FreeBSD Monitor - Feeds::freebsd_updating

freebsd_updating

2013-06-18T23:59:59Z

Fix a bug that allowed a tracing process (e.g. gdb) to write
to a memory-mapped file in the traced process's address space
even if neither the traced process nor the tracing process had
write access to that file.

freebsd_updating

2013-06-15T23:59:59Z

CVS has been removed from the base system. An exact copy
of the code is available from the devel/cvs port.

freebsd_updating

2013-06-13T23:59:59Z

Some people report the following error after the switch to bmake:

make: illegal option -- J
usage: make [-BPSXeiknpqrstv] [-C directory] [-D variable]
...
*** [buildworld] Error code 2

this likely due to an old instance of make in
${MAKEPATH} (${MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX}${.CURDIR}/make.${MACHINE})
which src/Makefile will use that blindly, if it exists, so if
you see the above error:

rm -rf `make -V MAKEPATH`

should resolve it.

freebsd_updating

2013-05-16T23:59:59Z

Use bmake by default.
Whereas before one could choose to build with bmake via
-DWITH_BMAKE one must now use -DWITHOUT_BMAKE to use the old
make. The goal is to remove these knobs for 10-RELEASE.

It is worth noting that bmake (like gmake) treats the command
line as the unit of failure, rather than statements within the
command line. Thus '(cd some/where && dosomething)' is safer
than 'cd some/where; dosomething'. The '()' allows consistent
behavior in parallel build.

freebsd_updating

2013-04-29T23:59:59Z

Fix a bug that allows NFS clients to issue READDIR on files.

freebsd_updating

2013-04-26T23:59:59Z

The sysctl which controls TRIM support under ZFS has been renamed
from vfs.zfs.trim_disable -> vfs.zfs.trim.enabled and has been
enabled by default.

freebsd_updating

2013-04-26T23:59:59Z

The WITHOUT_IDEA option has been removed because
the IDEA patent expired.

freebsd_updating

2013-04-25T23:59:59Z

The mergemaster command now uses the default MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX
rather than creating it's own in the temporary directory in
order allow access to bootstrapped versions of tools such as
install and mtree. When upgrading from version of FreeBSD where
the install command does not support -l, you will need to
install a new mergemaster command if mergemaster -p is required.
This can be accomplished with the command (cd src/usr.sbin/mergemaster
&& make install).

freebsd_updating

2013-04-04T23:59:59Z

Legacy ATA stack, disabled and replaced by new CAM-based one since
FreeBSD 9.0, completely removed from the sources. Kernel modules
atadisk and atapi*, user-level tools atacontrol and burncd are
removed. Kernel option `options ATA_CAM` is now permanently enabled
and removed.

freebsd_updating

2013-03-19T23:59:59Z

SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags have been added to socket(2)
and socketpair(2). Software, in particular Kerberos, may
automatically detect and use these during building. The resulting
binaries will not work on older kernels.

freebsd_updating

2013-03-08T23:59:59Z

CTL_DISABLE has also been added to the sparc64 GENERIC (for further
information, see the respective 20130304 entry).

freebsd_updating

2013-03-04T23:59:59Z

The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
in /boot/loader.conf.

freebsd_updating

2013-03-04T23:59:59Z

Recent commits to callout(9) changed the size of struct callout,
so the KBI is probably heavily disturbed. Also, some functions
in callout(9)/sleep(9)/sleepqueue(9)/condvar(9) KPIs were replaced
by macros. Every kernel module using it won't load, so rebuild
is requested.

The ctl device has been re-enabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64,
but does not initialize by default (because of the new CTL_DISABLE
option) to save memory. To re-enable it, remove the CTL_DISABLE
option from the kernel config file or set kern.cam.ctl.disable=0
in /boot/loader.conf.

freebsd_updating

2013-03-01T23:59:59Z

The ctl device has been disabled in GENERIC for i386 and amd64.
This was done due to the extra memory being allocated at system
initialisation time by the ctl driver which was only used if
a CAM target device was created. This makes a FreeBSD system
unusable on 128MB or less of RAM.

freebsd_updating

2013-02-08T23:59:59Z

A new compression method (lz4) has been merged to -HEAD. Please
refer to zpool-features(7) for more information.

Please refer to the "ZFS notes" section of this file for information
on upgrading boot ZFS pools.

freebsd_updating

2013-01-29T23:59:59Z

A BSD-licensed patch(1) variant has been added and is installed
as bsdpatch, being the GNU version the default patch.
To inverse the logic and use the BSD-licensed one as default,
while having the GNU version installed as gnupatch, rebuild
ans install world with the WITH_BSD_PATCH knob set.

freebsd_updating

2013-01-29T23:59:59Z

freebsd_updating

2013-01-21T23:59:59Z

Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
command line. If you with to use the -C flag for all installs
you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
/etc/src.conf.

freebsd_updating

2013-01-21T23:59:59Z

Due to the use of the new -l option to install(1) during build
and install, you must take care not to directly set the INSTALL
make variable in your /etc/make.conf, /etc/src.conf, or on the
command line. If you wish to use the -C flag for all installs
you may be able to add INSTALL+=-C to /etc/make.conf or
/etc/src.conf.

freebsd_updating

2013-01-18T23:59:59Z

The install(1) option -M has changed meaning and now takes an
argument that is a file or path to append logs to. In the
unlikely event that -M was the last option on the command line
and the command line contained at least two files and a target
directory the first file will have logs appended to it. The -M
option served little practical purpose in the last decade so its
use is expected to be extremely rare.