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10
11 <title>Changelog</title>
12
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
17
18 <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
19 book.</para>
20
21 <itemizedlist>
22 <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26 <listitem>
27 <para>Date</para>
28 <itemizedlist>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 </itemizedlist>
36 </listitem>
37-->
38
39 <listitem>
40 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript
44 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
48 </listitem>
49 </itemizedlist>
50 </listitem>
51
52 <listitem>
53 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
54 <itemizedlist>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
57 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
58 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
59 </listitem>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
62 Staub.</para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
66 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
67 </listitem>
68 </itemizedlist>
69 </listitem>
70
71 <listitem>
72 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
73 <itemizedlist>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
76 </listitem>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
79 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
80 </listitem>
81 </itemizedlist>
82 </listitem>
83
84 <listitem>
85 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
86 <itemizedlist>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
89 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
90 </listitem>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
93 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
94 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
95 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
96 </listitem>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
99 section.</para>
100 </listitem>
101 </itemizedlist>
102 </listitem>
103
104 <listitem>
105 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
106 <itemizedlist>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
109 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
110 </listitem>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
113 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
114 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
115 </listitem>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
118 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
119 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
120 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
121 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
122 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
123 issue.</para>
124 </listitem>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
127 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
128 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
129 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
130 </listitem>
131 <listitem>
132 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
133 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
134 </listitem>
135 </itemizedlist>
136 </listitem>
137
138 <listitem>
139 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
140 <itemizedlist>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
143 </listitem>
144 </itemizedlist>
145 </listitem>
146
147 <listitem>
148 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
149 <itemizedlist>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
152 </listitem>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
155 </listitem>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
158 </listitem>
159 <listitem>
160 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
161 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
162 </listitem>
163 <listitem>
164 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
165 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
166 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
167 </listitem>
168 </itemizedlist>
169 </listitem>
170
171 <listitem>
172 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
173 <itemizedlist>
174 <listitem>
175 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
176 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
177 it out.</para>
178 </listitem>
179 </itemizedlist>
180 </listitem>
181
182 <listitem>
183 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
184 <itemizedlist>
185 <listitem>
186 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
187 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
188 </listitem>
189 </itemizedlist>
190 </listitem>
191
192 <listitem>
193 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
194 <itemizedlist>
195 <listitem>
196 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
197 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
198 to Greg Schafer.</para>
199 </listitem>
200 <listitem>
201 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
202 gccbug.</para>
203 </listitem>
204 </itemizedlist>
205 </listitem>
206
207 <listitem>
208 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
209 <itemizedlist>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
212 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
213 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
214 for explaining this.</para>
215 </listitem>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
218 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
219 </listitem>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
222 use mktemp.</para>
223 </listitem>
224 <listitem>
225 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
226 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
227 Randy McMurchy.</para>
228 </listitem>
229 </itemizedlist>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
234 <itemizedlist>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
237 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
238 </listitem>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
241 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
242 </listitem>
243 </itemizedlist>
244 </listitem>
245
246 <listitem>
247 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
248 <itemizedlist>
249 <listitem>
250 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
251 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
252 </listitem>
253 <listitem>
254 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
255 </listitem>
256 <listitem>
257 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
258 </listitem>
259 <listitem>
