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 2.10 to later versions +
13 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
15 SEVERAL ISA DRIVERS REMOVED
16 ---------------------------
18 The following ISA only drivers have been removed along with a couple of
19 associated userland tools:
35 tw(4) & xten(1) & xtend(8)
39 Note that two of these drivers (aha(4) and ie(4)) are in our GENERIC
40 config and one (aha(4)) is in our X86_64_GENERIC kernel configuration
43 If buildkernel complains about any of these drivers, just remove them
44 from your kernel configuration.
46 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
47 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 2.8 to later versions +
48 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
50 GCC 4.4 & BINUTILS 2.21
51 -----------------------
53 GCC 4.4 has been made DragonFly's default compiler and Binutils 2.21 has
54 been made DragonFly's default Binutils.
56 That means that any settings that set CCVER to 'gcc44' are not needed
57 anymore. Instead, CCVER can be set to 'gcc41' to go back to using
60 It also means that 'binutils221' as a value for BINUTILSVER has no
61 effect anymore. 2.17 has been removed and 'binutils220' is available
64 The NO_GCC44 option has been removed and will not affect the build
65 anymore. There is now a NO_GCC41 option that will prevent GCC 4.1 from
66 building in a similar fashion.
68 Note that you must do a full buildworld/buildkernel for upgrading.
73 The config file for pkg_radd has moved from /etc/settings.conf to
74 /etc/pkg_radd.conf. Save the contents of settings.conf before upgrading
75 if this is needed. This warning only applies if /etc/settings.conf
76 exists. pkg_radd will continue to work with defaults.
78 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
80 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 2.6 to 2.8 or HEAD +
81 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
86 OpenSSL has been upgraded, and SHLIB_MAJOR was bumped for libssh and libcrypto.
87 This shouldn't break any 3rd-party software, but you'll need to recompile your
88 3rd-party software if you want it to link against the new version of OpenSSL.
93 A new loader (dloader) has been added which better handles booting from
94 multiple kernel/module versions.
96 To upgrade (Only for this upgrade, for post 2.8 upgrades see GENERAL below)
102 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
103 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
105 Note that you must installworld and run the 'upgrade' target before
106 installing the new kernel.
111 BIND has been removed from the base system. The ldns and drill tools have
112 been added for basic functionality. Use 'drill' where you would normally
113 use nslookup or dig, or install BIND from pkgsrc. It's available as
114 net/bind95, net/bind96, or net/bind97 as of this writing.
116 This only affects older systems upgrading to 2.8. New 2.8+ installs
117 include BIND as a pkgsrc package.
119 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
120 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY ON AN EXISTING DRAGONFLY SYSTEM +
122 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
124 Instructions on how to obtain and maintain DragonFly source code using git
125 are in the development(7) manual page.
127 To upgrade a DragonFly system from sources you run the following sequence:
131 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
132 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
135 You will also want to run the 'upgrade' target to upgrade your /etc and the
136 rest of your system. The upgrade target is aware of stale files created by
137 older DragonFly installations and should delete them automatically.
141 See the build(7) manual page for further information.
143 Once you've done a full build of the world and kernel you can do incremental
144 upgrades of either by using the 'quickworld' and 'quickkernel' targets
145 instead of 'buildworld' and 'buildkernel'. If you have any problems with
146 the quick targets, try updating your repo first, and then a full buildworld
147 and buildkernel as shown above, before asking for help.
149 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
150 + UPGRADING FROM DRAGONFLY <= 2.0 TO DRAGONFLY >= 2.1 +
151 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
153 In 2.1 kernel and modules has moved to boot directory. For most cases
154 this is handled automatically by 'make upgrade'. A few cases needs manual
157 * When installing a kernel without first doing a make buildworld,
158 installworld and upgrade to the same DESTDIR as kernel:
159 make DESTDIR/boot directory and move kernel and modules into this boot
160 directory; also move kernel.old and modules.old.
161 Typical example is vkernel(7), use (no modules used):
165 chflags noschg kernel
166 mv kernel kernel.old boot
167 chflags schg boot/kernel
169 * When using a boot-only partition, /boot/loader.rc needs to be edited:
170 delete occurrences of '/boot/'.
171 These occurences can normally be deleted in any case, see loader(8).
173 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
174 + UPGRADING FROM DRAGONFLY <= 1.8 TO DRAGONFLY >= 1.9 +
175 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
177 In 1.9 major changes to the disk management infrastructure have taken
178 place. make upgrade may not catch all of your disk devices in /dev,
179 so after upgrading be sure to cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV <blah> where <blah>
180 are all of your disk devices. HOWEVER, from late 2.3 on we run devfs
181 and MAKEDEV no longer exists.
183 The biggest changes in 1.9 are:
185 (1) That whole-slice devices such as da0s1 no longer share the same device
186 id as partition c devices such as da0s1c.
188 (2) The whole-disk device (e.g. da0) is full raw access to the disk,
189 with no snooping or reserved sectors. Consequently you cannot run
190 disklabel on this device. Instead you must run disklabel on a
193 (3) The 'compatibility' partitions now use slice 0 in the device name,
194 so instead of da0a you must specify da0s0a. Also, as per (1) above,
195 accessing the disklabel for the compatibility partitions must be
196 done via slice 0 (da0s0).
