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