1 This file is maintainted by imp@village.org. Please send new entries
2 in it to him. It contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of
3 major breakages in tracking -current. Not all things will be listed
4 here, and it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an
5 earlier version of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18,
9 New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
10 stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to
11 update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
12 kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
13 The instruction can be found in
15 http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
17 It has notes on splash screen too.
20 Robert was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
21 install the new bootblocks:
22 http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
24 When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
25 /etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
26 elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with
27 messages about being unable to find library files. The mergemaster
28 utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to keep critical
29 files like this in sync, and its use is recommended.
32 Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
33 http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
34 about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
35 for doing the upgrade.
38 You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will
39 become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade
40 your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use
41 make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
42 a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
43 continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile
47 The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The
48 driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change
49 this in your configuration files.
51 Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
52 configured" at boot time.
54 The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
55 with no replacement driver.
58 New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
59 aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
62 New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
64 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
66 % grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
67 tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
68 kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
69 bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
72 PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
73 to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
74 See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
77 What happened and what you need to do.
79 $Id: UPDATING,v 1.9 1999/01/06 19:35:46 imp Exp $