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Warner Losh
a4b6fda054 The correction entry about asr was too pessimistic based on my poor 
understanging of the situation.

Submitted by: scottl
 2001-10-31 14:32:58 +00:00
Warner Losh
1fe003b61f Add entries about the recent problems with asr. 
TARGET replaces MACHINE

Submitted by: ru, jhb
 2001-10-31 04:36:54 +00:00
Warner Losh
d05f964396 Add Soren's burncd warning. 2001-10-02 07:01:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
58970f854b Fix the damage caused in the last commit: 
give the correct workaround for compat library problem
	give a better acpi workaround.
Also include note about TARGET_ARCH.

DO NOT COMMIT TO THIS FILE UNLESS YOU ARE IMP.
 2001-10-01 03:59:13 +00:00
Alfred Perlstein
378f44862a Tell people why they might want to disable ACPI and how to do it. 
Tell people how to fix the 4.x compatibility issue.
 2001-10-01 03:45:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
5119d237e5 Add note about buildworld being fixed. 2001-09-27 15:43:04 +00:00
Warner Losh
22306abc9e While I am THE Warner Losh (I know of no others that share my name and 
I've looked), there's no need to refer to myself here as the Warner Losh.

Noticed by: mike
 2001-09-23 06:44:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
772730c7a4 Fix grammar of the newest UPDATING entry. Also, minor rewording of 
grant to use this document to be less restrictive than before.  The
document now can be used without restriction.
 2001-09-23 06:36:41 +00:00
Warner Losh
3c293725e1 Note world breakage and give workaround 2001-09-21 05:08:00 +00:00
Warner Losh
98b17b9518 Use Brian Sommers' named entry 2001-08-24 21:43:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
f10d314518 Fix typo in repo damage message. 
Submitted by: Vadim Ostranitsyn <vadim@tsu.ru>
 2001-08-23 15:39:27 +00:00
Warner Losh
2aacaea631 Remove some stray text that crept into this verison of the updating 
file.  It is for current, not the 4.3 release branch.
 2001-08-22 15:44:19 +00:00
Warner Losh
a6cd4f9de3 Note: mergemaster stopped being optional a long time ago. Caution against 
doing it by hand (but provide pointers to those wanting to do it by hand).
 2001-08-11 02:03:51 +00:00
Warner Losh
f34a9421b1 Typo 2001-08-10 21:32:53 +00:00
Warner Losh
62353691f3 Add, belated, entry for ed driver needing mii 2001-07-25 22:53:11 +00:00
Mark Murray
7b9786edfb Mention problems with PAM upgrade and ports. 
OK'ed by:	imp
 2001-07-17 08:01:25 +00:00
Warner Losh
1d28950e4f Note move of kernel compile to src/sys/MACHINE/compile/FOO. 2001-06-30 06:35:45 +00:00
Warner Losh
e72fd46a66 pccard modem support fixed. 
Update hints problems.

Add copyright and copying notice: Do what you want with this file.
 2001-06-29 06:00:44 +00:00
Warner Losh
0d415dff80 More updates 
# Note, I managed to fat finger some mail commands and lost who submitted some
# of these entries.  If it was you, email me and I'll for a commit to
# give proper credit.
 2001-06-22 04:50:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
8b9959ada8 Add warning that some people are having problems with pccard modems in 
current, reasons unknown.

