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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>August 2, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[dnicholson] - Added to the list of acceptable features in
44 ext3 file systems. Thanks to George Gowers.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 </itemizedlist>
47 </listitem>
48
49 <listitem>
50 <para>August 1, 2006</para>
51 <itemizedlist>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>[dnicholson] - Added text describing a potential failure
54 in the E2fsprogs testsuite when there is not enough memory
55 available and suggest enabling swap space to address this. Also
56 added an explicit <command>swapon</command> to the Chapter 2
57 mounting instructions to ensure that the user has enabled their
58 swap space if desired. Thanks to Nathan Coulson and Alexander
59 Patrakov.</para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>[dnicholson] - Added text warning that the Udev testsuite
63 will produce messages in the host's logs. Fixes #1846. Thanks to
64 Archaic.</para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>[dnicholson] - Finished adding system inotify support.
68 Split the patch so that the syscall functions are part of the
69 Glibc installation. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for supplying
70 the proper syscall bits.</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </itemizedlist>
73 </listitem>
74
75 <listitem>
76 <para>July 31, 2006</para>
77 <itemizedlist>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch vim to fix a spellfile download
80 problem. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 </itemizedlist>
83 </listitem>
84
85 <listitem>
86 <para>July 30, 2006</para>
87 <itemizedlist>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>[bdubbs] - Added notes that udev does not recognize
90 a backslash for line continuation.</para>
91 </listitem>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>[bdubbs] - Expanded the note in vim to better explain
94 spell files.</para>
95 </listitem>
96 </itemizedlist>
97 </listitem>
98
99 <listitem>
100 <para>July 29, 2006</para>
101 <itemizedlist>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to the linux-libc-headers to
104 add the inotify header.</para>
105 </listitem>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to Berkeley DB to
108 avoid potential program traps.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 </itemizedlist>
111 </listitem>
112
113 <listitem>
114 <para>July 21, 2006</para>
115 <itemizedlist>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>[bdubbs] - Added the existing bash patch to Chapter 5
118 to avoid potential custom scripting problems.</para>
119 </listitem>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>[bdubbs] - Added grub-0.97-disk_geometry-1.patch.</para>
122 </listitem>
123 <listitem>
124 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.27. Added a note to use the
125 latest kernel version available in the 2.6.16 series.</para>
126 </listitem>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated vim patch set to level 7.</para>
129 </listitem>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the discussion concerning zimezones.
132 </para>
133 </listitem>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>[dnicholson] - Added a reminder to check that the virtual
136 kernel file systems are mounted after the description of the
137 revised chroot command.</para>
138 </listitem>
139 <listitem>
140 <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed dead link to Linux Driver Model paper
141 on the Device and Module Handling page. Replaced with sysfs paper
142 by the same author. Thanks to Chris Staub and Bryan Kadzban.</para>
143 </listitem>
144 </itemizedlist>
145 </listitem>
146
147 <listitem>
148 <para>July 18, 2006</para>
149 <itemizedlist>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>[bdubbs] - Several textual corrections. Thanks to
152 Chris Staub.</para>
153 </listitem>
154 </itemizedlist>
155 </listitem>
156
157 <listitem>
158 <para>July 15, 2006</para>
159 <itemizedlist>
160 <listitem>
161 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to module-init-tools to
162 correct a possible problem when aliases are specified with
163 regular expressions.</para>
164 </listitem>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.26.
167 </para>
168 </listitem>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>[bdubbs] - Added sed to correct path to the find
171 program in updatedb after moving find to /bin.</para>
172 </listitem>
173 <listitem>
174 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text concerning test failures in
175 glibc to describe the most recent results.</para>
176 </listitem>
177 </itemizedlist>
178 </listitem>
179
180 <listitem>
181 <para>July 13, 2006</para>
182 <itemizedlist>
183 <listitem>
184 <para>[bdubbs] - Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode,
185 openvt, and setfont to /bin to support boot scripts.
186 Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure so that keyboard
187 data will always be on the root partition.
188 </para>
189 </listitem>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text in section 7.9 (The Bash
192 Shell Startup Files) to better explain the Xlib example.
193 </para>
194 </listitem>
195 </itemizedlist>
196 </listitem>
197
198 <listitem>
199 <para>July 12, 20006</para>
200 <itemizedlist>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to man-pages-2.34.</para>
203 </listitem>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to e2fsprogs-1.39.</para>
206 </listitem>
207 <listitem>
208 <para>[dnicholson] - Changed text explaining the installation
209 of the udev-config rules. Thanks to Matthew Burgess.</para>
210 </listitem>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>[dnicholson] - Various fixes and additions for examples
213 of custom rules in Udev courtesy of Alexander Patrakov. Added
214 the "Creating custom symlinks" page which includes examples
215 of creating persistent device symlinks, including CD-ROMs. Added
216 a second set of guidelines for creating persistent symlinks for
217 network cards. Other text touch ups on the configuration pages
218 involving Udev. Closes ticket #1818.</para>
219 </listitem>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated udev-config and bootscripts download
222 location.</para>
223 </listitem>
224 <listitem>
225 <para>[dnicholson] - Added commands to create the vi to vim
226 man page symlink in all available languages. Closes ticket
227 #1811. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
228 </listitem>
229 <listitem>
230 <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to udev-096 and udev-config-20060712.
231 Removed the bug.c program and the cd symlinks script. The cd
232 symlinks will be covered in Chapter 7. Closes ticket #1804. Thanks
233 to Alexander Patrakov for making the appropriate changes in the
234 Udev rules.</para>
235 </listitem>
236 </itemizedlist>
237 </listitem>
238
239 <listitem>
240 <para>July 11, 2006</para>
241 <itemizedlist>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>[bdubbs] - Changed url for the SBU pages to a generic
244 location.</para>
245 </listitem>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>[bdubbs] - Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning
248 charmap specifications. Thanks to Dan Nicholson.
249 Closes ticket #1813.</para>
250 </listitem>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>[bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain"
253 referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not
254 get included later in gcc-pass2.
255 Closes ticket #1822.</para>
256 </listitem>
257 <listitem>
258 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24.
259 Closes ticket #1808.</para>
260 </listitem>
261 </itemizedlist>
262 </listitem>
263
264 <listitem>
265 <para>July 10, 2006</para>
266 <itemizedlist>
267 <listitem>
268 <para>[dnicholson] - Specified the full path to
269 <command>modprobe</command> in the example modprobe rule.
