ports tree's new layout is in place. Be sure to update
|
|
your entire ports tree, or you will have problems.
|
|
|
|
20001006:
|
|
The perl build procedure no longer installs miniperl, nor uses
|
|
the installed miniperl. It is recommended that you delete
|
|
/usr/bin/miniperl.
|
|
|
|
20001005:
|
|
This weekend the ports tree will be updated to a new layout.
|
|
It will be in an inconsistent state until noted in the UPDATING
|
|
file, or with asami-san's message to the relevant mailing
|
|
lists. With this new layout, you'll need to update the whole
|
|
tree for anything to work.
|
|
|
|
20000928:
|
|
There was a change in the passwd format. Need more information.
|
|
|
|
20000916:
|
|
/boot/kernel/kernel.ko -> /boot/kernel/kernel change has taken
|
|
place. Please update boot loader (not the boot blocks) at the
|
|
same time as your kernel.
|
|
|
|
20000914:
|
|
The new pmtimer device is necessary for laptops. Failure to
|
|
include the device will cause suspended laptops losing time
|
|
when they resume. Include
|
|
device pmtimer
|
|
in your config file and
|
|
hint.pmtimer.0.at="isa"
|
|
to your /boot/device.hints file.
|
|
|
|
20000911:
|
|
The random device has been turned into a (pseudo-)device,
|
|
rather than an option. The supplied kernel config files have
|
|
been updated. You will need to do something similar in your
|
|
own kernel config file.
|
|
Remove:
|
|
options RANDOMDEV
|
|
Add:
|
|
device random
|
|
If you prefer to load the loadable module, you need to do
|
|
nothing.
|
|
|
|
20000909:
|
|
The random device module has been renamed from randomdev.ko to
|
|
random.ko. You will need to edit your /boot/loader.conf to
|
|
reflect this if you load this module at boot time.
|
|
The line should read:
|
|
random_load="YES"
|
|
|
|
20000907:
|
|
The SMPNG commit has happened. It should work, but if it
|
|
doesn't, fallback to the PRE_SMPNG CVS tag. There are likely
|
|
to be a variety of minor issues. Please see 20000905 to make
|
|
sure you don't have model loading problems which might at
|
|
first blush appear related to SMP.
|
|
|
|
20000906:
|
|
nsswitch has been imported from NetBSD. Among other things,
|
|
this means that /etc/host.conf is no longer used. See
|
|
nsswitch.conf(5) instead. Note that at boot time rc.network
|
|
will attempt to produce a new nsswitch.conf file for you if you
|
|
don't have one, and you have host.conf.
|
|
|
|
20000905:
|
|
The ucred structure changed size. This breaks the interface
|
|
that mountd uses. Trying to use an older mountd with a newer
|
|
kernel guarantees a panic. This means that you need to use
|
|
kernels newer than today only with matching mountd, but you
|
|
needed to do that anyway with the boot loader changes.
|
|
|
|
20000905:
|
|
The boot loader has been updated. The new default kernel is
|
|
now /boot/kernel/kernel.ko. The new default module location
|
|
is /boot/kernel.
|
|
|
|
You *MUST* upgrade your boot loader and kernel at the same time.
|
|
The easiest way to do this is to do the buildworld/buildkernel/
|
|
installkernel/installworld dance.
|
|
|
|
Furthermore, you are urged to delete your old /modules directory
|
|
before booting the new kernel, since kldload will find stale
|
|
modules in that directory instead of finding them in the correct
|
|
path, /boot/kernel. The most common complaint that this cures
|
|
is that the linux module crashes your machine after the update.
|
|
|
|
if [ ! -d /boot/kernel.old ]; then
|
|
mv /modules.old /boot/kernel.old
|
|
chflags noschg /kernel.old
|
|
mv /kernel.old /boot/kernel.old/kernel.ko
|
|
chflags schg /boot/kernel.old/kernel.ko
|
|
fi
|
|
|
|
20000904:
|
|
A new issue with the sendmail upgrade has come to light.
|
|
/etc/aliases has moved to /etc/mail/aliases. Mergemaster will
|
|
incorrectly install the default aliases in /etc/mail rather than
|
|
move the old one from /etc. So you'll need to manually move the
|
|
file, create a symbolic link, remove the old /etc/aliases.db and
|
|
run newaliases. For safety sake, you should stop sendmail
|
|
while doing this and run the upgrade when locally sourced email
|
|
is not likely to be generated.
