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those questions that come up all the time (eg, how do I build a kernel). This is intended to be a very brief reminder for people that are basically clueful what the steps are to do these common things. What it lacks in verbosity it makes up in terseness.
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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 ITEMS:
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20000129:
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{set,get}flags have been added to the tree for rather dubious
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reasons. An unintended side effect of this is that you must
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rebuild install before the rest of the world.
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cd src/usr.bin/xinstall
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make depend all install clean
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before make world or buildworld. This issue may be resolved
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before 4.0 goes out.
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20000124:
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The default way that virtual tables in our default C++
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compiler has changed. We used to use THUNKS for virtual
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inheritance. Unfortunately there are bugs that The GCC
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developers thought would be fixed in GCC 2.95. However it
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isn't.
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After this change existing applications written in C++ may
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give errors like below when you try to run them:
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/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.3: Undefined symbol "__vt_7filebuf"
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The only fix is to rebuild the application and any C++
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libraries used.
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20000124:
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The management of next_writeable has been move from the
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kernel to userspace. This means that the burncd command
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must be in sync with the kernel. So make world is your
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friend.
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20000117:
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GNU texinfo upgraded to 4.0. It is recommended that you use
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make buildworld to update.
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20000117:
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CAM_VERSION has been increased. Recompile all programs that
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depend on it (tosha, camcontrol, etc) when moving to kernels
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past this date.
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20000115:
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pccard ioctls changed with a commit to have the kernel tell
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pccardd which device it created, rather than having pccardd
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dictate it to the kernel. Recompile kernel and
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pccardd/pccardc together. pccardd/pccardc rely on a kernel
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Makefile that must be installed prior to building them. Make
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world will automatically take care of this issue, but you need
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to know if you are building by hand.
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20000109:
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Your kernel config files need to be changed to s/controller/device/
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in them. You will need a new version of config to do this.
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20000107:
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chown & chgrp moved again
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This is a heads up to let you know that you need to
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rm -f /sbin/chown /bin/chgrp
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after your next `make world'. Additionally you need to install
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a new /dev/MAKEDEV (mergemaster(8) will assist you in this).
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20000107:
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SHA-1 password support gone
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As warned yesterday, I've just removed the ability for
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libcrypt to understand SHA-1 passwords. This was present but
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undocumented in the tree for the past few months and was
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removed so it can be reimplemented properly as part of a
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revamped libcrypt at a later date. Anyone who was actually
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making use of the feature will have to update their passwords
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back to MD5 before they reinstall the library.
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20000106:
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ioctl numbers changed for dvdio ioctls. You will need to recompile
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anything that uses them. wormcontrol has been deprecated in
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favor of burncd.
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19991223:
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Building linux and svr4 compatibility into the kernel now
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requires /usr/bin/genassym. Go to /usr/src/usr.bin/genassym,
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do "make obj ; make clean depend all install" before building
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your kernel.
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19991218:
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sendmail.cf has moved from /etc/sendmail.cf to
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/etc/mail/sendmail.cf. You may need to adjust /etc/rc.conf
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and /etc/rc to cope as well as moving sendmail.cf.
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19991216:
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ntp 4.0.98 has replaced the ancient xntpd. The daemon name
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changed from xntpd to ntpd, so you may need to update your
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/etc/rc.conf file. The ntp.conf files are compatible with the
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old release, unless you are using a local reference clock.
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Details about ntp4 can be found at http://www.ntp.org/.
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xntpd will be cvs removed from the repo in about a week.
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19991213:
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Soren updated the ata driver. Please update to at least this
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version before submitting bug reports.
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19991210:
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The ata driver has become the primary ata/ide/atapi driver in
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the kernel. The wd driver is obsolete. You should upgrade your
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machine to the new ata driver. You will need to follow the
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directions for updating the devices in the 19991205 entry. You
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will need to update all occurances of wd to ad in your config files
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(/etc/rc.conf, /etc/fstab, etc). A compatibility device exists
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for wd for the time being, but once you have determined that
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ata is working for you, transition to the new ad devices.
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19991205:
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Block devices are going away. You will need to update your /dev
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tree with a fresh copy of MAKEDEV for things to always work in
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the future. fsck is unable to cope with dirty file systems
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after this change, so it may work for you or it may not.
