- base32 contains (when MKCOMPAT=yes) shared libraries for 32-bit
compatibility, previously included in base
- debug32 contains (when MKCOMPAT=yes) debug symbols and static libraries
containing debug symbols for 32-bit compatiblity, previously included
in debug
- manhtml contains (when MKHTML=yes) the HTML files previously included
in 'man', which are of limited utility without third-party software.
The motivation for this change is to be able to easily exclude sets
from CD-ROM images that go over the size limit without xz compression
(which many NetBSD platforms struggle to extract at acceptable speeds).
This is very limited -- it does not supplant postinstall to rehash
certificates on upgrade; it only runs certctl rehash if
/etc/openssl/certs is an empty directory, as you get in live images
not created with sysinst.
We could also have a more general-purpose way to run postinstall(8)
on first boot of an image, but that has a lot more moving parts to
think about, so let's start with this limited-scope low-risk
approach.
PR install/57629
XXX pullup-10
The default is to execute the script (iscsid_volumes=YES), so if you have
any volumes defined, you should also start iscsid (iscsid=YES) to avoid
error messages.
allow conditionally disabling the building of certain user space
programs in the 'base' set.
There is not enough consensus that this is the right way and a few
people had strong objections, see source-changes-d@.
strictly-aligned versions of memcmp(3), bcopy(3), memcpy(3), and
memmove(3).
This is used for 403 by ld.so.conf with machdep.no_unaligned variable.
With this library, unaligned memory accesses are significantly reduced
for 403 (from several hundreds to few tens per sec under heavy load);
only ld.elf_so (typically few times per fork) and statically-linked
binaries do such access.
- New /etc/security check for entropy in daily security report.
- New /etc/rc.d/entropy script runs (after random_seed and rndctl) to
check for entropy at boot -- in rc.conf, you can:
. set `entropy=check' to halt multiuser boot and enter single-user
mode if not enough entropy
. set `entropy=wait' to make multiuser boot wait until enough entropy
Default is to always boot without waiting -- and rely on other
channels like security report to alert the operator if there's a
problem.
- New man page entropy(7) discussing the higher-level concepts and
system integration with cross-references.
- New paragraph in afterboot(8) about entropy citing entropy(7) for
more details.
This change addresses many of the issues discussed in security/55659.
This is a first draft; happy to take improvements to the man pages and
scripted messages to improve clarity.
I considered changing motd to include an entropy warning with a
reference to the entropy(7) man page, but it's a little trickier:
- Not sure it's appropriate for all users to see at login rather than
users who have power to affect the entropy estimate (maybe it is,
just haven't decided).
- We only have a mechanism for changing once at boot; the message would
remain until next boot even if an operator adds enough entropy.
- The mechanism isn't really conducive to making a message appear
conditionally from boot to boot.
that pre-populate parts of the system (e.g. a tmpfs based /var) an
easy place to plug in like:
# REQUIRE: mountcritlocal
# BEFORE: MOUNTCRITLOCAL
This also cleans up the existing special handling a bit by separating it
into new scripts. All later scripts now depend on MOUNTCRITLOCAL.
Discussed on tech-userlevel some time ago.
in the ZFS properties of the dataset and a simple man page for
mount_zfs. With this, it is possible to put ZFS filesystems in
/etc/fstab as file system type zfs.
Add a rc.d script that kicks the module ZFS load mostly before
mountall runs simular to what LVM does. This allows for any legacy
mounts to be specified in critical_local_filesystems and allows for
ZFS pools on top of cgd (probably among other things). Introduce a
rc.conf variable called zfs which needs to be set to YES, in the usual
manor of things, to get zvols and ZFS dataset support rather then just
assume that 'zfs mount' does that in mountall. Fix a problem in
mountall if ZFS is not compiled into the system.
parses the output of cpuctl, and executes "cpuctl offline" for each CPU
that has SmtID!=0.
The default is "smtoff=NO", which means that SMT remains enabled.
Originally, MKCRYPTO was introduced because the United States
classified cryptography as a munition and restricted its export. The
export controls were substantially relaxed fifteen years ago, and are
essentially irrelevant for software with published source code.
In the intervening time, nobody bothered to remove the option after
its motivation -- the US export restriction -- was eliminated. I'm
not aware of any other operating system that has a similar option; I
expect it is mainly out of apathy for churn that we still have it.
Today, cryptography is an essential part of modern computing -- you
can't use the internet responsibly without cryptography.
The position of the TNF board of directors is that TNF makes no
representation that MKCRYPTO=no satisfies any country's cryptography
regulations.
My personal position is that the availability of cryptography is a
basic human right; that any local laws restricting it to a privileged
few are fundamentally immoral; and that it is wrong for developers to
spend effort crippling cryptography to work around such laws.
As proposed on tech-crypto, tech-security, and tech-userlevel to no
objections:
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-crypto/2017/05/06/msg000719.htmlhttps://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2017/05/06/msg000928.htmlhttps://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2017/05/06/msg010547.html
P.S. Reviewing all the uses of MKCRYPTO in src revealed a lot of
*bad* crypto that was conditional on it, e.g. DES in telnet... That
should probably be removed too, but on the grounds that it is bad,
not on the grounds that it is (nominally) crypto.
that if you install a new set and run "postinstall fix obsolete"
the expected things happen.
(hi 12.5 year old me who thought base was better than etc set, which
it really was, but this is better again :-)
the system attempts to resize the root file system to fill it's
partition prior to mounting read-write. Useful for things like AMI
file system images. May eventually be used by arm images after
coming up with similar solution for increasing the parition size.
PR/47645.
Add a separate file which contains the paths for the pkg_admin and
pkg_info utilities. This is called /etc/pkgpath.conf (to distinguish it
from pkg.conf).
Thanks also to Edgar Fuss for the sanity check.
This code has been developed by Abhinav Upadhyay as part of Google's Summer
of Code 2011. It uses libmandoc to parse man pages and builds a Full
Text Index in a SQLite database. The combination of indexing the full
manual page, filtering out stop words and ranking individual matches
based on the section gives a much improved user experience.
The old makewhatis and friends are kept under MKMAKEMANDB=no for now.
kre