add COMPATIBILITY ISSUES section. first item; AMANDA vs dump(8)

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@ -319,6 +319,39 @@ Preparing your System for NetBSD Installation:
#include "prep"
Compatibility Issues:
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As with any system which has functionality added and products
modified to fit within the goals of portability, standards
adherance, and uniformity, there have been some changes which
affects compatibility with existing NetBSD products.
The following products may need the suggested work-around to
work in NetBSD _VER:
* AMANDA, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver,
from http://www.amanda.org
Description:
Due to a change in the output of dump(8) to ensure
consistency in the messages, AMANDA's dump output
parser breaks.
Error messages such as the following may be an
indication that this problem is present:
FAILURE AND STRANGE DUMP SUMMARY:
hostname wd0e lev 1 FAILED [no backup size line]
Versions affected:
2.3.0.4, and most likely earlier versions
Workaround/Fix:
Upgrade to AMANDA 2.4.0 or newer, or apply the patch found at:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/patches/amanda-pre-2.4.patch
Installing the NetBSD System:
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