260 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
261 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
262 </listitem>
263 </itemizedlist>
264 </listitem>
265
266 <listitem>
267 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
268 <itemizedlist>
269 <listitem>
270 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
271 to be repeatable.</para>
272 </listitem>
273 </itemizedlist>
274 </listitem>
275
276 <listitem>
277 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
278 <itemizedlist>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
281 </listitem>
282 </itemizedlist>
283 </listitem>
284
285 <listitem>
286 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
287 <itemizedlist>
288 <listitem>
289 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
290 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
291 </listitem>
292 </itemizedlist>
293 </listitem>
294
295 <listitem>
296 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
297 <itemizedlist>
298 <listitem>
299 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
300 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
301 </listitem>
302 <listitem>
303 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
304 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
305 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
306 </listitem>
307 <listitem>
308 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
309 </listitem>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
312 </listitem>
313 </itemizedlist>
314 </listitem>
315
316 <listitem>
317 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
318 <itemizedlist>
319 <listitem>
320 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
321 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
322 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
323 bug 1670).</para>
324 </listitem>
325 </itemizedlist>
326 </listitem>
327
328 <listitem>
329 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
330 <itemizedlist>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
333 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
334 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
335 </listitem>
336 </itemizedlist>
337 </listitem>
338
339 <listitem>
340 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
341 <itemizedlist>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
344 </listitem>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
347 </listitem>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
350 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
351 </listitem>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
354 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
355 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
356 </listitem>
357 <listitem>
358 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
359 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
360 </listitem>
361 </itemizedlist>
362 </listitem>
363
364 <listitem>
365 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
366 <itemizedlist>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
369 </listitem>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
372 </para>
373 </listitem>
374 <listitem>
375 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
376 </listitem>
377 </itemizedlist>
378 </listitem>
379
380 <listitem>
381 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
382 <itemizedlist>
383 <listitem>
384 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
385 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
386 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
387 </listitem>
388 </itemizedlist>
389 </listitem>
390
391 <listitem>
392 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
393 <itemizedlist>
394 <listitem>
395 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
396 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
397 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
398 </listitem>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
401 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
402 </listitem>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
405 </listitem>
406 <listitem>
407 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
408 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
409 McMurchy for the report).</para>
410 </listitem>
411 <listitem>
412 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
413 </listitem>
414 <listitem>
415 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
416 </listitem>
417 <listitem>
418 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
419 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
420 </listitem>
421 </itemizedlist>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
426 <itemizedlist>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
429 </listitem>
430 </itemizedlist>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
435 <itemizedlist>
436 <listitem>
437 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
438 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
439 </listitem>
440 </itemizedlist>
441 </listitem>
442
443 <listitem>
444 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
445 <itemizedlist>
446 <listitem>
447 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
448 package.</para>
449 </listitem>
450 </itemizedlist>
451 </listitem>
452
453 <listitem>
454 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
455 <itemizedlist>
456 <listitem>
457 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
458 </listitem>
459 </itemizedlist>
460 </listitem>
461
462 <listitem>
463 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
464 <itemizedlist>
465 <listitem>
466 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
467 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
468 </listitem>
469 </itemizedlist>
470 </listitem>
471
472 <listitem>
473 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
474 <itemizedlist>
475 <listitem>
476 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
477 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
478 </listitem>
479 </itemizedlist>
480 </listitem>
481
482 <listitem>
483 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
484 <itemizedlist>
485 <listitem>
486 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
487 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
488 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
489 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
490 </listitem>
491 </itemizedlist>
492 </listitem>
493
494 <listitem>
495 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
496 <itemizedlist>
497 <listitem>
498 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