|
|
|
|
20000825:
|
|
/boot/device.hints is now required for installkernel to
|
|
succeed. You should copy GENERIC.hints for your architecture
|
|
into /boot/device.hints. If and only if you compile hints
|
|
into your kernel, then this file may be empty. Please note,
|
|
if you have an empty or missing /boot/device.hints file and
|
|
you neglected to compile hints into your kernel, no boot
|
|
messages will appear after the boot loader tries to start the
|
|
kernel.
|
|
|
|
20000821:
|
|
If you do NOT have ``options RANDOMDEV'' in your kernel and
|
|
you DO want the random device then add randomdev_load="YES" to
|
|
/boot/loader.conf.
|
|
|
|
20000812:
|
|
suidperl is now always built and installed on the system, but
|
|
with permissions of 511. If you have applications that use
|
|
this program, you are now required to add ENABLE_SUIDPERL=true
|
|
to /etc/make.conf. If you forget to do this,
|
|
chmod 4511 /usr/bin/suidperl
|
|
will fix this until the next build.
|
|
|
|
20000812:
|
|
sendmail has been updated from 8.9.3 to 8.11.0. Some of the more
|
|
visible changes that may immediately affect your configuration
|
|
include:
|
|
- New default file locations from src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README
|
|
- newaliases limited to root and trusted users
|
|
- MSA port (587) turned on by default
|
|
- New queue file naming system so can't go from 8.11 -> 8.9
|
|
- FEATURE(`rbl') renamed to FEATURE(`dnsbl')
|
|
- FEATURE(`nullclient') is more full featured
|
|
- FEATURE(`nouucp') requires an argument: `reject' or `nospecial'
|
|
- mail.local FreeBSD-only -b option changed to -B
|
|
- See src/contrib/sendmail/RELEASE_NOTES for more info
|
|
|
|
20000810:
|
|
suidperl (aka sperl) is no longer build by default. You must
|
|
specifically define BUILD_SUIDPERL to "true" for it to be build.
|
|
Furthermore, we recommend that you remove /usr/bin/sperl* and
|
|
/usr/bin/suidperl files from your system unless you have a
|
|
specific use for it.
|
|
|
|
20000729:
|
|
Networking defaults have been tightened. Anybody upgrading
|
|
/etc/defaults/rc.conf needs to add the following lines to
|
|
/etc/rc.conf if they want to have the same setup
|
|
afterwards (unless the variables already are set, of course):
|
|
# Enable network daemons for user convenience.
|
|
inetd_enable="YES"
|
|
portmap_enable="YES"
|
|
sendmail_enable="YES"
|
|
|
|
20000728:
|
|
If you have null_load="YES" in your /boot/loader.conf, you
|
|
will need to change that to nullfs_load="YES".
|
|
|
|
20000728:
|
|
The "installkernel" target has changed slightly. Now even if
|
|
you override KERNEL e.g. 'make installkernel KERNEL=MYKERNEL'
|
|
it will install the MYKERNEL file (built with the buildkernel
|
|
target) as /kernel rather than /MYKERNEL. Those who have
|
|
updated their /boot/loader.conf files to point to /MYKERNEL
|
|
should remove that entry or perform manual rename of /kernel
|
|
to /MYKERNEL.
|
|
|
|
20000711:
|
|
If you use CVSUP or CTM to get CVS trees, AND you used to get
|
|
the old crypto files from internat.freebsd.org AND you check
|
|
out files from the CVS tree with the cvs command, please read
|
|
http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/internat.txt
|
|
for details on potential problems that you might have and how
|
|
to get around them.
|
|
|
|
If you are merely a mirror, or don't answer yes to each of the
|
|
clauses above, you needn't worry.
|
|
|
|
20000711:
|
|
/etc/security has been updated to print the inode number of
|
|
setuid programs that have changed. You will see a large spike
|
|
in the number of changed programs the first time when you run
|
|
mergemaster to get a new /etc/security.
|
|
|
|
20000710:
|
|
/dev/random now has good entropy collection (from the keyboard
|
|
and sysmouse drivers). Please ensure that either `options
|
|
RANDOMDEV' is present in your kernel config file or that
|
|
`randomdev_load="YES"' is in your /boot/loader.conf. If you do
|
|
not have the /dev/random driver, OpenSSL (and consequently
|
|
lots of crypto tools (like SSH)) will fail with strange
|
|
errors. (see below, 20000624).
|
|
|
|
FreeBSD-current is safe again to run Crypto.
