From owner-p4-releng Fri Mar 29 20:43:57 2002 Delivered-To: p4-releng@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 32767) id 2646B37B417; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:43:45 -0800 (PST) Delivered-To: perforce@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (unknown [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448C837B416 for ; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:43:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from perforce@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2U4hhR20660 for perforce@freebsd.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:43:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah@freebsd.org) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:43:43 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200203300443.g2U4hhR20660@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: perforce set sender to bmah@freebsd.org using -f From: "Bruce A. Mah" Subject: PERFORCE change 8653 for review To: Perforce Change Reviews Sender: owner-p4-releng@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=8653 Change 8653 by bmah@bmah_intruder on 2002/03/29 20:43:14 Add testing guide section, as well as a few items for other sections. Wordsmith, fix typos. Affected files ... ... //depot/releng/5_dp1/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#5 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/releng/5_dp1/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/errata/article.sgml#5 (text+ko) ==== @@ -46,11 +46,18 @@ - This document lists known errata items for &os; + 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. Please note that &os; &release.current; - is not an officially supported release of FreeBSD. + operation or usability. Also included is a list of areas of the + base system that could benefit from some extra testing. + + 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. @@ -61,14 +68,14 @@ Serial GDB is broken. LOMAC doesn't protect against a certain class of - inter-process activities such as signalling, since the MAC + inter-process activities such as signaling, since the MAC hooks those checks rely on aren't in the base tree yet. gcc -O is known to be broken. - There are two different pccard implementations, + There are two different PCCARD implementations, OLDCARD and NEWCARD. NEWCARD has support for Cardbus, but has PCCARD problems. @@ -81,6 +88,11 @@ infrastructure is not merged; the documentation and library may be removed before 5.0 depending on strategy decisions not yet made. + + NFS client locking does not interact well with + &man.chroot.2; environments; locking only works for processes + sharing the same root as the locking daemon. + @@ -109,6 +121,12 @@ UFS2 (essentially, UFS with extended attributes in inodes) is not yet ready for inclusion in the snapshot. + + XFree86 4.2.0 is not yet + integrated into &man.sysinstall.8;, although this is planned + to be finished for the next developer preview. + + @@ -117,8 +135,12 @@ - Kernels with debugging features enabled are very slow; this is a - natural product of the debugging code in these kernels. Those + &os; &release.current; has a number of debugging + features enabled. These generally have a negative impact on + performance. One notable example is that the user-level + &man.malloc.3; functions behave, by default, as though the + AJ debugging flags were set. + Those benchmarking the system should be sure to run without debugging features enabled. @@ -136,11 +158,14 @@ /boot/kernel. When upgrading a system, make sure to pay - attention to the pam.conf -> - pam.d change. Likewise, there has been a - libpam version bump as well as new PAM modules introduced: + attention to the change from an + /etc/pam.conf configure file to multiple files in + /etc/pam.d/. + Likewise, OpenPAM has replaced + LinuxPAM, + and new PAM modules have been introduced; this may result in warnings from older authentication-related - applications compiled under RELENG_4, such + applications compiled under RELENG_4, such as xdm, kdm, and gdm. @@ -148,4 +173,54 @@ + + Testing Guide + + While testing reports of all aspects of &os; + &release.current; are welcomed, there are several areas which + could benefit from some extra testing: + + + + Basic kernel functionality. The changes for SMPng are + still in progress, and have some far-reaching effects + throughout many parts of the kernel. Testing the kernel's + stability on both UP and SMP machines will help find any + regressions that may have come about. + + + The PAM infrastructure has undergone significant + changes, including a replacement of Linux + PAM with + OpenPAM. + + + FFS snapshots and background &man.fsck.8;. The latter + feature is enabled by default; a reasonable test for + snapshots is to do backups by creating a snapshot using the + instructions in + src/sys/ufs/ffs/README.snapshot and + performing a &man.dump.8; of the snapshot. + + + Because of API changes, a number of ports in the &os; + Ports Collection are broken under &os; &release.branch;. + Frequently, there are straightforward fixes for these ports; + submitting these fixes will improve the state of buildable + ports and packages that can be shipped with &os; + &release.next;. + + + NFS has undergone some significant code reorganization, + although it is believed to be fairly stable. NFS client + locking is a new feature. + + + The sparc64 platform support is new, and could use + testing on a wider variety of hardware. + + + + + To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-releng" in the body of the message