499 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
500 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
501 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
502 </listitem>
503 </itemizedlist>
504 </listitem>
505
506 <listitem>
507 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
508 <itemizedlist>
509 <listitem>
510 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
511 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
512 </listitem>
513 </itemizedlist>
514 </listitem>
515
516 <listitem>
517 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
518 <itemizedlist>
519 <listitem>
520 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
521 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
522 </listitem>
523 <listitem>
524 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
525 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
526 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
527 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
528 </listitem>
529 </itemizedlist>
530 </listitem>
531
532 <listitem>
533 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
534 <itemizedlist>
535 <listitem>
536 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
537 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
538 </listitem>
539 <listitem>
540 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
541 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
542 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
543 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
544 </listitem>
545 <listitem>
546 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
547 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
548 report and the fix.</para>
549 </listitem>
550 <listitem>
551 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
552 </listitem>
553 <listitem>
554 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
555 </listitem>
556 <listitem>
557 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
558 </listitem>
559 </itemizedlist>
560 </listitem>
561
562 <listitem>
563 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
564 <itemizedlist>
565 <listitem>
566 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
567 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
568 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
569 </listitem>
570 </itemizedlist>
571 </listitem>
572
573 <listitem>
574 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
575 <itemizedlist>
576 <listitem>
577 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
578 </listitem>
579 <listitem>
580 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
581 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
582 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
583 </listitem>
584 </itemizedlist>
585 </listitem>
586
587 <listitem>
588 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
589 <itemizedlist>
590 <listitem>
591 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
592 </listitem>
593 <listitem>
594 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
595 </listitem>
596 <listitem>
597 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
598 </listitem>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
601 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
602 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
603 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
604 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
605 of LFS.</para>
606 </listitem>
607 </itemizedlist>
608 </listitem>
609
610 <listitem>
611 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
612 <itemizedlist>
613 <listitem>
614 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
615 </listitem>
616 <listitem>
617 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
618 </listitem>
619 <listitem>
620 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
621 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
622 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
623 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
624 </listitem>
625 </itemizedlist>
626 </listitem>
627
628 <listitem>
629 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
630 <itemizedlist>
631 <listitem>
632 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
633 </listitem>
634 </itemizedlist>
635 </listitem>
636
637 <listitem>
638 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
639 <itemizedlist>
640 <listitem>
641 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
642 </listitem>
643 <listitem>
644 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
645 </listitem>
646 <listitem>
647 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
648 </listitem>
649 </itemizedlist>
650 </listitem>
651
652 <listitem>
653 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
654 <itemizedlist>
655 <listitem>
656 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
657 </listitem>
658 <listitem>
659 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
660 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
661 </listitem>
662 <listitem>
663 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
664 file</para>
665 </listitem>
666 </itemizedlist>
667 </listitem>
668
669 <listitem>
670 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
671 <itemizedlist>
672 <listitem>
673 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
674 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
675 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
676 </listitem>
677 </itemizedlist>
678 </listitem>
679
680 <listitem>
681 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
682 <itemizedlist>
683 <listitem>
684 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
685 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
686 </listitem>
687 <listitem>
688 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
689 </listitem>
690 </itemizedlist>
691 </listitem>
692
693 <listitem>
694 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
695 <itemizedlist>
696 <listitem>
697 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
698 </listitem>
699 </itemizedlist>
700 </listitem>
701
702 <listitem>
703 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
704 <itemizedlist>
705 <listitem>
706 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
707 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
708 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
709 </listitem>
710 </itemizedlist>
711 </listitem>
712
713 <listitem>
714 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
715 <itemizedlist>
716 <listitem>
717 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
718 bug 1629).</para>
719 </listitem>
720 <listitem>
