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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 3, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed typo in list of acceptable ext3
44 features. Thanks to Randy McMurchy.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>[dnicholson] - Updated Berkeley DB patch to contain all
48 available upstream fixes. Fixed md5sum for glibc inotify
49 patch.</para>
50 </listitem>
51 </itemizedlist>
52 </listitem>
53
54 <listitem>
55 <para>August 2, 2006</para>
56 <itemizedlist>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed Berkeley DB patch to conform to
59 LFS style.</para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>[dnicholson] - Added to the list of acceptable features in
63 ext3 file systems. Thanks to George Gowers.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 </itemizedlist>
66 </listitem>
67
68 <listitem>
69 <para>August 1, 2006</para>
70 <itemizedlist>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>[dnicholson] - Added text describing a potential failure
73 in the E2fsprogs testsuite when there is not enough memory
74 available and suggest enabling swap space to address this. Also
75 added an explicit <command>swapon</command> to the Chapter 2
76 mounting instructions to ensure that the user has enabled their
77 swap space if desired. Thanks to Nathan Coulson and Alexander
78 Patrakov.</para>
79 </listitem>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>[dnicholson] - Added text warning that the Udev testsuite
82 will produce messages in the host's logs. Fixes #1846. Thanks to
83 Archaic.</para>
84 </listitem>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>[dnicholson] - Finished adding system inotify support.
87 Split the patch so that the syscall functions are part of the
88 Glibc installation. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for supplying
89 the proper syscall bits.</para>
90 </listitem>
91 </itemizedlist>
92 </listitem>
93
94 <listitem>
95 <para>July 31, 2006</para>
96 <itemizedlist>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch vim to fix a spellfile download
99 problem. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
100 </listitem>
101 </itemizedlist>
102 </listitem>
103
104 <listitem>
105 <para>July 30, 2006</para>
106 <itemizedlist>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>[bdubbs] - Added notes that udev does not recognize
109 a backslash for line continuation.</para>
110 </listitem>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>[bdubbs] - Expanded the note in vim to better explain
113 spell files.</para>
114 </listitem>
115 </itemizedlist>
116 </listitem>
117
118 <listitem>
119 <para>July 29, 2006</para>
120 <itemizedlist>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to the linux-libc-headers to
123 add the inotify header.</para>
124 </listitem>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to Berkeley DB to
127 avoid potential program traps.</para>
128 </listitem>
129 </itemizedlist>
130 </listitem>
131
132 <listitem>
133 <para>July 21, 2006</para>
134 <itemizedlist>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>[bdubbs] - Added the existing bash patch to Chapter 5
137 to avoid potential custom scripting problems.</para>
138 </listitem>
139 <listitem>
140 <para>[bdubbs] - Added grub-0.97-disk_geometry-1.patch.</para>
141 </listitem>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.27. Added a note to use the
144 latest kernel version available in the 2.6.16 series.</para>
145 </listitem>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated vim patch set to level 7.</para>
148 </listitem>
149 <listitem>
150 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the discussion concerning zimezones.
151 </para>
152 </listitem>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>[dnicholson] - Added a reminder to check that the virtual
155 kernel file systems are mounted after the description of the
156 revised chroot command.</para>
157 </listitem>
158 <listitem>
159 <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed dead link to Linux Driver Model paper
160 on the Device and Module Handling page. Replaced with sysfs paper
161 by the same author. Thanks to Chris Staub and Bryan Kadzban.</para>
162 </listitem>
163 </itemizedlist>
164 </listitem>
165
166 <listitem>
167 <para>July 18, 2006</para>
168 <itemizedlist>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>[bdubbs] - Several textual corrections. Thanks to
171 Chris Staub.</para>
172 </listitem>
173 </itemizedlist>
174 </listitem>
175
176 <listitem>
177 <para>July 15, 2006</para>
178 <itemizedlist>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to module-init-tools to
181 correct a possible problem when aliases are specified with
182 regular expressions.</para>
183 </listitem>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.26.
186 </para>
187 </listitem>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>[bdubbs] - Added sed to correct path to the find
190 program in updatedb after moving find to /bin.</para>
191 </listitem>
192 <listitem>
193 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text concerning test failures in
194 glibc to describe the most recent results.</para>
195 </listitem>
196 </itemizedlist>
197 </listitem>
198
199 <listitem>
200 <para>July 13, 2006</para>
201 <itemizedlist>
202 <listitem>
203 <para>[bdubbs] - Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode,
204 openvt, and setfont to /bin to support boot scripts.
205 Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure so that keyboard
206 data will always be on the root partition.
207 </para>
208 </listitem>
209 <listitem>
210 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text in section 7.9 (The Bash
211 Shell Startup Files) to better explain the Xlib example.
212 </para>
213 </listitem>
214 </itemizedlist>
215 </listitem>
216
217 <listitem>
218 <para>July 12, 20006</para>
219 <itemizedlist>
220 <listitem>
221 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to man-pages-2.34.</para>
222 </listitem>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to e2fsprogs-1.39.</para>
225 </listitem>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>[dnicholson] - Changed text explaining the installation
228 of the udev-config rules. Thanks to Matthew Burgess.</para>
229 </listitem>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>[dnicholson] - Various fixes and additions for examples
232 of custom rules in Udev courtesy of Alexander Patrakov. Added
233 the "Creating custom symlinks" page which includes examples
234 of creating persistent device symlinks, including CD-ROMs. Added
235 a second set of guidelines for creating persistent symlinks for
236 network cards. Other text touch ups on the configuration pages
237 involving Udev. Closes ticket #1818.</para>
238 </listitem>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated udev-config and bootscripts download
241 location.</para>
242 </listitem>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>[dnicholson] - Added commands to create the vi to vim
245 man page symlink in all available languages. Closes ticket
246 #1811. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
247 </listitem>
248 <listitem>
249 <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to udev-096 and udev-config-20060712.
250 Removed the bug.c program and the cd symlinks script. The cd
251 symlinks will be covered in Chapter 7. Closes ticket #1804. Thanks
252 to Alexander Patrakov for making the appropriate changes in the
253 Udev rules.</para>
254 </listitem>
255 </itemizedlist>
256 </listitem>
257
258 <listitem>
259 <para>July 11, 2006</para>
260 <itemizedlist>
261 <listitem>
262 <para>[bdubbs] - Changed url for the SBU pages to a generic
263 location.</para>
264 </listitem>
265 <listitem>
266 <para>[bdubbs] - Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning
267 charmap specifications. Thanks to Dan Nicholson.
