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<h1>Updating Information for FreeBSD current users</h1>
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This file is maintainted by <a href="mailto:imp@village.org">Warner
Losh</a>. Please send new entries in it to him. It contains a list,
in reverse chronologocal order, of major breakages in tracking
-current. Not all things will be listed here, and it only starts on
Novemeber 18, 1998. If you have an earlier version of FreeBSD, you
are on your own to get to November 18, 1998.</P>
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990111</b></td>
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New keyboard and video card drivers are introduced as the first
stage of console driver reorganization. You are required to
update the kernel configuration file and rebuild the kernel.
kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, and screen savers also need recompilation.
The instruction can be found in
<br>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt">
http://www.freebsd.org/~yokota/sc_update.txt</a>
<br>
It has notes on splash screen too.
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990106</b></td>
<td valign=top align=left>
Robert Nordier was kind enough to make this page to enable people to
install the new bootblocks:
<br>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt">
http://www.freebsd.org/~rnordier/boot.txt</a>
<p>
When updating to ELF, make sure that you have updated your
/etc/rc files which have different ldconfig invocations for
elf and aout. Otherwise things like X will stop working with
messages about being unable to find library files. The
mergemaster utility in ports/sysutils/mergemaster helps to
keep critical files like this in sync, and its use is
recommended.
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19990104</b></td>
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Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
<br>
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html">
http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html</a>
<br>
about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
for doing the upgrade.
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981230</b></td>
<td valign=top align=left>
You should install new bootblocks now. The ELF kernel will
become default soon. In addition, you'll need to upgrade
your userland programs to ELF before then as well. Use
make aout-to-elf to upgrade your userland programs (old
a.out programs in, for example, /usr/local/bin will
continue to work, even after the upgrade). See src/Makefile
for more details.
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981224</b></td>
<td valign=top align=left>
The old wcd driver has been deleted from the kernel. The
driver that replaces it is named acd. You'll need to change
this in your configuration files.
<p>
Failure to do this will result in "ATAPI CD-ROMs not
configured" at boot time.
<p>
The floppy tape driver (ft) has been removed from the kernel,
with no replacement driver.
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981202</b></td>
<td valign=top align=left>
New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981201</b></td>
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New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
src/etc/group:
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% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/group
bind:*:53:
% grep <newstuff> /usr/src/etc/master.passwd
tty:*:4:65533::0:0:Tty Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
kmem:*:5:65533::0:0:KMem Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
bind:*:53:53::0:0:Bind Sandbox:/:/sbin/nologin
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<td width="10%" valign=top align=left><b>19981118</b></td>
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PAM integrated into the tree. Requires new /etc/pam.conf file
to silence warnings from authentication programs (login, etc).
See src/etc/pam.conf for a sample.
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$Id: UPDATING,v 1.10 1999/01/11 09:07:18 imp Exp $
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