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MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before
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starting the following:
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For N in the list of disks
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MAKEDEV N # eg ad0
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for M in the list of slices
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MAKEDEV NsMa # eg ad0s1a
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*** All uses of block devices must be converted to char devices.
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*** Likely the only thing impacted is dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf
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19991204:
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The dc interface has replaced al, ax, dm, pn and mx. The former
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have been removed.
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19991204:
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Support for the old 'sd' device names has been removed in
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favor of 'da'. Please update your /etc/fstab, /etc/rc.conf
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and any other places you might have sd names cached.
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Generally these changes are as simple as s=/dev/sd=/dev/da=g,
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but be careful to make sure that things are really that
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simple. You may also need to create /dev entries for the da
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devices as well.
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MAKEDEV should be copied from src/etc/MAKEDEV to /dev before
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starting the following:
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For N in the list of da disks on your system
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MAKEDEV daN
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for M in the list of slices
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MAKEDEV daNsMa
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19991203:
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BAD144 support has been removed. Cope or replace the hardware.
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19991129:
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ALPHA users take note. All klds will need to be recompiled for
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kernels build after this date. It is a good time to update since
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pal.s will be going away soon.
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19991126:
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MFS_ROOT and MFS_ROOT_SIZE are gone, replaced by MD_ROOT and
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MD_ROOT_SIZE options in the md driver. md driver now deals with
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the hacks. You should add md driver to kerneles that have
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MFS_ROOT, et al. See GENERIC or LINT for details.
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19991125:
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The ep changed a while ago and can no longer be used with hard
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wired addresses in the config file.
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19991122:
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The bridge drivers for sound cards have been committed. Please
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see LINT for instructions for your card, if it still works at
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all.
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19991113:
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Gcc 2.95.2 is now the default compiler.
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19991030:
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/etc/radius.conf file format has changed.The format change is
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as follows. Each server line in the file should now begin
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with a new field containing either "auth" for RADIUS
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authentication, or "acct" for RADIUS accounting. Formerly
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only authentication was supported. If the first field isn't
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"auth" or "acct" then the code assumes that "auth" is
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intended. (That's the compatibility hack.)
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19991015:
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PCCARD has been updated to attach pcic to the isa bus. Therefore
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you will need to modify kernel config files that have pcic/card
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in them as follows:
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controller pcic0 at isa?
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controller pcic1 at isa?
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controller card0
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19990929:
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The sigset_t datatype has been changed from an integral type
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to a compound type and can hold 128 signals. Syscalls directly
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or indirectly using the new sigset_t have been added as to
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maintain compatibility with existing binaries. A new kernel must
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be made and installed and booted with before a make world can
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be done.
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19990919:
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New jail syscall format requires recompilation of jail(8) with
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fresh headers installed (or a make world will do it for you).
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19990914:
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Matt Dillon checked in many vm related things and sent a heads up
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to -current urging caution and to report vm problems to him.
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As of the 19th, no killer problems have been reported, but you
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have been warned.
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19990908:
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The new miibus has been added to the system. If you are using
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the dm, rl, sf, sis, ste, tl, wb or xl drivers, you need to
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add "controller miibus0" to your config file.
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19990905:
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/var/cron/log has been moved to /var/log/cron to get all the
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log files in one place.
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19990831:
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tn3270 has been removed from the base system and added as a port.
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19990830:
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User-visible TCP timers are now expressed in units of 1ms, instead
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of 500ms, so if you've customized any timer values under
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``net.inet.tcp'', multiply them by 500 to preserve TCP's behavior.
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19990828:
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RCS Id tags changed to FreeBSD. This will cause huge cvsup
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updates.
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19990821:
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On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to
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readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version
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number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that
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the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was
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not sufficient to warrant the version number bump.
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Thus I have reverted it back to "3". You will need to perform
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the below immediately before your next ``make world'':
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cd /usr/lib
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ls -l libreadline.so.4
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(if you have /usr/lib/libreadline.so.4)
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mv libreadline.so.4 libreadline.so.3
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rm -f libreadline.so
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ln -s libreadline.so.3 libreadline.so
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19990801:
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Changes to the pccardd kernel interface require that you recompile
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pccardd for new kernel.