268 Closes ticket #1813.</para>
269 </listitem>
270 <listitem>
271 <para>[bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain"
272 referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not
273 get included later in gcc-pass2.
274 Closes ticket #1822.</para>
275 </listitem>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24.
278 Closes ticket #1808.</para>
279 </listitem>
280 </itemizedlist>
281 </listitem>
282
283 <listitem>
284 <para>July 10, 2006</para>
285 <itemizedlist>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>[dnicholson] - Specified the full path to
288 <command>modprobe</command> in the example modprobe rule.
289 Closes ticket #1812.</para>
290 </listitem>
291 <listitem>
292 <para>[dnicholson] - Remove the
293 <command>locale country</command> command from the heuristic to
294 determine the locale in the Bash Shell Startup Files since it
295 doesn't produce results in all locales.</para>
296 </listitem>
297 </itemizedlist>
298 </listitem>
299
300 <listitem>
301 <para>July 7, 2006</para>
302 <itemizedlist>
303 <listitem>
304 <para>[matt] - Updated module-init-tools download information as it
305 has a new maintainer.</para>
306 </listitem>
307 </itemizedlist>
308 </listitem>
309
310 <listitem>
311 <para>June 10, 2006</para>
312 <itemizedlist>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>[ken] - Added <command>gettext.sh</command> to list of programs
315 installed by gettext, similarly <command>nologin</command> for shadow,
316 <command>grub-set-default</command> for grub, <command>enc2xs</command>
317 and <command>instmodsh</command> for perl, <command>slabtop</command>
318 for procps, <command>flock</command> and <command>tailf</command> for
319 util-linux, <command>bootlogd</command> for sysvinit, <command>manpath
320 </command>for man-db, <command>filefrag</command> for e2fsprogs.
321 Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
322 </listitem>
323 </itemizedlist>
324 </listitem>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>May 31, 2006</para>
328 <itemizedlist>
329 <listitem>
330 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.16.19.</para>
331 </listitem>
332 <listitem>
333 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.33.</para>
334 </listitem>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.2.</para>
337 </listitem>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.96.</para>
340 </listitem>
341 <listitem>
342 <para>[gerard] - Added <command>tee</command> to chapter 6's Glibc
343 <command>make check</command> so the output can be seen on screen
344 as well as captured in the log file.</para>
345 </listitem>
346 </itemizedlist>
347 </listitem>
348
349 <listitem>
350 <para>May 30, 2006</para>
351 <itemizedlist>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>[matthew] - Removed an out of date comment regarding having to
354 run <command>pwconv</command> to reset passwords after enabling
355 password shadowing. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
356 </listitem>
357 <listitem>
358 <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>getunimap</command>,
359 <command>setlogons</command>, and <command>setvesablank</command> from
360 the list of programs installed by kbd. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
361 patch.</para>
362 </listitem>
363 </itemizedlist>
364 </listitem>
365
366 <listitem>
367 <para>May 30, 2006</para>
368 <itemizedlist>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>swapdev</command> from the list of
371 files installed by util-linux. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
372 </para>
373 </listitem>
374 </itemizedlist>
375 </listitem>
376
377 <listitem>
378 <para>May 27, 2006</para>
379 <itemizedlist>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove the 'refer back's in the gcc-pass2 and
382 chapter06/gcc pages. Better organizes the commands and data so that
383 the flow of the book is not lost.</para>
384 </listitem>
385 <listitem>
386 <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a note about installing spell files for
387 Vim in a language other than English.</para>
388 </listitem>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>[jhuntwork] - Correct Vim's installation of man pages to work
391 well with Man-DB. Patch from Alexander Patrakov and Ag Hatzim.</para>
392 </listitem>
393 </itemizedlist>
394 </listitem>
395
396 <listitem>
397 <para>May 26, 2006</para>
398 <itemizedlist>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>[jhuntwork] - Some version corrections in the vim page.</para>
401 </listitem>
402 </itemizedlist>
403 </listitem>
404
405 <listitem>
406 <para>May 25, 2006</para>
407 <itemizedlist>
408 <listitem>
409 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to Vim-7.0. Fixes #1793.</para>
410 </listitem>
411 <listitem>
412 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed generation of diff's man page.
413 Thanks Randy McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix.
414 Fixes #1800.</para>
415 </listitem>
416 </itemizedlist>
417 </listitem>
418
419 <listitem>
420 <para>May 22, 2006</para>
421 <itemizedlist>
422 <listitem>
423 <para>[jim] - Fixed a constant support question asked in #IRC and
424 the mailing lists about shadow's additional sed command
425 for cracklib. Using a complete sed command instead.</para>
426 </listitem>
427 </itemizedlist>
428 </listitem>
429
430 <listitem>
431 <para>May 15, 2006</para>
432 <itemizedlist>
433 <listitem>
434 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-config-20060515. This adds the rule
435 to create /dev/usb nodes as well as making the rules files slightly
436 more modular by reorganizing which rules go to which files. This is a
437 very minor update.</para>
438 </listitem>
439 <listitem>
440 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.32.</para>
441 </listitem>
442 <listitem>
443 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-092.</para>
444 </listitem>
445 </itemizedlist>
446 </listitem>
447
448 <listitem>
449 <para>May 14, 2006</para>
450 <itemizedlist>
451 <listitem>
452 <para>[manuel] - Updated SBU and disk usage values.</para>
453 </listitem>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>[manuel] - Created packages.ent. Moved data about packages
456 to packages.ent as entities.</para>
457 </listitem>
458 </itemizedlist>
459 </listitem>
460
461 <listitem>
462 <para>May 12, 2006</para>
463 <itemizedlist>
464 <listitem>
465 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.16.</para>
466 </listitem>
467 </itemizedlist>
468 </listitem>
469
470 <listitem>
471 <para>May 9, 2006</para>
472 <itemizedlist>
473 <listitem>
474 <para>[manuel] - Updated packages and patches sizes.</para>
475 </listitem>
476 </itemizedlist>
477 </listitem>
478
479 <listitem>
480 <para>May 8, 2006</para>
481 <itemizedlist>
482 <listitem>
483 <para>[archaic] - Made the directory tree creation more concise and
484 removed the extraneous /opt/* hierarchy (it is not required by
485 FHS). Closes ticket #1656.</para>
486 </listitem>
487 </itemizedlist>
488 </listitem>
489
490 <listitem>
491 <para>May 7, 2006</para>
492 <itemizedlist>
493 <listitem>
494 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.14.</para>
495 </listitem>
496 <listitem>
497 <para>[ken] - Use ext3 filesystem instead of ext2.
