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11 <title>Changelog</title>
12
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
17
18 <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
19 book.</para>
20
21 <itemizedlist>
22 <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26 <listitem>
27 <para>Date</para>
28 <itemizedlist>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 </itemizedlist>
36 </listitem>
37-->
38
39 <listitem>
40 <para>August 2, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed Berkeley DB patch to conform to
44 LFS style.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>[dnicholson] - Added to the list of acceptable features in
48 ext3 file systems. Thanks to George Gowers.</para>
49 </listitem>
50 </itemizedlist>
51 </listitem>
52
53 <listitem>
54 <para>August 1, 2006</para>
55 <itemizedlist>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>[dnicholson] - Added text describing a potential failure
58 in the E2fsprogs testsuite when there is not enough memory
59 available and suggest enabling swap space to address this. Also
60 added an explicit <command>swapon</command> to the Chapter 2
61 mounting instructions to ensure that the user has enabled their
62 swap space if desired. Thanks to Nathan Coulson and Alexander
63 Patrakov.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>[dnicholson] - Added text warning that the Udev testsuite
67 will produce messages in the host's logs. Fixes #1846. Thanks to
68 Archaic.</para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>[dnicholson] - Finished adding system inotify support.
72 Split the patch so that the syscall functions are part of the
73 Glibc installation. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for supplying
74 the proper syscall bits.</para>
75 </listitem>
76 </itemizedlist>
77 </listitem>
78
79 <listitem>
80 <para>July 31, 2006</para>
81 <itemizedlist>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch vim to fix a spellfile download
84 problem. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
85 </listitem>
86 </itemizedlist>
87 </listitem>
88
89 <listitem>
90 <para>July 30, 2006</para>
91 <itemizedlist>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>[bdubbs] - Added notes that udev does not recognize
94 a backslash for line continuation.</para>
95 </listitem>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>[bdubbs] - Expanded the note in vim to better explain
98 spell files.</para>
99 </listitem>
100 </itemizedlist>
101 </listitem>
102
103 <listitem>
104 <para>July 29, 2006</para>
105 <itemizedlist>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to the linux-libc-headers to
108 add the inotify header.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to Berkeley DB to
112 avoid potential program traps.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 </itemizedlist>
115 </listitem>
116
117 <listitem>
118 <para>July 21, 2006</para>
119 <itemizedlist>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>[bdubbs] - Added the existing bash patch to Chapter 5
122 to avoid potential custom scripting problems.</para>
123 </listitem>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>[bdubbs] - Added grub-0.97-disk_geometry-1.patch.</para>
126 </listitem>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.27. Added a note to use the
129 latest kernel version available in the 2.6.16 series.</para>
130 </listitem>
131 <listitem>
132 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated vim patch set to level 7.</para>
133 </listitem>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the discussion concerning zimezones.
136 </para>
137 </listitem>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>[dnicholson] - Added a reminder to check that the virtual
140 kernel file systems are mounted after the description of the
141 revised chroot command.</para>
142 </listitem>
143 <listitem>
144 <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed dead link to Linux Driver Model paper
145 on the Device and Module Handling page. Replaced with sysfs paper
146 by the same author. Thanks to Chris Staub and Bryan Kadzban.</para>
147 </listitem>
148 </itemizedlist>
149 </listitem>
150
151 <listitem>
152 <para>July 18, 2006</para>
153 <itemizedlist>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>[bdubbs] - Several textual corrections. Thanks to
156 Chris Staub.</para>
157 </listitem>
158 </itemizedlist>
159 </listitem>
160
161 <listitem>
162 <para>July 15, 2006</para>
163 <itemizedlist>
164 <listitem>
165 <para>[bdubbs] - Added a patch to module-init-tools to
166 correct a possible problem when aliases are specified with
167 regular expressions.</para>
168 </listitem>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.26.
171 </para>
172 </listitem>
173 <listitem>
174 <para>[bdubbs] - Added sed to correct path to the find
175 program in updatedb after moving find to /bin.</para>
176 </listitem>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text concerning test failures in
179 glibc to describe the most recent results.</para>
180 </listitem>
181 </itemizedlist>
182 </listitem>
183
184 <listitem>
185 <para>July 13, 2006</para>
186 <itemizedlist>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>[bdubbs] - Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode,
189 openvt, and setfont to /bin to support boot scripts.
190 Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure so that keyboard
191 data will always be on the root partition.
192 </para>
193 </listitem>
194 <listitem>
195 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated text in section 7.9 (The Bash
196 Shell Startup Files) to better explain the Xlib example.
197 </para>
198 </listitem>
199 </itemizedlist>
200 </listitem>
201
202 <listitem>
203 <para>July 12, 20006</para>
204 <itemizedlist>
205 <listitem>
206 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to man-pages-2.34.</para>
207 </listitem>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated to e2fsprogs-1.39.</para>
210 </listitem>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>[dnicholson] - Changed text explaining the installation
213 of the udev-config rules. Thanks to Matthew Burgess.</para>
214 </listitem>
215 <listitem>
216 <para>[dnicholson] - Various fixes and additions for examples
217 of custom rules in Udev courtesy of Alexander Patrakov. Added
218 the "Creating custom symlinks" page which includes examples
219 of creating persistent device symlinks, including CD-ROMs. Added
220 a second set of guidelines for creating persistent symlinks for
221 network cards. Other text touch ups on the configuration pages
222 involving Udev. Closes ticket #1818.</para>
223 </listitem>
224 <listitem>
225 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated udev-config and bootscripts download
226 location.</para>
227 </listitem>
228 <listitem>
229 <para>[dnicholson] - Added commands to create the vi to vim
230 man page symlink in all available languages. Closes ticket
231 #1811. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
232 </listitem>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to udev-096 and udev-config-20060712.
235 Removed the bug.c program and the cd symlinks script. The cd
236 symlinks will be covered in Chapter 7. Closes ticket #1804. Thanks
237 to Alexander Patrakov for making the appropriate changes in the
238 Udev rules.</para>
239 </listitem>
240 </itemizedlist>
241 </listitem>
242
243 <listitem>
244 <para>July 11, 2006</para>
245 <itemizedlist>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>[bdubbs] - Changed url for the SBU pages to a generic
248 location.</para>
249 </listitem>
250 <listitem>
251 <para>[bdubbs] - Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning
252 charmap specifications. Thanks to Dan Nicholson.
253 Closes ticket #1813.</para>
254 </listitem>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>[bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain"
257 referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not
258 get included later in gcc-pass2.
