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Warn that the Udev testsuite will produce messages in the host's logs.
Fixes #1846.

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