|
|
|
|
20000709:
|
|
phk made the malloc default options AJ. This may slow things
|
|
down and uncover other latent bugs in the code. If you need to
|
|
run at full speed, you can disable this by doing the following:
|
|
ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf
|
|
|
|
20000706:
|
|
libftpio's version was accidentally bumped a few days ago. This
|
|
has been corrected. You may need to remove /usr/lib/libftpio.so.6
|
|
before doing your next buildworld/installworld pair. It certainly
|
|
won't hurt to remove it before the update procedure. It will
|
|
break fetch until a new one is built, but ftp can be used in the
|
|
interim if needed.
|
|
|
|
20000705:
|
|
The crypto packages have changed for the cvsup. This has been done
|
|
in a backward compatible way, but the old packages will go away at
|
|
some point in the future. Look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup for
|
|
details.
|
|
|
|
20000704:
|
|
With the new sys/modules/sound/drivers/*, you will need to
|
|
set SYSDIR until you do an installworld after July 7th.
|
|
|
|
20000704:
|
|
rc.shutdown and rc will now call the rc.d scripts with start
|
|
or stop. This may cause some harmless warnings from older
|
|
rc.d scripts that haven't been updated.
|
|
|
|
20000630:
|
|
The libfetch based version of fetch has gone into the tree.
|
|
Minor problems may result on some of the less popular sites,
|
|
which should be reported to des@freebsd.org.
|
|
|
|
20000625:
|
|
From approximately this date forward, one must have the crypto
|
|
system installed in order to build the system and kernel.
|
|
While not technically strictly true, one should treat it as
|
|
required and grab the crypto bits. If you are grabbing CVS
|
|
trees, src-all and cvs-crypto should be treated as if they
|
|
were required. You should check with the latest collections
|
|
to make sure that these haven't changed.
|
|
|
|
20000624:
|
|
Mark Murray just committed the first parts of a cleanup of
|
|
/dev/zero, et al. This is also cleaning up /dev/random.
|
|
The entropy is disconnected, so DO NOT USE VERSIONS OF FREEBSD
|
|
-CURRENT FROM THIS POINT to 2000710 for cryptographic services
|
|
until Mark can merge in the fixes to this work in progress.
|
|
openssh and openssl should not be used to generate keys from this
|
|
date to the completion of the work.
|
|
|
|
If you must operate at this reduced level of security, add '
|
|
options RANDOMDEV' to your kernel or modload the randomdev
|
|
module. You may also need to copy a new MAKEDEV to /dev and
|
|
recreate the random and urandom devices.
|
|
|
|
20000622:
|
|
The license on the softupdates is now a standard 2 clause
|
|
BSD license. You may need to remove your symbolic links
|
|
that used to be required when updating.
|
|
|
|
20000621:
|
|
Scott Flatman <sf@aracnet.com> sent in a decent write-up on
|
|
the config file update procedure.
|
|
http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/config-upd.html
|
|
NOTE: LINT is gone. It has been replaced with NOTES. NOTES
|
|
isn't buildable. However, you can generate a LINT file:
|
|
cd /sys/<ARCH>/conf && make LINT
|
|
|
|
20000620:
|
|
Binutils 2.10 have hit the tree, or will shortly. As soon
|
|
as they do, the problem noted in 20000522 will be resolved and
|
|
that workaround will no longer be required.
|
|
|
|
20000615:
|
|
phk removed the compatibility creation of wd devices in the
|
|
ad driver. If you haven't done so already, you must update
|
|
your fstab, etc to use the ad devices instead of the wd
|
|
devices.
|
|
|
|
In addition, you'll need to update your boot blocks to a
|
|
more modern version, if you haven't already done so. Modern
|
|
here means 4.0 release or newer (although older releases
|
|
may work).
|
|
|
|
20000612:
|
|
Peter took an axe to config(8). Be sure that you read his mail
|
|
on the topic before even thinking about updating. You will
|
|
need to create a /boot/device.hints or add a hints directive
|
|
to your config file to compile them in statically. The format
|
|
of the config file has changed as well. Please see GENERIC or
|
|
NEWCARD for examples of the new format.
|
|
|
|
Indirectly, this also breaks USERCONFIG. Unless a newer entry
|
|
says that it has been fixed, assume that must use the hints mechanism
|
|
in the loader if you need to use a machine with very old ISA cards
|
|
in it.
|
|
|
|
20000522:
|
|
A new set of binutils went into the tree today. Anybody
|
|
building a kernel after this point is advised that they need
|
|
to rebuild their binutils (or better yet do a
|
|
buildworld/installworld) before building a new kernel.