259 Closes ticket #1822.</para>
260 </listitem>
261 <listitem>
262 <para>[bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24.
263 Closes ticket #1808.</para>
264 </listitem>
265 </itemizedlist>
266 </listitem>
267
268 <listitem>
269 <para>July 10, 2006</para>
270 <itemizedlist>
271 <listitem>
272 <para>[dnicholson] - Specified the full path to
273 <command>modprobe</command> in the example modprobe rule.
274 Closes ticket #1812.</para>
275 </listitem>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[dnicholson] - Remove the
278 <command>locale country</command> command from the heuristic to
279 determine the locale in the Bash Shell Startup Files since it
280 doesn't produce results in all locales.</para>
281 </listitem>
282 </itemizedlist>
283 </listitem>
284
285 <listitem>
286 <para>July 7, 2006</para>
287 <itemizedlist>
288 <listitem>
289 <para>[matt] - Updated module-init-tools download information as it
290 has a new maintainer.</para>
291 </listitem>
292 </itemizedlist>
293 </listitem>
294
295 <listitem>
296 <para>June 10, 2006</para>
297 <itemizedlist>
298 <listitem>
299 <para>[ken] - Added <command>gettext.sh</command> to list of programs
300 installed by gettext, similarly <command>nologin</command> for shadow,
301 <command>grub-set-default</command> for grub, <command>enc2xs</command>
302 and <command>instmodsh</command> for perl, <command>slabtop</command>
303 for procps, <command>flock</command> and <command>tailf</command> for
304 util-linux, <command>bootlogd</command> for sysvinit, <command>manpath
305 </command>for man-db, <command>filefrag</command> for e2fsprogs.
306 Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.</para>
307 </listitem>
308 </itemizedlist>
309 </listitem>
310
311 <listitem>
312 <para>May 31, 2006</para>
313 <itemizedlist>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.16.19.</para>
316 </listitem>
317 <listitem>
318 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.33.</para>
319 </listitem>
320 <listitem>
321 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.2.</para>
322 </listitem>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.96.</para>
325 </listitem>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>[gerard] - Added <command>tee</command> to chapter 6's Glibc
328 <command>make check</command> so the output can be seen on screen
329 as well as captured in the log file.</para>
330 </listitem>
331 </itemizedlist>
332 </listitem>
333
334 <listitem>
335 <para>May 30, 2006</para>
336 <itemizedlist>
337 <listitem>
338 <para>[matthew] - Removed an out of date comment regarding having to
339 run <command>pwconv</command> to reset passwords after enabling
340 password shadowing. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
341 </listitem>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>getunimap</command>,
344 <command>setlogons</command>, and <command>setvesablank</command> from
345 the list of programs installed by kbd. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
346 patch.</para>
347 </listitem>
348 </itemizedlist>
349 </listitem>
350
351 <listitem>
352 <para>May 30, 2006</para>
353 <itemizedlist>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>[matthew] - Removed <command>swapdev</command> from the list of
356 files installed by util-linux. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
357 </para>
358 </listitem>
359 </itemizedlist>
360 </listitem>
361
362 <listitem>
363 <para>May 27, 2006</para>
364 <itemizedlist>
365 <listitem>
366 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove the 'refer back's in the gcc-pass2 and
367 chapter06/gcc pages. Better organizes the commands and data so that
368 the flow of the book is not lost.</para>
369 </listitem>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a note about installing spell files for
372 Vim in a language other than English.</para>
373 </listitem>
374 <listitem>
375 <para>[jhuntwork] - Correct Vim's installation of man pages to work
376 well with Man-DB. Patch from Alexander Patrakov and Ag Hatzim.</para>
377 </listitem>
378 </itemizedlist>
379 </listitem>
380
381 <listitem>
382 <para>May 26, 2006</para>
383 <itemizedlist>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>[jhuntwork] - Some version corrections in the vim page.</para>
386 </listitem>
387 </itemizedlist>
388 </listitem>
389
390 <listitem>
391 <para>May 25, 2006</para>
392 <itemizedlist>
393 <listitem>
394 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated to Vim-7.0. Fixes #1793.</para>
395 </listitem>
396 <listitem>
397 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed generation of diff's man page.
398 Thanks Randy McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix.
399 Fixes #1800.</para>
400 </listitem>
401 </itemizedlist>
402 </listitem>
403
404 <listitem>
405 <para>May 22, 2006</para>
406 <itemizedlist>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>[jim] - Fixed a constant support question asked in #IRC and
409 the mailing lists about shadow's additional sed command
410 for cracklib. Using a complete sed command instead.</para>
411 </listitem>
412 </itemizedlist>
413 </listitem>
414
415 <listitem>
416 <para>May 15, 2006</para>
417 <itemizedlist>
418 <listitem>
419 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-config-20060515. This adds the rule
420 to create /dev/usb nodes as well as making the rules files slightly
421 more modular by reorganizing which rules go to which files. This is a
422 very minor update.</para>
423 </listitem>
424 <listitem>
425 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.32.</para>
426 </listitem>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-092.</para>
429 </listitem>
430 </itemizedlist>
431 </listitem>
432
433 <listitem>
434 <para>May 14, 2006</para>
435 <itemizedlist>
436 <listitem>
437 <para>[manuel] - Updated SBU and disk usage values.</para>
438 </listitem>
439 <listitem>
440 <para>[manuel] - Created packages.ent. Moved data about packages
441 to packages.ent as entities.</para>
442 </listitem>
443 </itemizedlist>
444 </listitem>
445
446 <listitem>
447 <para>May 12, 2006</para>
448 <itemizedlist>
449 <listitem>
450 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.16.</para>
451 </listitem>
452 </itemizedlist>
453 </listitem>
454
455 <listitem>
456 <para>May 9, 2006</para>
457 <itemizedlist>
458 <listitem>
459 <para>[manuel] - Updated packages and patches sizes.</para>
460 </listitem>
461 </itemizedlist>
462 </listitem>
463
464 <listitem>
465 <para>May 8, 2006</para>
466 <itemizedlist>
467 <listitem>
468 <para>[archaic] - Made the directory tree creation more concise and
469 removed the extraneous /opt/* hierarchy (it is not required by
470 FHS). Closes ticket #1656.</para>
471 </listitem>
472 </itemizedlist>
473 </listitem>
474
475 <listitem>
476 <para>May 7, 2006</para>
477 <itemizedlist>
478 <listitem>
479 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.14.</para>
480 </listitem>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>[ken] - Use ext3 filesystem instead of ext2.
