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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>January 30, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
44 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
45 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
46 </listitem>
47 <listitem>
48 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
49 Staub.</para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
53 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
54 </listitem>
55 </itemizedlist>
56 </listitem>
57
58 <listitem>
59 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
60 <itemizedlist>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
66 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
67 </listitem>
68 </itemizedlist>
69 </listitem>
70
71 <listitem>
72 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
73 <itemizedlist>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
76 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
80 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
81 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
82 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
83 </listitem>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
86 section.</para>
87 </listitem>
88 </itemizedlist>
89 </listitem>
90
91 <listitem>
92 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
93 <itemizedlist>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
96 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
97 </listitem>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
100 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
101 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
102 </listitem>
103 <listitem>
104 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
105 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
106 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
107 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
108 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
109 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
110 issue.</para>
111 </listitem>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
114 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
115 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
116 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
117 </listitem>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
120 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 </itemizedlist>
123 </listitem>
124
125 <listitem>
126 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
127 <itemizedlist>
128 <listitem>
129 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
130 </listitem>
131 </itemizedlist>
132 </listitem>
133
134 <listitem>
135 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
136 <itemizedlist>
137 <listitem>
138 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
139 </listitem>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
142 </listitem>
143 <listitem>
144 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
145 </listitem>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
148 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
149 </listitem>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
152 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
153 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
154 </listitem>
155 </itemizedlist>
156 </listitem>
157
158 <listitem>
159 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
160 <itemizedlist>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
163 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
164 it out.</para>
165 </listitem>
166 </itemizedlist>
167 </listitem>
168
169 <listitem>
170 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
171 <itemizedlist>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
174 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
175 </listitem>
176 </itemizedlist>
177 </listitem>
178
179 <listitem>
180 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
181 <itemizedlist>
182 <listitem>
183 <para>[ken]: Added a sed to correct gccbug.</para>
184 </listitem>
185 </itemizedlist>
186 </listitem>
187
188 <listitem>
189 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
190 <itemizedlist>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
193 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
194 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
195 for explaining this.</para>
196 </listitem>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
199 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
200 Randy McMurchy.</para>
201 </listitem>
202 </itemizedlist>
203 </listitem>
204
205 <listitem>
206 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
207 <itemizedlist>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>[jhuntwork]: Readjust some package order based on findings by
210 Dan Nicholson. Flex and bison circular dependencies, perl needs sed
211 and groff, e2fsprogs wants gettext.</para>
212 </listitem>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>[jhuntwork]: Update dependency information. Thanks Chris
215 Staub.</para>
216 </listitem>
217 <listitem>
218 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
219 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
220 </listitem>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
223 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
224 </listitem>
225 </itemizedlist>
226 </listitem>
227
228 <listitem>
229 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
230 <itemizedlist>
231 <listitem>
232 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
233 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
234 </listitem>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
237 </listitem>
238 <listitem>
239 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
240 </listitem>
241 <listitem>
242 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
243 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
244 </listitem>
245 </itemizedlist>
246 </listitem>
247
248 <listitem>
249 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
250 <itemizedlist>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
253 to be repeatable.</para>
254 </listitem>
255 </itemizedlist>
256 </listitem>
257
258 <listitem>
259 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
260 <itemizedlist>
261 <listitem>
262 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
263 </listitem>
264 </itemizedlist>
265 </listitem>
266
267 <listitem>
268 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
269 <itemizedlist>
270 <listitem>
271 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
