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Warner Losh 2c558794ca Add a poitner to Peter's page on the ELF migration day. This is the
day when the elves sail accross the sea to a new home, which happens
to be in your computer.  They will sing glorious songs for the Eldar
days.  You machine will shun the darkness that is upon the world.

Errrm, well actually you won't even notice...

Submitted by: peter
Appologies to: tokien
1999-01-05 05:46:37 +00:00

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This file is maintainted by imp@village.org. 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.
19990104:
Information about ELF day (see 19981230) can be found in
http://www.freebsd.org/~peter/elfday.html
about the upcoming change, its motivations and instructions
for doing the upgrade.
19981230:
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.
19981202:
New groups from 19981201 commented out of mtree, so they
aren't strictly needed, but still a good idea to have.
19981201:
New user/group added: bind. From src/etc/master.passwd and
src/etc/group:
% 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
19981118:
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.
YYYYMMDD:
What happened and what you need to do.
$Id: UPDATING,v 1.4 1998/12/31 08:01:12 imp Exp $