483 Resolves ticket #1792.</para>
484 </listitem>
485 </itemizedlist>
486 </listitem>
487
488 <listitem>
489 <para>May 6, 2006</para>
490 <itemizedlist>
491 <listitem>
492 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added MD5 sums for packages and patches.
493 Resolves ticket #1788.</para>
494 </listitem>
495 </itemizedlist>
496 </listitem>
497
498 <listitem>
499 <para>May 3, 2006</para>
500 <itemizedlist>
501 <listitem>
502 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.16.13.</para>
503 </listitem>
504 <listitem>
505 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current
506 findings. Resolves ticket #1657.</para>
507 </listitem>
508 <listitem>
509 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent
510 leakage reports.</para>
511 </listitem>
512 </itemizedlist>
513 </listitem>
514
515 <listitem>
516 <para>May 2, 2006</para>
517 <itemizedlist>
518 <listitem>
519 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC
520 and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768.</para>
521 </listitem>
522 <listitem>
523 <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
524 it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
525 </listitem>
526 <listitem>
527 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
528 </listitem>
529 <listitem>
530 <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
531 </listitem>
532 <listitem>
533 <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
534 </listitem>
535 </itemizedlist>
536 </listitem>
537
538 <listitem>
539 <para>May 1, 2006</para>
540 <itemizedlist>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
543 Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
544 and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
545 </listitem>
546 <listitem>
547 <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
548 re-install its binaries.</para>
549 </listitem>
550 <listitem>
551 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
552 </listitem>
553 <listitem>
554 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
555 udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
556 program.</para>
557 </listitem>
558 </itemizedlist>
559 </listitem>
560
561 <listitem>
562 <para>April 27, 2006</para>
563 <itemizedlist>
564 <listitem>
565 <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
566 acknowledgements.</para>
567 </listitem>
568 </itemizedlist>
569 </listitem>
570
571 <listitem>
572 <para>April 23, 2006</para>
573 <itemizedlist>
574 <listitem>
575 <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
576 ownership. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
577 </listitem>
578 </itemizedlist>
579 </listitem>
580
581 <listitem>
582 <para>April 22, 2006</para>
583 <itemizedlist>
584 <listitem>
585 <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
586 wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
587 ticket #1779.</para>
588 </listitem>
589 </itemizedlist>
590 </listitem>
591
592 <listitem>
593 <para>April 21, 2006</para>
594 <itemizedlist>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
597 required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
598 for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for reviewing the
599 wording.</para>
600 </listitem>
601 <listitem>
602 <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
603 R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
604 </listitem>
605 </itemizedlist>
606 </listitem>
607
608 <listitem>
609 <para>April 20, 2006</para>
610 <itemizedlist>
611 <listitem>
612 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
613 Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
614 </listitem>
615 <listitem>
616 <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
617 is required on the host system.</para>
618 </listitem>
619 <listitem>
620 <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
621 for the patch.</para>
622 </listitem>
623 </itemizedlist>
624 </listitem>
625
626 <listitem>
627 <para>April 19, 2006</para>
628 <itemizedlist>
629 <listitem>
630 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
631 software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
632 and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
633 Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
634 </listitem>
635 </itemizedlist>
636 </listitem>
637
638 <listitem>
639 <para>April 18, 2006</para>
640 <itemizedlist>
641 <listitem>
642 <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
643 Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
644 build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
645 information is complete enough at this point to close out the
646 long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
647 and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
648 </listitem>
649 </itemizedlist>
650 </listitem>
651
652 <listitem>
653 <para>April 15, 2006</para>
654 <itemizedlist>
655 <listitem>
656 <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
657 </listitem>
658 <listitem>
659 <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
660 that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
661 </listitem>
662 </itemizedlist>
663 </listitem>
664
665 <listitem>
666 <para>April 14, 2006</para>
667 <itemizedlist>
668 <listitem>
669 <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
670 </listitem>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
673 command changes.</para>
674 </listitem>
675 <listitem>
676 <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
677 replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
678 inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
679 Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
680 </listitem>
681 </itemizedlist>
682 </listitem>
683
684 <listitem>
685 <para>April 13, 2006</para>
686 <itemizedlist>
687 <listitem>
688 <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
689 removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
690 </listitem>
691 <listitem>
692 <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
693 </listitem>
694 <listitem>
695 <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
696 Shadow.</para>
697 </listitem>
698 <listitem>
699 <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
700 </listitem>
701 </itemizedlist>
702 </listitem>
703
704 <listitem>
705 <para>April 12, 2006</para>
706 <itemizedlist>
707 <listitem>
708 <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
709 Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
710 </listitem>
711 <listitem>
712 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
713 Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
714 convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
715 Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
716 </listitem>
717 <listitem>
718 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
719 in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
720 the symlink we used to create.</para>
721 </listitem>
722 </itemizedlist>
723 </listitem>
724
725 <listitem>
726 <para>April 11, 2006</para>
727 <itemizedlist>
728 <listitem>
729 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
730 </listitem>
731 </itemizedlist>
732 </listitem>
733
734 <listitem>
735 <para>April 8, 2006</para>
736 <itemizedlist>
737 <listitem>
738 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
739 in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
740 programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
741 slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
742 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
743 </listitem>
744 </itemizedlist>
745 </listitem>
746
747 <listitem>
748 <para>April 6, 2006</para>
749 <itemizedlist>
750 <listitem>
751 <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
752 links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
753 </listitem>
754 <listitem>
755 <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
756 </listitem>
757 </itemizedlist>
758 </listitem>
759
760 <listitem>
761 <para>April 2, 2006</para>
762 <itemizedlist>
763 <listitem>
764 <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
765 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
766 mounting of kernel filesystems before the package management page and
767 rewrote the page to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel
768 filesystems while outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering
769 chroot and remounting kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list
770 of dirs created in chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
771 </listitem>
772 </itemizedlist>
773 </listitem>
774
775 <listitem>
776 <para>March 30, 2006</para>
777 <itemizedlist>