|
|
|
|
Due to bugs in binutils, using malloc options (eg /etc/malloc.conf
|
|
or MALLOC_OPTIONS env var) J will cause ld to dump core. It
|
|
is recommended that you don't set this option until the problem
|
|
is resolved.
|
|
|
|
20000513:
|
|
The ethernet drivers were all updated to clean up the BPF handling.
|
|
|
|
20000510:
|
|
The problems with boot blocks on the alphas have been corrected.
|
|
This will require some care in updating alphas. A new libstand
|
|
is requires for the boot blocks to build properly.
|
|
|
|
20000503:
|
|
Recompile all kld modules. Proper version dependency info
|
|
is now available.
|
|
|
|
20000502:
|
|
Modules have been disconnected from the buildworld tree and
|
|
connected to the kernel building instead.
|
|
|
|
20000427:
|
|
You may need to build gperf
|
|
cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf && make depend all install
|
|
when upgrading from 4.0 -> current. The build system now uses
|
|
an option only in -current.
|
|
|
|
20000417:
|
|
The method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more
|
|
acceptable to the binutils maintainers. You will need to
|
|
rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native. One problem
|
|
binary is the Linux ldconfig. After your make world, but
|
|
before you reboot, you'll need to issue:
|
|
brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
|
|
if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine.
|
|
|
|
20000320:
|
|
If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they
|
|
don't work well. Use pio mode instead. The easiest way to
|
|
cope if you have a problem combination is to add:
|
|
/sbin/sysctl hw.ata.ata_dma=0
|
|
to the start of /etc/rc.conf.
|
|
|
|
20000319:
|
|
The ISA and PCI compatibility shims have been connected to the
|
|
options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old
|
|
style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must
|
|
include the appropriate option in your kernel config. Drivers
|
|
using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with
|
|
5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001.
|
|
|
|
20000318:
|
|
We've entered the traditional post release dumping party.
|
|
Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the
|
|
works. It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel
|
|
in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing.
|
|
Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules
|
|
that you are loading are up to date.
|
|
|
|
20000315:
|
|
If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you
|
|
need to update your boot blocks as well. 'disklabel -B ad0'
|
|
will do the trick. This isn't critical until you remove your
|
|
wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not
|
|
boot.
|
|
|
|
20000315:
|
|
4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how
|
|
to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x.
|
|
|
|
COMMON ITEMS:
|
|
|
|
# NOTE: 5.x below applies to 6.0-currrent as well, for the
|
|
# momemnt. 4.any -> 5.any upgrade support will remain in
|
|
# place for 6.0 current, but after 5.3 RELEASE, the 4.any ->
|
|
# 6.0-current upgrade path will require moving through 5.3
|
|
# RELEASE or newer.
|
|
|
|
General Notes
|
|
-------------
|
|
Avoid using make -j when upgrading. From time to time in the
|
|
past there have been problems using -j with buildworld and/or
|
|
installworld. This is especially true when upgrading between
|
|
"distant" versions (eg one that cross a major release boundary
|
|
or several minor releases, or when several months have passed
|
|
on the -current branch).
|
|
|
|
Sometimes, obscure build problems are the result of environment
|
|
poisoning. This can happen because the make utility reads its
|
|
environment when searching for values for global variables.
|
|
To run your build attempts in an "environmental clean room",
|
|
prefix all make commands with 'env -i '. See the env(1) manual
|
|
page for more details.
|
|
|
|
To build a kernel
|
|
-----------------
|
|
If you are updating from a prior version of FreeBSD (even one just
|
|
a few days old), you should follow this procedure. With a
|
|
/usr/obj tree with a fresh buildworld,
|
|
make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
|
|
make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
|
|
|
|
To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
|
|
--------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
This assumes you are already running a 5.X system. Replace
|
|
${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386",
|
|
"alpha", "amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", etc).
|
|
|
|
cd src/sys/${arch}/conf
|
|
config KERNEL_NAME_HERE
|
|
cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
|
|
make depend
|
|
make
|
|
make install
|
|
|
|
If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.
|
|
|
|
To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------
|
|
# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than
|
|
# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current.