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19980725:
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The ipfw interface to the kernel has changed. You will need to
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recompile ipfw programs for the new kernel.
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19990715:
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The bpfilter device has been renamed to bpf. You will need to
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change your config files in order to enable this in newer kernels.
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19990704:
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src/contrib/sys/softupdates is moving to
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src/sys/contrib/softupdates. Update your symbolic links/etc.
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19990702:
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Major changes have been made to vinum and its interface. See
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the man page (vinum(8)) for details. Look at the concat,
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mirror and stripe commands, as well as the SIMPLIFIED
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CONFIGURATION section.
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19990628:
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Newsyslog.conf has had a minor, but potentially dangerous,
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change to its username/group syntax. The old syntax was
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user.group, while the new syntax is user:group.
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19990627:
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Inetd wrapping default has changed. Please see the updated
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man page for details.
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19990623:
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Compaq Smart Raid driver committed as ida.
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19990622:
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The second phase of syscons cleanup has happened. Some
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functionality has been made optional. For details, see
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http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update-June.txt
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Everyone will need to re-config(8) their kernels, but old
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binaries will work with the new kernel.
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19990620:
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IPFW uid/gid-based filtering support has been committed. This
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breaks binary compatibility with previous copies of
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ipfw(8). Any utilities using the ioctl()s of ipfw (especially
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ipfw(8)) need to be recompiled with the newest headers
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installed.
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19990618:
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Inetd now wraps all stream-based services, including internals.
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Syslog "severity" options are honoured. Installed syslog.conf
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and hosts.allow should be checked.
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19990509:
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Most of the problems with newbus have been corrected, but
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it is still current and evolving.
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libcam's ABI has changed. You must recompile the world and
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any ports that use it.
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19990427:
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Massive changes to SMP went into the tree that should speed
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things up. However, if you experience problems with SMP
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machines, you can back off to the PRE_SMP_VMSHARE tag in the
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CVS repository (or run an MP kernel).
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19990420:
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Pccardd and the pccard bus in general seem to be broken or
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most people. Soren has patches to make it better for some,
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but not all people. Work is underway to make it better for
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all people.
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19990416:
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new bus changes integrated into -current. Many problems were
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initially reported, but most have been fixed. You'll need a
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new config and to tweak your kernel config file the way that
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GENERIC was tweaked. Keep a copy of your old kernel when
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upgrading in case your new kernel doesn't work (and report the
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breakage to current@freebsd.org).
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As of 19990421 the remaining problems/quirks are
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o sio no longer supports pnp nor pccard. This will be corrected,
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but the new pccard code needs to be completed.
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o Some of the sound drivers broke for some people. It seems
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inconsistant as to who/what/when/where things broke.
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o Duplicate device entries in your config do not work. Previously
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they were silently ignored. psm0 seems to be the most common
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duplicate choice, although some reports have come in from people
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that wired their scsi disk entries.
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o You must move the keyboard and mouse attachments from the
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isa bus to the atkbdc bus. See GENERIC for details.
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o Machines with multiple host-pci bridges (Intel 450NX) will not
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probe the second pci bus.
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o Some probe ordering may have changed, so device naming may change
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with the new kernel. If you have multiple devices, please double
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check to make sure they didn't move. This is especially true
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for cards on different buses.
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o The bus attachment for vga0 is always isa0 and never pci0 when
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it is in fact a pci card. It is safe to ignore this.
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o The format of the boot messages has changed (and is not
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guaranteed to be constant for a while) so you may see this
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in some shell scripts that diff dmesg from day to day as well
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as scripts that parse dmesg output.
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19990414:
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cc -aout sometimes has problems compiling with -g, remove -g
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from those compilation units affected until this is corrected.
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cc -aout has problems with producing some threaded libraries,
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so make world -DWANT_AOUT is not functional at this time.
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Since make world for a.out isn't functional, you cannot do
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make aout-to-elf from a pre-egcs a.out system. To work around
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this problem, make aout-to-elf using 3.1-stable first (or a
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pre egcs -current) and then a simple make world will take you
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the rest of the way with a -current source base.