498 Resolves ticket #1792.</para>
499 </listitem>
500 </itemizedlist>
501 </listitem>
502
503 <listitem>
504 <para>May 6, 2006</para>
505 <itemizedlist>
506 <listitem>
507 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added MD5 sums for packages and patches.
508 Resolves ticket #1788.</para>
509 </listitem>
510 </itemizedlist>
511 </listitem>
512
513 <listitem>
514 <para>May 3, 2006</para>
515 <itemizedlist>
516 <listitem>
517 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.16.13.</para>
518 </listitem>
519 <listitem>
520 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current
521 findings. Resolves ticket #1657.</para>
522 </listitem>
523 <listitem>
524 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent
525 leakage reports.</para>
526 </listitem>
527 </itemizedlist>
528 </listitem>
529
530 <listitem>
531 <para>May 2, 2006</para>
532 <itemizedlist>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC
535 and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768.</para>
536 </listitem>
537 <listitem>
538 <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
539 it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
540 </listitem>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
543 </listitem>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
546 </listitem>
547 <listitem>
548 <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
549 </listitem>
550 </itemizedlist>
551 </listitem>
552
553 <listitem>
554 <para>May 1, 2006</para>
555 <itemizedlist>
556 <listitem>
557 <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
558 Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
559 and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
560 </listitem>
561 <listitem>
562 <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
563 re-install its binaries.</para>
564 </listitem>
565 <listitem>
566 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
567 </listitem>
568 <listitem>
569 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
570 udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
571 program.</para>
572 </listitem>
573 </itemizedlist>
574 </listitem>
575
576 <listitem>
577 <para>April 27, 2006</para>
578 <itemizedlist>
579 <listitem>
580 <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
581 acknowledgements.</para>
582 </listitem>
583 </itemizedlist>
584 </listitem>
585
586 <listitem>
587 <para>April 23, 2006</para>
588 <itemizedlist>
589 <listitem>
590 <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
591 ownership. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
592 </listitem>
593 </itemizedlist>
594 </listitem>
595
596 <listitem>
597 <para>April 22, 2006</para>
598 <itemizedlist>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
601 wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
602 ticket #1779.</para>
603 </listitem>
604 </itemizedlist>
605 </listitem>
606
607 <listitem>
608 <para>April 21, 2006</para>
609 <itemizedlist>
610 <listitem>
611 <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
612 required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
613 for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for reviewing the
614 wording.</para>
615 </listitem>
616 <listitem>
617 <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
618 R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
619 </listitem>
620 </itemizedlist>
621 </listitem>
622
623 <listitem>
624 <para>April 20, 2006</para>
625 <itemizedlist>
626 <listitem>
627 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
628 Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
629 </listitem>
630 <listitem>
631 <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
632 is required on the host system.</para>
633 </listitem>
634 <listitem>
635 <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
636 for the patch.</para>
637 </listitem>
638 </itemizedlist>
639 </listitem>
640
641 <listitem>
642 <para>April 19, 2006</para>
643 <itemizedlist>
644 <listitem>
645 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
646 software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
647 and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
648 Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
649 </listitem>
650 </itemizedlist>
651 </listitem>
652
653 <listitem>
654 <para>April 18, 2006</para>
655 <itemizedlist>
656 <listitem>
657 <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
658 Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
659 build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
660 information is complete enough at this point to close out the
661 long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
662 and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
663 </listitem>
664 </itemizedlist>
665 </listitem>
666
667 <listitem>
668 <para>April 15, 2006</para>
669 <itemizedlist>
670 <listitem>
671 <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
672 </listitem>
673 <listitem>
674 <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
675 that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
676 </listitem>
677 </itemizedlist>
678 </listitem>
679
680 <listitem>
681 <para>April 14, 2006</para>
682 <itemizedlist>
683 <listitem>
684 <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
685 </listitem>
686 <listitem>
687 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
688 command changes.</para>
689 </listitem>
690 <listitem>
691 <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
692 replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
693 inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
694 Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
695 </listitem>
696 </itemizedlist>
697 </listitem>
698
699 <listitem>
700 <para>April 13, 2006</para>
701 <itemizedlist>
702 <listitem>
703 <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
704 removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
705 </listitem>
706 <listitem>
707 <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
708 </listitem>
709 <listitem>
710 <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
711 Shadow.</para>
712 </listitem>
713 <listitem>
714 <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
715 </listitem>
716 </itemizedlist>
717 </listitem>
718
719 <listitem>
720 <para>April 12, 2006</para>
721 <itemizedlist>
722 <listitem>
723 <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
724 Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
725 </listitem>
726 <listitem>
727 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
728 Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
729 convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
730 Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
731 </listitem>
732 <listitem>
733 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
734 in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
735 the symlink we used to create.</para>
736 </listitem>
737 </itemizedlist>
738 </listitem>
739
740 <listitem>
741 <para>April 11, 2006</para>
742 <itemizedlist>
743 <listitem>
744 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
745 </listitem>
746 </itemizedlist>
747 </listitem>
748
749 <listitem>
750 <para>April 8, 2006</para>
751 <itemizedlist>
752 <listitem>
753 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
754 in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
755 programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
756 slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
757 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
758 </listitem>
759 </itemizedlist>
760 </listitem>
761
762 <listitem>
763 <para>April 6, 2006</para>
764 <itemizedlist>
765 <listitem>
766 <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
767 links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
768 </listitem>
769 <listitem>
770 <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
771 </listitem>
772 </itemizedlist>
773 </listitem>
774
775 <listitem>
776 <para>April 2, 2006</para>
777 <itemizedlist>
778 <listitem>
779 <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
780 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
781 mounting of kernel filesystems before the package management page and
782 rewrote the page to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel
783 filesystems while outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering
784 chroot and remounting kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list
785 of dirs created in chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
786 </listitem>
787 </itemizedlist>
788 </listitem>
789
790 <listitem>
791 <para>March 30, 2006</para>
792 <itemizedlist>
