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system. Well, not really required if you know what you are doing, but there's enough people that don't fit into this class that are getting burned now that we need to say it is required. The actual message says that one should treat it as if it was required to try to be weasilly for the nitpickers amoung us :-)Killed by signal 2.
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Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
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This file is maintained by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
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directly to him. See end of file for further details. For commonly
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done items, please see the end of the file. Search for 'COMMON
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ITEMS:'
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20000625:
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From approximately this date forward, one must have the crypto
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system installed in order to build the system and kernel. While
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not technically strictly true, one should treat it as true and
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grab the crypto bits. If you are grabbing CVS trees, src-all
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and cvs-crypto should be treated as if they were required.
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20000624:
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Mark Murray just committed the first parts of a cleanup of
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/dev/zero, et al. This is also cleaning up /dev/random.
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The entropy is disconnected, so DO NOT USE VERSIONS OF FREEBSD
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-CURRENT FROM THIS POINT FORWARD for cryptographic services
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until Mark can merge in the fixes to this work in progress.
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openssh and openssl should not be used to generate keys from this
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date to the completion of the work.
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20000622:
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The license on the softupdates is now a standard 2 clause
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BSD license. You may need to remove your symbolic links
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that used to be required when updating.
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20000621:
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Scott Flatman <sf@aracnet.com> sent in a decent writeup on
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the config file update procedure.
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http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/config-upd.html
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20000620:
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Binutils 2.10 have hit the tree, or will shortly. As soon
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as they do, the problem noted in 20000522 will be resolved and
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that workaround will no longer be required.
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20000615:
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phk removed the compatibility creation of wd devices in the
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ad driver. If you haven't done so already, you must update
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your fstab, etc to use the ad devices instead of the wd
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devices.
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In addition, you'll need to update your boot blocks to a
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more modern version, if you haven't already done so. Modern
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here means 4.0 release or newer (although older releases
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may work).
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20000612:
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Peter took an axe to config(8). Besure that you read his mail
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on the topic before even thinking about updating. You will
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need to create a /boot/devices.hints or add a hints directive
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to your config file to compile them in statically. The format
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of the config file has changed as well. Please see LINT,
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GENERIC or NEWCARD for examples of the new format.
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20000522:
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A new set of binutils went into the tree today. Anybody
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building a kernel after this point is advised that they need
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to rebuild their binutils (or better yet do a
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buildworld/installworld) before building a new kernel.
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Due to bugs in binutils, using malloc options (eg /etc/malloc.conf
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or MALLOC_OPTIONS env var) J will cause ld to dump core. It
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is recommended that you don't set this option until the problem
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is resolved.
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20000513:
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The ethernet drivers were all updated to clean up the BPF handling.
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20000510:
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The problems with boot blocks on the alphas have been corrected.
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This will require some care in updating alphas. A new libstand
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is requires for the boot blocks to build properly.
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20000503:
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Recompile all kld modules. Proper version dependency info
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is now available.
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20000502:
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Modules have been disconnected from the buildworld tree and
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connected to the kernel building instead.
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2000427:
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You may need to build gperf
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cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gperf && make depend all install
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when upgrading from 4.0 -> current. The build system now uses
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an option only in -current.
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20000417:
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The method that we brand ELF binaries has changed to be more
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acceptible to the binutils maintainers. You will need to
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rebrand your ELF binaries that aren't native. One problem
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binary is the Linux ldconfig. After your make world, but
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before you reboot, you'll neeed to issue:
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brandelf -t Linux /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig
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if you have Linux compatibility enabled on your machine.
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20000320:
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If you have really bad/marginal IDE drives, you may find they
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don't work well. Use pio mode instead. The easiest way to
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cope if you have a problem combination is to add:
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/sbin/sysctl -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
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to the start of /etc/rc.conf.
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20000319:
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The ISA and PCI compatability shims have been connected to the
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options COMPAT_OLDISA and COMPAT_OLDPCI. If you are using old
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style PCI or ISA drivers (i.e. tx, voxware, etc.) you must
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include the appropriate option in your kernel config. Drivers
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using the shims should be updated or they won't ship with
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5.0-RELEASE, targeted for 2001.
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20000318:
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We've entered the tradtional post release dumping party.
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Large kernel changes are being committed and are in the
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works. It is important to keep the systems' klds and kernel
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in sync as kernel interfaces and structures are changing.
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Before reporting kernel panics, make sure that all modules
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that you are loading are up to date.
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20000315:
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If you are upgrading from an older version of FreeBSD, you
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need to update your boot blocks as well. 'disklabel -B ad0'
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will do the trick. This isn't critical until you remove your
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wd device entries in /dev, at which point your system will not
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boot.
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20000315:
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4.0 RELEASE shipped. Please see the 4.0 UPDATING file for how
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to upgrade to 4.0 from 3.x.
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COMMON ITEMS:
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To build a kernel
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-----------------
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Update config, genassym and go:
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config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [1]
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cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
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make depend && make
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make install
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[1] If upgrading, add -r won't hurt and sometimes helps.
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To rebuild everything
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---------------------
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make world
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To upgrade from 4.0-stable to current
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-------------------------------------
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make buildworld
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make buildkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
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make installkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
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make installworld
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<reboot>
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Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand
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the tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the
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life cycloe of current, things change often and you are on
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your own to cope.
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FORMAT:
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This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal 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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Please filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so
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that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.
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$FreeBSD$
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