721 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
722 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
723 </listitem>
724 </itemizedlist>
725 </listitem>
726
727 <listitem>
728 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
729 <itemizedlist>
730 <listitem>
731 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
732 </listitem>
733 </itemizedlist>
734 </listitem>
735
736 <listitem>
737 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
738 <itemizedlist>
739 <listitem>
740 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
741 </listitem>
742 <listitem>
743 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
744 </listitem>
745 <listitem>
746 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
747 </listitem>
748 </itemizedlist>
749 </listitem>
750
751 <listitem>
752 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
753 <itemizedlist>
754 <listitem>
755 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
756 </listitem>
757 </itemizedlist>
758 </listitem>
759
760 <listitem>
761 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
762 <itemizedlist>
763 <listitem>
764 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
765 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
766 </listitem>
767 <listitem>
768 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
769 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
770 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
771 </listitem>
772 </itemizedlist>
773 </listitem>
774
775 <listitem>
776 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
777 <itemizedlist>
778 <listitem>
779 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
780 vulnerability.</para>
781 </listitem>
782 </itemizedlist>
783 </listitem>
784
785 <listitem>
786 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
787 <itemizedlist>
788 <listitem>
789 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
790 </listitem>
791 </itemizedlist>
792 </listitem>
793
794 <listitem>
795 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
796 <itemizedlist>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
799 </listitem>
800 </itemizedlist>
801 </listitem>
802
803 <listitem>
804 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
805 <itemizedlist>
806 <listitem>
807 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
808 </listitem>
809 </itemizedlist>
810 </listitem>
811
812 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
813 <itemizedlist>
814 <listitem>
815 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
816 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
817 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
818 </listitem>
819 <listitem>
820 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
821 </listitem>
822 <listitem>
823 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
824 </listitem>
825 </itemizedlist>
826 </listitem>
827
828 <listitem>
829 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
830 <itemizedlist>
831 <listitem>
832 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
833 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
834 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
835 to actually work.</para>
836 </listitem>
837 <listitem>
838 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
839 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
840 </listitem>
841 </itemizedlist>
842 </listitem>
843
844 <listitem>
845 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
846 <itemizedlist>
847 <listitem>
848 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
849 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
850 </listitem>
851 <listitem>
852 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
853 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
854 </listitem>
855 <listitem>
856 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
857 </listitem>
858 <listitem>
859 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
860 gcc-pass2.</para>
861 </listitem>
862 </itemizedlist>
863 </listitem>
864
865 <listitem>
866 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
867 <itemizedlist>
868 <listitem>
869 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
870 builds for consistency</para>
871 </listitem>
872 </itemizedlist>
873 </listitem>
874
875 <listitem>
876 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
877 <itemizedlist>
878 <listitem>
879 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
880 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
881 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
882 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
883 </listitem>
884 <listitem>
885 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
886 rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
887 </listitem>
888 <listitem>
889 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
890 </listitem>
891 </itemizedlist>
892 </listitem>
893
894 <listitem>
895 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
896 <itemizedlist>
897 <listitem>
898 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
899 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
900 </listitem>
901 </itemizedlist>
902 </listitem>
903
904 <listitem>
905 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
906 <itemizedlist>
907 <listitem>
908 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
909 </listitem>
910 <listitem>
911 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
912 </listitem>
913 <listitem>
914 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
915 </listitem>
916 </itemizedlist>
917 </listitem>
918
919 <listitem>
920 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
921 <itemizedlist>
922 <listitem>
923 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
924 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
925 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
926 </listitem>
927 <listitem>
928 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
929 filenames.</para>
930 </listitem>
931 </itemizedlist>
932 </listitem>
933
934 <listitem>
935 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
936 <itemizedlist>
937 <listitem>
938 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
939 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
940 </listitem>
941 <listitem>
942 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
943 </listitem>
944 </itemizedlist>
945 </listitem>
946
947 <listitem>
948 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
949 <itemizedlist>
950 <listitem>
951 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
952 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
953 </listitem>
954 </itemizedlist>
955 </listitem>
956
957 <listitem>