793 <listitem>
794 <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
795 Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
796 </listitem>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
799 and Udev-088.</para>
800 </listitem>
801 </itemizedlist>
802 </listitem>
803
804 <listitem>
805 <para>March 29, 2006</para>
806 <itemizedlist>
807 <listitem>
808 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
809 to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
810 the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
811 </listitem>
812 </itemizedlist>
813 </listitem>
814
815 <listitem>
816 <para>March 22, 2006</para>
817 <itemizedlist>
818 <listitem>
819 <para>[archaic] - Updated to
820 lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
821 </listitem>
822 </itemizedlist>
823 </listitem>
824
825 <listitem>
826 <para>March 21, 2006</para>
827 <itemizedlist>
828 <listitem>
829 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
830 hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
831 udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
832 </para>
833 </listitem>
834 </itemizedlist>
835 </listitem>
836
837 <listitem>
838 <para>March 18, 2006</para>
839 <itemizedlist>
840 <listitem>
841 <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
842 is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
843 patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
844 </listitem>
845 <listitem>
846 <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
847 tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
848 #1713.</para>
849 </listitem>
850 <listitem>
851 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
852 </listitem>
853 <listitem>
854 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
855 </listitem>
856 <listitem>
857 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
858 </listitem>
859 <listitem>
860 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
861 </listitem>
862 <listitem>
863 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
864 </listitem>
865 <listitem>
866 <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
867 patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
868 installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
869 </listitem>
870 </itemizedlist>
871 </listitem>
872
873 <listitem>
874 <para>March 11, 2006</para>
875 <itemizedlist>
876 <listitem>
877 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
878 </listitem>
879 </itemizedlist>
880 </listitem>
881
882 <listitem>
883 <para>March 8, 2006</para>
884 <itemizedlist>
885 <listitem>
886 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
887 </listitem>
888 <listitem>
889 <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
890 does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
891 Patrakov.</para>
892 </listitem>
893 <listitem>
894 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
895 </listitem>
896 <listitem>
897 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
898 </listitem>
899 <listitem>
900 <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
901 present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
902 </listitem>
903 </itemizedlist>
904 </listitem>
905
906 <listitem>
907 <para>March 7, 2006</para>
908 <itemizedlist>
909 <listitem>
910 <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
911 upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
912 device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
913 </listitem>
914 <listitem>
915 <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
916 LFS-style patch.</para>
917 </listitem>
918 </itemizedlist>
919 </listitem>
920
921 <listitem>
922 <para>March 3, 2006</para>
923 <itemizedlist>
924 <listitem>
925 <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
926 to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
927 </listitem>
928 </itemizedlist>
929 </listitem>
930
931 <listitem>
932 <para>March 1, 2006</para>
933 <itemizedlist>
934 <listitem>
935 <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
936 symlinks.</para>
937 </listitem>
938 <listitem>
939 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
940 help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
941 </listitem>
942 </itemizedlist>
943 </listitem>
944
945 <listitem>
946 <para>February 27, 2006</para>
947 <itemizedlist>
948 <listitem>
949 <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
950 upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
951 </listitem>
952 </itemizedlist>
953 </listitem>
954
955 <listitem>
956 <para>February 20, 2006</para>
957 <itemizedlist>
958 <listitem>
959 <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
960 keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
961 expanded by the shell.</para>
962 </listitem>
963 <listitem>
964 <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
965 </listitem>
966 <listitem>
967 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
968 </listitem>
969 </itemizedlist>
970 </listitem>
971
972 <listitem>
973 <para>February 19, 2006</para>
974 <itemizedlist>
975 <listitem>
976 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
977 to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
978 </listitem>
979 <listitem>
980 <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
981 every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
982 </listitem>
983 <listitem>
984 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
985 </listitem>
986 <listitem>
987 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
988 </listitem>
989 <listitem>
990 <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
991 --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
992 for the report and the fix.</para>
993 </listitem>
994 <listitem>
995 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
996 </listitem>
997 <listitem>
998 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
999 </listitem>
1000 <listitem>
1001 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
1002 </listitem>
1003 <listitem>
1004 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
1005 </listitem>
1006 <listitem>
1007 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
1008 </listitem>
1009 <listitem>
1010 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
1011 </listitem>
1012 <listitem>
1013 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
1014 vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
1015 </listitem>
1016 <listitem>
1017 <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
1018 Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
1019 </listitem>
1020 <listitem>
1021 <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
1022 instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
1023 &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
1024 <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
1025 can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
1026 </listitem>
1027 </itemizedlist>
1028 </listitem>
1029
1030 <listitem>
1031 <para>February 10, 2006</para>
1032 <itemizedlist>
1033 <listitem>
1034 <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
1035 changes.</para>
1036 </listitem>
1037 </itemizedlist>
1038 </listitem>
1039
1040 <listitem>
1041 <para>February 8, 2006</para>
1042 <itemizedlist>
1043 <listitem>
1044 <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
1045 reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
1046 module loading.</para>
1047 </listitem>
1048 </itemizedlist>
1049 </listitem>
1050
1051 <listitem>
1052 <para>February 3, 2006</para>
1053 <itemizedlist>
1054 <listitem>
1055 <para>[matthew] - Create the
1056 <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
1057 can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
1058 </para>
1059 </listitem>
1060 <listitem>
1061 <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
1062 </listitem>
1063 <listitem>
1064 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
1065 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
1066 </listitem>
1067 <listitem>
1068 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
1069 download.</para>
1070 </listitem>
1071 <listitem>
1072 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
1073 </listitem>
1074 </itemizedlist>
1075 </listitem>
1076
1077 <listitem>
1078 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
1079 <itemizedlist>
1080 <listitem>
1081 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
1082 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
1083 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
1084 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
1085 </listitem>
1086 <listitem>
1087 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript.
