1 # Updating Information for DragonFly users.
4 # This file should warn you of any pitfalls which you might need to work around
5 # when trying to update your DragonFly system. The information below is
6 # in reverse-time order, with the latest information at the top.
8 # If you discover any problem, please contact the bugs@lists.dragonflybsd.org
9 # mailing list with the details.
11 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
12 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 3.8 TO LATER VERSIONS +
13 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
15 OLDER NETWORK DRIVERS MOVED TO I386 ONLY
16 ----------------------------------------
18 The following drivers have been made i386 only: ed(4), sr(4), ng_sync_ar
19 and ng_sync_sr. ed(4) used to be in X86_64_GENERIC, so it has to be
20 removed in kernel configs derived from X86_64_GENERIC.
22 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
23 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 3.6 TO LATER VERSIONS +
24 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
26 UPDATE FROM MOST RECENT 3.6
27 ---------------------------
29 Versions of 3.6 built before June 25th have a bug where installworld might
30 crash during installation of the new initrd. Upgrade to the latest version
31 of 3.6 before updating to 3.8 or later.
33 ATM, IPX, NCP AND NWFS SUPPORT DROPPED
34 --------------------------------------
36 Support for the IPX and NCP network protocols and for mouting NetWare
37 file systems has been dropped. Dito for ATM protocol support.
39 INITRD IMAGES NOW INSTALLED BY DEFAULT
40 --------------------------------------
42 An initial ramdisk image is now installed in /boot/kernel/initrd.img.gz
44 Older images installed under the file name of initrd.img will be removed
45 automatically by the make upgrade process.
47 USB4BSD IS NOW THE DEFAULT USB STACK
48 ------------------------------------
50 To get back to the old stack, put "WANT_OLDUSB=yes" in /etc/make.conf and
51 replace "device usb" with "device oldusb" in the kernel configuration.
53 MORE ISA SUPPORT DROPPED
54 ------------------------
56 ISA support has been dropped from the following drivers: adv(4), an(4),
57 ar(4), cs(4), digi(4), ed(4), ep(4), ex(4), fe(4), lnc(4), sbni(4),
58 si(4), sn(4), and stg(4).
60 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
61 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 3.4 TO LATER VERSIONS +
62 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
67 Installed third-party software (dports) will have to be rebuilt after upgrade,
68 or reinstalled from binary packages.
70 UPDATING FROM 3.4 TO 3.6
71 ------------------------
73 This only applies for this specific upgrade due to locale changes; it is
74 not needed for upgrades after 3.6. Please update in this order:
83 See this mailing list post for details:
84 http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/users/2013-September/090163.html
89 The following Cyrix related options have been removed: CPU_BTB_EN,
90 CPU_CYRIX_NO_LOCK, CPU_DIRECT_MAPPED_CACHE, CPU_DISABLE_5X86_LSSER,
91 CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU, CPU_IORT, CPU_LOOP_EN, CPU_RSTK_EN, CPU_SUSP_HLT,
92 CYRIX_CACHE_WORKS, and CYRIX_CACHE_REALLY_WORKS
94 ISA SUPPORT REMOVED FROM RP(4)
95 ------------------------------
97 ISA support has been removed from the rp(4) driver. It is now PCI only.
99 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
100 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 3.2 TO LATER VERSIONS +
101 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
103 COMPAT_SUNOS OPTION REMOVED
104 ---------------------------
106 The COMPAT_SUNOS option has been removed. It was meant to provide binary
107 compatibility with SunOS 4.x for the sparc32 port of 4.4BSD.
109 ISA SOUND CARD SUPPORT REMOVED
110 ------------------------------
112 The following modules have been removed (all for ISA sound cards):
113 snd_ad1816.ko, snd_ess.ko, snd_mss.ko, snd_sb8.ko, snd_sb16.ko, snd_sbc.ko
118 DragonFly has switched base compilers. GCC 4.7 is now the default
119 compiler and GCC 4.4 is the alternative compiler. The "NO_GCC47" make
120 variable ceases to work now.
122 Users who wish to build only GCC 4.7 have to use NO_GCC44 in the
123 /etc/make.conf to prohibit GCC 4.4 from building. However, using it is
124 highly discouraged. There are a few packages in pkgsrc that do not build
125 with GCC 4.7 and the new "DPorts" system uses GCC 4.4 by default. At
126 this time, it is recommended to keep both compilers on the base system.