Add note about softupdates being unstable since the middle of May.
 2001-06-13 06:36:28 +00:00
Warner Losh
3590182e72 Provide better advise than the last commit to UPDATING advocated about 
running newer pccard software.
 2001-06-10 03:09:52 +00:00
Julian Elischer
e88b774c79 Add an example of how to do the cryptic change suggested by UPDATING 
for pccard IRQs.
 2001-06-10 02:59:59 +00:00
Warner Losh
ee6e1fc380 Recommend what to do in a single user boot. 
PR: 25028
Submitted by: Mark Andrews <marka@nominum.com>
 2001-06-04 16:17:06 +00:00
Warner Losh
6ccdb5e44b Set up us the pccard bomb. 2001-06-04 07:10:19 +00:00
Warner Losh
0bc62786ea Note: INSTALL=install -C is no longer supported. Use COPY=-C instead. 
While the old way will continue to work for a while, it will cause
warnings until after 4.4, but before 4.5.
 2001-05-30 07:07:41 +00:00
Warner Losh
f5260d3234 Yet another typo 2001-05-29 16:55:34 +00:00
Warner Losh
c4e215d32f Missed this typo too. 
Submitted by: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
PR: 26766
 2001-05-29 16:52:18 +00:00
Warner Losh
c0f2c1c812 Fix typo. 
Submitted by: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
PR: 26766
 2001-05-29 16:50:23 +00:00
Warner Losh
c4f4a728d1 Alpha is not in good shape at all. 
Submitted by: obrien
 2001-05-29 05:32:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
b6609bbb00 Temper my optimism 2001-05-29 05:24:08 +00:00
Warner Losh
68a38c6cac Looks like -current is safe again, and has been since Friday. 2001-05-29 04:26:44 +00:00
Warner Losh
ed0f29caa1 Mention jakarta-tomcat issues 2001-05-22 20:41:36 +00:00
Warner Losh
80c16af982 Add note about pccard rototill and swapping breakage. 2001-05-21 16:40:50 +00:00
Warner Losh
a45f2d05ec Note ncurses import and ata ioctl changes. 2001-05-19 06:27:16 +00:00
Warner Losh
a70a79ad2d Fix type noticed by jasone 2001-05-16 19:15:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
09946a51b7 Note recent windows of breakage. 
Note new ata subsystem.
Add additional files for the portmap change.
 2001-05-16 04:34:40 +00:00
Warner Losh
2988afca88 DEVFS is opt in not opt out. Warn about July 1. 2001-05-14 05:11:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
91dd3b538c Add warning, and resolution, of the fsck and kernel problem 2001-04-24 04:49:21 +00:00
Warner Losh
933b3269e5 Catch up to the end of march. 
o fsck pass changes
o portmap changes
o fxp needs miibus
o wi defaults to BSS mode.
o urandom and random are the same
 2001-04-22 05:35:49 +00:00
Warner Losh
7595222a22 Spell deprecated correctly (dufault) 
Suggest mergemaster in the 4.x-stable -> current upgrade (fenner)
correct path to hints file (fenner)

Submitted by: dufault, fenner.
 2001-03-02 00:36:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
d325cf6580 It is now safe to go back into the water. 2001-02-28 05:45:16 +00:00
Warner Losh
024daae6a9 Sigh. Add note about the FILE FIASCO. 
Also notes about FFS_ROOT and CD9660_ROOT and DEVFS cautions.

It is not a good time to live in -current.
 2001-02-12 21:16:37 +00:00
Warner Losh
1e15924872 Note change of KERNEL to KERNCONF for building instructions. Peter 
changed this due to the undesirable side effects that putting KERNEL
in /etc/make.conf was having on people's lives.  Also update the
instructions as well.
 2001-01-22 08:03:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
aac7dfeae8 Catchup from my holiday lull: 
o libcrypt not a symlink.
o hw.sndunit -> hw.snd.unit
o burncd / kernel changes
o I386_CPU now mutually exclusive with all other CPU types.
 2001-01-17 17:59:09 +00:00
Warner Losh
5fd2a895ba Spell while the more traditional way. 
Submitted by: knu

Suggest that maybe rebuilding just libc might also work around this.

Suggested by: rgrimes and phk.
 2001-01-03 05:30:30 +00:00
Warner Losh
63c90c9e57 Note problems with vi core dumping for a comple of days, plus 
workaround.
 2001-01-02 21:28:48 +00:00
Warner Losh
de2bcc6340 Add note about ed driver changes impacting the Linksys cards. 2000-12-18 17:25:26 +00:00
Warner Losh
960773f7ec Add new ssh pam support and pam.conf requirements. 2000-12-05 16:38:14 +00:00
Mark Ovens
685294e7c4 Fix a couple of typos 
Approved by:	Warner
 2000-11-16 20:18:45 +00:00
Warner Losh
0acc635e6d Try to catchup with my UPDATING backlog: 
o cvs 1.11
	o /dev/random
	o sendmail
	o password default change
Please look at these entries and let me know if I've forgotten anything,
or if my understanding doesn't match reality.
 2000-11-03 07:04:43 +00:00
Nik Clayton
be1494064f Fix a typo in a date line. I wouldn't normally ignore MAINTAINER, but the 
PR's been assigned to Warner since June.