270 Closes ticket #1812.</para>
271 </listitem>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>[dnicholson] - Remove the
274 <command>locale country</command> command from the heuristic to
275 determine the locale in the Bash Shell Startup Files since it
276 doesn't produce results in all locales.</para>
277 </listitem>
278 </itemizedlist>
279 </listitem>
280
281 <listitem>
282 <para>July 7, 2006</para>
283 <itemizedlist>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>[matt] - Updated module-init-tools download information as it
286 has a new maintainer.</para>
287 </listitem>
288 </itemizedlist>
289 </listitem>
290
291 <listitem>
292 <para>June 10, 2006</para>
293 <itemizedlist>
294 <listitem>
295 <para>[ken] - Added <command>gettext.sh</command> to list of programs
296 installed by gettext, similarly <command>nologin</command> for shadow,
297 <command>grub-set-default</command> for grub, <command>enc2xs</command>
298 and <command>instmodsh</command> for perl, <command>slabtop</command>
299 for procps, <command>flock</command> and <command>tailf</command> for
300 util-linux, <command>bootlogd</command> for sysvinit, <command>manpath
301 </command>for man-db, <command>filefrag</command> for e2fsprogs.
302 Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
303 </listitem>
304 </itemizedlist>
305 </listitem>
306
307 <listitem>
308 <para>May 31, 2006</para>
309 <itemizedlist>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.16.19.</para>
312 </listitem>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.33.</para>
315 </listitem>
316 <listitem>
317 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.2.</para>
318 </listitem>
319 <listitem>
320 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.96.</para>
321 </listitem>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>[gerard] - Added <command>tee</command> to chapter 6's Glibc
324 <command>make check</command> so the output can be seen on screen
325 as well as captured in the log file.</para>
326 </listitem>
327 </itemizedlist>
328 </listitem>
329
330 <listitem>
331 <para>May 30, 2006</para>
332 <itemizedlist>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>[matthew] - Removed an out of date comment regarding having to
335 run <command>pwconv</command> to reset passwords after enabling
336 password shadowing. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
337 </listitem>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>getunimap</command>,
340 <command>setlogons</command>, and <command>setvesablank</command> from
341 the list of programs installed by kbd. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
342 patch.</para>
343 </listitem>
344 </itemizedlist>
345 </listitem>
346
347 <listitem>
348 <para>May 30, 2006</para>
349 <itemizedlist>
350 <listitem>
351 <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>swapdev</command> from the list of
352 files installed by util-linux. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
353 </para>
354 </listitem>
355 </itemizedlist>
356 </listitem>
357
358 <listitem>
359 <para>May 27, 2006</para>
360 <itemizedlist>
361 <listitem>
362 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove the 'refer back's in the gcc-pass2 and
363 chapter06/gcc pages. Better organizes the commands and data so that
364 the flow of the book is not lost.</para>
365 </listitem>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a note about installing spell files for
368 Vim in a language other than English.</para>
369 </listitem>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>[jhuntwork] - Correct Vim's installation of man pages to work
372 well with Man-DB. Patch from Alexander Patrakov and Ag Hatzim.</para>
373 </listitem>
374 </itemizedlist>
375 </listitem>
376
377 <listitem>
378 <para>May 26, 2006</para>
379 <itemizedlist>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>[jhuntwork] - Some version corrections in the vim page.</para>
382 </listitem>
383 </itemizedlist>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>May 25, 2006</para>
388 <itemizedlist>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to Vim-7.0. Fixes #1793.</para>
391 </listitem>
392 <listitem>
393 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed generation of diff's man page.
394 Thanks Randy McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix.
395 Fixes #1800.</para>
396 </listitem>
397 </itemizedlist>
398 </listitem>
399
400 <listitem>
401 <para>May 22, 2006</para>
402 <itemizedlist>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>[jim] - Fixed a constant support question asked in #IRC and
405 the mailing lists about shadow's additional sed command
406 for cracklib. Using a complete sed command instead.</para>
407 </listitem>
408 </itemizedlist>
409 </listitem>
410
411 <listitem>
412 <para>May 15, 2006</para>
413 <itemizedlist>
414 <listitem>
415 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-config-20060515. This adds the rule
416 to create /dev/usb nodes as well as making the rules files slightly
417 more modular by reorganizing which rules go to which files. This is a
418 very minor update.</para>
419 </listitem>
420 <listitem>
421 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.32.</para>
422 </listitem>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-092.</para>
425 </listitem>
426 </itemizedlist>
427 </listitem>
428
429 <listitem>
430 <para>May 14, 2006</para>
431 <itemizedlist>
432 <listitem>
433 <para>[manuel] - Updated SBU and disk usage values.</para>
434 </listitem>
435 <listitem>
436 <para>[manuel] - Created packages.ent. Moved data about packages
437 to packages.ent as entities.</para>
438 </listitem>
439 </itemizedlist>
440 </listitem>
441
442 <listitem>
443 <para>May 12, 2006</para>
444 <itemizedlist>
445 <listitem>
446 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.16.</para>
447 </listitem>
448 </itemizedlist>
449 </listitem>
450
451 <listitem>
452 <para>May 9, 2006</para>
453 <itemizedlist>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>[manuel] - Updated packages and patches sizes.</para>
456 </listitem>
457 </itemizedlist>
458 </listitem>
459
460 <listitem>
461 <para>May 8, 2006</para>
462 <itemizedlist>
463 <listitem>
464 <para>[archaic] - Made the directory tree creation more concise and
465 removed the extraneous /opt/* hierarchy (it is not required by
466 FHS). Closes ticket #1656.</para>
467 </listitem>
468 </itemizedlist>
469 </listitem>
470
471 <listitem>
472 <para>May 7, 2006</para>
473 <itemizedlist>
474 <listitem>
475 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.14.</para>
476 </listitem>
477 <listitem>
478 <para>[ken] - Use ext3 filesystem instead of ext2.
479 Resolves ticket #1792.</para>
480 </listitem>
481 </itemizedlist>
482 </listitem>
483
484 <listitem>
485 <para>May 6, 2006</para>
486 <itemizedlist>
487 <listitem>
488 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added MD5 sums for packages and patches.
