From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 10 10:30:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8189E16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:30:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au (smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au [218.214.228.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 663C143D4C for ; Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:30:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imoore@picknowl.com.au) Received: (qmail 18219 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2004 10:30:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO daemon.foo.com) (218.214.176.70) by smtp.ade.swiftdsl.com.au with SMTP; 10 Nov 2004 10:30:41 -0000 From: Ian Moore To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:00:28 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200411092141.36445.imoore@picknowl.com.au> <20041109114224.GA21142@catflap.slightlystrange.org> In-Reply-To: <20041109114224.GA21142@catflap.slightlystrange.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200411102100.37123.imoore@picknowl.com.au> Subject: Re: /usr/src/Updating X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 10:30:41 -0000 =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 22:12, Daniel Bye wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm just about to upgrade my 5.2.1-RELEASE system to 5.3-RELEASE. > > I thought this would be a good opportunity to ask some questions I've > > been wondering about for quite some time re the info in Updating. > > > > Firstly, I assume (always risky!) that stuff like: > > > 20041003: > > > The pfil API has gained an additional argument to pass an inpcb.You > > > should > > > > rebuild all pfil consuming modules: ipfw, ipfilter and pf. > > > > will be rebuilt when I run make buildworld & you only have to worry abo= ut > > building it specifically if you selectively build certain parts of the > > source rather than the world? > > Yes - they should be rebuilt (as part of the kernel build, in fact, I > believe) unless you have set MODULES_OVERRIDE in /etc/make.conf. Good, that makes sense. > > One thing to bear in mind, and that has bitten me three times now (I > /will/ learn, soon...) is that after the installkernel, some of your > firewall rules will not work with the old world. The best bet is to > boot to single user, do the installworld and mergemaster, then reboot. > Your firewall rules should now function as before. > > Oh, and if you use ipfw instead of pf, set NO_PF=3Dtrue in /etc/make.conf > - without this, and if you don't add the appropriate users and groups > before installworld, the installworld will puke. > > I'm sure will have other caveats. These are the ones that keep getting > me, though. Thanks for the tips - I do use ipfw so I'll make sure I do all that. Cheers, =2D --=20 Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBke3LfITqkXhImmIRAsqcAJ4461aMQij/aI8/ZgZh9EQAr7W5CwCfWWD8 vO3sg51kQm8V2M/uSATZu6Q=3D =3Dnnt+ =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE-----