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 1.178.2.2 retrieving revision 1.195 diff -u -p -r1.178.2.2 -r1.195 --- src/UPDATING 2009/05/30 16:40:30 1.178.2.2 +++ src/UPDATING 2009/05/01 23:08:25 1.195 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.178.2.2 2009/05/30 16:40:30 snj Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.195 2009/05/01 23:08:25 perry Exp $ This file (UPDATING) is intended to be a brief reference to recent changes that might cause problems in the build process, and a guide for @@ -16,28 +16,93 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile. Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -20090530: +20090501: + Several new functions were added to string.h/libc, and this + can cause autoconf problems during the tool build for people + who fail to clean out their tools objects properly. If you + note messages about stpcpy, stpncpy or strnlen accompanying a + failure during the tool build, clean out all your tools + objects and start again. + +20090325: + The i386 port was switched to i486 default toolchain. This requires + cleaning your src/tools directory and $TOOLDIR and rebuilding them. + +20090126: + The __posix_fadvise50 system call changed assembly stub type. You need to + 'rm -f __posix_fadvise50.*' in the libc build directory to avoid using + the old assembly stub. + +20090202: pkg_install now depends on the pkgdb cache for automatic conflict detection. It is recommented to rebuild the cache with ``pkg_admin rebuild''. - audit-packages.conf(5) has been superseded by pkg_install.conf(5). - The default configuration is the same. Support for pkg_view(1) has - been retired. The functionality of audit-packages(1) and - download-vulnerability-list(1) has moved into pkg_admin(1), wrapper - scripts that handle the common use cases are provided. +20090110: + time_t and dev_t have been bumped to 64 bit quantities. To upgrade: + 1. Make sure your kernel has COMPAT_50 in it. Build and install. + This is needed even in the MODULAR kernel because there is + conditionally compiled code in rtsock.c. + 2. make sure build.sh completes and the binaries in a chroot work + before installing. + 3. If you don't use build.sh and you build directly to root, and + your build breaks in the middle, don't despair. Make sure headers + are installed properly, and start building libraries first libc + and libutil, install them and then continue building all the + libraries in src/lib and src/gnu/lib and install them. Once + the new libraries are installed, you can restart the build. + 4. If you compile packages and you notice link time warnings, + rebuild the required packages to update their shared libraries. + Any package you rebuild will require rebuilding all the packages + that depend on it. + 5. Next time you run pwd_mkdb with the new binary, the file + will be upgraded and it will not be backwards compatible. + 6. The utmpx/wtmpx files (/var/run/utmpx and /var/log/wtmpx, see + lastlogx(5)) have been versioned, and there is a heuristic + for utmp. You are better off removing the old files after + upgrading. The automated clearing of /var/run during + boot, and the automated rotating of files in /var/log by + newsyslog(8), may mean that you do not have to remove the + files manually. + 7. The optional accounting file (/var/account/acct, see + accton(8)) has not been versioned, and will need to be + removed. The automatic rotation of the accounting file by + /etc/daily limits the bad consequences of failure to remove + the file. + +20081219: + config(1) has been updated, and one of the files it creates - + swapnetbsd.o - has changed format. You need to rebuild config + (done automatically by build.sh) and then you need to rerun + config on all kernel configuration files before rebuilding those + kernels. 20081205: If you build with MKX11=no, you should remove /etc/rc.d/xdm and /etc/rc.d/xfs from DESTDIR because those files were moved to the xetc set and will appear as extra files for MKX11=no update builds. +20081122: + On i386, various kernel options(4) in GENERIC including + file systems have been disabled and moved into kernel modules. + Before trying a new GENERIC kernel, you have to prepare the + following files as well as a new GENERIC kernel: + + - build and install kernel modules from src/sys/modules + + - install the latest bootloader, which will load a module + for the file system from which the kernel is loaded automatically + + If you have to load your kernel from a file system which is not of + the same type as the root file system, you have to load the necessary + file system module manually on the boot prompt or in the boot.cfg file. + 20080827: If you built and installed a libc from sources between 2008/08/20 and 2008/08/26 you got a broken strtouq(3) which results in false errors reported by lint(1). Since this breaks the libc build itself, manual help is - needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g: + needed -- lint must be disabled temporarily, e.g.: $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install) 20080813: