[b822811] | 1 | <sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
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[6370fa6] | 2 | <title>Changelog</title>
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| 3 |
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[b822811] | 4 | <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
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[6370fa6] | 5 |
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| 6 | <itemizedlist>
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| 7 |
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[b822811] | 8 | <listitem><para>Updated to:
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[e6346f7] | 9 |
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| 10 | <itemizedlist>
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| 11 |
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[28e2683] | 12 | <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.3</para></listitem>
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[ea57e1b] | 13 | <listitem><para>autoconf-2.52</para></listitem>
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[0a68a6c] | 14 | <listitem><para>automake-1.5</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 15 | <listitem><para>binutils-2.11.2</para></listitem>
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[28e2683] | 16 | <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.23</para></listitem>
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[95110e8] | 17 | <listitem><para>file-3.36</para></listitem>
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[ea57e1b] | 18 | <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
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| 19 | <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.39</para></listitem>
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| 20 | <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.4</para></listitem>
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[60bbc31] | 21 | <listitem><para>groff-1.17.2</para></listitem>
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[ff5782b] | 22 | <listitem><para>linux-2.4.8</para></listitem>
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[ea57e1b] | 23 | <listitem><para>man-pages-1.39</para></listitem>
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[0a68a6c] | 24 | <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.7</para></listitem>
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[6fda0ee9] | 25 | <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.81</para></listitem>
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[bfbbb6f] | 26 | <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11h</para></listitem>
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[ea57e1b] | 27 |
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[e6346f7] | 28 | </itemizedlist>
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[b08f409] | 29 |
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[16a5e9cf] | 30 | </para></listitem>
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| 31 |
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[c90dd61] | 32 | <listitem><para>August 27th 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: simplified the
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| 33 | installation instructions. We no longer exit chroot to finish the
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| 34 | installation. This _may_ not work properly if your host distribution is
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| 35 | an old 2.0.x based kernel, but we have no way of testing this at the
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| 36 | moment. We'll deal with that when bug reports come in.</para></listitem>
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| 37 |
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[25f7012] | 38 | <listitem><para>August 27th 2001 [gerard]: Moved rebooting into LFS from
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| 39 | chapter 8 to chapter 9, after we run that find
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| 40 | command.</para></listitem>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <listitem><para>August 27th 2001 [gerard]: Updated the find command in
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| 43 | chapter 9.</para></listitem>
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| 44 |
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[28e2683] | 45 | <listitem><para>August 27th 2001 [markh]: upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.23 and
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| 46 | MAKEDEV-1.3.</para></listitem>
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| 47 |
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[237c853] | 48 | <listitem><para>August 27th 2001 [gerard]: Added dependency lists for
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| 49 | all installed packages. You now can see which programs from which
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| 50 | packages you need in order to compile and install a
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| 51 | package.</para></listitem>
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| 52 |
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[ff5782b] | 53 | <listitem><para>August 27th 2001 [markh]: After a discussion on #lfs,
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| 54 | we've downgraded the book to linux-2.4.8 due to performance problems
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| 55 | with 2.4.9.</para></listitem>
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| 56 |
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[ae7142e] | 57 | <listitem><para>August 26th 2001 [markh]: Moved appendix c --> appendix d and
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| 58 | appendix b --> appendix c in order to create room for the dependency
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| 59 | information to go into appendix b.</para></listitem>
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| 60 |
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[f28b4d1] | 61 | <listitem><para>After much testing and discussing, it's been decided to
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| 62 | downgrade to gcc-2.95.3 for the time being, until problems with the new
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| 63 | gcc-3.0 version have been fixed.</para></listitem>
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[2827166] | 64 |
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[f63813c] | 65 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: sed commands for bzip2 and mawk static
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| 66 | compiles have been replaced with a simpler flag to gcc.</para></listitem>
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[492516d] | 67 |
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[a83cbd7] | 68 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: A sed for fileutils-4.1 static has been added to
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[492516d] | 69 | avoid Segmentation Fault problems on glibc-2.2.3 systems.</para></listitem>
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[0c9661dc] | 70 |
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[c755a657] | 71 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Binutils doens't require us passing -e to
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| 72 | make in order for LDFLAGS=-static to work properly.</para></listitem>
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| 73 |
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[981b33b6] | 74 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: GCC isn't statically linked anymore by using
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| 75 | make -e LDFLAGS=-static, but by make BOOT_LDFLAGS=-static.</para></listitem>
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| 76 |
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[f28b4d1] | 77 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed kernel patch for gcc-3.0
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| 78 | compilation</para></listitem>
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[354f0a1] | 79 |
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[f28b4d1] | 80 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added gcc-patch to fix re_max_failure