958 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
959 <itemizedlist>
960 <listitem>
961 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
962 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
963 </listitem>
964 <listitem>
965 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
966 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
967 </listitem>
968 <listitem>
969 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
970 bug 1603).</para>
971 </listitem>
972 <listitem>
973 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
974 </listitem>
975 <listitem>
976 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
977 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
978 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
979 </listitem>
980 <listitem>
981 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
982 test (bug 1611).</para>
983 </listitem>
984 </itemizedlist>
985 </listitem>
986
987 <listitem>
988 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
989 <itemizedlist>
990 <listitem>
991 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
992 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
993 </listitem>
994 <listitem>
995 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
996 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
997 </listitem>
998 <listitem>
999 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1000 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1001 </listitem>
1002 <listitem>
1003 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1004 of chapter 6.</para>
1005 </listitem>
1006 <listitem>
1007 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1008 library (Bug 1608)</para>
1009 </listitem>
1010 </itemizedlist>
1011 </listitem>
1012
1013 <listitem>
1014 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1015 <itemizedlist>
1016 <listitem>
1017 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1018 from BLFS first.</para>
1019 </listitem>
1020 </itemizedlist>
1021 </listitem>
1022
1023 <listitem>
1024 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1025 <itemizedlist>
1026 <listitem>
1027 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1028 </listitem>
1029 <listitem>
1030 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1031 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1032 </listitem>
1033 </itemizedlist>
1034 </listitem>
1035
1036 <listitem>
1037 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1038 <itemizedlist>
1039 <listitem>
1040 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1041 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1042 </listitem>
1043 <listitem>
1044 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1045 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1046 </listitem>
1047 </itemizedlist>
1048 </listitem>
1049
1050 <listitem>
1051 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1052 <itemizedlist>
1053 <listitem>
1054 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1055 </listitem>
1056 </itemizedlist>
1057 </listitem>
1058
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1061 <itemizedlist>
1062 <listitem>
1063 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
1064 </listitem>
1065 <listitem>
1066 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
1067 </listitem>
1068 <listitem>
1069 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1070 The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
1071 </listitem>
1072 <listitem>
1073 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
1074 </listitem>
1075 </itemizedlist>
1076 </listitem>
1077
1078 <listitem>
1079 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1080 <itemizedlist>
1081 <listitem>
1082 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1083 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1084 </listitem>
1085 </itemizedlist>
1086 </listitem>
1087
1088 <listitem>
1089 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1090 <itemizedlist>
1091 <listitem>
1092 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1093 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1094 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1095 </listitem>
1096 <listitem>
1097 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1098 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1099 </listitem>
1100 </itemizedlist>
1101 </listitem>
1102
1103 <listitem>
1104 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1105 <itemizedlist>
1106 <listitem>
1107 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1108 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1109 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1110 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1111 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1112 </listitem>
1113 <listitem>
1114 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1115 </listitem>
1116 <listitem>
1117 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1118 </listitem>
1119 </itemizedlist>
1120 </listitem>
1121
1122 <listitem>
1123 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1124 <itemizedlist>
1125 <listitem>
1126 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1127 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1128 </listitem>
1129 </itemizedlist>
1130 </listitem>
1131
1132 <listitem>
1133 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1134 <itemizedlist>
1135 <listitem>
1136 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
1137 </listitem>
1138 <listitem>
1139 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1140 needed.</para>
1141 </listitem>
1142 </itemizedlist>
1143 </listitem>
1144
1145 <listitem>
1146 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1147 <itemizedlist>
1148 <listitem>
1149 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1150 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1151 </listitem>
1152 </itemizedlist>
1153 </listitem>
1154
1155 <listitem>
1156 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1157 <itemizedlist>
1158 <listitem>
1159 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1160 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1161 of the specs patch.</para>
1162 </listitem>
1163 <listitem>
1164 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1165 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1166 </listitem>
1167 </itemizedlist>
1168 </listitem>
1169
1170 <listitem>
1171 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1172 <itemizedlist>
1173 <listitem>
1174 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1175 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1176 </listitem>
1177 <listitem>