489 Resolves ticket #1788.</para>
490 </listitem>
491 </itemizedlist>
492 </listitem>
493
494 <listitem>
495 <para>May 3, 2006</para>
496 <itemizedlist>
497 <listitem>
498 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.16.13.</para>
499 </listitem>
500 <listitem>
501 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current
502 findings. Resolves ticket #1657.</para>
503 </listitem>
504 <listitem>
505 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent
506 leakage reports.</para>
507 </listitem>
508 </itemizedlist>
509 </listitem>
510
511 <listitem>
512 <para>May 2, 2006</para>
513 <itemizedlist>
514 <listitem>
515 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC
516 and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768.</para>
517 </listitem>
518 <listitem>
519 <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
520 it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
521 </listitem>
522 <listitem>
523 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
524 </listitem>
525 <listitem>
526 <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
527 </listitem>
528 <listitem>
529 <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
530 </listitem>
531 </itemizedlist>
532 </listitem>
533
534 <listitem>
535 <para>May 1, 2006</para>
536 <itemizedlist>
537 <listitem>
538 <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
539 Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
540 and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
541 </listitem>
542 <listitem>
543 <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
544 re-install its binaries.</para>
545 </listitem>
546 <listitem>
547 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
548 </listitem>
549 <listitem>
550 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
551 udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
552 program.</para>
553 </listitem>
554 </itemizedlist>
555 </listitem>
556
557 <listitem>
558 <para>April 27, 2006</para>
559 <itemizedlist>
560 <listitem>
561 <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
562 acknowledgements.</para>
563 </listitem>
564 </itemizedlist>
565 </listitem>
566
567 <listitem>
568 <para>April 23, 2006</para>
569 <itemizedlist>
570 <listitem>
571 <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
572 ownership. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
573 </listitem>
574 </itemizedlist>
575 </listitem>
576
577 <listitem>
578 <para>April 22, 2006</para>
579 <itemizedlist>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
582 wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
583 ticket #1779.</para>
584 </listitem>
585 </itemizedlist>
586 </listitem>
587
588 <listitem>
589 <para>April 21, 2006</para>
590 <itemizedlist>
591 <listitem>
592 <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
593 required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
594 for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for reviewing the
595 wording.</para>
596 </listitem>
597 <listitem>
598 <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
599 R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
600 </listitem>
601 </itemizedlist>
602 </listitem>
603
604 <listitem>
605 <para>April 20, 2006</para>
606 <itemizedlist>
607 <listitem>
608 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
609 Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
610 </listitem>
611 <listitem>
612 <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
613 is required on the host system.</para>
614 </listitem>
615 <listitem>
616 <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
617 for the patch.</para>
618 </listitem>
619 </itemizedlist>
620 </listitem>
621
622 <listitem>
623 <para>April 19, 2006</para>
624 <itemizedlist>
625 <listitem>
626 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
627 software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
628 and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
629 Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
630 </listitem>
631 </itemizedlist>
632 </listitem>
633
634 <listitem>
635 <para>April 18, 2006</para>
636 <itemizedlist>
637 <listitem>
638 <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
639 Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
640 build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
641 information is complete enough at this point to close out the
642 long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
643 and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
644 </listitem>
645 </itemizedlist>
646 </listitem>
647
648 <listitem>
649 <para>April 15, 2006</para>
650 <itemizedlist>
651 <listitem>
652 <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
653 </listitem>
654 <listitem>
655 <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
656 that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
657 </listitem>
658 </itemizedlist>
659 </listitem>
660
661 <listitem>
662 <para>April 14, 2006</para>
663 <itemizedlist>
664 <listitem>
665 <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
666 </listitem>
667 <listitem>
668 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
669 command changes.</para>
670 </listitem>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
673 replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
674 inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
675 Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
676 </listitem>
677 </itemizedlist>
678 </listitem>
679
680 <listitem>
681 <para>April 13, 2006</para>
682 <itemizedlist>
683 <listitem>
684 <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
685 removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
686 </listitem>
687 <listitem>
688 <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
689 </listitem>
690 <listitem>
691 <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
692 Shadow.</para>
693 </listitem>
694 <listitem>
695 <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
696 </listitem>
697 </itemizedlist>
698 </listitem>
699
700 <listitem>
701 <para>April 12, 2006</para>
702 <itemizedlist>
703 <listitem>
704 <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
705 Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
706 </listitem>
707 <listitem>
708 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
709 Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
710 convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
711 Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
712 </listitem>
713 <listitem>
714 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
715 in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
716 the symlink we used to create.</para>
717 </listitem>
718 </itemizedlist>
719 </listitem>
720
721 <listitem>
722 <para>April 11, 2006</para>
723 <itemizedlist>
724 <listitem>
725 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
726 </listitem>
727 </itemizedlist>
728 </listitem>
729
730 <listitem>
731 <para>April 8, 2006</para>
732 <itemizedlist>
733 <listitem>
734 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
735 in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
736 programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
737 slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
738 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
739 </listitem>
740 </itemizedlist>
741 </listitem>
742
743 <listitem>
744 <para>April 6, 2006</para>
745 <itemizedlist>
746 <listitem>
747 <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
748 links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
749 </listitem>
750 <listitem>
751 <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
752 </listitem>
753 </itemizedlist>
754 </listitem>
755
756 <listitem>
757 <para>April 2, 2006</para>
758 <itemizedlist>
759 <listitem>
760 <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
761 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
762 mounting of kernel filesystems before the package management page and
763 rewrote the page to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel
764 filesystems while outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering
765 chroot and remounting kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list
766 of dirs created in chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
767 </listitem>
768 </itemizedlist>
769 </listitem>
770
771 <listitem>
772 <para>March 30, 2006</para>
773 <itemizedlist>
774 <listitem>
775 <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
776 Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
