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