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Updating Information for FreeBSD current users

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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 proceedure 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 inconsistant 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.

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 FORWARD 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.

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.

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.

2000427:
        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 -w hw.atamodes=pio,pio,pio,pio
        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:

        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).

        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 buildkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
        make installkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE

        To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up
        --------------------------------------------------------------
        cd src/sys/{i386,alpha}/conf
        config KERNEL_NAME_HERE                 [1]
        cd ../../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE
        make depend
        make
        make install    
        
        [1] If in doubt, -r might help here.

        If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section.

        To rebuild everything and install it on the current system.
        -----------------------------------------------------------
        make world
        Build a new kernel, see above.

        To upgrade from 4.x-stable to current
        -------------------------------------
        make buildworld
        make buildkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
        cp src/sys/${MACHINE_ARCH}/GENERIC.hints /boot/device.hints [2]
        make installkernel KERNEL=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE
        make installworld
        [1]
        <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
        freebsd-current@freebsd.org.  Make sure that before you update
        your sources that you have read and understood all the recent
        messages there.  If in doubt, please track -stable which has
        much fewer pitfalls.

        [1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you
        should disable them at this point so they don't crash your
        system on reboot.

        [2] If you have legacy ISA devices, you may need to create
        your own device.hints to reflect your unique hardware
        configuration.

FORMAT:

This file contains a list, in reverse chronological order, of major
breakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
and it only starts on March 15, 2000.  Updating files can found in
previous releases if your system is older than this.

Please filter your entries through Warner Losh (imp@village.org) so
that the style, formatting, etc of this file can be maintained.

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