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Updating Information for MidnightBSD users |
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Items affecting the mports and packages system can be found in |
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/usr/mports/UPDATING. |
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20061031: |
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Updated man pages in section 7. |
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20061030: |
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Updated sys/dev/drm to support intel 915 and radeon |
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r300 cards properly. |
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Synced snmpd with FreeBSD-stable. |
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Fixed a bug in rm which could cause data loss. |
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20061027: |
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Added Intel ICH8 and nForce 5 support to ATA. cam, mpt, |
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random, kbdmux, atkbd, and usb were updated. Changes |
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to clearing registers on SSE enabled processors (i386) |
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commited. |
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lukemftpd updated. |
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openssh rc script was altered which effects initial |
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seeding. |
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20061014: |
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Workaround for em driver problem on shared IRQ. |
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Started removal of alpha support. |
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20061013: |
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ATA driver was updated. USB/USB1/USB2 types added. |
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20061010: |
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OpenSSH was updated to 4.4p1. |
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20060909: |
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OpenNTPD was added to MidnightBSD. Run make delete-old to remove |
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the old ntpd daemon. |
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cat has a new option -D which allows you to timestamp output |
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on a per line basis. |
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The kernel has a keyboard mux which allows you to have multiple |
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keyboard connected simultaneously. USB keyboard support was also |
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improved with this patch. |
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The Intel em driver was updated. Network performance was greatly |
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increased on many systems. Additional models are supported. |
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The ATA driver was patched to fix a potential deadlock. |
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Bind was patched to fix a potential denial of service condition. |
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20060817: |
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ksh has been added to the base system. If you previously had |
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the port installed, it will be overwritten on the next buildworld. |
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To build a kernel |
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If you are updating from a prior version of MidnightBSD (even one just |
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a few days old), you should follow this procedure. With a |
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/usr/obj tree with a fresh buildworld, |
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make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE |
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make -DALWAYS_CHECK_MAKE installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE |
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To test a kernel once |
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If you just want to boot a kernel once (because you are not sure |
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if it works, or if you want to boot a known bad kernel to provide |
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debugging information) run |
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make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE KODIR=/boot/testkernel |
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nextboot -k testkernel |
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To just build a kernel when you know that it won't mess you up |
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This assumes you are already running a 6.X system. Replace |
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${arch} with the architecture of your machine (e.g. "i386", |
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"amd64", "ia64", "pc98", "sparc64", etc). |
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cd src/sys/${arch}/conf |
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config KERNEL_NAME_HERE |
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cd ../compile/KERNEL_NAME_HERE |
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make depend |
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make |
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make install |
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If this fails, go to the "To build a kernel" section. |
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To rebuild everything and install it on the current system. |
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# Note: sometimes if you are running current you gotta do more than |
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# is listed here if you are upgrading from a really old current. |
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<make sure you have good level 0 dumps> |
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make buildworld |
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make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE |
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<reboot in single user> [3] |
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mergemaster -p [5] |
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make installworld |
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make delete-old |
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mergemaster [4] |
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<reboot> |
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To cross-install current onto a separate partition |
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# In this approach we use a separate partition to hold |
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# current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition |
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# holding "/", "/usr" and "/var" should be about 2GB in |
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# size. |
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<make sure you have good level 0 dumps> |
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<boot into -stable> |
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make buildworld |
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make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE |
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<maybe newfs current's root partition> |
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<mount current's root partition on directory ${CURRENT_ROOT}> |
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make installworld DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} |
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cd src/etc; make distribution DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} # if newfs'd |
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make installkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE DESTDIR=${CURRENT_ROOT} |
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cp /etc/fstab ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab # if newfs'd |
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<edit ${CURRENT_ROOT}/etc/fstab to mount "/" from the correct partition> |
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<reboot into current> |
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<do a "native" rebuild/install as described in the previous section> |
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<maybe install compatibility libraries from src/lib/compat> |
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<reboot> |
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To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable or higher to 6.x-stable |
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<make sure you have good level 0 dumps> |
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make buildworld [9] |
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make kernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_HERE [8] |
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<reboot in single user> [3] |
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mergemaster -p [5] |
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make installworld |
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make delete-old |
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mergemaster -i [4] |
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<reboot> |
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Make sure that you've read the UPDATING file to understand the |
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tweaks to various things you need. At this point in the life |
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cycle of current, things change often and you are on your own |
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to cope. The defaults can also change, so please read ALL of |
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the UPDATING entries. |
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Also, if you are tracking -current, you must be subscribed to |
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freebsd-current@freebsd.org. Make sure that before you update |
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your sources that you have read and understood all the recent |
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messages there. If in doubt, please track -stable which has |
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much fewer pitfalls. |
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[1] If you have third party modules, such as vmware, you |
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should disable them at this point so they don't crash your |
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system on reboot. |
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[3] From the bootblocks, boot -s, and then do |
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fsck -p |
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mount -u / |
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mount -a |
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cd src |
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adjkerntz -i # if CMOS is wall time |
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Also, when doing a major release upgrade, it is required that |
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you boot into single user mode to do the installworld. |
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[4] Note: This step is non-optional. Failure to do this step |
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can result in a significant reduction in the functionality of the |
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system. Attempting to do it by hand is not recommended and those |
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that pursue this avenue should read this file carefully, as well |
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as the archives of freebsd-current and freebsd-hackers mailing lists |
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for potential gotchas. |
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[5] Usually this step is a noop. However, from time to time |
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you may need to do this if you get unknown user in the following |
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step. It never hurts to do it all the time. |
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[8] In order to have a kernel that can run the 5.x binaries |
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needed to do an installworld, you must include the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 |
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option in your kernel. Failure to do so may leave you with a system |
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that is hard to boot to recover. A similar kernel option COMPAT_FREEBSD5 |
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is required to run the 5.x binaries on more recent kernels. |
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Make sure that you merge any new devices from GENERIC since the |
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last time you updated your kernel config file. |
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[9] When checking out sources, you must include the -P flag to have |
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cvs prune empty directories. |
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If CPUTYPE is defined in your /etc/make.conf, make sure to use the |
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"?=" instead of the "=" assignment operator, so that buildworld can |
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override the CPUTYPE if it needs to. |
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MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX must be defined in an environment variable, and |
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not on the command line, or in /etc/make.conf. buildworld will |
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warn if it is improperly defined. |
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Copyright information: |
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Copyright 1998-2005 M. Warner Losh. All Rights Reserved. |
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Redistribution, publication, translation and use, with or without |
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modification, in full or in part, in any form or format of this |
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document are permitted without further permission from the author. |
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THIS DOCUMENT IS PROVIDED BY WARNER LOSH ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR |
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IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED |
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DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL WARNER LOSH BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, |
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INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES |
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(INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR |
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SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) |
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If you find this document useful, and you want to, you may buy the |
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author a beer. |
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Contact Warner Losh if you have any questions about your use of |
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this document. |
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$FreeBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.416.2.18 2006/02/22 11:51:57 yar Exp $ |
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$MidnightBSD: src/UPDATING,v 1.5 2006/10/28 06:15:57 laffer1 Exp $ |