778 <listitem>
779 <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
780 Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
781 </listitem>
782 <listitem>
783 <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
784 and Udev-088.</para>
785 </listitem>
786 </itemizedlist>
787 </listitem>
788
789 <listitem>
790 <para>March 29, 2006</para>
791 <itemizedlist>
792 <listitem>
793 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
794 to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
795 the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
796 </listitem>
797 </itemizedlist>
798 </listitem>
799
800 <listitem>
801 <para>March 22, 2006</para>
802 <itemizedlist>
803 <listitem>
804 <para>[archaic] - Updated to
805 lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
806 </listitem>
807 </itemizedlist>
808 </listitem>
809
810 <listitem>
811 <para>March 21, 2006</para>
812 <itemizedlist>
813 <listitem>
814 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
815 hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
816 udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
817 </para>
818 </listitem>
819 </itemizedlist>
820 </listitem>
821
822 <listitem>
823 <para>March 18, 2006</para>
824 <itemizedlist>
825 <listitem>
826 <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
827 is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
828 patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
829 </listitem>
830 <listitem>
831 <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
832 tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
833 #1713.</para>
834 </listitem>
835 <listitem>
836 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
837 </listitem>
838 <listitem>
839 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
840 </listitem>
841 <listitem>
842 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
843 </listitem>
844 <listitem>
845 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
846 </listitem>
847 <listitem>
848 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
849 </listitem>
850 <listitem>
851 <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
852 patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
853 installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
854 </listitem>
855 </itemizedlist>
856 </listitem>
857
858 <listitem>
859 <para>March 11, 2006</para>
860 <itemizedlist>
861 <listitem>
862 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
863 </listitem>
864 </itemizedlist>
865 </listitem>
866
867 <listitem>
868 <para>March 8, 2006</para>
869 <itemizedlist>
870 <listitem>
871 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
872 </listitem>
873 <listitem>
874 <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
875 does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
876 Patrakov.</para>
877 </listitem>
878 <listitem>
879 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
880 </listitem>
881 <listitem>
882 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
883 </listitem>
884 <listitem>
885 <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
886 present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
887 </listitem>
888 </itemizedlist>
889 </listitem>
890
891 <listitem>
892 <para>March 7, 2006</para>
893 <itemizedlist>
894 <listitem>
895 <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
896 upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
897 device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
898 </listitem>
899 <listitem>
900 <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
901 LFS-style patch.</para>
902 </listitem>
903 </itemizedlist>
904 </listitem>
905
906 <listitem>
907 <para>March 3, 2006</para>
908 <itemizedlist>
909 <listitem>
910 <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
911 to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
912 </listitem>
913 </itemizedlist>
914 </listitem>
915
916 <listitem>
917 <para>March 1, 2006</para>
918 <itemizedlist>
919 <listitem>
920 <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
921 symlinks.</para>
922 </listitem>
923 <listitem>
924 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
925 help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
926 </listitem>
927 </itemizedlist>
928 </listitem>
929
930 <listitem>
931 <para>February 27, 2006</para>
932 <itemizedlist>
933 <listitem>
934 <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
935 upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
936 </listitem>
937 </itemizedlist>
938 </listitem>
939
940 <listitem>
941 <para>February 20, 2006</para>
942 <itemizedlist>
943 <listitem>
944 <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
945 keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
946 expanded by the shell.</para>
947 </listitem>
948 <listitem>
949 <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
950 </listitem>
951 <listitem>
952 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
953 </listitem>
954 </itemizedlist>
955 </listitem>
956
957 <listitem>
958 <para>February 19, 2006</para>
959 <itemizedlist>
960 <listitem>
961 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
962 to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
963 </listitem>
964 <listitem>
965 <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
966 every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
967 </listitem>
968 <listitem>
969 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
970 </listitem>
971 <listitem>
972 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
973 </listitem>
974 <listitem>
975 <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
976 --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
977 for the report and the fix.</para>
978 </listitem>
979 <listitem>
980 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
981 </listitem>
982 <listitem>
983 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
984 </listitem>
985 <listitem>
986 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
987 </listitem>
988 <listitem>
989 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
990 </listitem>
991 <listitem>
992 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
993 </listitem>
994 <listitem>
995 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
996 </listitem>
997 <listitem>
998 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
999 vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
1000 </listitem>
1001 <listitem>
1002 <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
1003 Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
1004 </listitem>
1005 <listitem>
1006 <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
1007 instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
1008 &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
1009 <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
1010 can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
1011 </listitem>
1012 </itemizedlist>
1013 </listitem>
1014
1015 <listitem>
1016 <para>February 10, 2006</para>
1017 <itemizedlist>
1018 <listitem>
1019 <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
1020 changes.</para>
1021 </listitem>
1022 </itemizedlist>
1023 </listitem>
1024
1025 <listitem>
1026 <para>February 8, 2006</para>
1027 <itemizedlist>
1028 <listitem>
1029 <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
1030 reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
1031 module loading.</para>
1032 </listitem>
1033 </itemizedlist>
1034 </listitem>
1035
1036 <listitem>
1037 <para>February 3, 2006</para>
1038 <itemizedlist>
1039 <listitem>
1040 <para>[matthew] - Create the
1041 <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
1042 can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
1043 </para>
1044 </listitem>
1045 <listitem>
1046 <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
1047 </listitem>
1048 <listitem>
1049 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
1050 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
1051 </listitem>
1052 <listitem>
1053 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
1054 download.</para>
1055 </listitem>
1056 <listitem>
1057 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
1058 </listitem>
1059 </itemizedlist>
1060 </listitem>
1061
1062 <listitem>
1063 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
1064 <itemizedlist>
1065 <listitem>
1066 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
1067 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
1068 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
1069 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
1070 </listitem>
1071 <listitem>
1072 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript.
