Add entry about a news/inn database incompatibility when upgrading from

FreeBSD 11 to 12.

Requested by: 	adamw
Reviewed by:	adamw

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 3338edfb4794..3e0f1d4da2dc 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ you update your ports collection, before attempting any port upgrades.
   bookmarks, and XML compression in message archive storage. Please
   refer to: https://blog.process-one.net/ejabberd-18-12/ 
 
+20181211:
+  AFFECTS: users of news/inn when upgrading to FreeBSD 12
+  AUTHOR: naddy@FreeBSD.org
+
+  When upgrading from FreeBSD 11 to 12, a change in the size of the
+  ino_t type causes a binary incompatibility in the overview database
+  if the default tradindexed format is used.
+
+  After upgrading the inn package, remove the overview/group.index
+  file and regenerate the history and overview database with
+  makehistory(8) before starting innd.
+
+  # echo '. /usr/local/news/lib/innshellvars && \
+        rm -f $OVERVIEWDIR/group.index && \
+        $NEWSBIN/makehistory -O -s `wc -l <$HISTORY`' | \
+        su -fm news -c '/bin/sh -s'
+
 20181209:
   AFFECTS: users of DRM ports other than graphics/drm-kmod
   AUTHOR: jmd@FreeBSD.org