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<title>Changelog</title>
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<para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
&releasedate;. If this book is more than two months old, a newer and better
version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;"/>.</para>

<para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book,
first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>automake-1.9</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bash-3.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>binutils-2.15</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bison-1.875a</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>expect-5.42.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>file-4.10</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>flex-2.5.31</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.4-20040701</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>groff-1.19.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-2.2.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.6.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>m4-1.4.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5n</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.67</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>perl-5.8.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procps-3.2.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>psmisc-21.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sed-4.1.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tar-1.14</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>tcl-8.4.7</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.3</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>Added:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.2.1-suppress_hostname_uptime_kill_su-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>flex-2.5.31-debian_fixes-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>iproute2-2.6.8-ss040730</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>iproute2-2.6.8-ss040730-remove_db-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-libc-headers-2.6.7.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>module-init-tools-3.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>readline-5.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-signal-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.85-proclen-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>udev-030</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>udev-config-1.permissions</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>udev-config-1.rules</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.12a-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.3 language files</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
 
<listitem><para>Removed:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>bison-1.875-attribute.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>coreutils-5.2.1-hostname-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>ed-0.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>kbd-1.12-more-programs-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.25</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>net-tools-1.60</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>net-tools-1.60-miitool-gcc33-1.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>procinfo-18</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>August 8th, 2004 [gerard]: Upgraded to
iproute2-2.6.8-ss040730.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 8th, 2004 [gerard]: Added notes regarding
missing test suites for diffutils, ncurses, patch, utils-linux and
udev. Added note to chapter05/perl not to run the test
suite.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 7th, 2004 [gerard]: Completed global textual
edits.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 7th, 2004 [gerard]: Upgraded to
expect-5.42.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 7th, 2004 [gerard]: hostname binary moved to
/bin as well.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>August 3rd, 2004 [jim]: Made suggested change to the
home location of pt_chown</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 30, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to automake-1.9, man-1.5n,
file-4.10, bash-3.0, perl-5.8.5, readline-5.0, tcl-8.4.7, binutils-2.15.91.0.2
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 22, 2004 [manuel]: Prologue: Added a para about
replaceable text</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 20, 2004 [jeremy]: Corrected the double-creation of /var/tmp (Kris van Rens and others)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 19, 2004 [matt]: Upgraded to udev-030.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 19, 2004 [matt]: Upgraded to procps-3.2.2.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 16, 2004 [matt]: Install iproute2 to /sbin to
comply with the FHS and to allow the bootscripts to run even if /usr is
mounted on a separate filesystem. (Oliver Brakmann)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 15, 2004 [matt]: Fixed various networking inaccuracies
(Kevin P. Fleming)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 14, 2004 [matt]: chapter07/network.xml - A couple
of minor fixes for the network configuration</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 14, 2004 [matt]: chapter06/iproute2.xml - Fixed
remaining reference to net-tools</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 14, 2004 [matt]: chapter06/udev.xml - Explained udevdir
option</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 12, 2004 [matt]: Network bootscripts now support directory
based configurations.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 12, 2004 [matt]: Upgraded to lfs-bootscripts-2.2.0.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>July 12, 2004 [matt]: Swapped iproute2 in for net-tools (kudos
and many thanks to Jim Gifford)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 7, 2004 [matt]: Removed hotplug.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 6, 2004 [matt]: Upgraded to sed-4.1.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 5, 2004 [alexander]: Updated GCC testresults
link.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 3, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040701.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>July 2, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GCC 3.4.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>July 2, 2004 [winkie]: Updated the Udev permissions
configuration to include the nvidia kernel modules.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 29, 2004 [alexander]: Explained the benefits of setting
LC_ALL properly.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 28, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Udev 028, and dropped the
Udev permissions patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 28, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.2.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 27, 2004 [matt]: Moved glibc test result discussion to
chapter 6 (where it is actually recommended to be run).  Also made it clearer
that the tests in chapter 5 are optional, as opposed to
<emphasis>not recommended</emphasis></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 26, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GCC 3.4.1-20040625.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>June 26, 2004 [matt]: Added descriptions for udev package
contents (Alexander Patrakov)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.7.0
and updated the Net-tools GCC 3.4 patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [alexander]: Wordings changed on the hotplug
page</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [alexander]: Removed hotplug isapnp patch for a
while until bugs are fixed</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 23, 2004 [matt]: Removed the note regarding the use of
GRUB's --no-mem-option</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 23, 2004 [matt]: Removed dpasswd from shadow's list of
installed files.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 23, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.2-pre2.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 21, 2004 [winkie]: Added the Udev permissions patch to fix
a regression from version 023 (really nasty bug, too).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 20, 2004 [matt]: chapter07 - console.  Add a note regarding
the screen font not being set automatically when the console script isn't run.
(Alexander Patrakov)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 20, 2004 [matt]: chapter03 - packages.  Point people at the
FTP mirrors and GnuPG.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [winkie]: Modified Flex installation to only touch
the flex.1 manual page, since that's the only one that exists.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter05 - hostreqs.  Provide clearer
information regarding determining whether the host kernel is suitable for
passing glibcs testsuite</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - creatingdirs.  Use
`install -d` instead of `mkdir` (fixes bug #821)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter04 - addinguser.  Make the lfs user
a member of the lfs group, in case hosts add a new user to a non-existent gid by
default (which causes the glibc testsuite to fail). Fixes bug #856.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter07 - console &amp; chapter 08 -
kernel.  Improved wording and re-introduced the option for compiling the keymap
directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - e2fsprogs, brought
instructions inline with upstream recommendations.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [manuel]: Applied the Index entries for Hotplug