131 The SMP kernel option has been made a no-op. All kernels now feature SMP
132 support. If you have 'options SMP' in your kernel config, you can as well
135 DEVICE_POLLING OPTION REPLACED BY IFPOLL_ENABLE OPTION, KTR_POLLING REMOVED
136 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
138 The DEVICE_POLLING kernel option has been made a no-op and it has been
139 replaced by IFPOLL_ENABLE. If you have 'options DEVICE_POLLING' in your
140 kernel config, you need to change it to IFPOLL_ENABLE.
142 Also, the KTR_POLLING kernel option has been removed, so it must be
143 removed from kernel configs that have it.
145 BUSLOGIC, CYCLADES AND STALLION ISA SUPPORT REMOVED
146 ---------------------------------------------------
148 The bt(4) driver for Buslogic SCSI adapters has been made PCI only. ISA
149 cards will no longer be detected.
151 The same has been done for Stallion multiport serial controllers. stli(4)
152 has been completely removed (along with the stlload(8) and stlstty(8)
153 utilities) and stl(4) was changed to support only PCI cards. Similarly,
154 ISA support was removed from cy(4) too. All these drivers are i386 only.
156 COMPAT_OLDISA OPTION GONE
157 -------------------------
159 The i386 specific COMPAT_OLDISA kernel option has been removed, since
160 nothing needs it anymore.
162 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
163 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 3.0 TO LATER VERSIONS +
164 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
166 APIC_IO OPTION REMOVED
167 ----------------------
169 The APIC_IO kernel option is no longer accepted after having been without
170 effect for a while. The hw.ioapic_enable tunable now serves its purpose.
171 If you have 'options APIC_IO' in your kernel config, you'll have to
174 WATCHDOG_ENABLE & HW_WDOG OPTIONS REMOVED
175 -----------------------------------------
177 The wdog framework is now compiled into our kernels by default, so the
178 options are no longer needed.
183 doscmd(1) has been removed. It was i386 only. The doscmd(1) specific
184 NO_X make.conf option was removed too.
189 GCC 4.7 has been brought in and replaces GCC 4.1 as DragonFly's non-
190 default compiler in base (default is still GCC 4.4).
192 Users who wish to build only GCC 4.4 have to replace NO_GCC41 with
193 NO_GCC47 in /etc/make.conf.
198 A new USB stack (from FreeBSD) has been brought in. The following
199 modules have been ported so far: usb, uhci, ohci, ehci, xhci, umass,
200 usfs, uether, if_axe, if_udav, ukbd, ums, uep, uhid, usb_quirk,
203 It is not yet the default. To activate it, WANT_USB4BSD=yes has to
204 be put in make.conf and device "usb4bsd" (quotes needed) has to
205 replace device usb in the kernel config. After that, a full
206 build/install/upgrade cycle is needed.
208 Note that this is experimental and incomplete, but we are interested
209 in hearing about issues with it, of course.
211 ISA SUPPORT REMOVED FROM AIC-6260/6360 DRIVER
212 ---------------------------------------------
214 ISA adapter support was dropped from the aic(4) driver.
216 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
217 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 2.10 TO LATER VERSIONS +
218 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
220 SEVERAL ISA DRIVERS REMOVED
221 ---------------------------
223 The following ISA only drivers have been removed along with a couple of
224 associated userland tools:
240 tw(4) & xten(1) & xtend(8)
244 Note that two of these drivers (aha(4) and ie(4)) are in our GENERIC
245 config and one (aha(4)) is in our X86_64_GENERIC kernel configuration
248 If buildkernel complains about any of these drivers, just remove them
249 from your kernel configuration.
253 Binutils 2.20 has been removed in favor of Binutils 2.22. The accepted
254 values of BINUTILSVERS are now binutils221 and binutils222 (default).
256 BUILDWORLD/-KERNEL PARALLELIZATION WORK
257 ---------------------------------------
258 Due to changes in the way we build with more than one make job, you
259 will have to update install(1) and mkdir(1) prior to buildworld if you
260 want to build with 'make -j':
262 cd /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall; make; make install; make clean
263 cd /usr/src/bin/mkdir; make; make install; make clean
267 dma(8) has been upgraded to v0.7 which no longer supports the
268 /etc/dma/virtusertable. Some of its functionality has been replaced
269 with the MASQUERADE keyword and the EMAIL environment variable (see
270 the dma(8) manual page).
272 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
273 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 2.8 TO LATER VERSIONS +
274 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
276 GCC 4.4 & BINUTILS 2.21
277 -----------------------
279 GCC 4.4 has been made DragonFly's default compiler and Binutils 2.21 has
280 been made DragonFly's default Binutils.
282 That means that any settings that set CCVER to 'gcc44' are not needed
283 anymore. Instead, CCVER can be set to 'gcc41' to go back to using
286 It also means that 'binutils221' as a value for BINUTILSVER has no
287 effect anymore. 2.17 has been removed and 'binutils220' is available
290 The NO_GCC44 option has been removed and will not affect the build
291 anymore. There is now a NO_GCC41 option that will prevent GCC 4.1 from
292 building in a similar fashion.
