Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/UPDATING,v rcsdiff: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/UPDATING,v: warning: Unknown phrases like `commitid ...;' are present. retrieving revision 1.114.2.1 retrieving revision 1.120 diff -u -p -r1.114.2.1 -r1.120 --- src/UPDATING 2004/07/23 08:45:42 1.114.2.1 +++ src/UPDATING 2004/05/03 04:12:21 1.120 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.114.2.1 2004/07/23 08:45:42 tron Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.120 2004/05/03 04:12:21 atatat Exp $ This file is intended to be a brief introduction to the build process and a reference on what to do if something doesn't work. @@ -8,30 +8,51 @@ For a more detailed description see Make Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -20040715: - The rc.d/sendmail script now uses a heuristic to determine - if sendmail should be started at boot time. It checks the - contents of /etc/mailer.conf, /etc/mail/submit.cf, and the - owner and mode of the sendmail binary to see if any changes - to the mail infrastructure have been made. If no changes - are detected, it will start an SMTP listener. - - Setting sendmail=NO in /etc/rc.conf will override this. - - If you are only using sendmail by default and only for - local delivery, it is important that you also update your - sendmail.cf so that the SMTP listener only listens on the - loopback interface. - -20040715: - The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 - kernel builds has been changed again. The latest version - of bsd.files.mk is no longer required. +20040426: + Support for the original dynamic sysctl node structure has + been removed in favor of the newer layout. This affects + consumers of the create and delete interface, as well as + the dynamic discovery mechanism. This is believed only to + be the sysctl(8) binary itself, at this point in time, so + the only effect of this should be that a sysctl binary + built from sources dated between 2003/12/04 and 2004/03/24 + will not work on a kernel built from sources dated after + 2004/04/25. If you need a new sysctl binary but build.sh + does not work, make sure that your revision of + src/sys/sys/sysctl.h is 1.112 (or later), and then the + do the following: + + cd /usr/src (or wherever your source tree is) + make USETOOLS=no includes + cd lib/libc + make USETOOLS=no dependall install + cd ../../sbin/sysctl + make USETOOLS=no dependall install + +20040425: + The ffs superblock issues listed below under 20040109 and 20030402 + are now automatically addressed by the /etc/rc.d/fixsb script or by + sysinst when it checks a a filesystem. The manual fsck_ffs -b16 -c4 + invocation mentioned below will continue to work and is now + automated by those scripts. Note that under certain circumstances, + affected filesystems upgraded to a -current kernel first before + upgrading their userland with the fixsb and fsck_ffs fixes may + encounter a 'freeing free inode' panic when writing to the affected + filesystem, so it is a good idea to repair the filesystem as soon as + possible. For more details on the fixsb script, see pr install/25138. + +20040418: + Statfs(2) and friends have been replaced with statvfs(2). Before + installing a newly build userland make sure that you are running + a newly built kernel with COMPAT_20 set. In addition your libc + build might not work (undefined SYS_statfs symbol) because make + clean does not know how to remove files it does not know about + anymore. Manually remove all generated .S sources and objects + from the libc build directory. 20040326: - The method by which athhal-elf.o gets pulled into i386 kernel builds - has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencode file in CVS + has been changed. The file is now stored as a uuencoded file in CVS and the generated Makefile will use the new .uue rules from bsd.file.mk to build it.