%general-entities; %patches-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via . Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. First a summary, then a detailed log. Upgraded to: Automake &automake-version; Binutils &binutils-version; E2fsprogs &e2fsprogs-version; File &file-version; Findutils &findutils-version; GCC &gcc-version; Gettext &gettext-version; Glibc &glibc-version; GRUB &grub-version; IANA-Etc &iana-etc-version; Libtool &libtool-version; Linux &linux-version; Linux-Libc-Headers &linux-libc-headers-version; Man &man-version; Man-pages &man-pages-version; Perl &perl-version; Shadow &shadow-version; TCL &tcl-version; Udev &udev-version; Zlib &zlib-version; Added: &bzip2-bzgrep-patch; &bzip2-docs-patch; &gcc-linkonce-patch; &gcc-no_fixincludes-patch; &gcc-specs-patch; &glibc-testfix-patch; &perl-libc-patch; &mktemp-tempfile-patch; &util-linux-reiser_crash-patch; &vim-security_fix-patch; Removed: gcc-3.4.3-linkonce-1.patch gcc-3.4.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch iproute2-2.6.11-050330-remove_db-1.patch mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-2.patch perl-5.8.6-libc-1.patch vim-6.3-security_fix-1.patch zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch September 4, 2005 [matt]: Add patch to stop cfdisk segfaulting when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an e2fs, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604) September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20 September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25 August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12 August 28th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter six builds for consistency August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring rules (fixes bug 1622) August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a August 20th, 2005 [matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620). August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068 August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00 August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15 August 18th, 2005 [matt]: Refrain from using the undocumented --print-file switch for GCC's spec file edit. Use -print-file-name=specs instead (Greg Schafer). August 18th, 2005 [ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of filenames. August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600). August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5. August 14th, 2005 [ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as advised by Greg Schafer. August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Add a sed to prevent the UFS test from being run (fixes bug 1595). August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes bug 1603). August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4. August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing test (bug 1611). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files (fixes bug 1601). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613). August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start of chapter 6. August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed library (Bug 1608) August 7th, 2005 [archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib from BLFS first. August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files. August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest modeline vulnerability. July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation (Randy McMurchy). July 29th, 2005 [manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc. July 27th, 2005 [matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs). July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Remove groups from the list of programs installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils instead (Randy McMurchy). July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds license and copyright information to the previous version. July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book, so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page document (PDF). Now at least we publically acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors. July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07. July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3. July 22nd, 2005 [manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output. July 19th, 2005 [matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy) July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3. July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-063. July 13th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-062. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10. July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10. July 6th, 2005 [archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again as it is not needed. July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38. July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-1.6. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to file 4.14. July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10. June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03. May 24th, 2005 [jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2. May 23nd, 2005 [jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Udev-058. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4. May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16. May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97. May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16. April 15, 2005 [jim]: Updated to udev 057. April 14, 2005 [jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02. April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5. April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4. April 12, 2005 [manuel]: Small redaction changes. April 11, 2005 [manuel]: Several tags and text corrections. April 6, 2005 [jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver). Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.