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.
48 Binutils 2.20 has been removed in favor of Binutils 2.22. The accepted
49 values of BINUTILSVERS are now binutils221 and binutils222 (default).
51 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
52 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 2.8 to later versions +
53 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
55 GCC 4.4 & BINUTILS 2.21
56 -----------------------
58 GCC 4.4 has been made DragonFly's default compiler and Binutils 2.21 has
59 been made DragonFly's default Binutils.
61 That means that any settings that set CCVER to 'gcc44' are not needed
62 anymore. Instead, CCVER can be set to 'gcc41' to go back to using
65 It also means that 'binutils221' as a value for BINUTILSVER has no
66 effect anymore. 2.17 has been removed and 'binutils220' is available
69 The NO_GCC44 option has been removed and will not affect the build
70 anymore. There is now a NO_GCC41 option that will prevent GCC 4.1 from
71 building in a similar fashion.
73 Note that you must do a full buildworld/buildkernel for upgrading.
78 The config file for pkg_radd has moved from /etc/settings.conf to
79 /etc/pkg_radd.conf. Save the contents of settings.conf before upgrading
80 if this is needed. This warning only applies if /etc/settings.conf
81 exists. pkg_radd will continue to work with defaults.
83 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
85 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY FROM 2.6 to 2.8 or HEAD +
86 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
91 OpenSSL has been upgraded, and SHLIB_MAJOR was bumped for libssh and libcrypto.
92 This shouldn't break any 3rd-party software, but you'll need to recompile your
93 3rd-party software if you want it to link against the new version of OpenSSL.
98 A new loader (dloader) has been added which better handles booting from
99 multiple kernel/module versions.
101 To upgrade (Only for this upgrade, for post 2.8 upgrades see GENERAL below)
107 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
108 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
110 Note that you must installworld and run the 'upgrade' target before
111 installing the new kernel.
116 BIND has been removed from the base system. The ldns and drill tools have
117 been added for basic functionality. Use 'drill' where you would normally
118 use nslookup or dig, or install BIND from pkgsrc. It's available as
119 net/bind95, net/bind96, or net/bind97 as of this writing.
121 This only affects older systems upgrading to 2.8. New 2.8+ installs
122 include BIND as a pkgsrc package.
124 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
125 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY ON AN EXISTING DRAGONFLY SYSTEM +
127 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
129 Instructions on how to obtain and maintain DragonFly source code using git
130 are in the development(7) manual page.
132 To upgrade a DragonFly system from sources you run the following sequence:
136 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
137 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
140 You will also want to run the 'upgrade' target to upgrade your /etc and the
141 rest of your system. The upgrade target is aware of stale files created by
142 older DragonFly installations and should delete them automatically.
146 See the build(7) manual page for further information.
148 Once you've done a full build of the world and kernel you can do incremental
149 upgrades of either by using the 'quickworld' and 'quickkernel' targets
150 instead of 'buildworld' and 'buildkernel'. If you have any problems with
151 the quick targets, try updating your repo first, and then a full buildworld
152 and buildkernel as shown above, before asking for help.
154 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
155 + UPGRADING FROM DRAGONFLY <= 2.0 TO DRAGONFLY >= 2.1 +
156 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
158 In 2.1 kernel and modules has moved to boot directory. For most cases
159 this is handled automatically by 'make upgrade'. A few cases needs manual
162 * When installing a kernel without first doing a make buildworld,
163 installworld and upgrade to the same DESTDIR as kernel:
164 make DESTDIR/boot directory and move kernel and modules into this boot
165 directory; also move kernel.old and modules.old.
166 Typical example is vkernel(7), use (no modules used):
170 chflags noschg kernel
171 mv kernel kernel.old boot
172 chflags schg boot/kernel
174 * When using a boot-only partition, /boot/loader.rc needs to be edited:
175 delete occurrences of '/boot/'.
176 These occurences can normally be deleted in any case, see loader(8).
178 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
179 + UPGRADING FROM DRAGONFLY <= 1.8 TO DRAGONFLY >= 1.9 +
180 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
182 In 1.9 major changes to the disk management infrastructure have taken
183 place. make upgrade may not catch all of your disk devices in /dev,
184 so after upgrading be sure to cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV <blah> where <blah>
185 are all of your disk devices. HOWEVER, from late 2.3 on we run devfs
186 and MAKEDEV no longer exists.
188 The biggest changes in 1.9 are:
190 (1) That whole-slice devices such as da0s1 no longer share the same device
191 id as partition c devices such as da0s1c.
193 (2) The whole-disk device (e.g. da0) is full raw access to the disk,
194 with no snooping or reserved sectors. Consequently you cannot run
195 disklabel on this device. Instead you must run disklabel on a
198 (3) The 'compatibility' partitions now use slice 0 in the device name,
199 so instead of da0a you must specify da0s0a. Also, as per (1) above,
200 accessing the disklabel for the compatibility partitions must be
201 done via slice 0 (da0s0).
203 (4) Many device drivers that used to fake up labels, such as CD, ACD, VN,
204 and CCD now run through the disk management layer and are assigned
205 real disk management devices. VN and CCD in particular do not usually
206 use a MBR and disklabels must be accessed through the compatibility
207 slice 0. Your /etc/ccd.conf file still specifies 'ccd0', though, you
208 don't name it 'ccd0s0' in the config file.