1088 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
1089 </listitem>
1090 <listitem>
1091 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
1092 </listitem>
1093 </itemizedlist>
1094 </listitem>
1095
1096 <listitem>
1097 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
1098 <itemizedlist>
1099 <listitem>
1100 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
1101 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
1102 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
1103 </listitem>
1104 <listitem>
1105 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
1106 Staub.</para>
1107 </listitem>
1108 <listitem>
1109 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
1110 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
1111 </listitem>
1112 </itemizedlist>
1113 </listitem>
1114
1115 <listitem>
1116 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
1117 <itemizedlist>
1118 <listitem>
1119 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
1120 </listitem>
1121 <listitem>
1122 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
1123 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
1124 </listitem>
1125 </itemizedlist>
1126 </listitem>
1127
1128 <listitem>
1129 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
1130 <itemizedlist>
1131 <listitem>
1132 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
1133 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
1134 </listitem>
1135 <listitem>
1136 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
1137 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
1138 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
1139 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
1140 </listitem>
1141 <listitem>
1142 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
1143 section.</para>
1144 </listitem>
1145 </itemizedlist>
1146 </listitem>
1147
1148 <listitem>
1149 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
1150 <itemizedlist>
1151 <listitem>
1152 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
1153 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
1154 </listitem>
1155 <listitem>
1156 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
1157 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
1158 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1159 </listitem>
1160 <listitem>
1161 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
1162 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
1163 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
1164 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
1165 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
1166 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
1167 issue.</para>
1168 </listitem>
1169 <listitem>
1170 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
1171 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
1172 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
1173 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
1174 </listitem>
1175 <listitem>
1176 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
1177 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
1178 </listitem>
1179 </itemizedlist>
1180 </listitem>
1181
1182 <listitem>
1183 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
1184 <itemizedlist>
1185 <listitem>
1186 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
1187 </listitem>
1188 </itemizedlist>
1189 </listitem>
1190
1191 <listitem>
1192 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
1193 <itemizedlist>
1194 <listitem>
1195 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
1196 </listitem>
1197 <listitem>
1198 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
1199 </listitem>
1200 <listitem>
1201 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
1202 </listitem>
1203 <listitem>
1204 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
1205 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
1206 </listitem>
1207 <listitem>
1208 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
1209 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
1210 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
1211 </listitem>
1212 </itemizedlist>
1213 </listitem>
1214
1215 <listitem>
1216 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
1217 <itemizedlist>
1218 <listitem>
1219 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
1220 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
1221 it out.</para>
1222 </listitem>
1223 </itemizedlist>
1224 </listitem>
1225
1226 <listitem>
1227 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
1228 <itemizedlist>
1229 <listitem>
1230 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
1231 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1232 </listitem>
1233 </itemizedlist>
1234 </listitem>
1235
1236 <listitem>
1237 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
1238 <itemizedlist>
1239 <listitem>
1240 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
1241 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
1242 to Greg Schafer.</para>
1243 </listitem>
1244 <listitem>
1245 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
1246 gccbug.</para>
1247 </listitem>
1248 </itemizedlist>
1249 </listitem>
1250
1251 <listitem>
1252 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
1253 <itemizedlist>
1254 <listitem>
1255 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
1256 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
1257 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
1258 for explaining this.</para>
1259 </listitem>
1260 <listitem>
1261 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
1262 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
1263 </listitem>
1264 <listitem>
1265 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
1266 use mktemp.</para>
1267 </listitem>
1268 <listitem>
1269 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
1270 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
1271 Randy McMurchy.</para>
1272 </listitem>
1273 </itemizedlist>
1274 </listitem>
1275
1276 <listitem>
1277 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
1278 <itemizedlist>
1279 <listitem>
1280 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
1281 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
1282 </listitem>
1283 <listitem>
1284 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
1285 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
1286 </listitem>
1287 </itemizedlist>
1288 </listitem>
1289
1290 <listitem>
1291 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
1292 <itemizedlist>
1293 <listitem>
1294 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
1295 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
1296 </listitem>
1297 <listitem>
1298 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
1299 </listitem>
1300 <listitem>
1301 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
1302 </listitem>
1303 <listitem>
1304 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
1305 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
1306 </listitem>
1307 </itemizedlist>
1308 </listitem>
1309
1310 <listitem>
1311 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
1312 <itemizedlist>
1313 <listitem>
1314 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
1315 to be repeatable.</para>
1316 </listitem>
1317 </itemizedlist>
1318 </listitem>
1319
1320 <listitem>
1321 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
1322 <itemizedlist>
1323 <listitem>
1324 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
1325 </listitem>
1326 </itemizedlist>
1327 </listitem>
1328
1329 <listitem>
1330 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
1331 <itemizedlist>
1332 <listitem>
1333 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
1334 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
1335 </listitem>
1336 </itemizedlist>
1337 </listitem>
1338
1339 <listitem>
1340 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
1341 <itemizedlist>
1342 <listitem>
1343 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
1344 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
1345 </listitem>
1346 <listitem>
1347 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
1348 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
1349 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
1350 </listitem>
1351 <listitem>
1352 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
1353 </listitem>
1354 <listitem>
1355 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
1356 </listitem>
1357 </itemizedlist>
1358 </listitem>
1359
1360 <listitem>
1361 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
1362 <itemizedlist>
1363 <listitem>
1364 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
1365 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
1366 </listitem>
1367 </itemizedlist>
1368 </listitem>
1369
1370 <listitem>
1371 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
1372 <itemizedlist>
1373 <listitem>
1374 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
1375 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
1376 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
1377 bug 1670).</para>
1378 </listitem>
1379 </itemizedlist>
1380 </listitem>
1381
1382 <listitem>
1383 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
1384 <itemizedlist>
1385 <listitem>
1386 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
1387 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
1388 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
1389 </listitem>
1390 </itemizedlist>
1391 </listitem>
1392
1393 <listitem>
1394 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
1395 <itemizedlist>
1396 <listitem>
1397 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
1398 </listitem>
1399 <listitem>
1400 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
1401 </listitem>
1402 <listitem>
1403 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
1404 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
1405 </listitem>
1406 <listitem>
1407 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
1408 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
1409 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1410 </listitem>
1411 <listitem>
1412 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
1413 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1414 </listitem>
1415 </itemizedlist>
1416 </listitem>
1417
1418 <listitem>
1419 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