272 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
273 </listitem>
274 </itemizedlist>
275 </listitem>
276
277 <listitem>
278 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
279 <itemizedlist>
280 <listitem>
281 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
282 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
283 </listitem>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
286 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
287 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
288 </listitem>
289 <listitem>
290 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
291 </listitem>
292 <listitem>
293 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
294 </listitem>
295 </itemizedlist>
296 </listitem>
297
298 <listitem>
299 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
300 <itemizedlist>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
303 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
304 </listitem>
305 </itemizedlist>
306 </listitem>
307
308 <listitem>
309 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
310 <itemizedlist>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
313 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
314 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
315 bug 1670).</para>
316 </listitem>
317 </itemizedlist>
318 </listitem>
319
320 <listitem>
321 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
322 <itemizedlist>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
325 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
326 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
327 </listitem>
328 </itemizedlist>
329 </listitem>
330
331 <listitem>
332 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
333 <itemizedlist>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
336 </listitem>
337 <listitem>
338 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
339 </listitem>
340 <listitem>
341 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
342 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
343 </listitem>
344 <listitem>
345 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
346 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
347 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
348 </listitem>
349 <listitem>
350 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
351 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
352 </listitem>
353 </itemizedlist>
354 </listitem>
355
356 <listitem>
357 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
358 <itemizedlist>
359 <listitem>
360 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
361 </listitem>
362 <listitem>
363 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
364 </para>
365 </listitem>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
368 </listitem>
369 </itemizedlist>
370 </listitem>
371
372 <listitem>
373 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
374 <itemizedlist>
375 <listitem>
376 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
377 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
378 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
379 </listitem>
380 </itemizedlist>
381 </listitem>
382
383 <listitem>
384 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
385 <itemizedlist>
386 <listitem>
387 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
388 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
389 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
390 </listitem>
391 <listitem>
392 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
393 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
394 </listitem>
395 <listitem>
396 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
397 </listitem>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
400 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
401 McMurchy for the report).</para>
402 </listitem>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
405 </listitem>
406 <listitem>
407 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
408 </listitem>
409 <listitem>
410 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
411 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
412 </listitem>
413 </itemizedlist>
414 </listitem>
415
416 <listitem>
417 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
418 <itemizedlist>
419 <listitem>
420 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
421 </listitem>
422 </itemizedlist>
423 </listitem>
424
425 <listitem>
426 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
427 <itemizedlist>
428 <listitem>
429 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
430 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
431 </listitem>
432 </itemizedlist>
433 </listitem>
434
435 <listitem>
436 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
437 <itemizedlist>
438 <listitem>
439 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
440 package.</para>
441 </listitem>
442 </itemizedlist>
443 </listitem>
444
445 <listitem>
446 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
447 <itemizedlist>
448 <listitem>
449 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
450 </listitem>
451 </itemizedlist>
452 </listitem>
453
454 <listitem>
455 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
456 <itemizedlist>
457 <listitem>
458 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
459 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
460 </listitem>
461 </itemizedlist>
462 </listitem>
463
464 <listitem>
465 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
466 <itemizedlist>
467 <listitem>
468 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
469 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
470 </listitem>
471 </itemizedlist>
472 </listitem>
473
474 <listitem>
475 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
476 <itemizedlist>
477 <listitem>
478 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
479 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
480 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
481 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
482 </listitem>
483 </itemizedlist>
484 </listitem>
485
486 <listitem>
487 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
488 <itemizedlist>
489 <listitem>
490 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
491 </listitem>
492 <listitem>
493 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
494 Chris Staub.</para>
495 </listitem>
496 <listitem>
497 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
498 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
499 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
500 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
501 </listitem>