PR:		docs/18835
Submitted by:	shirota@mbox.media.nagoya-u.ac.jp
 2000-10-29 15:55:15 +00:00
Warner Losh
6e98a1467f rm miniperl && cd /usr/ports && cvs update -PAd now recommended 2000-10-09 03:56:39 +00:00
Warner Losh
073113a478 Add upcoming ports layout changes 2000-10-05 23:13:47 +00:00
Warner Losh
be3885b320 Note about moving kernel names. 2000-09-17 21:01:30 +00:00
Warner Losh
01b9a4342f hint vs hints typo 
Submitted by: "Niels Chr. Bank-Pedersen" <ncbp@bank-pedersen.dk>
 2000-09-16 19:27:41 +00:00
Warner Losh
76ec96756e Add warning about laptops needing pmtimer device for proper suspend/resume 
functionality.
 2000-09-16 03:08:55 +00:00
Warner Losh
38d6ecd20c Another Sept 5 change forces a new mountd since the old mountd panics 
the kernel, according to Mike Smith.
 2000-09-14 06:04:44 +00:00
Mark Murray
f4865386bc The entropy device is no longer an option in the kernel, 
it is a (pseudo-)device. Document this for the upgrading
masses.
 2000-09-12 19:05:11 +00:00
Warner Losh
16eb772dd7 Fix 1.117 as requested by DES, but in a different way. Generally 
degrumpify it, and add pointer to module problem that I had hit with a
stale Linux module when I upgraded to SMPNG code.
 2000-09-12 04:37:12 +00:00
Warner Losh
d594498f75 Add warning from Sheldon and others about stale modules 
Add warning from markm about randomdev vs random change in loader
 2000-09-11 05:59:00 +00:00
Warner Losh
52bf24e769 Add a mild warning for people to expect problems in -current after the 
SMPng merge.  Suggest 4.x-stable for a while for those people that are
unable or unwilling to cope with problems.

After 6 hours of use tonight, my gut tells me that we're going to have
lots of problems crop up in the coming weeks.
 2000-09-08 06:41:47 +00:00
Warner Losh
0deb7ddcd4 Add note about SMPNG commit. 2000-09-07 21:39:59 +00:00
Warner Losh
8aab4bc775 Revamp boot message. Get the path names right. 
Submitted by: "Dampure, Pierre Y." <pierre.dampure@alveley.org>
 2000-09-07 21:04:39 +00:00
Mark Ovens
2c021c6c54 Fix typos 
Approved by:	Warner
 2000-09-06 23:51:10 +00:00
Warner Losh
5a01880bbf NewBSD nsswitch ported to FreeBSD. 
Submitted by: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
 2000-09-06 18:53:48 +00:00
Warner Losh
2b41163c14 First cut at new boot loader. 
Rip it to shreds so that it is better, please :-)
 2000-09-06 18:02:03 +00:00
Warner Losh
c22a309c55 Add a note about /etc/aliases moving /etc/mail/aliases and the problems 
that causes in updating.

Submitted by: Robert Watson

[[ NB: marko and I are trying an experiment: he'll try to fix typos
   quickly in UPDATING, while I concentrate on content. ]]
 2000-09-04 21:09:01 +00:00
Mark Ovens
f699bbbbe4 Correct minor typos 
PR:		21022
Submitted by:	Daniel S. Lewart <d-lewart@uiuc.edu>
 2000-09-04 16:59:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
a24eff5315 Add note about avoiding -j when following the upgrade path. It isn't 
strictly verboten, just a recommendation to avoid problems.
Add note about LINT being built from NOTES.
 2000-09-04 03:18:01 +00:00
Warner Losh
9c1a744422 Expand information about device.hints. Add information in the 
cookbook section about needing to copy GENERIC.hints to
/boot/device.hints, as well as a footnote about exceptions to this
rule.

Partially suggested by: obrien
 2000-08-29 06:35:46 +00:00
Warner Losh
fdb9f54dde /boot/device.hints is now required. 2000-08-28 03:54:51 +00:00
Warner Losh
5da0d091fa New suidperl instructions. 2000-08-13 02:19:13 +00:00
Warner Losh
8f250aa713 Add excellent entry written by gshaprio for his import of Sendmail 
8.11.0 into the tree.  Good job Gregory!