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| 81 | compile problems</para></listitem>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added missing chown root.root
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| 84 | $LFS/usr/include/linux to kernel installation </para></listitem>
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[a83cbd7] | 85 |
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| 86 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5 & 6: Changed tar patch to use -j for bzip2
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| 87 | files instead of -y in order to be compatible with next tar release. Also
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| 88 | renamed patch file to tar-1.13.patch</para></listitem>
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| 89 |
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[f28b4d1] | 90 | <listitem><para>Chapters 5 & 6: Added a new patch for gcc-2.95.3
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| 91 | which fixes various problems such as the weak symbol
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| 92 | bug.</para></listitem>
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[1dc31027] | 93 |
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[f28b4d1] | 94 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Bzip2 and shadowutils static libraries
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| 95 | are now put in /usr/lib instead of /lib. There are now also links
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| 96 | from /usr/lib to their dynamic libraries in /lib to enable the linker to
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| 97 | still find the dynamic versions.</para></listitem>
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[6fda0ee9] | 98 |
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[f28b4d1] | 99 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: ncurses patch totally
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| 100 | removed. Static libraries now moved to /usr/lib and libcurses.a symlink
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| 101 | created manually. A symlink is also created from /usr/lib to the
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| 102 | dynamic libraries in /lib so that the linker still sees them.</para></listitem>
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[66c3fcf] | 103 |
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[f28b4d1] | 104 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Yacc script in bison page now uses exec bison
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[74071b1] | 105 | which replaces the shell.</para></listitem>
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[18dbcba] | 106 |
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[f28b4d1] | 107 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Util-linux sed command has been replaced with a
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| 108 | flag to make.</para></listitem>
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[df48625] | 109 |
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[f28b4d1] | 110 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Man patch replaced with
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| 111 | sed command.</para></listitem>
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed shadow-utils patch in favour of a sed
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| 114 | command</para></listitem>
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| 115 |
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| 116 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed sysvinit patch in favour of a sed
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| 117 | command.</para></listitem>
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[0fd9932] | 118 |
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[a9e55e7] | 119 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed the Groff command explanation
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[b822811] | 120 | regarding CXXFLAGS which has been made obsolete with the update
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| 121 | to groff-1.17.1</para></listitem>
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[6927f6d9] | 122 |
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[a9e55e7] | 123 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Moved the net-tools installation until after
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| 124 | sh-utils so that net-tools can replace sh-utils's
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| 125 | /bin/hostname.</para></listitem>
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| 126 |
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[895c316] | 127 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: After installing Glibc, run exec /bin/bash
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| 128 | --login instead of exiting and re-entering the chroot'ed
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| 129 | environment.</para></listitem>
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| 130 |
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[2b64d5b] | 131 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Changed $* into "$@" in the functions and rc
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| 132 | scripts. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks.</para></listitem>
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[4378e5b] | 133 |
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[a9e55e7] | 134 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added print_error_msg from the rcS script as
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| 135 | it appears in the rc script as well.</para></listitem>
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| 136 |
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[e6346f7] | 137 | </itemizedlist>
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| 138 |
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[b822811] | 139 | <para>3.0-pre4 - June 22nd, 2001</para>
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[e6346f7] | 140 |
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| 141 | <itemizedlist>
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| 142 |
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[b822811] | 143 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Reordered the installations
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| 144 | alphabetically.</para></listitem>
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[2a06552] | 145 |
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[b822811] | 146 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Moved the installations of ed and
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| 147 | patch into their alphabetical positions.</para></listitem>
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[2daf391] | 148 |
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[b822811] | 149 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added [ ATTN ] warning message to
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| 150 | the functions script. When you attemp to start a service that's
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| 151 | already running or stop a service that's not running, it'll not
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| 152 | print FAILED anymore but [ ATTN ] along with "Already running"
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| 153 | or "Not running".</para></listitem>
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[c93a7a6] | 154 |
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[b822811] | 155 | <listitem><para>Chapter 9: Renamed the network-scripts
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| 156 | directory in nic-config.</para></listitem>
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[db7ed0a] | 157 |
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[e6346f7] | 158 | </itemizedlist>
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| 159 |
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[b822811] | 160 | <para>3.0-pre3 - May 12th, 2001</para>
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[e6346f7] | 161 |
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| 162 | <itemizedlist>
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| 163 |
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[b822811] | 164 | <listitem><para>Added numerous FHS compliance notes. These