777 </listitem>
778 <listitem>
779 <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
780 and Udev-088.</para>
781 </listitem>
782 </itemizedlist>
783 </listitem>
784
785 <listitem>
786 <para>March 29, 2006</para>
787 <itemizedlist>
788 <listitem>
789 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
790 to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
791 the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
792 </listitem>
793 </itemizedlist>
794 </listitem>
795
796 <listitem>
797 <para>March 22, 2006</para>
798 <itemizedlist>
799 <listitem>
800 <para>[archaic] - Updated to
801 lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
802 </listitem>
803 </itemizedlist>
804 </listitem>
805
806 <listitem>
807 <para>March 21, 2006</para>
808 <itemizedlist>
809 <listitem>
810 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
811 hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
812 udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
813 </para>
814 </listitem>
815 </itemizedlist>
816 </listitem>
817
818 <listitem>
819 <para>March 18, 2006</para>
820 <itemizedlist>
821 <listitem>
822 <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
823 is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
824 patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
825 </listitem>
826 <listitem>
827 <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
828 tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
829 #1713.</para>
830 </listitem>
831 <listitem>
832 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
833 </listitem>
834 <listitem>
835 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
836 </listitem>
837 <listitem>
838 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
839 </listitem>
840 <listitem>
841 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
842 </listitem>
843 <listitem>
844 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
845 </listitem>
846 <listitem>
847 <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
848 patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
849 installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
850 </listitem>
851 </itemizedlist>
852 </listitem>
853
854 <listitem>
855 <para>March 11, 2006</para>
856 <itemizedlist>
857 <listitem>
858 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
859 </listitem>
860 </itemizedlist>
861 </listitem>
862
863 <listitem>
864 <para>March 8, 2006</para>
865 <itemizedlist>
866 <listitem>
867 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
868 </listitem>
869 <listitem>
870 <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
871 does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
872 Patrakov.</para>
873 </listitem>
874 <listitem>
875 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
876 </listitem>
877 <listitem>
878 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
879 </listitem>
880 <listitem>
881 <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
882 present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
883 </listitem>
884 </itemizedlist>
885 </listitem>
886
887 <listitem>
888 <para>March 7, 2006</para>
889 <itemizedlist>
890 <listitem>
891 <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
892 upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
893 device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
894 </listitem>
895 <listitem>
896 <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
897 LFS-style patch.</para>
898 </listitem>
899 </itemizedlist>
900 </listitem>
901
902 <listitem>
903 <para>March 3, 2006</para>
904 <itemizedlist>
905 <listitem>
906 <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
907 to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
908 </listitem>
909 </itemizedlist>
910 </listitem>
911
912 <listitem>
913 <para>March 1, 2006</para>
914 <itemizedlist>
915 <listitem>
916 <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
917 symlinks.</para>
918 </listitem>
919 <listitem>
920 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
921 help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
922 </listitem>
923 </itemizedlist>
924 </listitem>
925
926 <listitem>
927 <para>February 27, 2006</para>
928 <itemizedlist>
929 <listitem>
930 <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
931 upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
932 </listitem>
933 </itemizedlist>
934 </listitem>
935
936 <listitem>
937 <para>February 20, 2006</para>
938 <itemizedlist>
939 <listitem>
940 <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
941 keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
942 expanded by the shell.</para>
943 </listitem>
944 <listitem>
945 <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
946 </listitem>
947 <listitem>
948 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
949 </listitem>
950 </itemizedlist>
951 </listitem>
952
953 <listitem>
954 <para>February 19, 2006</para>
955 <itemizedlist>
956 <listitem>
957 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
958 to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
959 </listitem>
960 <listitem>
961 <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
962 every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
963 </listitem>
964 <listitem>
965 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
966 </listitem>
967 <listitem>
968 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
969 </listitem>
970 <listitem>
971 <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
972 --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
973 for the report and the fix.</para>
974 </listitem>
975 <listitem>
976 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
977 </listitem>
978 <listitem>
979 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
980 </listitem>
981 <listitem>
982 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
983 </listitem>
984 <listitem>
985 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
986 </listitem>
987 <listitem>
988 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
989 </listitem>
990 <listitem>
991 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
992 </listitem>
993 <listitem>
994 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
995 vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
996 </listitem>
997 <listitem>
998 <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
999 Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
1000 </listitem>
1001 <listitem>
1002 <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
1003 instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
1004 &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
1005 <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
1006 can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
1007 </listitem>
1008 </itemizedlist>
1009 </listitem>
1010
1011 <listitem>
1012 <para>February 10, 2006</para>
1013 <itemizedlist>
1014 <listitem>
1015 <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
1016 changes.</para>
1017 </listitem>
1018 </itemizedlist>
1019 </listitem>
1020
1021 <listitem>
1022 <para>February 8, 2006</para>
1023 <itemizedlist>
1024 <listitem>
1025 <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
1026 reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
1027 module loading.</para>
1028 </listitem>
1029 </itemizedlist>
1030 </listitem>
1031
1032 <listitem>
1033 <para>February 3, 2006</para>
1034 <itemizedlist>
1035 <listitem>
1036 <para>[matthew] - Create the
1037 <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
1038 can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
1039 </para>
1040 </listitem>
1041 <listitem>
1042 <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
1043 </listitem>
1044 <listitem>
1045 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
1046 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
1047 </listitem>
1048 <listitem>
1049 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
1050 download.</para>
1051 </listitem>
1052 <listitem>
1053 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
1054 </listitem>
1055 </itemizedlist>
1056 </listitem>
1057
1058 <listitem>
1059 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
1060 <itemizedlist>
1061 <listitem>
1062 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
1063 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
1064 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
1065 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
1066 </listitem>
1067 <listitem>
1068 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript.
