157199806SWarner LoshUpdating Information for FreeBSD current users 253dfde79SWarner Losh 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. 51fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 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. 100edeb9e7SWarner Losh 111fc1a0dcSWarner Losh19990210: 121fc1a0dcSWarner Losh The 'lpt' driver is now obsolete. Replace it with the 'nlpt' 130edeb9e7SWarner Losh driver and 'ppbus' controller combination. 1457199806SWarner Losh 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. 207dd38e55SWarner Losh 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. 319a3105eeSWarner Losh 329a3105eeSWarner Losh19990121: 338cd37f69SWarner Losh Vinum has changed. The "vinum read" command has changed. For 348cd37f69SWarner Losh updates, please see 353652181cSWarner Losh 368cd37f69SWarner Loshhttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=800363+0+current/freebsd-current 373652181cSWarner Losh 388cd37f69SWarner Losh for details. 398cd37f69SWarner Losh 408cd37f69SWarner Losh Matt Dillon committed a boatload of VM changes, for 418cd37f69SWarner Losh information please see 423652181cSWarner Losh 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 463652181cSWarner Losh 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. 498cd37f69SWarner Losh 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. 59ad56ea87SWarner Losh 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 6657199806SWarner Losh 677dafbc29SWarner Losh http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt 6857199806SWarner Losh 69a85c0f55SWarner Losh It has notes on splash screen too. 7057199806SWarner Losh 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. 8457199806SWarner Losh 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. 9257199806SWarner Losh 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. 10157199806SWarner Losh 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. 11257199806SWarner Losh 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. 11657199806SWarner Losh 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 12657199806SWarner Losh 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. 1361fc1a0dcSWarner Losh 1377dd38e55SWarner Losh$Id: UPDATING,v 1.19 1999/02/15 08:09:07 imp Exp $ 138