-----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 about > > 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=true 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, - -- Ian GPG Key: http://homepages.picknowl.com.au/imoore/imoore.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBke3LfITqkXhImmIRAsqcAJ4461aMQij/aI8/ZgZh9EQAr7W5CwCfWWD8 vO3sg51kQm8V2M/uSATZu6Q= =nnt+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