1069 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
1070 </listitem>
1071 <listitem>
1072 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
1073 </listitem>
1074 </itemizedlist>
1075 </listitem>
1076
1077 <listitem>
1078 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
1079 <itemizedlist>
1080 <listitem>
1081 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
1082 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
1083 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
1084 </listitem>
1085 <listitem>
1086 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
1087 Staub.</para>
1088 </listitem>
1089 <listitem>
1090 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
1091 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
1092 </listitem>
1093 </itemizedlist>
1094 </listitem>
1095
1096 <listitem>
1097 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
1098 <itemizedlist>
1099 <listitem>
1100 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
1101 </listitem>
1102 <listitem>
1103 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
1104 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
1105 </listitem>
1106 </itemizedlist>
1107 </listitem>
1108
1109 <listitem>
1110 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
1111 <itemizedlist>
1112 <listitem>
1113 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
1114 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
1115 </listitem>
1116 <listitem>
1117 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
1118 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
1119 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
1120 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
1121 </listitem>
1122 <listitem>
1123 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
1124 section.</para>
1125 </listitem>
1126 </itemizedlist>
1127 </listitem>
1128
1129 <listitem>
1130 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
1131 <itemizedlist>
1132 <listitem>
1133 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
1134 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
1135 </listitem>
1136 <listitem>
1137 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
1138 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
1139 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1140 </listitem>
1141 <listitem>
1142 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
1143 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
1144 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
1145 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
1146 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
1147 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
1148 issue.</para>
1149 </listitem>
1150 <listitem>
1151 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
1152 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
1153 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
1154 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
1155 </listitem>
1156 <listitem>
1157 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
1158 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
1159 </listitem>
1160 </itemizedlist>
1161 </listitem>
1162
1163 <listitem>
1164 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
1165 <itemizedlist>
1166 <listitem>
1167 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
1168 </listitem>
1169 </itemizedlist>
1170 </listitem>
1171
1172 <listitem>
1173 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
1174 <itemizedlist>
1175 <listitem>
1176 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
1177 </listitem>
1178 <listitem>
1179 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
1180 </listitem>
1181 <listitem>
1182 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
1183 </listitem>
1184 <listitem>
1185 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
1186 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
1187 </listitem>
1188 <listitem>
1189 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
1190 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
1191 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
1192 </listitem>
1193 </itemizedlist>
1194 </listitem>
1195
1196 <listitem>
1197 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
1198 <itemizedlist>
1199 <listitem>
1200 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
1201 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
1202 it out.</para>
1203 </listitem>
1204 </itemizedlist>
1205 </listitem>
1206
1207 <listitem>
1208 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
1209 <itemizedlist>
1210 <listitem>
1211 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
1212 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1213 </listitem>
1214 </itemizedlist>
1215 </listitem>
1216
1217 <listitem>
1218 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
1219 <itemizedlist>
1220 <listitem>
1221 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
1222 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
1223 to Greg Schafer.</para>
1224 </listitem>
1225 <listitem>
1226 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
1227 gccbug.</para>
1228 </listitem>
1229 </itemizedlist>
1230 </listitem>
1231
1232 <listitem>
1233 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
1234 <itemizedlist>
1235 <listitem>
1236 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
1237 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
1238 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
1239 for explaining this.</para>
1240 </listitem>
1241 <listitem>
1242 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
1243 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
1244 </listitem>
1245 <listitem>
1246 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
1247 use mktemp.</para>
1248 </listitem>
1249 <listitem>
1250 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
1251 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
1252 Randy McMurchy.</para>
1253 </listitem>
1254 </itemizedlist>
1255 </listitem>
1256
1257 <listitem>
1258 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
1259 <itemizedlist>
1260 <listitem>
1261 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
1262 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
1263 </listitem>
1264 <listitem>
1265 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
1266 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
1267 </listitem>
1268 </itemizedlist>
1269 </listitem>
1270
1271 <listitem>
1272 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
1273 <itemizedlist>
1274 <listitem>
1275 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
1276 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
1277 </listitem>
1278 <listitem>
1279 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
1280 </listitem>
1281 <listitem>
1282 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
1283 </listitem>
1284 <listitem>
1285 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
1286 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
1287 </listitem>
1288 </itemizedlist>
1289 </listitem>
1290
1291 <listitem>
1292 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
1293 <itemizedlist>
1294 <listitem>
1295 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
1296 to be repeatable.</para>
1297 </listitem>
1298 </itemizedlist>
1299 </listitem>
1300
1301 <listitem>
1302 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
1303 <itemizedlist>
1304 <listitem>
1305 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
1306 </listitem>
1307 </itemizedlist>
1308 </listitem>
1309
1310 <listitem>
1311 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
1312 <itemizedlist>
1313 <listitem>
1314 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
1315 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
1316 </listitem>
1317 </itemizedlist>
1318 </listitem>
1319
1320 <listitem>
1321 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
1322 <itemizedlist>
1323 <listitem>
1324 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
1325 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
1326 </listitem>
1327 <listitem>
1328 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
1329 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
1330 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
1331 </listitem>
1332 <listitem>
1333 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
1334 </listitem>
1335 <listitem>
1336 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
1337 </listitem>
1338 </itemizedlist>
1339 </listitem>
1340
1341 <listitem>
1342 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
1343 <itemizedlist>
1344 <listitem>
1345 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
1346 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
1347 </listitem>
1348 </itemizedlist>
1349 </listitem>
1350
1351 <listitem>
1352 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
1353 <itemizedlist>
1354 <listitem>
1355 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
1356 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
1357 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
1358 bug 1670).</para>
1359 </listitem>
1360 </itemizedlist>
1361 </listitem>
1362
1363 <listitem>
1364 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
1365 <itemizedlist>
1366 <listitem>
1367 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
1368 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
1369 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
1370 </listitem>
1371 </itemizedlist>
1372 </listitem>
1373
1374 <listitem>
1375 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
1376 <itemizedlist>
1377 <listitem>
1378 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
1379 </listitem>
1380 <listitem>
1381 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
1382 </listitem>
1383 <listitem>
1384 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
1385 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
1386 </listitem>
1387 <listitem>
1388 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
1389 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
1390 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1391 </listitem>
1392 <listitem>
1393 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
1394 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1395 </listitem>
1396 </itemizedlist>
1397 </listitem>
1398
1399 <listitem>
1400 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
