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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2002 18:11:33 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/alpha dokern.sh drivers.conf
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021105181038.39865J-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021105174308.A36222@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Ruslan Ermilov [ru@FreeBSD.org] wrote:
> > ru          2002/11/05 06:44:46 PST
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     release              Makefile 
> >     release/alpha        dokern.sh drivers.conf 
> >   Log:
> >   Fixes to unbreak Alpha releases:
> >   
> >   Strip ${RD}/mfsfd/stand/etc/defaults/rc.conf.
> >   
> >   Don't copy loader.help to ${RD}/mfsfd/boot, it serves no useful purpose.
> >   
> >   Removed the now no-op commands to copy ${RD}/trees/base/dev bits to
> >   ${RD}/mfsfd/dev, now that DEVFS is the default.
> >   
> >   Removed UFS_ACL, PSEUDOFS, and COMPAT_FREEBSD4 options from the BOOTMFS
> >   kernel.
> 
> You can't remove COMPAT_FREEBSD4.  If you do, longjmp won't work
> without it, as it uses osig* stuff.  (unless somebody fixed it).

And a word of warning on the UFS_ACL front: it is OK to remove this in the
5.0 install, but in the future it won't be, because upgrades may be
against systems using ACLs, in which case you'll hose the access control
if you disable support for ACLs (I.e., ACLs won't be properly maintained,
etc). 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories




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