1073 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
1074 </listitem>
1075 <listitem>
1076 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
1077 </listitem>
1078 </itemizedlist>
1079 </listitem>
1080
1081 <listitem>
1082 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
1083 <itemizedlist>
1084 <listitem>
1085 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
1086 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
1087 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
1088 </listitem>
1089 <listitem>
1090 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
1091 Staub.</para>
1092 </listitem>
1093 <listitem>
1094 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
1095 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
1096 </listitem>
1097 </itemizedlist>
1098 </listitem>
1099
1100 <listitem>
1101 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
1102 <itemizedlist>
1103 <listitem>
1104 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
1105 </listitem>
1106 <listitem>
1107 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
1108 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
1109 </listitem>
1110 </itemizedlist>
1111 </listitem>
1112
1113 <listitem>
1114 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
1115 <itemizedlist>
1116 <listitem>
1117 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
1118 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
1119 </listitem>
1120 <listitem>
1121 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
1122 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
1123 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
1124 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
1125 </listitem>
1126 <listitem>
1127 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
1128 section.</para>
1129 </listitem>
1130 </itemizedlist>
1131 </listitem>
1132
1133 <listitem>
1134 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
1135 <itemizedlist>
1136 <listitem>
1137 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
1138 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
1139 </listitem>
1140 <listitem>
1141 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
1142 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
1143 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1144 </listitem>
1145 <listitem>
1146 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
1147 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
1148 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
1149 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
1150 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
1151 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
1152 issue.</para>
1153 </listitem>
1154 <listitem>
1155 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
1156 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
1157 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
1158 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
1159 </listitem>
1160 <listitem>
1161 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
1162 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
1163 </listitem>
1164 </itemizedlist>
1165 </listitem>
1166
1167 <listitem>
1168 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
1169 <itemizedlist>
1170 <listitem>
1171 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
1172 </listitem>
1173 </itemizedlist>
1174 </listitem>
1175
1176 <listitem>
1177 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
1178 <itemizedlist>
1179 <listitem>
1180 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
1181 </listitem>
1182 <listitem>
1183 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
1184 </listitem>
1185 <listitem>
1186 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
1187 </listitem>
1188 <listitem>
1189 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
1190 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
1191 </listitem>
1192 <listitem>
1193 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
1194 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
1195 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
1196 </listitem>
1197 </itemizedlist>
1198 </listitem>
1199
1200 <listitem>
1201 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
1202 <itemizedlist>
1203 <listitem>
1204 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
1205 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
1206 it out.</para>
1207 </listitem>
1208 </itemizedlist>
1209 </listitem>
1210
1211 <listitem>
1212 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
1213 <itemizedlist>
1214 <listitem>
1215 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
1216 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1217 </listitem>
1218 </itemizedlist>
1219 </listitem>
1220
1221 <listitem>
1222 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
1223 <itemizedlist>
1224 <listitem>
1225 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
1226 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
1227 to Greg Schafer.</para>
1228 </listitem>
1229 <listitem>
1230 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
1231 gccbug.</para>
1232 </listitem>
1233 </itemizedlist>
1234 </listitem>
1235
1236 <listitem>
1237 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
1238 <itemizedlist>
1239 <listitem>
1240 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
1241 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
1242 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
1243 for explaining this.</para>
1244 </listitem>
1245 <listitem>
1246 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
1247 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
1248 </listitem>
1249 <listitem>
1250 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
1251 use mktemp.</para>
1252 </listitem>
1253 <listitem>
1254 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
1255 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
1256 Randy McMurchy.</para>
1257 </listitem>
1258 </itemizedlist>
1259 </listitem>
1260
1261 <listitem>
1262 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
1263 <itemizedlist>
1264 <listitem>
1265 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
1266 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
1267 </listitem>
1268 <listitem>
1269 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
1270 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
1271 </listitem>
1272 </itemizedlist>
1273 </listitem>
1274
1275 <listitem>
1276 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
1277 <itemizedlist>
1278 <listitem>
1279 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
1280 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
1281 </listitem>
1282 <listitem>
1283 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
1284 </listitem>
1285 <listitem>
1286 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
1287 </listitem>
1288 <listitem>
1289 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
1290 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
1291 </listitem>
1292 </itemizedlist>
1293 </listitem>
1294
1295 <listitem>
1296 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
1297 <itemizedlist>
1298 <listitem>
1299 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
1300 to be repeatable.</para>
1301 </listitem>
1302 </itemizedlist>
1303 </listitem>
1304
1305 <listitem>
1306 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
1307 <itemizedlist>
1308 <listitem>
1309 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
1310 </listitem>
1311 </itemizedlist>
1312 </listitem>
1313
1314 <listitem>
1315 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
1316 <itemizedlist>
1317 <listitem>
1318 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
1319 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
1320 </listitem>
1321 </itemizedlist>
1322 </listitem>
1323
1324 <listitem>
1325 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
1326 <itemizedlist>
1327 <listitem>
1328 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
1329 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
1330 </listitem>
1331 <listitem>
1332 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
1333 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
1334 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
1335 </listitem>
1336 <listitem>
1337 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
1338 </listitem>
1339 <listitem>
1340 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
1341 </listitem>
1342 </itemizedlist>
1343 </listitem>
1344
1345 <listitem>
1346 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
1347 <itemizedlist>
1348 <listitem>
1349 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
1350 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
1351 </listitem>
1352 </itemizedlist>
1353 </listitem>
1354
1355 <listitem>
1356 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
1357 <itemizedlist>
1358 <listitem>
1359 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
1360 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
1361 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
1362 bug 1670).</para>
1363 </listitem>
1364 </itemizedlist>
1365 </listitem>
1366
1367 <listitem>
1368 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
1369 <itemizedlist>
1370 <listitem>
1371 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
1372 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
1373 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
1374 </listitem>
1375 </itemizedlist>
1376 </listitem>
1377
1378 <listitem>
1379 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
1380 <itemizedlist>
1381 <listitem>
1382 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
1383 </listitem>
1384 <listitem>
1385 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
1386 </listitem>
1387 <listitem>
1388 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
1389 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
1390 </listitem>
1391 <listitem>
1392 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
1393 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
1394 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1395 </listitem>
1396 <listitem>
1397 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
1398 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1399 </listitem>
1400 </itemizedlist>
1401 </listitem>
1402
1403 <listitem>
1404 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
