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<title>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</title>
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<h1>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</h1>
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<p>
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This file is maintainted by <a href="mailto:imp@village.org">Warner
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Losh</a>. Please send new entries in it to him. It contains a list,
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in reverse chronologocal order, of major breakages in tracking
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-current. Not all things will be listed here, and it only starts on
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Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier version of FreeBSD, you
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are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.</P>
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<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 boarder=0 width="95%" align=center>
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990111</b></td>
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<td valign=top align=left>
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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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<br>
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt">
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http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt</a>
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<br>
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It has notes on splash screen too.
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990106</b></td>
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<td valign=top align=left>
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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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<br>
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt">
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http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt</a>
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<p>
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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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</td>
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</tr>
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990104</b></td>
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<td valign=top align=left>
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Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
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<br>
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<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html">
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http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html</a>
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<br>
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about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
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for doing the upgrade.
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</td>
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981230</b></td>
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<td valign=top align=left>
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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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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981224</b></td>
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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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<p>
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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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<p>
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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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</td>
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981202</b></td>
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<td valign=top align=left>
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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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</td>
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</tr>
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981201</b></td>
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<td valign=top align=left>
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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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<pre>
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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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</pre>
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</td>
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981118</b></td>
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PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
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to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
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See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
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</td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<p>
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<comment>
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$Id: UPDATING,v 1.10 1999/01/11 09:07:18 imp Exp $
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</comment>
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