and Linux-Libc-Headers. Tags corrections.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 18, 2004 [winkie]: Instead of using the udev binary, use
the udev daemon instead.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 17, 2004 [matt]: Added the sed permissions patch.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>June 17, 2004 [matt]: Clarify that a gcc-3.x compiled 2.6.x
kernel is required on the host.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 16, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.7 and dropped the
FPU patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 16, 2004 [alexander]: Removed the fileencodings line due to
a bug which causes Vim to default to UTF-8.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Corrected installation of Readline.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Recreate Udev's entry in /etc/hotplug.d,
since it's not correct for our purposes by default.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped the Udev patch in favor copying
the configuration file(s) to /etc/udev after installation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Sed 4.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Udev 027.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.2-pre1.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Patched the kernel sources so that it
defaults to <filename>/bin/true</filename> as the hotplug manager.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 14, 2004 [matt]: Removed GNU/Linux in line with common
usage regarding the recurring GNU/Linux vs. Linux debate (Larry Lawrence).
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 14, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GRUB 0.95. Removed the
<quote>--no-mem-option</quote> argument from GRUB's
<filename>menu.lst</filename>, since it is now the default.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 13, 2004 [alexander]: Security: added
linux-2.6.6-fpu-1.patch</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Hotplug - corrected the
name of the bogus deps patch</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: British people speak English but
need loadkeys and setfont (reported by Dave Mascall on IRC). Corrected the
text on the console page to account for this</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the <quote>background</quote> option to
/etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an <quote>if</quote>
statement because it applies to some, not all, terminals</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped hackish GRUB instructions in
favor of a patch from upstream.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Force Readline to link against Ncurses.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [alexander]: Added sysvinit-2.85-proclen-1.patch
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Reverted the bogus change of package
order. Removed the <quote>background</quote> line from /etc/vimrc because it matches the
default on Linux console</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Added a command to autodetect the
character set of files being edited to /etc/vimrc
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Added vim language files. Moved
vim after gettext in order for them to work
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to M4-1.4.1, after 9 years!
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.6.0.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [winkie]: Updated locations of the Glibc &amp; GCC
tarballs.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Udev 026.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped Net-tools patch for kernel
headers in favor of a simple sed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Normalized <quote>sed</quote> usage
throughout the book.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Use the
<quote>gcc --print-file specs</quote> command to determine the location of the
<quote>specs</quote> file.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Updated patch names to match those used
by the patches project.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Globally changed <quote>DejaGnu</quote>
to <quote>DejaGNU</quote>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Vim 6.3.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 2, 2004 [matt]: Prologue - acknowledgments, Added Thomas
Reitelbach as the German translator</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 2nd, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GCC 3.4.1-20040601. This
release fixes bugs with reference to both GCC 3.4.0 and GCC 3.4.1-20040517. Also
upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040529 which includes lots of fixes for non-x86
architectures.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 1st, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Binutils 2.15.91.0.1. This
release provides the <quote>-z relro</quote> option.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>June 1st, 2004 [winkie]: Inconsequential wrapping fixes.</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: Mentioned the hotplug+udev+modules
problem. Removed the effectively dead link to the Kernel
HOWTO.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: Corrected usbfs line in
/etc/fstab.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: New LFS bootscripts already come
with the /etc/sysconfig/console file. Corrected the text.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Upgraded psmisc to
21.5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Corrected download location for the
lfs-bootscripts package</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 24, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to libc-headers 2.6.5.2</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>May 23, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Vim - added an option to the
vimrc config file</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 23th, 2004 [alexander]: Don't list the initscript in the
contents of the Hotplug package. The reason is that we use winkie's
replacement script from LFS-Bootscripts.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 23th, 2004 [alexander]: Fixed XML validation
error.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Moved group <quote>usb</quote> to GID
14, instead of 15.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped Hotplug's
<quote>cosmetic</quote> patch in favor of the script from LFS-Bootscripts and
some general textual/rendering cleanups.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Point to the correct GCC patches.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [alexander]: Added Hotplug 2004_04_01.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 19th, 2004 [winkie]: Change permissions of /dev/random to
0444 instead of 0666.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 19th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Binutils 2.15 &amp; GCC
3.4.1-20040517.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 18th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.1.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 16th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Automake-1.8.5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 15th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.1-pre2.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 14th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Groff 1.19.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 14th, 2004 [alexander]: Several textual changes on Vim
page.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Apply patch to assure Coreutils doesn't
install any binaries that we don't need/want.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Don't pass <quote>-default</quote> to
Man's configure, since it's not needed anymore.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Shorten the <quote>sed</quote> used
on Gzip's <filename>gzexe.in</filename> file.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Fixed Coreutils testsuite execution.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2004 [winkie]: Don't build the PCH header for
libstdc++ in Chapter 5 -- it's just a waste of space.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 11th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040510 and
Tar 1.14.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 10th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 8 - Upgraded to Linux 2.6.6.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 7th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - When configuring Vim, pass
the <quote>--enable-multibyte</quote> option.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 6th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Add Readline installation
and use it when building Bash.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 6th, 2004 [winkie]: Added Alexander Patrakov's I18n patch.
</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Create and use the
<quote>utmp</quote> group.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 7 - Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts
2.1.0 and modify the book to work with it.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Install the
<quote>passwd</quote> binary in /bin instead of /usr/bin.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Switch the uname patch we
use, so that we get correct results.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 8 - Use the full LFS version for
the GRUB title.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 5 &amp; 6 - Use new patch
naming <quote>standard</quote>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>May 3rd, 2004 [winkie]: Merged BE-LFS content - thanks to Ron
and Jason Scott for the help they gave to BE-LFS before integration.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>Release of version 5.1.1 on June 6th, 2004.</para>

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