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| 165 | instructions can be followed if one wishes to build a fully
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| 166 | FHS-compliant system.</para></listitem>
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[29004d3] | 167 |
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[b822811] | 168 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Updated the directory list to be more
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| 169 | FHS compliant. Mainly this meant adding the opt directories and
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| 170 | removing /usr/tmp and /usr/local/tmp</para></listitem>
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[29004d3] | 171 |
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[b822811] | 172 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: We now copy the kernel include directories
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| 173 | instead of linking to them. This is theoretically safer if we plan on
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| 174 | upgrading the kernel.</para></listitem>
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[f4d8ddb] | 175 |
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[b822811] | 176 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Removed fileutils-patch. After upgrading
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| 177 | to fileutils-4.1 the patch isn't needed anymore.</para></listitem>
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[f54dd7b] | 178 |
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[b822811] | 179 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Put back the instructions on how to
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| 180 | copy/remove the old NSS library files, in case the original distribution
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| 181 | uses glibc-2.0.x.</para></listitem>
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[6370fa6] | 182 |
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[b822811] | 183 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added the notice about an old version
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| 184 | of install-info.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 185 |
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[b822811] | 186 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed the installation of a static
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| 187 | gettext.</para></listitem>
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[cd40edaa] | 188 |
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[b822811] | 189 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed bin86's installation from
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| 190 | "make PREFIX=/usr install" to "make INSTALL_OPTS="-m 755"
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| 191 | PREFIX=/usr install". This will prevent install from invoking strip -s
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| 192 | on the files. This fails because a couple of the installed files are
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| 193 | shell scripts rather than programs, so they can't be stripped.</para></listitem>
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[171b2e9] | 194 |
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[b822811] | 195 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed the ld.so section since we
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| 196 | only used the man pages and replaced it with a patch to man-pages.</para></listitem>
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[a0b532a] | 197 |
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[b822811] | 198 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7+8: Moved the creation of /etc/fstab
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| 199 | to chapter 8.</para></listitem>
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[a21eb83] | 200 |
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[b822811] | 201 | <listitem><para>Appendix A: Added missing descriptions of frcode,
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| 202 | code and bigram in the findutils-4.1 package.</para></listitem>
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[2daf391] | 203 |
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[e6346f7] | 204 | </itemizedlist>
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| 205 |
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[b822811] | 206 | <para>3.0-pre2 - April 14th, 2001</para>
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[e6346f7] | 207 |
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| 208 | <itemizedlist>
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| 209 |
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[b822811] | 210 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Simplified ln commands.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 211 |
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[b822811] | 212 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed prefix=$LFS/usr from tar's
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| 213 | make install.</para></listitem>
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[20ea64e] | 214 |
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[b822811] | 215 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Removed --disable-nls from configuration
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| 216 | of programs that don't need it (bash, diffutils, gzip, sed,
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| 217 | m4).</para></listitem>
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[7fd5797] | 218 |
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[b822811] | 219 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Changed from "cd dir && make"
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| 220 | to "make -C dir" (gettext-static, sysvinit).</para></listitem>
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[31bb453] | 221 |
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[b822811] | 222 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Beautified the static link process
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| 223 | for mawk.</para></listitem>
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[ac00f50] | 224 |
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[b822811] | 225 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Changed the links we create during
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| 226 | gcc-installation to $LFS/usr/bin/cpp.</para></listitem>
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[9138852] | 227 |
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[b822811] | 228 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed the procps installation
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| 229 | from sed'ing to an easier way.</para></listitem>
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[0ebf95fb] | 230 |
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[b822811] | 231 | <listitem><para> Chapter 6: Changed all "rm file && ln -s dest
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| 232 | file" into "ln -sf file" (in glibc, bzip2 and gzip
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| 233 | installations).</para></listitem>
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[123880fa] | 234 |
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[b822811] | 235 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Added a sed to fix a problem during
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| 236 | glibc-installation. pt_chown can not be installed setuid root,
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| 237 | because "root" is not known by glibc yet (kind of hen and
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| 238 | egg-problem).</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 239 |
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[b822811] | 240 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed consoledata/tools to kbd, which
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| 241 | is more actively developed, and less of a pain to install.</para></listitem>
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[593a41e] | 242 |
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[b822811] | 243 | <listitem><para>Appendix A: Added the description of the Netkit-base
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| 244 | and Net-tools packages.</para></listitem>