502 </itemizedlist>
503 </listitem>
504
505 <listitem>
506 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
507 <itemizedlist>
508 <listitem>
509 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
510 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
511 </listitem>
512 </itemizedlist>
513 </listitem>
514
515 <listitem>
516 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
517 <itemizedlist>
518 <listitem>
519 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
520 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
521 </listitem>
522 </itemizedlist>
523 </listitem>
524
525 <listitem>
526 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
527 <itemizedlist>
528 <listitem>
529 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
530 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
531 </listitem>
532 <listitem>
533 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
534 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
535 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
536 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
537 </listitem>
538 </itemizedlist>
539 </listitem>
540
541 <listitem>
542 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
543 <itemizedlist>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
546 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
547 </listitem>
548 <listitem>
549 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
550 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
551 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
552 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
553 </listitem>
554 <listitem>
555 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
556 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
557 report and the fix.</para>
558 </listitem>
559 <listitem>
560 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
561 </listitem>
562 <listitem>
563 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
564 </listitem>
565 <listitem>
566 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
567 </listitem>
568 </itemizedlist>
569 </listitem>
570
571 <listitem>
572 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
573 <itemizedlist>
574 <listitem>
575 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
576 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
577 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
578 </listitem>
579 </itemizedlist>
580 </listitem>
581
582 <listitem>
583 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
584 <itemizedlist>
585 <listitem>
586 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
587 </listitem>
588 <listitem>
589 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
590 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
591 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
592 </listitem>
593 </itemizedlist>
594 </listitem>
595
596 <listitem>
597 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
598 <itemizedlist>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
601 </listitem>
602 <listitem>
603 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
604 </listitem>
605 <listitem>
606 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
607 </listitem>
608 <listitem>
609 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
610 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
611 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
612 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
613 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
614 of LFS.</para>
615 </listitem>
616 </itemizedlist>
617 </listitem>
618
619 <listitem>
620 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
621 <itemizedlist>
622 <listitem>
623 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
624 </listitem>
625 <listitem>
626 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
627 </listitem>
628 <listitem>
629 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
630 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
631 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
632 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
633 </listitem>
634 </itemizedlist>
635 </listitem>
636
637 <listitem>
638 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
639 <itemizedlist>
640 <listitem>
641 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
642 </listitem>
643 </itemizedlist>
644 </listitem>
645
646 <listitem>
647 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
648 <itemizedlist>
649 <listitem>
650 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
651 </listitem>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
654 </listitem>
655 <listitem>
656 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
657 </listitem>
658 </itemizedlist>
659 </listitem>
660
661 <listitem>
662 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
663 <itemizedlist>
664 <listitem>
665 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
666 </listitem>
667 <listitem>
668 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
669 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
670 </listitem>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
673 file</para>
674 </listitem>
675 </itemizedlist>
676 </listitem>
677
678 <listitem>
679 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
680 <itemizedlist>
681 <listitem>
682 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
683 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
684 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
685 </listitem>
686 </itemizedlist>
687 </listitem>
688
689 <listitem>
690 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
691 <itemizedlist>
692 <listitem>
693 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
694 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
695 </listitem>
696 <listitem>
697 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
698 </listitem>
699 </itemizedlist>
700 </listitem>
701
702 <listitem>
703 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
704 <itemizedlist>
705 <listitem>
706 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
707 </listitem>
708 </itemizedlist>
709 </listitem>
710
711 <listitem>
712 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
713 <itemizedlist>
714 <listitem>
715 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
716 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
717 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
718 </listitem>
719 </itemizedlist>
720 </listitem>
721
722 <listitem>
723 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
724 <itemizedlist>
725 <listitem>
726 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
727 bug 1629).</para>
728 </listitem>
