1 Updating Information for FreeBSD current users
3 This file is maintainted by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
4 in it to him. It contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of
5 major breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed
6 here, and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an
7 earlier version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18,
11 Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in
12 the FreeBSD kernel). A recompile of all libkvm using programs
13 is in order (or better yet a make world).
16 On or about this date there was a small window when the boot
17 blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to
18 edit /etc/fstab. This has been corrected, if you are seeing this
19 problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks.
22 Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For
25 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current
29 Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for
30 information please see
32 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current
34 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current
36 for details. These changes will likely not impact anybody,
37 but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up.
40 Stable branch created. You might want to consider using this
41 branch. It is tagged with RELENG_3.
44 More work on the syscons driver has been committed. Since
45 files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
46 and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel. No
47 config file changes are needed.
50 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
51 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to
52 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
53 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
54 The instruction can be found in
56 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
58 It has notes on splash screen too.
61 Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
62 install the new bootblocks:
64 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
66 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
67 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
68 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with
69 messages about being unable to find library files. The
70 mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
71 keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
75 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
77 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
79 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
80 for doing the upgrade.
83 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will
84 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade
85 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use
86 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
87 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
88 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile
92 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The
93 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change
94 this in your configuration files.
96 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
97 configured" at boot time.
99 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
100 with no replacement driver.
103 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
104 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
107 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
109 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
111 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
112 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
113 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
114 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
117 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
118 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
119 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
121 $Id: UPDATING,v 1.16 1999/01/21 20:16:24 imp Exp $