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19990413:
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Make -j works again for make world. As always, use it with
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care, and be sure to try a make world w/o -j before reporting
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problems (that is, know if the problem exists w/o -j before
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reporting the problem with -j).
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19990413:
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Note cc -aout, which had been broken since the conversion to
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egcs, now supposedly works. If you have rebuilt things like
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XFree86 a.out libraries, you should rebuild them again or
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progams that use them, including netscape, will fail to work.
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19990409:
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NOTE: New c++ compiler cannot be used with c++ binaries from
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the old compiler and vice versa.
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19990408:
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In recent days egcs has been imported into the tree. A number
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of problems have been discussed in -current. Here is a highlight
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of a few of the more common ones. With the exception of make
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-j n, they have been claimed to have been fixed.
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c++ is broken after make world: This is correct. Because we
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changed compilers two make worlds are necessary to get C++
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working again. The code generated by the old compiler and new
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compiler are not compatible, so things wind up being
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undefined.
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cpp is broken in make world: There was a window where cpp
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would be built incorrectly. The fix for this is
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cd src/gnu/usr.bin/cc
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make clean
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make all
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make install
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and this should correct your problems. See the -current
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archives for a version of this that does moer cleaning.
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Make -j n doesn't work. Work contiunes to make this work,
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I've seen no reports of success as of April 7th.
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19990329:
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Previously, one would define "NOAOUT" to keep from building
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the legacy a.out bits. Now one would define "WANT_AOUT" to
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build them.
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19990316:
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The name of the old wd.c and atapi.c based CDROM driver has
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been changed back to wcd. So update your config file to use
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"device wcd" instead of "device acd".
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19990314:
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For those of you using the VN device as a loadable module,
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please be aware that the new VN device has been committed to
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-4.x and cannot yet be used as a loadable module. This will
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be fixed in the future.
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19990309:
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New loader.rc mechanism. Please see src/sys/boot/README for
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details.
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19990225:
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struct proc size changed. Recompile kernel and the
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usual suspects. Make world if in doubt.
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19990214:
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The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver.
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See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html
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for proper configuration details.
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19990210:
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The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt'
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driver and 'ppbus' controller combination.
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19990209:
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New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat,
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iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd. A new kernel is also required.
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make world + building a kernel should do all of this. Any
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ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well.
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19990125:
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Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in
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the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs
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is in order (or better yet a make world).
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19990122:
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On or about this date there was a small window when the boot
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blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to
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edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this
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problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks.
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19990121:
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Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For
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updates, please see
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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current
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for details.
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Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for
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information please see
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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current
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or
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http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current
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for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody,
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but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up.
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19990120:
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Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this
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branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3.
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19990119:
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More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since
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files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
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and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No
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config file changes are needed.
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19990111:
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New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
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stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to
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update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
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kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
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The instruction can be found in
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http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
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It has notes on splash screen too.
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19990106:
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Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
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install the new bootblocks:
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http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
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When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
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/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
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elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with
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messages about being unable to find library files. The
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mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
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keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
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recommended.
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19990104:
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Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
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http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
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about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
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for doing the upgrade.
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19981230:
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You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will
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|
become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade
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your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use
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|
make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
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a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
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|
continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile
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for more details.
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19981224:
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The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The
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driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change
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this in your configuration files.
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Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
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configured" at boot time.
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The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
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with no replacement driver.
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19981202:
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New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
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|
aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
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19981201:
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New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
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src/etc/group:
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% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
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bind:*:53:
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% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
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tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
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kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
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bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
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19981118:
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|
PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
|
|
to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
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|
See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
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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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cd src/usr.bin/genassym
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make depend all install clean
|
|
cd ../../usr.sbin/config
|
|
make depend all install clean
|
|
cd ../../../sys/i386/conf
|
|
config YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
|
|
cd ../../compile/YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
|
|
make depend && make
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|
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FORMAT:
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|
This file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
|
|
breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed here,
|
|
and it only starts on November 18, 1998. If you have an earlier
|
|
version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.
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|
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|
Please filter your entries through Warner (imp@village.org) so that
|
|
the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.
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$FreeBSD$
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