1401 <itemizedlist>
1402 <listitem>
1403 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
1404 </listitem>
1405 <listitem>
1406 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
1407 </para>
1408 </listitem>
1409 <listitem>
1410 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
1411 </listitem>
1412 </itemizedlist>
1413 </listitem>
1414
1415 <listitem>
1416 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
1417 <itemizedlist>
1418 <listitem>
1419 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
1420 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
1421 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
1422 </listitem>
1423 </itemizedlist>
1424 </listitem>
1425
1426 <listitem>
1427 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
1428 <itemizedlist>
1429 <listitem>
1430 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
1431 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
1432 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
1433 </listitem>
1434 <listitem>
1435 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
1436 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
1437 </listitem>
1438 <listitem>
1439 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
1440 </listitem>
1441 <listitem>
1442 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
1443 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
1444 McMurchy for the report).</para>
1445 </listitem>
1446 <listitem>
1447 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
1448 </listitem>
1449 <listitem>
1450 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
1451 </listitem>
1452 <listitem>
1453 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
1454 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
1455 </listitem>
1456 </itemizedlist>
1457 </listitem>
1458
1459 <listitem>
1460 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
1461 <itemizedlist>
1462 <listitem>
1463 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
1464 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
1465 </listitem>
1466 </itemizedlist>
1467 </listitem>
1468
1469 <listitem>
1470 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
1471 <itemizedlist>
1472 <listitem>
1473 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
1474 package.</para>
1475 </listitem>
1476 </itemizedlist>
1477 </listitem>
1478
1479 <listitem>
1480 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
1481 <itemizedlist>
1482 <listitem>
1483 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
1484 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
1485 </listitem>
1486 </itemizedlist>
1487 </listitem>
1488
1489 <listitem>
1490 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
1491 <itemizedlist>
1492 <listitem>
1493 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
1494 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
1495 </listitem>
1496 </itemizedlist>
1497 </listitem>
1498
1499 <listitem>
1500 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
1501 <itemizedlist>
1502 <listitem>
1503 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
1504 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
1505 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
1506 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
1507 </listitem>
1508 </itemizedlist>
1509 </listitem>
1510
1511 <listitem>
1512 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
1513 <itemizedlist>
1514 <listitem>
1515 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
1516 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
1517 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
1518 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
1519 </listitem>
1520 <listitem>
1521 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
1522 </listitem>
1523 <listitem>
1524 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
1525 Chris Staub.</para>
1526 </listitem>
1527 </itemizedlist>
1528 </listitem>
1529
1530 <listitem>
1531 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
1532 <itemizedlist>
1533 <listitem>
1534 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
1535 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
1536 </listitem>
1537 </itemizedlist>
1538 </listitem>
1539
1540 <listitem>
1541 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
1542 <itemizedlist>
1543 <listitem>
1544 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
1545 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
1546 </listitem>
1547 </itemizedlist>
1548 </listitem>
1549
1550 <listitem>
1551 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
1552 <itemizedlist>
1553 <listitem>
1554 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
1555 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
1556 </listitem>
1557 <listitem>
1558 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
1559 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
1560 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
1561 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
1562 </listitem>
1563 </itemizedlist>
1564 </listitem>
1565
1566 <listitem>
1567 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
1568 <itemizedlist>
1569 <listitem>
1570 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
1571 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
1572 </listitem>
1573 <listitem>
1574 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
1575 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
1576 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
1577 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
1578 </listitem>
1579 <listitem>
1580 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
1581 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
1582 report and the fix.</para>
1583 </listitem>
1584 <listitem>
1585 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
1586 </listitem>
1587 <listitem>
1588 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
1589 </listitem>
1590 <listitem>
1591 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
1592 </listitem>
1593 </itemizedlist>
1594 </listitem>
1595
1596 <listitem>
1597 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
1598 <itemizedlist>
1599 <listitem>
1600 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
1601 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
1602 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
1603 </listitem>
1604 </itemizedlist>
1605 </listitem>
1606
1607 <listitem>
1608 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
1609 <itemizedlist>
1610 <listitem>
1611 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
1612 </listitem>
1613 <listitem>
1614 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
1615 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
1616 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
1617 </listitem>
1618 </itemizedlist>
1619 </listitem>
1620
1621 <listitem>
1622 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
1623 <itemizedlist>
1624 <listitem>
1625 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
1626 </listitem>
1627 <listitem>
1628 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
1629 </listitem>
1630 <listitem>
1631 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
1632 </listitem>
1633 <listitem>
1634 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
1635 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
1636 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
1637 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
1638 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
1639 of LFS.</para>
1640 </listitem>
1641 </itemizedlist>
1642 </listitem>
1643
1644 <listitem>
1645 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
1646 <itemizedlist>
1647 <listitem>
1648 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
1649 </listitem>
1650 <listitem>
1651 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
1652 </listitem>
1653 <listitem>
1654 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
1655 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
1656 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
1657 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
1658 </listitem>
1659 </itemizedlist>
1660 </listitem>
1661
1662 <listitem>
1663 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
1664 <itemizedlist>
1665 <listitem>
1666 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
1667 </listitem>
1668 </itemizedlist>
1669 </listitem>
1670
1671 <listitem>
1672 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
1673 <itemizedlist>
1674 <listitem>
1675 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
1676 </listitem>
1677 <listitem>
1678 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
1679 </listitem>
1680 <listitem>
1681 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
1682 </listitem>
1683 </itemizedlist>
1684 </listitem>
1685
1686 <listitem>
1687 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
1688 <itemizedlist>
1689 <listitem>
1690 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
1691 </listitem>
1692 <listitem>
1693 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
1694 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
1695 </listitem>
1696 <listitem>
1697 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules.
1698 file</para>
1699 </listitem>
1700 </itemizedlist>
1701 </listitem>
1702
1703 <listitem>
1704 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
1705 <itemizedlist>
1706 <listitem>
1707 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
1708 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
1709 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
1710 </listitem>
1711 </itemizedlist>
1712 </listitem>
1713
1714 <listitem>
1715 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
1716 <itemizedlist>
1717 <listitem>
1718 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
1719 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
1720 </listitem>
1721 <listitem>
1722 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
1723 </listitem>
1724 </itemizedlist>
1725 </listitem>
1726
1727 <listitem>
1728 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
1729 <itemizedlist>
1730 <listitem>
1731 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
1732 </listitem>
1733 </itemizedlist>
1734 </listitem>
1735
1736 <listitem>
1737 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
1738 <itemizedlist>
1739 <listitem>
