Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 13:49:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.org> To: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org> Subject: PERFORCE change 21091 for review Message-ID: <200211152149.gAFLnv6P036114@repoman.freebsd.org>
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http://perforce.freebsd.org/chv.cgi?CH=21091 Change 21091 by bmah@bmah_intruder on 2002/11/15 13:49:50 Restore to the state of article.sgml#3. Affected files ... .. //depot/releng/5_dp2/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#5 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/releng/5_dp2/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#5 (text+ko) ==== @@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ %man; <!ENTITY % authors PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Author Entities//EN"> %authors; +<!ENTITY % teams PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Team Entities//EN"> +%teams; <!ENTITY % mlists PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES DocBook Mailing List Entities//EN"> %mlists; <!ENTITY % release PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//ENTITIES Release Specification//EN"> @@ -45,74 +47,72 @@ <abstract> -<!-- XXX Change release.current to release.prev when there's --> -<!-- XXX a release on this branch. --> - - <para>This document lists errata items for &os; - &release.current;, - containing significant information discovered after the release. - This information includes security advisories, as well as news + <para>This document lists known issues for &os; + &release.current;. This information includes information relating to the software or documentation that could affect its - operation or usability. An up-to-date version of this document - should always be consulted before installing this version of - &os;.</para> + operation or usability. Also included is a list of areas of the + base system that could benefit from some extra testing.</para> -<![ %release.type.snapshot [ - <para>This errata document for &os; &release.prev; will be - maintained until the release of &os; &release.next;.</para> -]]> + <para>Please note that &os; &release.current; + is not an officially supported release of FreeBSD. Unlike + supported releases, this errata file will not be updated. + Testers of &os; &release.current; should subscribe to the + &a.current; to stay informed about late-breaking issues and + developments.</para> -<![ %release.type.release [ - <para>This is the final version of the errata document for &os; - &release.prev;. Future errata documents along the - &release.branch; branch will address &os; &release.current; and - later releases.</para> -]]> - - <para>At this time, &release.current; has no errata, because - there have not been any releases on the &release.branch; - branch since the last branchpoint. (The first such release - will be &release.next;.) This file exists to provide a clean - template for newly-created branches. (Clearly this notice - should not exist on any branched version of this file.)</para> </abstract> <sect1> <title>Introduction</title> - <para>This errata document contains <quote>late-breaking news</quote> - about &os; + <para>This errata document lists known problems relating to &os; &release.current;. Before installing this version, it is important to consult this document to learn about any post-release discoveries or problems that may already have been found and fixed.</para> - <para>Any version of this errata document actually distributed - with the release (for example, on a CDROM distribution) will be - out of date by definition, but other copies are kept updated on - the Internet and should be consulted as the <quote>current - errata</quote> for this release. These other copies of the - errata are located at <ulink - url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/"></ulink>, plus any sites - which keep up-to-date mirrors of this location.</para> + </sect1> + + <sect1> + <title>Known Problems</title> + + <para>This section describes some known issues and problems with + &os; &release.current;. The &a.re; intends to address these + problems in some manner before &os; &release.next;. All users + of &os; &release.current should be subscribed to the &a.current; + to remain informed about developments regarding these and other + issues.</para> + + <para>Packages in &os; &release.next; will be compressed using + &man.bzip2.1;. In some cases, &man.pkg.add.1; has some + difficulties working with packages compressed using &man.gzip.1; + (typical cases are from within &man.sysinstall.8;, and when + using the <option>-r</option> flag). This does not affect the + default package sets provided with snapshots.</para> - <para>Source and binary snapshots of &os; &release.branch; also - contain up-to-date copies of this document (as of the time of - the snapshot).</para> + <para>The <literal>NWFS</literal> feature is broken.</para> - <para>For a list of all &os; CERT security advisories, see <ulink - url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/security/"></ulink>; or <ulink - url="ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/"></ulink>.</para>; + <para>Various documents may not reflect differences between the + line of &os; 4-STABLE releases and &os; &release.current;. In + addition, the architecture-specific files in the release + documentation are likely incomplete for new architectures + (sparc64 and ia64).</para> - </sect1> + <para>Installations from boot floppies are no longer supported on + the alpha platform. The combination of the boot loader and a + (highly stripped-down) kernel is too large to fit on a + 1.44 MB floppy disk. Some work in this area is ongoing; + this feature <emphasis>may</emphasis> return before &os; + &release.next;.</para> - <sect1> - <title>Security Advisories</title> - <para></para> - </sect1> + <para>The <varname>__sF</varname> symbol in + <filename>libc</filename> has been made static, as part of work + to make <varname>FILE</varname> expandable. Applications built + on &os; 4-STABLE-based systems on on &os; -CURRENT systems + before 13 August 2001 may need to be recompiled. Due to + previously unforseen compatability problems, this change + <emphasis>may</emphasis> be reverted prior to &release.next; and + postponed for another release or two.</para> - <sect1> - <title>System Update Information</title> - <para></para> </sect1> </article> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-releng" in the body of the message
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