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--- src/UPDATING	2008/08/13 16:37:56	1.177
+++ src/UPDATING	2009/01/14 15:53:29	1.189
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.177 2008/08/13 16:37:56 christos Exp $
+$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.189 2009/01/14 15:53:29 hubertf 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
@@ -16,6 +16,65 @@ See also: BUILDING, build.sh, Makefile.
 Recent changes:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
+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 have been versioned, and there is
+	   a heuristic for utmp. You are better off removing the
+	   old files after upgrading. The accounting file has not
+	   been versioned, and will need to be removed.
+
+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.:
+	  $ (cd lib/libc && make MKLINT=no dependall install)
+
 20080813:
 	MKDEBUG build was broken because the .depend files did not know
 	about .go files. You need to remove all .depend files and rebuild.