1740 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
1741 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
1742 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
1743 </listitem>
1744 </itemizedlist>
1745 </listitem>
1746
1747 <listitem>
1748 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
1749 <itemizedlist>
1750 <listitem>
1751 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
1752 bug 1629).</para>
1753 </listitem>
1754 <listitem>
1755 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
1756 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
1757 </listitem>
1758 </itemizedlist>
1759 </listitem>
1760
1761 <listitem>
1762 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
1763 <itemizedlist>
1764 <listitem>
1765 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
1766 </listitem>
1767 </itemizedlist>
1768 </listitem>
1769
1770 <listitem>
1771 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
1772 <itemizedlist>
1773 <listitem>
1774 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
1775 </listitem>
1776 <listitem>
1777 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
1778 </listitem>
1779 <listitem>
1780 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
1781 </listitem>
1782 </itemizedlist>
1783 </listitem>
1784
1785 <listitem>
1786 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
1787 <itemizedlist>
1788 <listitem>
1789 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
1790 </listitem>
1791 </itemizedlist>
1792 </listitem>
1793
1794 <listitem>
1795 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
1796 <itemizedlist>
1797 <listitem>
1798 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
1799 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
1800 </listitem>
1801 <listitem>
1802 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
1803 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
1804 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
1805 </listitem>
1806 </itemizedlist>
1807 </listitem>
1808
1809 <listitem>
1810 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
1811 <itemizedlist>
1812 <listitem>
1813 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
1814 vulnerability.</para>
1815 </listitem>
1816 </itemizedlist>
1817 </listitem>
1818
1819 <listitem>
1820 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
1821 <itemizedlist>
1822 <listitem>
1823 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
1824 </listitem>
1825 </itemizedlist>
1826 </listitem>
1827
1828 <listitem>
1829 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
1830 <itemizedlist>
1831 <listitem>
1832 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
1833 </listitem>
1834 </itemizedlist>
1835 </listitem>
1836
1837 <listitem>
1838 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
1839 <itemizedlist>
1840 <listitem>
1841 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
1842 </listitem>
1843 </itemizedlist>
1844 </listitem>
1845
1846 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
1847 <itemizedlist>
1848 <listitem>
1849 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
1850 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
1851 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604).</para>
1852 </listitem>
1853 <listitem>
1854 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20.</para>
1855 </listitem>
1856 <listitem>
1857 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25.</para>
1858 </listitem>
1859 </itemizedlist>
1860 </listitem>
1861
1862 <listitem>
1863 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
1864 <itemizedlist>
1865 <listitem>
1866 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
1867 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
1868 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
1869 to actually work.</para>
1870 </listitem>
1871 <listitem>
1872 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
1873 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
1874 </listitem>
1875 </itemizedlist>
1876 </listitem>
1877
1878 <listitem>
1879 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
1880 <itemizedlist>
1881 <listitem>
1882 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
1883 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
1884 </listitem>
1885 <listitem>
1886 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
1887 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
1888 </listitem>
1889 <listitem>
1890 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
1891 </listitem>
1892 <listitem>
1893 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
1894 gcc-pass2.</para>
1895 </listitem>
1896 </itemizedlist>
1897 </listitem>
1898
1899 <listitem>
1900 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
1901 <itemizedlist>
1902 <listitem>
1903 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
1904 builds for consistency</para>
1905 </listitem>
1906 </itemizedlist>
1907 </listitem>
1908
1909 <listitem>
1910 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
1911 <itemizedlist>
1912 <listitem>
1913 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
1914 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
1915 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
1916 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
1917 </listitem>
1918 <listitem>
1919 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
1920 rules (fixes bug 1622).</para>
1921 </listitem>
1922 <listitem>
1923 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a.</para>
1924 </listitem>
1925 </itemizedlist>
1926 </listitem>
1927
1928 <listitem>
1929 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
1930 <itemizedlist>
1931 <listitem>
1932 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils' binaries to /bin as
1933 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
1934 </listitem>
1935 </itemizedlist>
1936 </listitem>
1937
1938 <listitem>
1939 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
1940 <itemizedlist>
1941 <listitem>
1942 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068.</para>
1943 </listitem>
1944 <listitem>
1945 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00.</para>
1946 </listitem>
1947 <listitem>
1948 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15.</para>
1949 </listitem>
1950 </itemizedlist>
1951 </listitem>
1952
1953 <listitem>
1954 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
1955 <itemizedlist>
1956 <listitem>
1957 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
1958 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
1959 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
1960 </listitem>
1961 <listitem>
1962 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
1963 filenames.</para>
1964 </listitem>
1965 </itemizedlist>
1966 </listitem>
1967
1968 <listitem>
1969 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
1970 <itemizedlist>
1971 <listitem>
1972 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
1973 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
1974 </listitem>
1975 <listitem>
1976 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
1977 </listitem>
1978 </itemizedlist>
1979 </listitem>
1980
1981 <listitem>
1982 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
1983 <itemizedlist>
1984 <listitem>
1985 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
1986 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer).</para>
1987 </listitem>
1988 </itemizedlist>
1989 </listitem>
1990
1991 <listitem>
1992 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
1993 <itemizedlist>
1994 <listitem>
1995 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
1996 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
1997 </listitem>
1998 <listitem>
1999 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
2000 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
2001 </listitem>
2002 <listitem>
2003 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
2004 bug 1603).</para>
2005 </listitem>
2006 <listitem>
2007 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
2008 </listitem>
2009 <listitem>
2010 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
2011 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
2012 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
2013 </listitem>
2014 <listitem>
2015 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
2016 test (bug 1611).</para>
2017 </listitem>
2018 </itemizedlist>
2019 </listitem>
2020
2021 <listitem>
2022 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
2023 <itemizedlist>
2024 <listitem>
2025 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
2026 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
2027 </listitem>
2028 <listitem>
2029 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
2030 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
2031 </listitem>
2032 <listitem>
2033 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
2034 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
2035 </listitem>
2036 <listitem>
2037 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
2038 of chapter 6.</para>
2039 </listitem>
2040 <listitem>
2041 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
2042 library (Bug 1608).</para>
2043 </listitem>
2044 </itemizedlist>
2045 </listitem>
2046
2047 <listitem>
2048 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
2049 <itemizedlist>
2050 <listitem>
2051 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
2052 from BLFS first.</para>
2053 </listitem>
2054 </itemizedlist>
2055 </listitem>
2056
2057 <listitem>
2058 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
2059 <itemizedlist>
2060 <listitem>
2061 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
2062 </listitem>
2063 <listitem>
2064 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
2065 modeline vulnerability.</para>
2066 </listitem>
2067 </itemizedlist>
2068 </listitem>
2069
2070 <listitem>
2071 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
2072 <itemizedlist>
2073 <listitem>
2074 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
2075 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
2076 </listitem>
2077 <listitem>
2078 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
2079 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
2080 </listitem>
2081 </itemizedlist>
2082 </listitem>
2083
2084 <listitem>
2085 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
2086 <itemizedlist>
2087 <listitem>
2088 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