1405 <itemizedlist>
1406 <listitem>
1407 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
1408 </listitem>
1409 <listitem>
1410 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
1411 </para>
1412 </listitem>
1413 <listitem>
1414 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
1415 </listitem>
1416 </itemizedlist>
1417 </listitem>
1418
1419 <listitem>
1420 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
1421 <itemizedlist>
1422 <listitem>
1423 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
1424 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
1425 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
1426 </listitem>
1427 </itemizedlist>
1428 </listitem>
1429
1430 <listitem>
1431 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
1432 <itemizedlist>
1433 <listitem>
1434 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
1435 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
1436 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
1437 </listitem>
1438 <listitem>
1439 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
1440 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
1441 </listitem>
1442 <listitem>
1443 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
1444 </listitem>
1445 <listitem>
1446 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
1447 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
1448 McMurchy for the report).</para>
1449 </listitem>
1450 <listitem>
1451 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
1452 </listitem>
1453 <listitem>
1454 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
1455 </listitem>
1456 <listitem>
1457 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
1458 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
1459 </listitem>
1460 </itemizedlist>
1461 </listitem>
1462
1463 <listitem>
1464 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
1465 <itemizedlist>
1466 <listitem>
1467 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
1468 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
1469 </listitem>
1470 </itemizedlist>
1471 </listitem>
1472
1473 <listitem>
1474 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
1475 <itemizedlist>
1476 <listitem>
1477 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
1478 package.</para>
1479 </listitem>
1480 </itemizedlist>
1481 </listitem>
1482
1483 <listitem>
1484 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
1485 <itemizedlist>
1486 <listitem>
1487 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
1488 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
1489 </listitem>
1490 </itemizedlist>
1491 </listitem>
1492
1493 <listitem>
1494 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
1495 <itemizedlist>
1496 <listitem>
1497 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
1498 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
1499 </listitem>
1500 </itemizedlist>
1501 </listitem>
1502
1503 <listitem>
1504 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
1505 <itemizedlist>
1506 <listitem>
1507 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
1508 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
1509 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
1510 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
1511 </listitem>
1512 </itemizedlist>
1513 </listitem>
1514
1515 <listitem>
1516 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
1517 <itemizedlist>
1518 <listitem>
1519 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
1520 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
1521 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
1522 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
1523 </listitem>
1524 <listitem>
1525 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
1526 </listitem>
1527 <listitem>
1528 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
1529 Chris Staub.</para>
1530 </listitem>
1531 </itemizedlist>
1532 </listitem>
1533
1534 <listitem>
1535 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
1536 <itemizedlist>
1537 <listitem>
1538 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
1539 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
1540 </listitem>
1541 </itemizedlist>
1542 </listitem>
1543
1544 <listitem>
1545 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
1546 <itemizedlist>
1547 <listitem>
1548 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
1549 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
1550 </listitem>
1551 </itemizedlist>
1552 </listitem>
1553
1554 <listitem>
1555 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
1556 <itemizedlist>
1557 <listitem>
1558 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
1559 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
1560 </listitem>
1561 <listitem>
1562 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
1563 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
1564 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
1565 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
1566 </listitem>
1567 </itemizedlist>
1568 </listitem>
1569
1570 <listitem>
1571 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
1572 <itemizedlist>
1573 <listitem>
1574 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
1575 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
1576 </listitem>
1577 <listitem>
1578 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
1579 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
1580 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
1581 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
1582 </listitem>
1583 <listitem>
1584 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
1585 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
1586 report and the fix.</para>
1587 </listitem>
1588 <listitem>
1589 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
1590 </listitem>
1591 <listitem>
1592 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
1593 </listitem>
1594 <listitem>
1595 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
1596 </listitem>
1597 </itemizedlist>
1598 </listitem>
1599
1600 <listitem>
1601 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
1602 <itemizedlist>
1603 <listitem>
1604 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
1605 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
1606 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
1607 </listitem>
1608 </itemizedlist>
1609 </listitem>
1610
1611 <listitem>
1612 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
1613 <itemizedlist>
1614 <listitem>
1615 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
1616 </listitem>
1617 <listitem>
1618 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
1619 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
1620 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
1621 </listitem>
1622 </itemizedlist>
1623 </listitem>
1624
1625 <listitem>
1626 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
1627 <itemizedlist>
1628 <listitem>
1629 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
1630 </listitem>
1631 <listitem>
1632 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
1633 </listitem>
1634 <listitem>
1635 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
1636 </listitem>
1637 <listitem>
1638 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
1639 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
1640 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
1641 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
1642 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
1643 of LFS.</para>
1644 </listitem>
1645 </itemizedlist>
1646 </listitem>
1647
1648 <listitem>
1649 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
1650 <itemizedlist>
1651 <listitem>
1652 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
1653 </listitem>
1654 <listitem>
1655 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
1656 </listitem>
1657 <listitem>
1658 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
1659 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
1660 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
1661 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
1662 </listitem>
1663 </itemizedlist>
1664 </listitem>
1665
1666 <listitem>
1667 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
1668 <itemizedlist>
1669 <listitem>
1670 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
1671 </listitem>
1672 </itemizedlist>
1673 </listitem>
1674
1675 <listitem>
1676 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
1677 <itemizedlist>
1678 <listitem>
1679 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
1680 </listitem>
1681 <listitem>
1682 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
1683 </listitem>
1684 <listitem>
1685 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
1686 </listitem>
1687 </itemizedlist>
1688 </listitem>
1689
1690 <listitem>
1691 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
1692 <itemizedlist>
1693 <listitem>
1694 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
1695 </listitem>
1696 <listitem>
1697 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
1698 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
1699 </listitem>
1700 <listitem>
1701 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules.
1702 file</para>
1703 </listitem>
1704 </itemizedlist>
1705 </listitem>
1706
1707 <listitem>
1708 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
1709 <itemizedlist>
1710 <listitem>
1711 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
1712 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
1713 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
1714 </listitem>
1715 </itemizedlist>
1716 </listitem>
1717
1718 <listitem>
1719 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
1720 <itemizedlist>
1721 <listitem>
1722 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
1723 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
1724 </listitem>
1725 <listitem>
1726 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
1727 </listitem>
1728 </itemizedlist>
1729 </listitem>
1730
1731 <listitem>
1732 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
1733 <itemizedlist>
1734 <listitem>
1735 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
1736 </listitem>
1737 </itemizedlist>
1738 </listitem>
1739
1740 <listitem>
1741 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
1742 <itemizedlist>
1743 <listitem>