729 <listitem>
730 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
731 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
732 </listitem>
733 </itemizedlist>
734 </listitem>
735
736 <listitem>
737 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
738 <itemizedlist>
739 <listitem>
740 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
741 </listitem>
742 </itemizedlist>
743 </listitem>
744
745 <listitem>
746 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
747 <itemizedlist>
748 <listitem>
749 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
750 </listitem>
751 <listitem>
752 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
753 </listitem>
754 <listitem>
755 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
756 </listitem>
757 </itemizedlist>
758 </listitem>
759
760 <listitem>
761 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
762 <itemizedlist>
763 <listitem>
764 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
765 </listitem>
766 </itemizedlist>
767 </listitem>
768
769 <listitem>
770 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
771 <itemizedlist>
772 <listitem>
773 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
774 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
775 </listitem>
776 <listitem>
777 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
778 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
779 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
780 </listitem>
781 </itemizedlist>
782 </listitem>
783
784 <listitem>
785 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
786 <itemizedlist>
787 <listitem>
788 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
789 vulnerability.</para>
790 </listitem>
791 </itemizedlist>
792 </listitem>
793
794 <listitem>
795 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
796 <itemizedlist>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
799 </listitem>
800 </itemizedlist>
801 </listitem>
802
803 <listitem>
804 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
805 <itemizedlist>
806 <listitem>
807 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
808 </listitem>
809 </itemizedlist>
810 </listitem>
811
812 <listitem>
813 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
814 <itemizedlist>
815 <listitem>
816 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
817 </listitem>
818 </itemizedlist>
819 </listitem>
820
821 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
822 <itemizedlist>
823 <listitem>
824 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
825 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
826 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
827 </listitem>
828 <listitem>
829 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
830 </listitem>
831 <listitem>
832 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
833 </listitem>
834 </itemizedlist>
835 </listitem>
836
837 <listitem>
838 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
839 <itemizedlist>
840 <listitem>
841 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
842 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
843 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
844 to actually work.</para>
845 </listitem>
846 <listitem>
847 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
848 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
849 </listitem>
850 </itemizedlist>
851 </listitem>
852
853 <listitem>
854 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
855 <itemizedlist>
856 <listitem>
857 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
858 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
859 </listitem>
860 <listitem>
861 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
862 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
863 </listitem>
864 <listitem>
865 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
866 </listitem>
867 <listitem>
868 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
869 gcc-pass2.</para>
870 </listitem>
871 </itemizedlist>
872 </listitem>
873
874 <listitem>
875 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
876 <itemizedlist>
877 <listitem>
878 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
879 builds for consistency</para>
880 </listitem>
881 </itemizedlist>
882 </listitem>
883
884 <listitem>
885 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
886 <itemizedlist>
887 <listitem>
888 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
889 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
890 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
891 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
892 </listitem>
893 <listitem>
894 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
895 rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
896 </listitem>
897 <listitem>
898 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
899 </listitem>
900 </itemizedlist>
901 </listitem>
902
903 <listitem>
904 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
905 <itemizedlist>
906 <listitem>
907 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
908 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
909 </listitem>
910 </itemizedlist>
911 </listitem>
912
913 <listitem>
914 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
915 <itemizedlist>
916 <listitem>
917 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
918 </listitem>
919 <listitem>
920 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
921 </listitem>
922 <listitem>
923 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
924 </listitem>
925 </itemizedlist>
926 </listitem>
927
928 <listitem>
929 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
930 <itemizedlist>
931 <listitem>
932 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
933 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
934 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
935 </listitem>
936 <listitem>
937 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
938 filenames.</para>
939 </listitem>
940 </itemizedlist>
941 </listitem>
942
943 <listitem>
944 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
945 <itemizedlist>
946 <listitem>
947 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
948 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
949 </listitem>
950 <listitem>
951 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
952 </listitem>
953 </itemizedlist>
954 </listitem>
955
956 <listitem>
957 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
958 <itemizedlist>
959 <listitem>
960 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
961 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
962 </listitem>
963 </itemizedlist>