1420 <itemizedlist>
1421 <listitem>
1422 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
1423 </listitem>
1424 <listitem>
1425 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
1426 </para>
1427 </listitem>
1428 <listitem>
1429 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
1430 </listitem>
1431 </itemizedlist>
1432 </listitem>
1433
1434 <listitem>
1435 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
1436 <itemizedlist>
1437 <listitem>
1438 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
1439 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
1440 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
1441 </listitem>
1442 </itemizedlist>
1443 </listitem>
1444
1445 <listitem>
1446 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
1447 <itemizedlist>
1448 <listitem>
1449 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
1450 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
1451 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
1452 </listitem>
1453 <listitem>
1454 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
1455 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
1456 </listitem>
1457 <listitem>
1458 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
1459 </listitem>
1460 <listitem>
1461 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
1462 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
1463 McMurchy for the report).</para>
1464 </listitem>
1465 <listitem>
1466 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
1467 </listitem>
1468 <listitem>
1469 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
1470 </listitem>
1471 <listitem>
1472 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
1473 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
1474 </listitem>
1475 </itemizedlist>
1476 </listitem>
1477
1478 <listitem>
1479 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
1480 <itemizedlist>
1481 <listitem>
1482 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
1483 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
1484 </listitem>
1485 </itemizedlist>
1486 </listitem>
1487
1488 <listitem>
1489 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
1490 <itemizedlist>
1491 <listitem>
1492 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
1493 package.</para>
1494 </listitem>
1495 </itemizedlist>
1496 </listitem>
1497
1498 <listitem>
1499 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
1500 <itemizedlist>
1501 <listitem>
1502 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
1503 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
1504 </listitem>
1505 </itemizedlist>
1506 </listitem>
1507
1508 <listitem>
1509 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
1510 <itemizedlist>
1511 <listitem>
1512 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
1513 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
1514 </listitem>
1515 </itemizedlist>
1516 </listitem>
1517
1518 <listitem>
1519 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
1520 <itemizedlist>
1521 <listitem>
1522 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
1523 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
1524 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
1525 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
1526 </listitem>
1527 </itemizedlist>
1528 </listitem>
1529
1530 <listitem>
1531 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
1532 <itemizedlist>
1533 <listitem>
1534 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
1535 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
1536 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
1537 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
1538 </listitem>
1539 <listitem>
1540 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
1541 </listitem>
1542 <listitem>
1543 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
1544 Chris Staub.</para>
1545 </listitem>
1546 </itemizedlist>
1547 </listitem>
1548
1549 <listitem>
1550 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
1551 <itemizedlist>
1552 <listitem>
1553 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
1554 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
1555 </listitem>
1556 </itemizedlist>
1557 </listitem>
1558
1559 <listitem>
1560 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
1561 <itemizedlist>
1562 <listitem>
1563 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
1564 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
1565 </listitem>
1566 </itemizedlist>
1567 </listitem>
1568
1569 <listitem>
1570 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
1571 <itemizedlist>
1572 <listitem>
1573 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
1574 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
1575 </listitem>
1576 <listitem>
1577 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
1578 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
1579 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
1580 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
1581 </listitem>
1582 </itemizedlist>
1583 </listitem>
1584
1585 <listitem>
1586 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
1587 <itemizedlist>
1588 <listitem>
1589 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
1590 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
1591 </listitem>
1592 <listitem>
1593 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
1594 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
1595 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
1596 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
1597 </listitem>
1598 <listitem>
1599 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
1600 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
1601 report and the fix.</para>
1602 </listitem>
1603 <listitem>
1604 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
1605 </listitem>
1606 <listitem>
1607 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
1608 </listitem>
1609 <listitem>
1610 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
1611 </listitem>
1612 </itemizedlist>
1613 </listitem>
1614
1615 <listitem>
1616 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
1617 <itemizedlist>
1618 <listitem>
1619 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
1620 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
1621 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
1622 </listitem>
1623 </itemizedlist>
1624 </listitem>
1625
1626 <listitem>
1627 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
1628 <itemizedlist>
1629 <listitem>
1630 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
1631 </listitem>
1632 <listitem>
1633 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
1634 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
1635 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
1636 </listitem>
1637 </itemizedlist>
1638 </listitem>
1639
1640 <listitem>
1641 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
1642 <itemizedlist>
1643 <listitem>
1644 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
1645 </listitem>
1646 <listitem>
1647 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
1648 </listitem>
1649 <listitem>
1650 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
1651 </listitem>
1652 <listitem>
1653 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
1654 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
1655 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
1656 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
1657 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
1658 of LFS.</para>
1659 </listitem>
1660 </itemizedlist>
1661 </listitem>
1662
1663 <listitem>
1664 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
1665 <itemizedlist>
1666 <listitem>
1667 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
1668 </listitem>
1669 <listitem>
1670 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
1671 </listitem>
1672 <listitem>
1673 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
1674 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
1675 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
1676 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
1677 </listitem>
1678 </itemizedlist>
1679 </listitem>
1680
1681 <listitem>
1682 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
1683 <itemizedlist>
1684 <listitem>
1685 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
1686 </listitem>
1687 </itemizedlist>
1688 </listitem>
1689
1690 <listitem>
1691 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
1692 <itemizedlist>
1693 <listitem>
1694 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
1695 </listitem>
1696 <listitem>
1697 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
1698 </listitem>
1699 <listitem>
1700 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
1701 </listitem>
1702 </itemizedlist>
1703 </listitem>
1704
1705 <listitem>
1706 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
1707 <itemizedlist>
1708 <listitem>
1709 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
1710 </listitem>
1711 <listitem>
1712 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
1713 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
1714 </listitem>
1715 <listitem>
1716 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules.
1717 file</para>
1718 </listitem>
1719 </itemizedlist>
1720 </listitem>
1721
1722 <listitem>
1723 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
1724 <itemizedlist>
1725 <listitem>
1726 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
1727 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
1728 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
1729 </listitem>
1730 </itemizedlist>
1731 </listitem>
1732
1733 <listitem>
1734 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
1735 <itemizedlist>
1736 <listitem>
1737 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
1738 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
1739 </listitem>
1740 <listitem>
1741 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
1742 </listitem>
1743 </itemizedlist>
1744 </listitem>
1745
1746 <listitem>
1747 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
1748 <itemizedlist>
1749 <listitem>
1750 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
1751 </listitem>
1752 </itemizedlist>
1753 </listitem>
1754
1755 <listitem>
1756 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
1757 <itemizedlist>
1758 <listitem>