1744 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
1745 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
1746 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
1747 </listitem>
1748 </itemizedlist>
1749 </listitem>
1750
1751 <listitem>
1752 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
1753 <itemizedlist>
1754 <listitem>
1755 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
1756 bug 1629).</para>
1757 </listitem>
1758 <listitem>
1759 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
1760 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
1761 </listitem>
1762 </itemizedlist>
1763 </listitem>
1764
1765 <listitem>
1766 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
1767 <itemizedlist>
1768 <listitem>
1769 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
1770 </listitem>
1771 </itemizedlist>
1772 </listitem>
1773
1774 <listitem>
1775 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
1776 <itemizedlist>
1777 <listitem>
1778 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
1779 </listitem>
1780 <listitem>
1781 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
1782 </listitem>
1783 <listitem>
1784 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
1785 </listitem>
1786 </itemizedlist>
1787 </listitem>
1788
1789 <listitem>
1790 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
1791 <itemizedlist>
1792 <listitem>
1793 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
1794 </listitem>
1795 </itemizedlist>
1796 </listitem>
1797
1798 <listitem>
1799 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
1800 <itemizedlist>
1801 <listitem>
1802 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
1803 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
1804 </listitem>
1805 <listitem>
1806 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
1807 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
1808 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
1809 </listitem>
1810 </itemizedlist>
1811 </listitem>
1812
1813 <listitem>
1814 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
1815 <itemizedlist>
1816 <listitem>
1817 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
1818 vulnerability.</para>
1819 </listitem>
1820 </itemizedlist>
1821 </listitem>
1822
1823 <listitem>
1824 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
1825 <itemizedlist>
1826 <listitem>
1827 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
1828 </listitem>
1829 </itemizedlist>
1830 </listitem>
1831
1832 <listitem>
1833 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
1834 <itemizedlist>
1835 <listitem>
1836 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
1837 </listitem>
1838 </itemizedlist>
1839 </listitem>
1840
1841 <listitem>
1842 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
1843 <itemizedlist>
1844 <listitem>
1845 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
1846 </listitem>
1847 </itemizedlist>
1848 </listitem>
1849
1850 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
1851 <itemizedlist>
1852 <listitem>
1853 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
1854 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
1855 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604).</para>
1856 </listitem>
1857 <listitem>
1858 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20.</para>
1859 </listitem>
1860 <listitem>
1861 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25.</para>
1862 </listitem>
1863 </itemizedlist>
1864 </listitem>
1865
1866 <listitem>
1867 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
1868 <itemizedlist>
1869 <listitem>
1870 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
1871 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
1872 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
1873 to actually work.</para>
1874 </listitem>
1875 <listitem>
1876 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
1877 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
1878 </listitem>
1879 </itemizedlist>
1880 </listitem>
1881
1882 <listitem>
1883 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
1884 <itemizedlist>
1885 <listitem>
1886 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
1887 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
1888 </listitem>
1889 <listitem>
1890 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
1891 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
1892 </listitem>
1893 <listitem>
1894 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
1895 </listitem>
1896 <listitem>
1897 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
1898 gcc-pass2.</para>
1899 </listitem>
1900 </itemizedlist>
1901 </listitem>
1902
1903 <listitem>
1904 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
1905 <itemizedlist>
1906 <listitem>
1907 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
1908 builds for consistency</para>
1909 </listitem>
1910 </itemizedlist>
1911 </listitem>
1912
1913 <listitem>
1914 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
1915 <itemizedlist>
1916 <listitem>
1917 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
1918 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
1919 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
1920 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
1921 </listitem>
1922 <listitem>
1923 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
1924 rules (fixes bug 1622).</para>
1925 </listitem>
1926 <listitem>
1927 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a.</para>
1928 </listitem>
1929 </itemizedlist>
1930 </listitem>
1931
1932 <listitem>
1933 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
1934 <itemizedlist>
1935 <listitem>
1936 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils' binaries to /bin as
1937 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
1938 </listitem>
1939 </itemizedlist>
1940 </listitem>
1941
1942 <listitem>
1943 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
1944 <itemizedlist>
1945 <listitem>
1946 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068.</para>
1947 </listitem>
1948 <listitem>
1949 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00.</para>
1950 </listitem>
1951 <listitem>
1952 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15.</para>
1953 </listitem>
1954 </itemizedlist>
1955 </listitem>
1956
1957 <listitem>
1958 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
1959 <itemizedlist>
1960 <listitem>
1961 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
1962 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
1963 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
1964 </listitem>
1965 <listitem>
1966 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
1967 filenames.</para>
1968 </listitem>
1969 </itemizedlist>
1970 </listitem>
1971
1972 <listitem>
1973 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
1974 <itemizedlist>
1975 <listitem>
1976 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
1977 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
1978 </listitem>
1979 <listitem>
1980 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
1981 </listitem>
1982 </itemizedlist>
1983 </listitem>
1984
1985 <listitem>
1986 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
1987 <itemizedlist>
1988 <listitem>
1989 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
1990 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer).</para>
1991 </listitem>
1992 </itemizedlist>
1993 </listitem>
1994
1995 <listitem>
1996 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
1997 <itemizedlist>
1998 <listitem>
1999 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
2000 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
2001 </listitem>
2002 <listitem>
2003 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
2004 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
2005 </listitem>
2006 <listitem>
2007 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
2008 bug 1603).</para>
2009 </listitem>
2010 <listitem>
2011 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
2012 </listitem>
2013 <listitem>
2014 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
2015 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
2016 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
2017 </listitem>
2018 <listitem>
2019 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
2020 test (bug 1611).</para>
2021 </listitem>
2022 </itemizedlist>
2023 </listitem>
2024
2025 <listitem>
2026 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
2027 <itemizedlist>
2028 <listitem>
2029 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
2030 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
2031 </listitem>
2032 <listitem>
2033 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
2034 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
2035 </listitem>
2036 <listitem>
2037 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
2038 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
2039 </listitem>
2040 <listitem>
2041 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
2042 of chapter 6.</para>
2043 </listitem>
2044 <listitem>
2045 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
2046 library (Bug 1608).</para>
2047 </listitem>
2048 </itemizedlist>
2049 </listitem>
2050
2051 <listitem>
2052 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
2053 <itemizedlist>
2054 <listitem>
2055 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
2056 from BLFS first.</para>
2057 </listitem>
2058 </itemizedlist>
2059 </listitem>
2060
2061 <listitem>
2062 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
2063 <itemizedlist>
2064 <listitem>
2065 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
2066 </listitem>
2067 <listitem>
2068 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
2069 modeline vulnerability.</para>
2070 </listitem>
2071 </itemizedlist>
2072 </listitem>
2073
2074 <listitem>
2075 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
2076 <itemizedlist>
2077 <listitem>
2078 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
2079 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
2080 </listitem>
2081 <listitem>
2082 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
2083 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
2084 </listitem>
2085 </itemizedlist>
2086 </listitem>
2087
2088 <listitem>
2089 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
2090 <itemizedlist>
2091 <listitem>
2092 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