964 </listitem>
965
966 <listitem>
967 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
968 <itemizedlist>
969 <listitem>
970 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
971 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
972 </listitem>
973 <listitem>
974 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
975 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
976 </listitem>
977 <listitem>
978 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
979 bug 1603).</para>
980 </listitem>
981 <listitem>
982 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
983 </listitem>
984 <listitem>
985 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
986 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
987 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
988 </listitem>
989 <listitem>
990 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
991 test (bug 1611).</para>
992 </listitem>
993 </itemizedlist>
994 </listitem>
995
996 <listitem>
997 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
998 <itemizedlist>
999 <listitem>
1000 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
1001 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
1002 </listitem>
1003 <listitem>
1004 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
1005 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
1006 </listitem>
1007 <listitem>
1008 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1009 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1010 </listitem>
1011 <listitem>
1012 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1013 of chapter 6.</para>
1014 </listitem>
1015 <listitem>
1016 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1017 library (Bug 1608)</para>
1018 </listitem>
1019 </itemizedlist>
1020 </listitem>
1021
1022 <listitem>
1023 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1024 <itemizedlist>
1025 <listitem>
1026 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1027 from BLFS first.</para>
1028 </listitem>
1029 </itemizedlist>
1030 </listitem>
1031
1032 <listitem>
1033 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1034 <itemizedlist>
1035 <listitem>
1036 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1037 </listitem>
1038 <listitem>
1039 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1040 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1041 </listitem>
1042 </itemizedlist>
1043 </listitem>
1044
1045 <listitem>
1046 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1047 <itemizedlist>
1048 <listitem>
1049 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1050 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1051 </listitem>
1052 <listitem>
1053 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1054 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1055 </listitem>
1056 </itemizedlist>
1057 </listitem>
1058
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1061 <itemizedlist>
1062 <listitem>
1063 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1064 </listitem>
1065 </itemizedlist>
1066 </listitem>
1067
1068 <listitem>
1069 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1070 <itemizedlist>
1071 <listitem>
1072 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
1073 </listitem>
1074 <listitem>
1075 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
1076 </listitem>
1077 <listitem>
1078 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1079 The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
1080 </listitem>
1081 <listitem>
1082 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
1083 </listitem>
1084 </itemizedlist>
1085 </listitem>
1086
1087 <listitem>
1088 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1089 <itemizedlist>
1090 <listitem>
1091 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1092 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1093 </listitem>
1094 </itemizedlist>
1095 </listitem>
1096
1097 <listitem>
1098 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1099 <itemizedlist>
1100 <listitem>
1101 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1102 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1103 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1104 </listitem>
1105 <listitem>
1106 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1107 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1108 </listitem>
1109 </itemizedlist>
1110 </listitem>
1111
1112 <listitem>
1113 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1114 <itemizedlist>
1115 <listitem>
1116 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1117 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1118 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1119 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1120 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1121 </listitem>
1122 <listitem>
1123 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1124 </listitem>
1125 <listitem>
1126 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1127 </listitem>
1128 </itemizedlist>
1129 </listitem>
1130
1131 <listitem>
1132 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1133 <itemizedlist>
1134 <listitem>
1135 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1136 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1137 </listitem>
1138 </itemizedlist>
1139 </listitem>
1140
1141 <listitem>
1142 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1143 <itemizedlist>
1144 <listitem>
1145 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
1146 </listitem>
1147 <listitem>
1148 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1149 needed.</para>
1150 </listitem>
1151 </itemizedlist>
1152 </listitem>
1153
1154 <listitem>
1155 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1156 <itemizedlist>
1157 <listitem>
1158 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1159 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1160 </listitem>
1161 </itemizedlist>
1162 </listitem>
1163
1164 <listitem>
1165 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1166 <itemizedlist>
1167 <listitem>
1168 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1169 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1170 of the specs patch.</para>
1171 </listitem>
1172 <listitem>
1173 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1174 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1175 </listitem>
1176 </itemizedlist>
1177 </listitem>
1178
1179 <listitem>
1180 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1181 <itemizedlist>
1182 <listitem>
1183 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1184 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1185 </listitem>
1186 <listitem>