294 Note that you must do a full buildworld/buildkernel for upgrading.
299 The config file for pkg_radd has moved from /etc/settings.conf to
300 /etc/pkg_radd.conf. Save the contents of settings.conf before upgrading
301 if this is needed. This warning only applies if /etc/settings.conf
302 exists. pkg_radd will continue to work with defaults.
304 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
306 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 2.6 to 2.8 or HEAD +
307 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
312 OpenSSL has been upgraded, and SHLIB_MAJOR was bumped for libssh and libcrypto.
313 This shouldn't break any 3rd-party software, but you'll need to recompile your
314 3rd-party software if you want it to link against the new version of OpenSSL.
319 A new loader (dloader) has been added which better handles booting from
320 multiple kernel/module versions.
322 To upgrade (Only for this upgrade, for post 2.8 upgrades see GENERAL below)
328 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
329 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
331 Note that you must installworld and run the 'upgrade' target before
332 installing the new kernel.
337 BIND has been removed from the base system. The ldns and drill tools have
338 been added for basic functionality. Use 'drill' where you would normally
339 use nslookup or dig, or install BIND from pkgsrc. It's available as
340 net/bind95, net/bind96, or net/bind97 as of this writing.
342 This only affects older systems upgrading to 2.8. New 2.8+ installs
343 include BIND as a pkgsrc package.
345 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
346 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY ON AN EXISTING DRAGONFLY SYSTEM +
348 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
350 Instructions on how to obtain and maintain DragonFly source code using git
351 are in the development(7) manual page.
353 To upgrade a DragonFly system from sources you run the following sequence:
357 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
358 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
361 You will also want to run the 'upgrade' target to upgrade your /etc and the
362 rest of your system. The upgrade target is aware of stale files created by
363 older DragonFly installations and should delete them automatically.
367 See the build(7) manual page for further information.
369 Once you've done a full build of the world and kernel you can do incremental
370 upgrades of either by using the 'quickworld' and 'quickkernel' targets
371 instead of 'buildworld' and 'buildkernel'. If you have any problems with
372 the quick targets, try updating your repo first, and then a full buildworld
373 and buildkernel as shown above, before asking for help.
375 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
376 + UPGRADING FROM DRAGONFLY <= 2.0 TO DRAGONFLY >= 2.1 +
377 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
379 In 2.1 kernel and modules has moved to boot directory. For most cases
380 this is handled automatically by 'make upgrade'. A few cases needs manual
383 * When installing a kernel without first doing a make buildworld,
384 installworld and upgrade to the same DESTDIR as kernel:
385 make DESTDIR/boot directory and move kernel and modules into this boot
386 directory; also move kernel.old and modules.old.
387 Typical example is vkernel(7), use (no modules used):
391 chflags noschg kernel
392 mv kernel kernel.old boot
393 chflags schg boot/kernel
395 * When using a boot-only partition, /boot/loader.rc needs to be edited:
396 delete occurrences of '/boot/'.
397 These occurences can normally be deleted in any case, see loader(8).
399 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
400 + UPGRADING FROM DRAGONFLY <= 1.8 TO DRAGONFLY >= 1.9 +
401 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
403 In 1.9 major changes to the disk management infrastructure have taken
404 place. make upgrade may not catch all of your disk devices in /dev,
405 so after upgrading be sure to cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV <blah> where <blah>
406 are all of your disk devices. HOWEVER, from late 2.3 on we run devfs
407 and MAKEDEV no longer exists.
409 The biggest changes in 1.9 are:
411 (1) That whole-slice devices such as da0s1 no longer share the same device
412 id as partition c devices such as da0s1c.
414 (2) The whole-disk device (e.g. da0) is full raw access to the disk,
415 with no snooping or reserved sectors. Consequently you cannot run
416 disklabel on this device. Instead you must run disklabel on a
419 (3) The 'compatibility' partitions now use slice 0 in the device name,
420 so instead of da0a you must specify da0s0a. Also, as per (1) above,
421 accessing the disklabel for the compatibility partitions must be
422 done via slice 0 (da0s0).
424 (4) Many device drivers that used to fake up labels, such as CD, ACD, VN,
425 and CCD now run through the disk management layer and are assigned
426 real disk management devices. VN and CCD in particular do not usually
427 use a MBR and disklabels must be accessed through the compatibility
428 slice 0. Your /etc/ccd.conf file still specifies 'ccd0', though, you
429 don't name it 'ccd0s0' in the config file.