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[806dd1d] | 245 |
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[e6346f7] | 246 | </itemizedlist>
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| 247 |
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[b822811] | 248 | <para>3.0-pre1 - February 27th, 2001</para>
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[e6346f7] | 249 |
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| 250 | <itemizedlist>
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| 251 |
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[b822811] | 252 | <listitem><para>Converted the SGML source to XML.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 253 |
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[b822811] | 254 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Tell the user to use cfdisk rather than
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| 255 | fdisk. The fdisk man page recommends cfdisk over fdisk because
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| 256 | it's more stable.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 257 |
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[b822811] | 258 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Changed the wording to make it more general
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| 259 | as ext2 no longer is the only used file system. Reiser for example is
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| 260 | often used too now.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 261 |
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[b822811] | 262 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo and partially
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| 263 | gettext to faciliate the move of Glibc from Chapter 5
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| 264 | to Chapter 6.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 265 |
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[b822811] | 266 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added Makedev to chapter 5. We don't create
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| 267 | the device files here, only copy the MAKEDEV script and make a temp
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| 268 | copy which will be used to create device files. This second file
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| 269 | (MAKEDEV-temp) doesn't contain user names and group names but only user
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| 270 | id's and group id's. We need a few device files to get Glibc installed,
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| 271 | but before GLibc is installed user and group names are not recognized yet;
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| 272 | only the numeric id's. This requires a slightly modified MAKEDEV script
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| 273 | which will be generated by patching the original one. This patching is done
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| 274 | here in chapter 5. Also, fixed the explanations on both
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| 275 | makedev installations.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 276 |
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[b822811] | 277 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Recommended to install all the software
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| 278 | while logged in (or su'ed to) user root.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 279 |
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[b822811] | 280 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is
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| 281 | needed to compile the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems
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| 282 | (such as the upcoming LFS-3.0 system).</para></listitem>
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[b88080b] | 283 |
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[b822811] | 284 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Upgraded from gcc-2.95.2 to
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| 285 | gcc-2.95.2.1</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 286 |
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[b822811] | 287 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Moved Glibc from chapter 5 to
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| 288 | chapter 6</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 289 |
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[b822811] | 290 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils
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| 291 | to libexecdir=/bin</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 292 |
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[b822811] | 293 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Updated Glibc installation instructions.
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| 294 | 'configparms' file creation has been deleted. No need to pick a compiler
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| 295 | (either distro's native or the /usr/local/gcc2952/bin/gcc one);
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| 296 | we're in chroot now so we'll use the one we have</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 297 |
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[b822811] | 298 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Only copy the man pages from the
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| 299 | ld.so package. We don't need the ldconfig and ldd programs anymore;
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| 300 | Glibc-2.2.1 comes with good working versions.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 301 |
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[b822811] | 302 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Added the creation of the lex symlink
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| 303 | to the flex installation.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 304 |
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[b822811] | 305 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed $* into "$@" in the yacc script
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| 306 | during bison's installation. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments
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| 307 | with blanks. </para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 308 |
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[b822811] | 309 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Fixed the man page installation during
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| 310 | console-tools' installation.</para></listitem>
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[8511245a] | 311 |
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[b822811] | 312 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: When entering chroot the $TERM variable
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| 313 | inside chroot is set properly. This is accomplished by: chroot ...
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| 314 | -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM...</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 315 |
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[b822811] | 316 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Merged the different sulogin lines from
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| 317 | the inittab file into one line.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 318 |
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[b822811] | 319 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Fixed the delays in the killproc function
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| 320 | in the functions script. Now after kill, first check PIDs, then
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| 321 | sleep 2 if needed. More details can be read in the comments
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| 322 | in the script itself.</para></listitem>
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[e6346f7] | 323 |
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[b822811] | 324 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added the explanation how the runlevels
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