1759 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
1760 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
1761 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
1762 </listitem>
1763 </itemizedlist>
1764 </listitem>
1765
1766 <listitem>
1767 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
1768 <itemizedlist>
1769 <listitem>
1770 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
1771 bug 1629).</para>
1772 </listitem>
1773 <listitem>
1774 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
1775 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
1776 </listitem>
1777 </itemizedlist>
1778 </listitem>
1779
1780 <listitem>
1781 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
1782 <itemizedlist>
1783 <listitem>
1784 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
1785 </listitem>
1786 </itemizedlist>
1787 </listitem>
1788
1789 <listitem>
1790 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
1791 <itemizedlist>
1792 <listitem>
1793 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
1794 </listitem>
1795 <listitem>
1796 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
1797 </listitem>
1798 <listitem>
1799 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
1800 </listitem>
1801 </itemizedlist>
1802 </listitem>
1803
1804 <listitem>
1805 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
1806 <itemizedlist>
1807 <listitem>
1808 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
1809 </listitem>
1810 </itemizedlist>
1811 </listitem>
1812
1813 <listitem>
1814 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
1815 <itemizedlist>
1816 <listitem>
1817 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
1818 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
1819 </listitem>
1820 <listitem>
1821 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
1822 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
1823 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
1824 </listitem>
1825 </itemizedlist>
1826 </listitem>
1827
1828 <listitem>
1829 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
1830 <itemizedlist>
1831 <listitem>
1832 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
1833 vulnerability.</para>
1834 </listitem>
1835 </itemizedlist>
1836 </listitem>
1837
1838 <listitem>
1839 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
1840 <itemizedlist>
1841 <listitem>
1842 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
1843 </listitem>
1844 </itemizedlist>
1845 </listitem>
1846
1847 <listitem>
1848 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
1849 <itemizedlist>
1850 <listitem>
1851 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
1852 </listitem>
1853 </itemizedlist>
1854 </listitem>
1855
1856 <listitem>
1857 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
1858 <itemizedlist>
1859 <listitem>
1860 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
1861 </listitem>
1862 </itemizedlist>
1863 </listitem>
1864
1865 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
1866 <itemizedlist>
1867 <listitem>
1868 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
1869 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
1870 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604).</para>
1871 </listitem>
1872 <listitem>
1873 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20.</para>
1874 </listitem>
1875 <listitem>
1876 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25.</para>
1877 </listitem>
1878 </itemizedlist>
1879 </listitem>
1880
1881 <listitem>
1882 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
1883 <itemizedlist>
1884 <listitem>
1885 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
1886 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
1887 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
1888 to actually work.</para>
1889 </listitem>
1890 <listitem>
1891 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
1892 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
1893 </listitem>
1894 </itemizedlist>
1895 </listitem>
1896
1897 <listitem>
1898 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
1899 <itemizedlist>
1900 <listitem>
1901 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
1902 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
1903 </listitem>
1904 <listitem>
1905 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
1906 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
1907 </listitem>
1908 <listitem>
1909 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
1910 </listitem>
1911 <listitem>
1912 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
1913 gcc-pass2.</para>
1914 </listitem>
1915 </itemizedlist>
1916 </listitem>
1917
1918 <listitem>
1919 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
1920 <itemizedlist>
1921 <listitem>
1922 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
1923 builds for consistency</para>
1924 </listitem>
1925 </itemizedlist>
1926 </listitem>
1927
1928 <listitem>
1929 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
1930 <itemizedlist>
1931 <listitem>
1932 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
1933 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
1934 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
1935 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
1936 </listitem>
1937 <listitem>
1938 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
1939 rules (fixes bug 1622).</para>
1940 </listitem>
1941 <listitem>
1942 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a.</para>
1943 </listitem>
1944 </itemizedlist>
1945 </listitem>
1946
1947 <listitem>
1948 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
1949 <itemizedlist>
1950 <listitem>
1951 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils' binaries to /bin as
1952 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
1953 </listitem>
1954 </itemizedlist>
1955 </listitem>
1956
1957 <listitem>
1958 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
1959 <itemizedlist>
1960 <listitem>
1961 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068.</para>
1962 </listitem>
1963 <listitem>
1964 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00.</para>
1965 </listitem>
1966 <listitem>
1967 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15.</para>
1968 </listitem>
1969 </itemizedlist>
1970 </listitem>
1971
1972 <listitem>
1973 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
1974 <itemizedlist>
1975 <listitem>
1976 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
1977 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
1978 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
1979 </listitem>
1980 <listitem>
1981 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
1982 filenames.</para>
1983 </listitem>
1984 </itemizedlist>
1985 </listitem>
1986
1987 <listitem>
1988 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
1989 <itemizedlist>
1990 <listitem>
1991 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
1992 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
1993 </listitem>
1994 <listitem>
1995 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
1996 </listitem>
1997 </itemizedlist>
1998 </listitem>
1999
2000 <listitem>
2001 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
2002 <itemizedlist>
2003 <listitem>
2004 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
2005 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer).</para>
2006 </listitem>
2007 </itemizedlist>
2008 </listitem>
2009
2010 <listitem>
2011 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
2012 <itemizedlist>
2013 <listitem>
2014 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
2015 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
2016 </listitem>
2017 <listitem>
2018 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
2019 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
2020 </listitem>
2021 <listitem>
2022 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
2023 bug 1603).</para>
2024 </listitem>
2025 <listitem>
2026 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
2027 </listitem>
2028 <listitem>
2029 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
2030 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
2031 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
2032 </listitem>
2033 <listitem>
2034 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
2035 test (bug 1611).</para>
2036 </listitem>
2037 </itemizedlist>
2038 </listitem>
2039
2040 <listitem>
2041 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
2042 <itemizedlist>
2043 <listitem>
2044 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
2045 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
2046 </listitem>
2047 <listitem>
2048 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
2049 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
2050 </listitem>
2051 <listitem>
2052 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
2053 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
2054 </listitem>
2055 <listitem>
2056 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
2057 of chapter 6.</para>
2058 </listitem>
2059 <listitem>
2060 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
2061 library (Bug 1608).</para>
2062 </listitem>
2063 </itemizedlist>
2064 </listitem>
2065
2066 <listitem>
2067 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
2068 <itemizedlist>
2069 <listitem>
2070 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
2071 from BLFS first.</para>
2072 </listitem>
2073 </itemizedlist>
2074 </listitem>
2075
2076 <listitem>
2077 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
2078 <itemizedlist>
2079 <listitem>
2080 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
2081 </listitem>
2082 <listitem>
2083 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
2084 modeline vulnerability.</para>
2085 </listitem>
2086 </itemizedlist>
2087 </listitem>
2088
2089 <listitem>
2090 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
2091 <itemizedlist>
2092 <listitem>
2093 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
2094 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
2095 </listitem>
2096 <listitem>
2097 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
2098 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
2099 </listitem>
2100 </itemizedlist>
2101 </listitem>
2102
2103 <listitem>
2104 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
2105 <itemizedlist>
2106 <listitem>
2107 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
