src-test/UPDATING, branch main

UPDATING: Announce git transition

2020-12-23T16:40:45Z

Add an entry for the transition to git.

/etc/services: attempt to bring the database to this century 2/2.

2020-12-17T02:54:32Z

This is the final half of splitting r358153 in two, in order to avoid a build system bugs and being able to merge an earlier change to previous releases. Add a note to UPDATING to avoid people building from very old systems from having issues with mergemaster MFC after: 3 days (only 12-stable) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D23621

Retire obsolete GDB 6.1.1

2020-12-15T17:44:19Z

GDB 6.1.1 was released in June 2004 and is long obsolete. It does not support all of the architectures that FreeBSD does, and imposes limitations on the FreeBSD kernel build, such as the continued use of DWARF2 debugging information. It was kept (in /usr/libexec/) only for use by crashinfo(8), which extracts some basic information from a kernel core dump after a crash. Crashinfo already prefers gdb from port/package if installed. Future work may add kernel debug support to LLDB or find another path for crashinfo's needs, but in any case we do not want to ship the excessively outdated GDB in FreeBSD 13. Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27610

Merge ping6 to ping

2020-11-26T04:29:30Z

There is now a single ping binary, which chooses to use ICMP or ICMPv4 based on the -4 and -6 options, and the format of the address. Submitted by: Ján Sučan Sponsored by: Google LLC (Google Summer of Code 2019) MFC after: Never Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21377

Switch net.add_addr_allfibs default to 0.

2020-11-08T18:27:49Z

The goal of the fib support is to provide multiple independent routing tables, isolated from each other. net.add_addr_allfibs default tries to shift gears in the opposite direction, unconditionally inserting all addresses to all of the fibs. There are use cases when this is necessary, however this is not a default expected behaviour, especially compared to other implementations. Provide WARNING message for the setups with multiple fibs to notify potential users of the feature. Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26076

Also mention PORTS_MODULES

2020-11-08T02:46:04Z

PORTS_MODULES is also an effective way to update the tree. Also a minor rejustify on this an an adjacent paragraph. Suggested by: David Wolfskill

Be explicit about recompiling all the modules...

2020-11-08T02:20:21Z

Add a note about always recompiling all modules on every new kernel change / update. In addition, suggest using /usr/local/sys/modules so this happens automatically.

Fix year in 2 most recent entries (2010 -> 2020)

2020-11-01T19:13:55Z

Reported by: mack@macktronics.com (Dan Mack)

Mention the more strict consistency checks performed by calendar(), which

2020-10-31T16:39:27Z

can make the program abort with an error message on previously accepted but malformed input files.

Attempt to defuse a land mine before anyone else steps on it: The

2020-10-31T03:36:31Z

freebsd-boot partition is not always the first one. Following the instructions in UPDATING resulted in my overwriting the efiboot0 partition on my laptop with ZFS boot blocks, which had negative effects on the system's bootability. Reviewed by: allanjude Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27002