Submitted by: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@freebsd.org>
 2000-08-12 22:47:21 +00:00
Warner Losh
71c38472de Add stuff: 
o BUILD_SUIDPERL replaces NOSUIDPERL
o New /etc/rc.conf settings for secure networking may require changes
  to those upgrading.
o nullfs in loader.conf.
 2000-08-10 23:16:32 +00:00
Warner Losh
ba01eb206c o Move to recommending the {build,install}kernel targets for updating from 
older versions of FreeBSD.
o Continue to document the old way of doing it with a warning stating if that
  doesn't work, to do the {build,install}kernel thing.
o minor wordsmithing on what a make world really is.
 2000-08-10 05:14:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
134d2e86de Add a reminder note to people to disable third party modules at the 
right place in the upgrade proceedure so that they don't get burned by
a crash on reboot.
 2000-08-10 05:03:49 +00:00
Warner Losh
bed5c5ffb0 Type in FreeBSD capitalization 2000-08-06 22:18:39 +00:00
Warner Losh
1dece4a9c5 Add entry on the installkernel changes as well as more grumpy notes 
about needing to be on -current to track -current.  Tweak the 4.0 ->
4.x version stuff.
 2000-08-06 22:16:34 +00:00
Warner Losh
c6dd14300f typos from asmodai, one important for device.hints 2000-07-27 20:49:24 +00:00
Warner Losh
f54a3542ef alex@big.endian.de (Alexander Langer) noticed that I point at LINT, 
which no longer exists.  Updating the entry accordingly.
 2000-07-19 18:35:05 +00:00
Warner Losh
409e887c85 Take jdp's excellent message to -current about the internat crypto 
files and put it in my freebsd web area.  Rewrite the entry in
UPDATING to point to it the message and hopefully not confuse people
like the old one did.
 2000-07-16 06:00:40 +00:00
Warner Losh
673d13f2db Two entries: 
o Mark M has updated the random device to harvest entropy.  Put
	  instructions to tell people how to cope.
	o add entry about phk's malloc changes.
 2000-07-13 05:35:31 +00:00
Warner Losh
2f961bc842 Add warning about needing to set SYSDIR to build new kernels after 
July 4th due to the new sys/modules/sound/drivers/* being added to the
tree.  You will need to do this until you do a make installworld with
my bsd.kmod.mk change.
 2000-07-07 05:17:49 +00:00
Warner Losh
e98e26cd69 Add information on libftpio version backoff. Also mention the crypto 
collection changes.
 2000-07-06 23:04:55 +00:00
Warner Losh
c373950eff o rc.d now use start/stop, and some scripts may produce warnings. 
o NOTES replaces LINT.  Make a note of it in an older entry.
 2000-07-06 22:51:16 +00:00
Warner Losh
27dc3a2b96 Note des' libfetch/fetch changes. 
Clarify requirements for dev random, et al, from markm's commit.

Initial diffs for the latter by: archie
 2000-06-30 17:19:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
b8c215accd Added a dire sounding note about how crypto is required to build the 
system.  Well, not really required if you know what you are doing, but
there's enough people that don't fit into this class that are getting
burned now that we need to say it is required.  The actual message
says that one should treat it as if it was required to try to be
weasilly for the nitpickers amoung us :-)Killed by signal 2.
 2000-06-29 00:34:54 +00:00
Warner Losh
7b9907197a Add warning about /dev/random disconnecting entropy for a few days while 
the code is reworked.
 2000-06-26 05:54:02 +00:00
Warner Losh
81e54c5014 Add softupdate change info. 2000-06-25 08:26:38 +00:00
Daniel Baker
2a2f33fb7a Fix typo in the config file update procedure URL and typo in preceding 
sentence.
 2000-06-22 07:28:44 +00:00
Warner Losh
39943833e9 bde says we don't need to note in passing the locore stuff. 
Scott Flatman <sf@arcanet.com> sent in a step by step buide to updating
the config file.  since he was first, he gets his name in lights :-)
 2000-06-22 02:23:52 +00:00
Warner Losh
d4c3159a33 Missed one: 
Per grog's suggestion, mention bde's symbol change to the kernel.  It
likely isn't a big deal, but should be noted in passing.
 2000-06-21 07:09:22 +00:00
Warner Losh
290f9ad8cf I felt guilty: 
o add note about binutils 2.10 fixing the problems noted on 20000522.
	o Add some very brief text to the '612 entry on the config changes.
	  A better howto would be warmly added to the file.
 2000-06-21 07:06:38 +00:00
Warner Losh
f75f65bbe0 Forgot about the bootblocks. 2000-06-21 07:01:33 +00:00
Warner Losh
90fb634625 Note phk's axing of wd compat devices in -current. 2000-06-21 06:59:35 +00:00
Warner Losh
ba26da8e1f Warn about config's bout with Peter's big axe 2000-06-14 15:42:50 +00:00
Warner Losh
d9583a0008 Add note about make.conf's J finding bugs in ld and not to use it for 
the moment.
 2000-05-29 01:49:56 +00:00
Warner Losh
d65850eb5f Add entry for new binutils that are needed to properly rebuild the 
kernel.
 2000-05-27 21:20:07 +00:00
Warner Losh
8039cede53 All the latest big changes in -current that I could find: 
mod depends
	modules out of makeworld
	ethernet drivers
	alpha boot bloocks
Maybe a few others
 2000-05-16 07:48:18 +00:00
Warner Losh
2b8dd5f402 o Make note of brandelf change (obrien) 
o Make the ata warning less dire based on more experience.  It seems that marginal
  disks cause more problems than that chipset singled out. (sos)
 2000-05-04 08:02:11 +00:00