431 Generally speaking, you have to get used to running fdisk and disklabel on
432 the correctly specified device names. A lot of the wiggle, such as running
433 disklabel on a partition, has been removed.
435 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
436 + UPGRADING FROM OLDER VERSIONS OF DRAGONFLY OR FREEBSD +
437 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
442 Kerberos IV (eBones) was removed from the tree, please consider moving to
443 Kerberos 5 (Heimdal).
445 > Package Management System
446 ---------------------------
448 Starting with the 1.4 release, DragonFly uses NetBSD's pkgsrc package
449 management system. The necessary tools to build and maintain packages
450 are provided in /usr/pkg/bin and /usr/pkg/sbin. Make sure that these
451 directories are in your PATH variable.
453 In order to obtain a reasonably current snapshot of the pkgsrc tree, use
454 the tarball from NetBSD:
456 fetch -o /tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc.tar.gz
457 cd /usr; tar -xzf /tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz; chown -R root:wheel pkgsrc
459 This tree can then be kept up to date with cvs update:
461 cd /usr/pkgsrc; cvs up
463 NOTE! If you upgraded from a pre-1.4 system to 1.4 or later, you need to
464 build and install the pkgsrc bootstrap manually:
466 cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap
467 ./bootstrap --pkgdbdir /var/db/pkg --prefix /usr/pkg
469 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
470 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY ON AN EXISTING DRAGONFLY SYSTEM +
471 + UPDATING FROM PRE-1.2 SYSTEMS OR FreeBSD 4.x TO +
472 + DRAGONFLY 1.3+ (EITHER PREVIEW or HEAD) +
473 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
475 The compatibility shims for the build environment have been removed, you
476 have to update to DragonFly 1.2 release branch first.
478 The default PAM configuration has moved from /etc/pam.conf to /etc/pam.d/.
479 The existing configuration can be converted using /etc/pam.d/convert.sh.
480 Entries in /etc/pam.d/ override entries in /etc/pam.conf. In addition
481 the pam_skey.so module was retired, you have to remove it manually from
482 your configuration, when you convert it.
484 > Required user and group IDs when upgrading from either FreeBSD or DragonFly
485 ---------------------
487 The following users may be missing from your password file. Use vipw and
488 add any that are missing:
490 smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin
491 _pflogd:*:64:64::0:0:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
493 The following groups may be missing from your group file. Use vi /etc/group
494 and add any that are missing:
501 > Upgrading to DragonFly from FreeBSD
502 ---------------------
504 You can build the DragonFly world and DragonFly kernels on a FreeBSD-4.x or
505 FreeBSD-5.x machine and then install DragonFly over FreeBSD, replacing
506 FreeBSD. Note that the DragonFly buildworld target does not try to reuse
507 make depend information, it starts from scratch, so no pre-cleaning of the
508 object hierarchy is necessary.
510 # get the CVS repository (it is placed in /home/dcvs, 500MB).
511 # Please use the -h option and a mirror site to pull the
512 # initial repository, but feel free to use the main repository
513 # machine to pull updates.
514 cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/DragonFly-cvs-supfile
515 # install the source from the CVS hierarchy (remove preexisting
516 # FreeBSD src first) (500MB)
519 cvs -R -d /home/dcvs checkout -P src
521 # build it (500MB used in /usr/obj)
525 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
527 Once you have built DragonFly you have to install it over FreeBSD. Since
528 DragonFly does not track changes made by FreeBSD to its include file
529 hierarchy and include file pollution can cause all sorts of unexpected
530 compilation issues to come up, it is best to wipe your include hierarchy
531 prior to installing DragonFly. Note that you should not wipe any installed
532 FreeBSD header files or binaries until after you have successfully completed
533 the build steps above.
537 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
540 Then you need to upgrade your system. DragonFly's 'make upgrade' target
541 will unconditionally upgrade the /etc files that sysops do not usually
542 mess around with, such as the files in /etc/rc.d. It will also remove any
543 obsolete files such as utilities and manpages that have been removed from
544 the system since the version you're coming from. If you are unsure we
545 recommend that you make a backup of at least your /etc before applying
546 this step. Note that DragonFly's RC system is basically RCNG from
547 FreeBSD-5, but there are some differences in the contents of the RC files.
551 NOTE! Never do a 'make upgrade' before 'make installworld' has been run.
552 Doing so might leave your system in an unusable state.
554 Finally we recommend that you do an 'ls -lta BLAH' for /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin,
555 /usr/bin, and /usr/lib, and remove any stale files that you find. Please
556 report these files to the DragonFly developers so that they can be added to
557 the 'upgrade' target.