210 Generally speaking, you have to get used to running fdisk and disklabel on
211 the correctly specified device names. A lot of the wiggle, such as running
212 disklabel on a partition, has been removed.
214 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
215 + UPGRADING FROM OLDER VERSIONS OF DRAGONFLY OR FREEBSD +
216 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
221 Kerberos IV (eBones) was removed from the tree, please consider moving to
222 Kerberos 5 (Heimdal).
224 > Package Management System
225 ---------------------------
227 Starting with the 1.4 release, DragonFly uses NetBSD's pkgsrc package
228 management system. The necessary tools to build and maintain packages
229 are provided in /usr/pkg/bin and /usr/pkg/sbin. Make sure that these
230 directories are in your PATH variable.
232 In order to obtain a reasonably current snapshot of the pkgsrc tree, use
233 the tarball from NetBSD:
235 fetch -o /tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc.tar.gz
236 cd /usr; tar -xzf /tmp/pkgsrc.tar.gz; chown -R root:wheel pkgsrc
238 This tree can then be kept up to date with cvs update:
240 cd /usr/pkgsrc; cvs up
242 NOTE! If you upgraded from a pre-1.4 system to 1.4 or later, you need to
243 build and install the pkgsrc bootstrap manually:
245 cd /usr/pkgsrc/bootstrap
246 ./bootstrap --pkgdbdir /var/db/pkg --prefix /usr/pkg
248 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
249 + UPGRADING DRAGONFLY ON AN EXISTING DRAGONFLY SYSTEM +
250 + UPDATING FROM PRE-1.2 SYSTEMS OR FreeBSD 4.x TO +
251 + DRAGONFLY 1.3+ (EITHER PREVIEW or HEAD) +
252 +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
254 The compatibility shims for the build environment have been removed, you
255 have to update to DragonFly 1.2 release branch first.
257 The default PAM configuration has moved from /etc/pam.conf to /etc/pam.d/.
258 The existing configuration can be converted using /etc/pam.d/convert.sh.
259 Entries in /etc/pam.d/ override entries in /etc/pam.conf. In addition
260 the pam_skey.so module was retired, you have to remove it manually from
261 your configuration, when you convert it.
263 > Required user and group IDs when upgrading from either FreeBSD or DragonFly
264 ---------------------
266 The following users may be missing from your password file. Use vipw and
267 add any that are missing:
269 smmsp:*:25:25::0:0:Sendmail Submission User:/var/spool/clientmqueue:/sbin/nologin
270 _pflogd:*:64:64::0:0:pflogd privsep user:/var/empty:/sbin/nologin
272 The following groups may be missing from your group file. Use vi /etc/group
273 and add any that are missing:
280 > Upgrading to DragonFly from FreeBSD
281 ---------------------
283 You can build the DragonFly world and DragonFly kernels on a FreeBSD-4.x or
284 FreeBSD-5.x machine and then install DragonFly over FreeBSD, replacing
285 FreeBSD. Note that the DragonFly buildworld target does not try to reuse
286 make depend information, it starts from scratch, so no pre-cleaning of the
287 object hierarchy is necessary.
289 # get the CVS repository (it is placed in /home/dcvs, 500MB).
290 # Please use the -h option and a mirror site to pull the
291 # initial repository, but feel free to use the main repository
292 # machine to pull updates.
293 cvsup /usr/share/examples/cvsup/DragonFly-cvs-supfile
294 # install the source from the CVS hierarchy (remove preexisting
295 # FreeBSD src first) (500MB)
298 cvs -R -d /home/dcvs checkout -P src
300 # build it (500MB used in /usr/obj)
304 make buildkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
306 Once you have built DragonFly you have to install it over FreeBSD. Since
307 DragonFly does not track changes made by FreeBSD to its include file
308 hierarchy and include file pollution can cause all sorts of unexpected
309 compilation issues to come up, it is best to wipe your include hierarchy
310 prior to installing DragonFly. Note that you should not wipe any installed
311 FreeBSD header files or binaries until after you have successfully completed
312 the build steps above.
316 make installkernel KERNCONF=<KERNELNAME>
319 Then you need to upgrade your system. DragonFly's 'make upgrade' target
320 will unconditionally upgrade the /etc files that sysops do not usually
321 mess around with, such as the files in /etc/rc.d. It will also remove any
322 obsolete files such as utilities and manpages that have been removed from
323 the system since the version you're coming from. If you are unsure we
324 recommend that you make a backup of at least your /etc before applying
325 this step. Note that DragonFly's RC system is basically RCNG from
326 FreeBSD-5, but there are some differences in the contents of the RC files.
330 NOTE! Never do a 'make upgrade' before 'make installworld' has been run.
331 Doing so might leave your system in an unusable state.
333 Finally we recommend that you do an 'ls -lta BLAH' for /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin,
334 /usr/bin, and /usr/lib, and remove any stale files that you find. Please
335 report these files to the DragonFly developers so that they can be added to
336 the 'upgrade' target.