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157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users
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357199806SWarner LoshThis file is maintainted by imp@village.org.  Please send new entries
41fc1a0dcSWarner Loshin it to him.  See end of file for further details.
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60edeb9e7SWarner Losh19990214:
70edeb9e7SWarner Losh	The nlpt driver has changed names back to be the lpt driver.
87dd38e55SWarner Losh	See ppbus(4) or http://www.freebsd.org/~nsouch/ppbus.html
97dd38e55SWarner Losh	for proper configuration details.
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111fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210:
121fc1a0dcSWarner Losh	The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete.  Replace it with the 'nlpt'
130edeb9e7SWarner Losh	driver and 'ppbus' controller combination.
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157dd38e55SWarner Losh19990209:
167dd38e55SWarner Losh	New devstat API requires recompilation of libdevstat, systat,
177dd38e55SWarner Losh	iostat, vmstat and rpc.rstatd.  A new kernel is also required.
187dd38e55SWarner Losh	make world + building a kernel should do all of this.  Any
197dd38e55SWarner Losh	ports that use devstat need to be recompiled as well.
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219a3105eeSWarner Losh19990125:
229a3105eeSWarner Losh	Linux threads options has gone away (they are now standard in
239a3105eeSWarner Losh	the FreeBSD kernel).  A recompile of all libkvm using programs
249a3105eeSWarner Losh	is in order (or better yet a make world).
259a3105eeSWarner Losh
269a3105eeSWarner Losh19990122:
279a3105eeSWarner Losh	On or about this date there was a small window when the boot
289a3105eeSWarner Losh	blocks had some minor problems which seemed to force one to
299a3105eeSWarner Losh	edit /etc/fstab.  This has been corrected, if you are seeing this
309a3105eeSWarner Losh	problem, please rebuild and reinstall your boot blocks.
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329a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121:
338cd37f69SWarner Losh	Vinum has changed.  The "vinum read" command has changed.  For
348cd37f69SWarner Losh	updates, please see
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368cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current
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388cd37f69SWarner Losh	for details.
398cd37f69SWarner Losh
408cd37f69SWarner Losh	Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for
418cd37f69SWarner Losh	information please see
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438cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=886676+0+current/freebsd-current
448cd37f69SWarner Losh	or
458cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=827400+0+current/freebsd-current
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478cd37f69SWarner Losh	for details.  These changes will likely not impact anybody,
488cd37f69SWarner Losh	but large chagnes to the VM need at least a heads up.
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508cd37f69SWarner Losh19990120:
518cd37f69SWarner Losh	Stable branch created.  You might want to consider using this
528cd37f69SWarner Losh	branch.  It is tagged with RELENG_3.
538cd37f69SWarner Losh
54ad56ea87SWarner Losh19990119:
55ad56ea87SWarner Losh	More work on the syscons driver has been committed.  Since
56ad56ea87SWarner Losh	files moved around, you will need to reconfigure your kernel,
57ad56ea87SWarner Losh	and make clean; make depend before rebuilding the kernel.  No
58ad56ea87SWarner Losh	config file changes are needed.
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6057199806SWarner Losh19990111:
61a85c0f55SWarner Losh	New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
62a85c0f55SWarner Losh	stage of console driver reorganization.  You are required to
63a85c0f55SWarner Losh	update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
64a85c0f55SWarner Losh	kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
65a85c0f55SWarner Losh	The instruction can be found in
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677dafbc29SWarner Losh		http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt
6857199806SWarner Losh
69a85c0f55SWarner Losh	It has notes on splash screen too.
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7157199806SWarner Losh19990106:
729857e582SWarner Losh	Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
73db23c94fSWarner Losh	install the new bootblocks:
7457199806SWarner Losh
757dafbc29SWarner Losh		http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt
7657199806SWarner Losh
779ba54ae0SWarner Losh	When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
789ba54ae0SWarner Losh	/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
799ba54ae0SWarner Losh	elf and aout.  Otherwise things like X will stop working with
809857e582SWarner Losh	messages about being unable to find library files.  The
819857e582SWarner Losh	mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
829857e582SWarner Losh	keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
839857e582SWarner Losh	recommended.
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8557199806SWarner Losh19990104:
862c558794SWarner Losh	Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
8757199806SWarner Losh
887dafbc29SWarner Losh		http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
8957199806SWarner Losh
902c558794SWarner Losh	about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
912c558794SWarner Losh	for doing the upgrade.
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9357199806SWarner Losh19981230:
94d5513f53SWarner Losh	You should install new bootblocks now.  The ELF kernel will
95e363c17bSWarner Losh	become default soon.  In addition, you'll need to upgrade
96e363c17bSWarner Losh	your userland programs to ELF before then as well.  Use
97e363c17bSWarner Losh	make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
98e363c17bSWarner Losh	a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
99e363c17bSWarner Losh	continue to work, even after the upgrade).  See src/Makefile
100e363c17bSWarner Losh	for more details.
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10257199806SWarner Losh19981224:
103355edc3eSWarner Losh	The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel.  The
104355edc3eSWarner Losh	driver that replaces it is named acd.  You'll need to change
105355edc3eSWarner Losh	this in your configuration files.
10657199806SWarner Losh
107355edc3eSWarner Losh	Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
108355edc3eSWarner Losh	configured" at boot time.
10957199806SWarner Losh
110355edc3eSWarner Losh	The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
111355edc3eSWarner Losh	with no replacement driver.
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11357199806SWarner Losh19981202:
114ab308df6SWarner Losh	New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
115ab308df6SWarner Losh	aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
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11757199806SWarner Losh19981201:
118ab308df6SWarner Losh	New user/group added: bind.  From src/etc/master.passwd and
119ab308df6SWarner Losh	src/etc/group:
120ab308df6SWarner Losh		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
121ab308df6SWarner Losh		bind:*:53:
122ab308df6SWarner Losh		% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
123ab308df6SWarner Losh		tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
124ab308df6SWarner Losh		kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
125ab308df6SWarner Losh		bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
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12757199806SWarner Losh19981118:
12853dfde79SWarner Losh	PAM integrated into the tree.   Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
12953dfde79SWarner Losh	to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
13053dfde79SWarner Losh	See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
13157199806SWarner Losh
1321fc1a0dcSWarner LoshThis file contains a list, in reverse chronologocal order, of major
1331fc1a0dcSWarner Loshbreakages in tracking -current.  Not all things will be listed here,
1341fc1a0dcSWarner Loshand it only starts on Novemeber 18, 1998.  If you have an earlier
1351fc1a0dcSWarner Loshversion of FreeBSD, you are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.
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