2089 </listitem>
2090 </itemizedlist>
2091 </listitem>
2092
2093 <listitem>
2094 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
2095 <itemizedlist>
2096 <listitem>
2097 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd.</para>
2098 </listitem>
2099 <listitem>
2100 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils.</para>
2101 </listitem>
2102 <listitem>
2103 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
2104 The test no longer fails under GCC-4.</para>
2105 </listitem>
2106 <listitem>
2107 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar.</para>
2108 </listitem>
2109 </itemizedlist>
2110 </listitem>
2111
2112 <listitem>
2113 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
2114 <itemizedlist>
2115 <listitem>
2116 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
2117 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
2118 </listitem>
2119 </itemizedlist>
2120 </listitem>
2121
2122 <listitem>
2123 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
2124 <itemizedlist>
2125 <listitem>
2126 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
2127 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
2128 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
2129 </listitem>
2130 <listitem>
2131 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
2132 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
2133 </listitem>
2134 </itemizedlist>
2135 </listitem>
2136
2137 <listitem>
2138 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
2139 <itemizedlist>
2140 <listitem>
2141 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
2142 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
2143 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
2144 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
2145 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
2146 </listitem>
2147 <listitem>
2148 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
2149 </listitem>
2150 <listitem>
2151 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
2152 </listitem>
2153 </itemizedlist>
2154 </listitem>
2155
2156 <listitem>
2157 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
2158 <itemizedlist>
2159 <listitem>
2160 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
2161 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
2162 </listitem>
2163 </itemizedlist>
2164 </listitem>
2165
2166 <listitem>
2167 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
2168 <itemizedlist>
2169 <listitem>
2170 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc.</para>
2171 </listitem>
2172 <listitem>
2173 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
2174 needed.</para>
2175 </listitem>
2176 </itemizedlist>
2177 </listitem>
2178
2179 <listitem>
2180 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
2181 <itemizedlist>
2182 <listitem>
2183 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
2184 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
2185 </listitem>
2186 </itemizedlist>
2187 </listitem>
2188
2189 <listitem>
2190 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
2191 <itemizedlist>
2192 <listitem>
2193 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
2194 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
2195 of the specs patch.</para>
2196 </listitem>
2197 <listitem>
2198 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
2199 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
2200 </listitem>
2201 </itemizedlist>
2202 </listitem>
2203
2204 <listitem>
2205 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
2206 <itemizedlist>
2207 <listitem>
2208 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
2209 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
2210 </listitem>
2211 <listitem>
2212 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
2213 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
2214 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
2215 </listitem>
2216 </itemizedlist>
2217 </listitem>
2218
2219 <listitem>
2220 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
2221 <itemizedlist>
2222 <listitem>
2223 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
2224 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
2225 </listitem>
2226 <listitem>
2227 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
2228 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
2229 </listitem>
2230 <listitem>
2231 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
2232 5 and 6.</para>
2233 </listitem>
2234 </itemizedlist>
2235 </listitem>
2236
2237 <listitem>
2238 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
2239 <itemizedlist>
2240 <listitem>
2241 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
2242 </listitem>
2243 <listitem>
2244 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
2245 </listitem>
2246 <listitem>
2247 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
2248 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
2249 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
2250 </listitem>
2251 <listitem>
2252 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
2253 gcc-4.0.1</para>
2254 </listitem>
2255 <listitem>
2256 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
2257 </listitem>
2258 <listitem>
2259 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
2260 </listitem>
2261 </itemizedlist>
2262 </listitem>
2263
2264 <listitem>
2265 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
2266 <itemizedlist>
2267 <listitem>
2268 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
2269 </listitem>
2270 </itemizedlist>
2271 </listitem>
2272
2273 <listitem>
2274 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
2275 <itemizedlist>
2276 <listitem>
2277 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
2278 </listitem>
2279 <listitem>
2280 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
2281 </listitem>
2282 <listitem>
2283 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
2284 </listitem>
2285 <listitem>
2286 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
2287 </listitem>
2288 <listitem>
2289 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
2290 </listitem>
2291 </itemizedlist>
2292 </listitem>
2293
2294 <listitem>
2295 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
2296 <itemizedlist>
2297 <listitem>
2298 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
2299 as it is not needed.</para>
2300 </listitem>
2301 <listitem>
2302 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
2303 </listitem>
2304 <listitem>
2305 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
2306 </listitem>
2307 </itemizedlist>
2308 </listitem>
2309
2310 <listitem>
2311 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
2312 <itemizedlist>
2313 <listitem>
2314 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
2315 </listitem>
2316 <listitem>
2317 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
2318 </listitem>
2319 <listitem>
2320 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
2321 </listitem>
2322 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
2323 </listitem>
2324 </itemizedlist>
2325 </listitem>
2326
2327 <listitem>
2328 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
2329 <itemizedlist>
2330 <listitem>
2331 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
2332 </listitem>
2333 <listitem>
2334 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
2335 </listitem>
2336 <listitem>
2337 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
2338 </listitem>
2339 <listitem>
2340 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
2341 </listitem>
2342 </itemizedlist>
2343 </listitem>
2344
2345 <listitem>
2346 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
2347 <itemizedlist>
2348 <listitem>
2349 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
2350 </listitem>
2351 </itemizedlist>
2352 </listitem>
2353
2354 <listitem>
2355 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
2356 <itemizedlist>
2357 <listitem>
2358 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
2359 </listitem>
2360 </itemizedlist>
2361 </listitem>
2362
2363 <listitem>
2364 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
2365 <itemizedlist>
2366 <listitem>
2367 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
2368 </listitem>
2369 <listitem>
2370 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
2371 </listitem>
2372 <listitem>
2373 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
2374 </listitem>
2375 <listitem>
2376 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
2377 </listitem>
2378 </itemizedlist>
2379 </listitem>
2380
2381 <listitem>
2382 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
2383 <itemizedlist>
2384 <listitem>
2385 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
2386 </listitem>
2387 <listitem>
2388 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
2389 </listitem>
2390 <listitem>
2391 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
2392 </listitem>
2393 </itemizedlist>
2394 </listitem>
2395
2396 <listitem>
2397 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
2398 <itemizedlist>
2399 <listitem>
2400 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
2401 </listitem>
2402 </itemizedlist>
2403 </listitem>
2404
2405 <listitem>
2406 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
2407 <itemizedlist>
2408 <listitem>
2409 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
2410 </listitem>
2411 <listitem>
2412 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
2413 </listitem>
2414 </itemizedlist>
2415 </listitem>
2416
2417 <listitem>
2418 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
2419 <itemizedlist>
2420 <listitem>
2421 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
2422 </listitem>
2423 </itemizedlist>
2424 </listitem>
2425
2426 <listitem>
2427 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
2428 <itemizedlist>
2429 <listitem>
2430 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
2431 </listitem>
2432 </itemizedlist>
2433 </listitem>
2434
2435 <listitem>
2436 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
2437 <itemizedlist>
2438 <listitem>
2439 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
2440 </listitem>
2441 </itemizedlist>
2442 </listitem>
2443
2444 </itemizedlist>
2445
2446 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
2447 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
2448
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