1187 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1188 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1189 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1190 </listitem>
1191 </itemizedlist>
1192 </listitem>
1193
1194 <listitem>
1195 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1196 <itemizedlist>
1197 <listitem>
1198 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1199 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1200 </listitem>
1201 <listitem>
1202 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1203 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1204 </listitem>
1205 <listitem>
1206 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1207 5 and 6.</para>
1208 </listitem>
1209 </itemizedlist>
1210 </listitem>
1211
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1214 <itemizedlist>
1215 <listitem>
1216 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1217 </listitem>
1218 <listitem>
1219 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1220 </listitem>
1221 <listitem>
1222 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1223 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1224 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1225 </listitem>
1226 <listitem>
1227 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1228 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1229 </listitem>
1230 <listitem>
1231 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1232 </listitem>
1233 <listitem>
1234 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1235 </listitem>
1236 </itemizedlist>
1237 </listitem>
1238
1239 <listitem>
1240 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1241 <itemizedlist>
1242 <listitem>
1243 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1244 </listitem>
1245 </itemizedlist>
1246 </listitem>
1247
1248 <listitem>
1249 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1250 <itemizedlist>
1251 <listitem>
1252 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1253 </listitem>
1254 <listitem>
1255 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1256 </listitem>
1257 <listitem>
1258 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1259 </listitem>
1260 <listitem>
1261 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1262 </listitem>
1263 <listitem>
1264 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1265 </listitem>
1266 </itemizedlist>
1267 </listitem>
1268
1269 <listitem>
1270 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1271 <itemizedlist>
1272 <listitem>
1273 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1274 as it is not needed.</para>
1275 </listitem>
1276 <listitem>
1277 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1278 </listitem>
1279 <listitem>
1280 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1281 </listitem>
1282 </itemizedlist>
1283 </listitem>
1284
1285 <listitem>
1286 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1287 <itemizedlist>
1288 <listitem>
1289 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1290 </listitem>
1291 <listitem>
1292 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1293 </listitem>
1294 <listitem>
1295 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1296 </listitem>
1297 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1298 </listitem>
1299 </itemizedlist>
1300 </listitem>
1301
1302 <listitem>
1303 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1304 <itemizedlist>
1305 <listitem>
1306 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1307 </listitem>
1308 <listitem>
1309 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1310 </listitem>
1311 <listitem>
1312 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1313 </listitem>
1314 <listitem>
1315 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1316 </listitem>
1317 </itemizedlist>
1318 </listitem>
1319
1320 <listitem>
1321 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1322 <itemizedlist>
1323 <listitem>
1324 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1325 </listitem>
1326 </itemizedlist>
1327 </listitem>
1328
1329 <listitem>
1330 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1331 <itemizedlist>
1332 <listitem>
1333 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1334 </listitem>
1335 </itemizedlist>
1336 </listitem>
1337
1338 <listitem>
1339 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1340 <itemizedlist>
1341 <listitem>
1342 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1343 </listitem>
1344 <listitem>
1345 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1346 </listitem>
1347 <listitem>
1348 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1349 </listitem>
1350 <listitem>
1351 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1352 </listitem>
1353 </itemizedlist>
1354 </listitem>
1355
1356 <listitem>
1357 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1358 <itemizedlist>
1359 <listitem>
1360 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1361 </listitem>
1362 <listitem>
1363 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1364 </listitem>
1365 <listitem>
1366 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
1367 </listitem>
1368 </itemizedlist>
1369 </listitem>
1370
1371 <listitem>
1372 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
1373 <itemizedlist>
1374 <listitem>
1375 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
1376 </listitem>
1377 </itemizedlist>
1378 </listitem>
1379
1380 <listitem>
1381 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
1382 <itemizedlist>
1383 <listitem>
1384 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
1385 </listitem>
1386 <listitem>
1387 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
1388 </listitem>
1389 </itemizedlist>
1390 </listitem>
1391
1392 <listitem>
1393 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
1394 <itemizedlist>
1395 <listitem>
1396 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
1397 </listitem>
1398 </itemizedlist>
1399 </listitem>
1400
1401 <listitem>
1402 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
1403 <itemizedlist>
1404 <listitem>
1405 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
1406 </listitem>
1407 </itemizedlist>
1408 </listitem>
1409
1410 <listitem>
1411 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
1412 <itemizedlist>
1413 <listitem>
1414 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
1415 </listitem>
1416 </itemizedlist>
1417 </listitem>
1418
1419 </itemizedlist>
1420
1421 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
1422 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
1423
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