2108 </listitem>
2109 </itemizedlist>
2110 </listitem>
2111
2112 <listitem>
2113 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
2114 <itemizedlist>
2115 <listitem>
2116 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd.</para>
2117 </listitem>
2118 <listitem>
2119 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils.</para>
2120 </listitem>
2121 <listitem>
2122 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
2123 The test no longer fails under GCC-4.</para>
2124 </listitem>
2125 <listitem>
2126 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar.</para>
2127 </listitem>
2128 </itemizedlist>
2129 </listitem>
2130
2131 <listitem>
2132 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
2133 <itemizedlist>
2134 <listitem>
2135 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
2136 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
2137 </listitem>
2138 </itemizedlist>
2139 </listitem>
2140
2141 <listitem>
2142 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
2143 <itemizedlist>
2144 <listitem>
2145 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
2146 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
2147 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
2148 </listitem>
2149 <listitem>
2150 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
2151 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
2152 </listitem>
2153 </itemizedlist>
2154 </listitem>
2155
2156 <listitem>
2157 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
2158 <itemizedlist>
2159 <listitem>
2160 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
2161 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
2162 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
2163 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
2164 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
2165 </listitem>
2166 <listitem>
2167 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
2168 </listitem>
2169 <listitem>
2170 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
2171 </listitem>
2172 </itemizedlist>
2173 </listitem>
2174
2175 <listitem>
2176 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
2177 <itemizedlist>
2178 <listitem>
2179 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
2180 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
2181 </listitem>
2182 </itemizedlist>
2183 </listitem>
2184
2185 <listitem>
2186 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
2187 <itemizedlist>
2188 <listitem>
2189 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc.</para>
2190 </listitem>
2191 <listitem>
2192 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
2193 needed.</para>
2194 </listitem>
2195 </itemizedlist>
2196 </listitem>
2197
2198 <listitem>
2199 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
2200 <itemizedlist>
2201 <listitem>
2202 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
2203 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
2204 </listitem>
2205 </itemizedlist>
2206 </listitem>
2207
2208 <listitem>
2209 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
2210 <itemizedlist>
2211 <listitem>
2212 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
2213 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
2214 of the specs patch.</para>
2215 </listitem>
2216 <listitem>
2217 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
2218 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
2219 </listitem>
2220 </itemizedlist>
2221 </listitem>
2222
2223 <listitem>
2224 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
2225 <itemizedlist>
2226 <listitem>
2227 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
2228 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
2229 </listitem>
2230 <listitem>
2231 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
2232 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
2233 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
2234 </listitem>
2235 </itemizedlist>
2236 </listitem>
2237
2238 <listitem>
2239 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
2240 <itemizedlist>
2241 <listitem>
2242 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
2243 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
2244 </listitem>
2245 <listitem>
2246 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
2247 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
2248 </listitem>
2249 <listitem>
2250 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
2251 5 and 6.</para>
2252 </listitem>
2253 </itemizedlist>
2254 </listitem>
2255
2256 <listitem>
2257 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
2258 <itemizedlist>
2259 <listitem>
2260 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
2261 </listitem>
2262 <listitem>
2263 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
2264 </listitem>
2265 <listitem>
2266 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
2267 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
2268 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
2269 </listitem>
2270 <listitem>
2271 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
2272 gcc-4.0.1</para>
2273 </listitem>
2274 <listitem>
2275 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
2276 </listitem>
2277 <listitem>
2278 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
2279 </listitem>
2280 </itemizedlist>
2281 </listitem>
2282
2283 <listitem>
2284 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
2285 <itemizedlist>
2286 <listitem>
2287 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
2288 </listitem>
2289 </itemizedlist>
2290 </listitem>
2291
2292 <listitem>
2293 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
2294 <itemizedlist>
2295 <listitem>
2296 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
2297 </listitem>
2298 <listitem>
2299 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
2300 </listitem>
2301 <listitem>
2302 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
2303 </listitem>
2304 <listitem>
2305 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
2306 </listitem>
2307 <listitem>
2308 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
2309 </listitem>
2310 </itemizedlist>
2311 </listitem>
2312
2313 <listitem>
2314 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
2315 <itemizedlist>
2316 <listitem>
2317 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
2318 as it is not needed.</para>
2319 </listitem>
2320 <listitem>
2321 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
2322 </listitem>
2323 <listitem>
2324 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
2325 </listitem>
2326 </itemizedlist>
2327 </listitem>
2328
2329 <listitem>
2330 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
2331 <itemizedlist>
2332 <listitem>
2333 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
2334 </listitem>
2335 <listitem>
2336 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
2337 </listitem>
2338 <listitem>
2339 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
2340 </listitem>
2341 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
2342 </listitem>
2343 </itemizedlist>
2344 </listitem>
2345
2346 <listitem>
2347 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
2348 <itemizedlist>
2349 <listitem>
2350 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
2351 </listitem>
2352 <listitem>
2353 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
2354 </listitem>
2355 <listitem>
2356 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
2357 </listitem>
2358 <listitem>
2359 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
2360 </listitem>
2361 </itemizedlist>
2362 </listitem>
2363
2364 <listitem>
2365 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
2366 <itemizedlist>
2367 <listitem>
2368 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
2369 </listitem>
2370 </itemizedlist>
2371 </listitem>
2372
2373 <listitem>
2374 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
2375 <itemizedlist>
2376 <listitem>
2377 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
2378 </listitem>
2379 </itemizedlist>
2380 </listitem>
2381
2382 <listitem>
2383 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
2384 <itemizedlist>
2385 <listitem>
2386 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
2387 </listitem>
2388 <listitem>
2389 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
2390 </listitem>
2391 <listitem>
2392 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
2393 </listitem>
2394 <listitem>
2395 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
2396 </listitem>
2397 </itemizedlist>
2398 </listitem>
2399
2400 <listitem>
2401 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
2402 <itemizedlist>
2403 <listitem>
2404 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
2405 </listitem>
2406 <listitem>
2407 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
2408 </listitem>
2409 <listitem>
2410 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
2411 </listitem>
2412 </itemizedlist>
2413 </listitem>
2414
2415 <listitem>
2416 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
2417 <itemizedlist>
2418 <listitem>
2419 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
2420 </listitem>
2421 </itemizedlist>
2422 </listitem>
2423
2424 <listitem>
2425 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
2426 <itemizedlist>
2427 <listitem>
2428 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
2429 </listitem>
2430 <listitem>
2431 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
2432 </listitem>
2433 </itemizedlist>
2434 </listitem>
2435
2436 <listitem>
2437 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
2438 <itemizedlist>
2439 <listitem>
2440 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
2441 </listitem>
2442 </itemizedlist>
2443 </listitem>
2444
2445 <listitem>
2446 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
2447 <itemizedlist>
2448 <listitem>
2449 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
2450 </listitem>
2451 </itemizedlist>
2452 </listitem>
2453
2454 <listitem>
2455 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
2456 <itemizedlist>
2457 <listitem>
2458 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
2459 </listitem>
2460 </itemizedlist>
2461 </listitem>
2462
2463 </itemizedlist>
2464
2465 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
2466 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
2467
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