1178 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1179 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1180 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1181 </listitem>
1182 </itemizedlist>
1183 </listitem>
1184
1185 <listitem>
1186 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1187 <itemizedlist>
1188 <listitem>
1189 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1190 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1191 </listitem>
1192 <listitem>
1193 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1194 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1195 </listitem>
1196 <listitem>
1197 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1198 5 and 6.</para>
1199 </listitem>
1200 </itemizedlist>
1201 </listitem>
1202
1203 <listitem>
1204 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1205 <itemizedlist>
1206 <listitem>
1207 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1208 </listitem>
1209 <listitem>
1210 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1211 </listitem>
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1214 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1215 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1216 </listitem>
1217 <listitem>
1218 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1219 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1220 </listitem>
1221 <listitem>
1222 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1223 </listitem>
1224 <listitem>
1225 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1226 </listitem>
1227 </itemizedlist>
1228 </listitem>
1229
1230 <listitem>
1231 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1232 <itemizedlist>
1233 <listitem>
1234 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1235 </listitem>
1236 </itemizedlist>
1237 </listitem>
1238
1239 <listitem>
1240 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1241 <itemizedlist>
1242 <listitem>
1243 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1244 </listitem>
1245 <listitem>
1246 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1247 </listitem>
1248 <listitem>
1249 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1250 </listitem>
1251 <listitem>
1252 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1253 </listitem>
1254 <listitem>
1255 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1256 </listitem>
1257 </itemizedlist>
1258 </listitem>
1259
1260 <listitem>
1261 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1262 <itemizedlist>
1263 <listitem>
1264 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1265 as it is not needed.</para>
1266 </listitem>
1267 <listitem>
1268 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1269 </listitem>
1270 <listitem>
1271 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1272 </listitem>
1273 </itemizedlist>
1274 </listitem>
1275
1276 <listitem>
1277 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1278 <itemizedlist>
1279 <listitem>
1280 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1281 </listitem>
1282 <listitem>
1283 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1284 </listitem>
1285 <listitem>
1286 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1287 </listitem>
1288 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1289 </listitem>
1290 </itemizedlist>
1291 </listitem>
1292
1293 <listitem>
1294 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1295 <itemizedlist>
1296 <listitem>
1297 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1298 </listitem>
1299 <listitem>
1300 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1301 </listitem>
1302 <listitem>
1303 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1304 </listitem>
1305 <listitem>
1306 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1307 </listitem>
1308 </itemizedlist>
1309 </listitem>
1310
1311 <listitem>
1312 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1313 <itemizedlist>
1314 <listitem>
1315 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1316 </listitem>
1317 </itemizedlist>
1318 </listitem>
1319
1320 <listitem>
1321 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1322 <itemizedlist>
1323 <listitem>
1324 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1325 </listitem>
1326 </itemizedlist>
1327 </listitem>
1328
1329 <listitem>
1330 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1331 <itemizedlist>
1332 <listitem>
1333 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1334 </listitem>
1335 <listitem>
1336 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1337 </listitem>
1338 <listitem>
1339 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1340 </listitem>
1341 <listitem>
1342 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1343 </listitem>
1344 </itemizedlist>
1345 </listitem>
1346
1347 <listitem>
1348 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1349 <itemizedlist>
1350 <listitem>
1351 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1352 </listitem>
1353 <listitem>
1354 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1355 </listitem>
1356 <listitem>
1357 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
1358 </listitem>
1359 </itemizedlist>
1360 </listitem>
1361
1362 <listitem>
1363 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
1364 <itemizedlist>
1365 <listitem>
1366 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
1367 </listitem>
1368 </itemizedlist>
1369 </listitem>
1370
1371 <listitem>
1372 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
1373 <itemizedlist>
1374 <listitem>
1375 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
1376 </listitem>
1377 <listitem>
1378 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
1379 </listitem>
1380 </itemizedlist>
1381 </listitem>
1382
1383 <listitem>
1384 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
1385 <itemizedlist>
1386 <listitem>
1387 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
1388 </listitem>
1389 </itemizedlist>
1390 </listitem>
1391
1392 <listitem>
1393 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
1394 <itemizedlist>
1395 <listitem>
1396 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
1397 </listitem>
1398 </itemizedlist>
1399 </listitem>
1400
1401 <listitem>
1402 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
1403 <itemizedlist>
1404 <listitem>
1405 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
1406 </listitem>
1407 </itemizedlist>
1408 </listitem>
1409
1410 </itemizedlist>
1411
1412 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
1413 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
1414
1415</sect1>
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