2093 </listitem>
2094 </itemizedlist>
2095 </listitem>
2096
2097 <listitem>
2098 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
2099 <itemizedlist>
2100 <listitem>
2101 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd.</para>
2102 </listitem>
2103 <listitem>
2104 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils.</para>
2105 </listitem>
2106 <listitem>
2107 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
2108 The test no longer fails under GCC-4.</para>
2109 </listitem>
2110 <listitem>
2111 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar.</para>
2112 </listitem>
2113 </itemizedlist>
2114 </listitem>
2115
2116 <listitem>
2117 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
2118 <itemizedlist>
2119 <listitem>
2120 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
2121 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
2122 </listitem>
2123 </itemizedlist>
2124 </listitem>
2125
2126 <listitem>
2127 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
2128 <itemizedlist>
2129 <listitem>
2130 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
2131 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
2132 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
2133 </listitem>
2134 <listitem>
2135 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
2136 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
2137 </listitem>
2138 </itemizedlist>
2139 </listitem>
2140
2141 <listitem>
2142 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
2143 <itemizedlist>
2144 <listitem>
2145 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
2146 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
2147 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
2148 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
2149 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
2150 </listitem>
2151 <listitem>
2152 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
2153 </listitem>
2154 <listitem>
2155 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
2156 </listitem>
2157 </itemizedlist>
2158 </listitem>
2159
2160 <listitem>
2161 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
2162 <itemizedlist>
2163 <listitem>
2164 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
2165 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
2166 </listitem>
2167 </itemizedlist>
2168 </listitem>
2169
2170 <listitem>
2171 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
2172 <itemizedlist>
2173 <listitem>
2174 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc.</para>
2175 </listitem>
2176 <listitem>
2177 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
2178 needed.</para>
2179 </listitem>
2180 </itemizedlist>
2181 </listitem>
2182
2183 <listitem>
2184 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
2185 <itemizedlist>
2186 <listitem>
2187 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
2188 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
2189 </listitem>
2190 </itemizedlist>
2191 </listitem>
2192
2193 <listitem>
2194 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
2195 <itemizedlist>
2196 <listitem>
2197 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
2198 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
2199 of the specs patch.</para>
2200 </listitem>
2201 <listitem>
2202 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
2203 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
2204 </listitem>
2205 </itemizedlist>
2206 </listitem>
2207
2208 <listitem>
2209 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
2210 <itemizedlist>
2211 <listitem>
2212 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
2213 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
2214 </listitem>
2215 <listitem>
2216 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
2217 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
2218 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
2219 </listitem>
2220 </itemizedlist>
2221 </listitem>
2222
2223 <listitem>
2224 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
2225 <itemizedlist>
2226 <listitem>
2227 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
2228 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
2229 </listitem>
2230 <listitem>
2231 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
2232 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
2233 </listitem>
2234 <listitem>
2235 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
2236 5 and 6.</para>
2237 </listitem>
2238 </itemizedlist>
2239 </listitem>
2240
2241 <listitem>
2242 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
2243 <itemizedlist>
2244 <listitem>
2245 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
2246 </listitem>
2247 <listitem>
2248 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
2249 </listitem>
2250 <listitem>
2251 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
2252 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
2253 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
2254 </listitem>
2255 <listitem>
2256 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
2257 gcc-4.0.1</para>
2258 </listitem>
2259 <listitem>
2260 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
2261 </listitem>
2262 <listitem>
2263 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
2264 </listitem>
2265 </itemizedlist>
2266 </listitem>
2267
2268 <listitem>
2269 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
2270 <itemizedlist>
2271 <listitem>
2272 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
2273 </listitem>
2274 </itemizedlist>
2275 </listitem>
2276
2277 <listitem>
2278 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
2279 <itemizedlist>
2280 <listitem>
2281 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
2282 </listitem>
2283 <listitem>
2284 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
2285 </listitem>
2286 <listitem>
2287 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
2288 </listitem>
2289 <listitem>
2290 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
2291 </listitem>
2292 <listitem>
2293 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
2294 </listitem>
2295 </itemizedlist>
2296 </listitem>
2297
2298 <listitem>
2299 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
2300 <itemizedlist>
2301 <listitem>
2302 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
2303 as it is not needed.</para>
2304 </listitem>
2305 <listitem>
2306 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
2307 </listitem>
2308 <listitem>
2309 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
2310 </listitem>
2311 </itemizedlist>
2312 </listitem>
2313
2314 <listitem>
2315 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
2316 <itemizedlist>
2317 <listitem>
2318 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
2319 </listitem>
2320 <listitem>
2321 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
2322 </listitem>
2323 <listitem>
2324 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
2325 </listitem>
2326 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
2327 </listitem>
2328 </itemizedlist>
2329 </listitem>
2330
2331 <listitem>
2332 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
2333 <itemizedlist>
2334 <listitem>
2335 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
2336 </listitem>
2337 <listitem>
2338 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
2339 </listitem>
2340 <listitem>
2341 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
2342 </listitem>
2343 <listitem>
2344 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
2345 </listitem>
2346 </itemizedlist>
2347 </listitem>
2348
2349 <listitem>
2350 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
2351 <itemizedlist>
2352 <listitem>
2353 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
2354 </listitem>
2355 </itemizedlist>
2356 </listitem>
2357
2358 <listitem>
2359 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
2360 <itemizedlist>
2361 <listitem>
2362 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
2363 </listitem>
2364 </itemizedlist>
2365 </listitem>
2366
2367 <listitem>
2368 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
2369 <itemizedlist>
2370 <listitem>
2371 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
2372 </listitem>
2373 <listitem>
2374 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
2375 </listitem>
2376 <listitem>
2377 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
2378 </listitem>
2379 <listitem>
2380 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
2381 </listitem>
2382 </itemizedlist>
2383 </listitem>
2384
2385 <listitem>
2386 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
2387 <itemizedlist>
2388 <listitem>
2389 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
2390 </listitem>
2391 <listitem>
2392 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
2393 </listitem>
2394 <listitem>
2395 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
2396 </listitem>
2397 </itemizedlist>
2398 </listitem>
2399
2400 <listitem>
2401 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
2402 <itemizedlist>
2403 <listitem>
2404 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
2405 </listitem>
2406 </itemizedlist>
2407 </listitem>
2408
2409 <listitem>
2410 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
2411 <itemizedlist>
2412 <listitem>
2413 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
2414 </listitem>
2415 <listitem>
2416 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
2417 </listitem>
2418 </itemizedlist>
2419 </listitem>
2420
2421 <listitem>
2422 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
2423 <itemizedlist>
2424 <listitem>
2425 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
2426 </listitem>
2427 </itemizedlist>
2428 </listitem>
2429
2430 <listitem>
2431 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
2432 <itemizedlist>
2433 <listitem>
2434 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
2435 </listitem>
2436 </itemizedlist>
2437 </listitem>
2438
2439 <listitem>
2440 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
2441 <itemizedlist>
2442 <listitem>
2443 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
2444 </listitem>
2445 </itemizedlist>
2446 </listitem>
2447
2448 </itemizedlist>
2449
2450 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
2451 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
2452
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