|
|
|
|
<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
|
|
<maybe fix /etc/fstab> [7]
|
|
make buildworld
|
|
make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
|
|
[1]
|
|
<reboot in single user> [3]
|
|
src/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom [10]
|
|
mergemaster -p [5]
|
|
make installworld
|
|
mergemaster [4]
|
|
<reboot>
|
|
|
|
|
|
To cross-install current onto a separate partition
|
|
--------------------------------------------------
|
|
# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold
|
|
# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition
|
|
# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in
|
|
# size.
|
|
|
|
<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
|
|
<boot into -stable>
|
|
make buildworld
|
|
<maybe newfs current's root partition>
|
|
<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}>
|
|
make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
|
|
make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
|
|
cp src/sys/${ARCH}/conf/GENERIC.hints \
|
|
${CURRENT_ROOT}/boot/device.hints # as needed
|
|
make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT}
|
|
cd src/etc; make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd
|
|
cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd
|
|
<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition>
|
|
<reboot into current>
|
|
<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section>
|
|
<maybe install compatibility libraries from src/lib/compat>
|
|
<reboot>
|
|
|
|
|
|
To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to current
|
|
----------------------------------------------
|
|
# 5.x uses more space than 4.x. Also, the location of kernel
|
|
# modules has changed. If you are installing 5.x onto a 4.x
|
|
# system, you'll need about 30MB of free disk space on your /
|
|
# partition. If you have less than this, you may encounter difficult
|
|
# to back out of problems with this procedure. If /tmp is on
|
|
# the / partition, you may want to completely remove all its content
|
|
# before upgrading, as this can be a common source of shortage of
|
|
# space on /.
|
|
|
|
<make sure you have good level 0 dumps>
|
|
<maybe fix /etc/fstab> [7]
|
|
make buildworld [9]
|
|
cp sys/${MACHINE}/conf/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2]
|
|
make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8]
|
|
cd sys/boot ; make STRIP="" install [6]
|
|
[1]
|
|
<reboot in single user> [3]
|
|
src/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom [10]
|
|
mergemaster -p [5]
|
|
rm -rf /usr/include/g++
|
|
make installworld
|
|
mergemaster -i [4]
|
|
<reboot>
|
|
|
|
Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the
|
|
tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life
|
|
cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own
|
|
to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of
|
|
the UPDATING entries.
|
|
|
|
Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to
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freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update
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your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
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messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has
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much fewer pitfalls.
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[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
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should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
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system on reboot.
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[2] If you have legacy ISA devices, you may need to create
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your own device.hints to reflect your unique hardware
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configuration.
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[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do
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fsck -p
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mount -u /
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mount -a
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cd src
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adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time
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Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that
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you boot into single user mode to do the installworld.
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For the 4.x -> 5.x upgrade, you will also see many messages about
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needing to recompile your userland. These are harmless and can
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be ignored while you proceed to the next step.
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[4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step
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can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the
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system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those
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that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well
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as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists
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for potential gotchas.
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[5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time
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you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following
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step. It never hurts to do it all the time. You may need to
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install a new mergemaster (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster && make
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install) after the buildworld before this step if you last updated
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from current before 20020224 or from -stable before 20020408.
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[6] 4.x boot loader can be used to boot a 5.x system, however
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it is difficult to do that at best. If you wish to try, then
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you should interrupt the boot and at the ok prompt type:
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ok unload
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ok boot /boot/kernel/kernel
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If this fails to work, you must install a new boot loader as
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described here.
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[7] Before you upgrade, please make sure that you are not using
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compatibility slices. These are device names of the form /dev/ad0a
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without the actual slice name. These will break with 5.x and newer.
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You generally must update these entries to use the post FreeBSD
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2.x form of /dev/ad0s1a. i386 and pc98 are affected, while alpha
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is not.
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[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 4.x binaries
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|
needed to do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD4
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|
option in your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system
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|
that is hard to boot to recover.
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Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the
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last time you updated your kernel config file.
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[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have
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cvs prune empty directories.
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If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the
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"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can
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|
override the CPUTYPE if it needs to.
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MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and
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not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will
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warn if it is improperly defined.
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In case you would like to avoid installing new packages of everything,
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you might want to uncomment the "COMPAT4X= YES" entry, so that 4.x
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|
compatibility libraries are built which should allow you to continue
|
|
using your existing software for a while. Alternatively, you can
|
|
install the misc/compat4x port.
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[10] In order to create temporary files, /dev/random must be
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initialized by feeding data into it. src/etc/rc.d/preseedrandom
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takes care of this.
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FORMAT:
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This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
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|
breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here,
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|
and it only starts on March 15, 2000. Updating files can found in
|
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previous releases if your system is older than this.
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Copyright information:
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Copyright 1998-2004 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved.
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