198 (4) Many device drivers that used to fake up labels, such as CD, ACD, VN,
199 and CCD now run through the disk management layer and are assigned
200 real disk management devices. VN and CCD in particular do not usually
201 use a MBR and disklabels must be accessed through the compatibility
202 slice 0. Your /etc/ccd.conf file still specifies 'ccd0', though, you
203 don't name it 'ccd0s0' in the config file.
205 Generally speaking, you have to get used to running fdisk and disklabel on
206 the correctly specified device names. A lot of the wiggle, such as running
207 disklabel on a partition, has been removed.
209 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
210 + UPGRADING FROM OLDER VERSIONS OF DRAGONFLY OR FREEBSD +
211 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
216 Kerberos IV (eBones) was removed from the tree, please consider moving to
217 Kerberos 5 (Heimdal).
219 > Package Management System
220 ---------------------------
222 Starting with the 1.4 release, DragonFly uses NetBSD's pkgsrc package
223 management system. The necessary tools to build and maintain packages
224 are provided in /usr/pkg/bin and /usr/pkg/sbin. Make sure that these
225 directories are in your PATH variable.
227 In order to obtain a reasonably current snapshot of the pkgsrc tree, use
228 the tarball from NetBSD:
230 fetch -o /tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc.tar.gz
231 cd /usr; tar -xzf /tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz; chown -R root:wheel pkgsrc
233 This tree can then be kept up to date with cvs update:
235 cd /usr/pkgsrc; cvs up
237 NOTE! If you upgraded from a pre-1.4 system to 1.4 or later, you need to
238 build and install the pkgsrc bootstrap manually:
240 cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap
241 ./bootstrap --pkgdbdir /var/db/pkg --prefix /usr/pkg
243 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
244 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY ON AN EXISTING DRAGONFLY SYSTEM +
245 + UPDATING FROM PRE-1.2 SYSTEMS OR FreeBSD 4.x TO +
246 + DRAGONFLY 1.3+ (EITHER PREVIEW or HEAD) +
247 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
249 The compatibility shims for the build environment have been removed, you
250 have to update to DragonFly 1.2 release branch first.
252 The default PAM configuration has moved from /etc/pam.conf to /etc/pam.d/.
253 The existing configuration can be converted using /etc/pam.d/convert.sh.
254 Entries in /etc/pam.d/ override entries in /etc/pam.conf. In addition
255 the pam_skey.so module was retired, you have to remove it manually from
256 your configuration, when you convert it.
258 > Required user and group IDs when upgrading from either FreeBSD or DragonFly
259 ---------------------
261 The following users may be missing from your password file. Use vipw and
262 add any that are missing:
264 smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin
265 _pflogd:*:64:64::0:0:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
267 The following groups may be missing from your group file. Use vi /etc/group
268 and add any that are missing:
275 > Upgrading to DragonFly from FreeBSD
276 ---------------------
278 You can build the DragonFly world and DragonFly kernels on a FreeBSD-4.x or
279 FreeBSD-5.x machine and then install DragonFly over FreeBSD, replacing
280 FreeBSD. Note that the DragonFly buildworld target does not try to reuse
281 make depend information, it starts from scratch, so no pre-cleaning of the
282 object hierarchy is necessary.
284 # get the CVS repository (it is placed in /home/dcvs, 500MB).
285 # Please use the -h option and a mirror site to pull the
286 # initial repository, but feel free to use the main repository
287 # machine to pull updates.
288 cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/DragonFly-cvs-supfile
289 # install the source from the CVS hierarchy (remove preexisting
290 # FreeBSD src first) (500MB)
293 cvs -R -d /home/dcvs checkout -P src
295 # build it (500MB used in /usr/obj)
299 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
301 Once you have built DragonFly you have to install it over FreeBSD. Since
302 DragonFly does not track changes made by FreeBSD to its include file
303 hierarchy and include file pollution can cause all sorts of unexpected
304 compilation issues to come up, it is best to wipe your include hierarchy
305 prior to installing DragonFly. Note that you should not wipe any installed
306 FreeBSD header files or binaries until after you have successfully completed
307 the build steps above.
311 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
314 Then you need to upgrade your system. DragonFly's 'make upgrade' target
315 will unconditionally upgrade the /etc files that sysops do not usually
316 mess around with, such as the files in /etc/rc.d. It will also remove any
317 obsolete files such as utilities and manpages that have been removed from
318 the system since the version you're coming from. If you are unsure we
319 recommend that you make a backup of at least your /etc before applying
320 this step. Note that DragonFly's RC system is basically RCNG from
321 FreeBSD-5, but there are some differences in the contents of the RC files.
325 NOTE! Never do a 'make upgrade' before 'make installworld' has been run.
326 Doing so might leave your system in an unusable state.
328 Finally we recommend that you do an 'ls -lta BLAH' for /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin,
329 /usr/bin, and /usr/lib, and remove any stale files that you find. Please
330 report these files to the DragonFly developers so that they can be added to
331 the 'upgrade' target.