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9 <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>
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 15, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-config-20060515. This adds the rule
44 to create /dev/usb nodes as well as making the rules files slightly
45 more modular by reorganizing which rules go to which files. This is a
46 very minor update.</para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.32.</para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-092.</para>
53 </listitem>
54 </itemizedlist>
55 </listitem>
56
57 <listitem>
58 <para>May 14, 2006</para>
59 <itemizedlist>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>[manuel] - Updated SBU and disk usage values.</para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>[manuel] - Created packages.ent. Moved data about packages
65 to packages.ent as entities.</para>
66 </listitem>
67 </itemizedlist>
68 </listitem>
69
70 <listitem>
71 <para>May 12, 2006</para>
72 <itemizedlist>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.16.</para>
75 </listitem>
76 </itemizedlist>
77 </listitem>
78
79 <listitem>
80 <para>May 9, 2006</para>
81 <itemizedlist>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>[manuel] - Updated packages and patches sizes.</para>
84 </listitem>
85 </itemizedlist>
86 </listitem>
87
88 <listitem>
89 <para>May 8, 2006</para>
90 <itemizedlist>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>[archaic] - Made the directory tree creation more concise and
93 removed the extraneous /opt/* hierarchy (it is not required by
94 FHS). Closes ticket #1656.</para>
95 </listitem>
96 </itemizedlist>
97 </listitem>
98
99 <listitem>
100 <para>May 7, 2006</para>
101 <itemizedlist>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.14.</para>
104 </listitem>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>[ken] - Use ext3 filesystem instead of ext2.
107 Resolves ticket #1792.</para>
108 </listitem>
109 </itemizedlist>
110 </listitem>
111
112 <listitem>
113 <para>May 6, 2006</para>
114 <itemizedlist>
115 <listitem>
116 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added MD5 sums for packages and patches.
117 Resolves ticket #1788.</para>
118 </listitem>
119 </itemizedlist>
120 </listitem>
121
122 <listitem>
123 <para>May 3, 2006</para>
124 <itemizedlist>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.16.13.</para>
127 </listitem>
128 <listitem>
129 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current
130 findings. Resolves ticket #1657.</para>
131 </listitem>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent
134 leakage reports.</para>
135 </listitem>
136 </itemizedlist>
137 </listitem>
138
139 <listitem>
140 <para>May 2, 2006</para>
141 <itemizedlist>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC
144 and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768.</para>
145 </listitem>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
148 it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
149 </listitem>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
152 </listitem>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
155 </listitem>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
158 </listitem>
159 </itemizedlist>
160 </listitem>
161
162 <listitem>
163 <para>May 1, 2006</para>
164 <itemizedlist>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
167 Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
168 and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
169 </listitem>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
172 re-install its binaries.</para>
173 </listitem>
174 <listitem>
175 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
176 </listitem>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
179 udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
180 program.</para>
181 </listitem>
182 </itemizedlist>
183 </listitem>
184
185 <listitem>
186 <para>April 27, 2006</para>
187 <itemizedlist>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
190 acknowledgements.</para>
191 </listitem>
192 </itemizedlist>
193 </listitem>
194
195 <listitem>
196 <para>April 23, 2006</para>
197 <itemizedlist>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
200 ownership. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
201 </listitem>
202 </itemizedlist>
203 </listitem>
204
205 <listitem>
206 <para>April 22, 2006</para>
207 <itemizedlist>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
210 wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
211 ticket #1779.</para>
212 </listitem>
213 </itemizedlist>
214 </listitem>
215
216 <listitem>
217 <para>April 21, 2006</para>
218 <itemizedlist>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
221 required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
222 for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for reviewing the
223 wording.</para>
224 </listitem>
225 <listitem>
226 <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
227 R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
228 </listitem>
229 </itemizedlist>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>April 20, 2006</para>
234 <itemizedlist>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
237 Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
238 </listitem>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
241 is required on the host system.</para>
242 </listitem>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
245 for the patch.</para>
246 </listitem>
247 </itemizedlist>
248 </listitem>
249
250 <listitem>
251 <para>April 19, 2006</para>
252 <itemizedlist>
253 <listitem>
254 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
255 software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
256 and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
257 Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
258 </listitem>
259 </itemizedlist>
260 </listitem>
261
262 <listitem>
263 <para>April 18, 2006</para>
264 <itemizedlist>
265 <listitem>
266 <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
267 Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
268 build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
269 information is complete enough at this point to close out the
270 long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
271 and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
272 </listitem>
273 </itemizedlist>
274 </listitem>
275
276 <listitem>
277 <para>April 15, 2006</para>
278 <itemizedlist>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
281 </listitem>
282 <listitem>
283 <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
284 that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
285 </listitem>
286 </itemizedlist>
287 </listitem>
288
289 <listitem>
290 <para>April 14, 2006</para>
291 <itemizedlist>
292 <listitem>
293 <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
294 </listitem>
295 <listitem>
296 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
297 command changes.</para>
298 </listitem>
299 <listitem>
300 <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
301 replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
302 inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
303 Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
304 </listitem>
305 </itemizedlist>
306 </listitem>
307
308 <listitem>
309 <para>April 13, 2006</para>
310 <itemizedlist>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
313 removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
314 </listitem>
315 <listitem>
316 <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
317 </listitem>
318 <listitem>
319 <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
320 Shadow.</para>
321 </listitem>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
324 </listitem>
325 </itemizedlist>
326 </listitem>
327
328 <listitem>
329 <para>April 12, 2006</para>
330 <itemizedlist>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
333 Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
334 </listitem>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
337 Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
338 convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
339 Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
340 </listitem>
341 <listitem>
342 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
343 in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
344 the symlink we used to create.</para>
345 </listitem>
346 </itemizedlist>
347 </listitem>
348
349 <listitem>
350 <para>April 11, 2006</para>
351 <itemizedlist>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
354 </listitem>
355 </itemizedlist>
356 </listitem>
357
358 <listitem>
359 <para>April 8, 2006</para>
360 <itemizedlist>
361 <listitem>
362 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
363 in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
364 programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
365 slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
366 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
367 </listitem>
368 </itemizedlist>
369 </listitem>
370
371 <listitem>
372 <para>April 6, 2006</para>
373 <itemizedlist>
374 <listitem>
375 <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
376 links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
377 </listitem>
378 <listitem>
379 <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
380 </listitem>
381 </itemizedlist>
382 </listitem>
383
384 <listitem>
385 <para>April 2, 2006</para>
386 <itemizedlist>
387 <listitem>
388 <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
389 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
390 mounting of kernel filesystems before the package management page and
391 rewrote the page to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel
392 filesystems while outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering
393 chroot and remounting kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list
394 of dirs created in chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
395 </listitem>
396 </itemizedlist>
397 </listitem>
398
399 <listitem>
400 <para>March 30, 2006</para>
401 <itemizedlist>
402 <listitem>
403 <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
404 Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
405 </listitem>
406 <listitem>
407 <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
408 and Udev-088.</para>
409 </listitem>
410 </itemizedlist>
411 </listitem>
412
413 <listitem>
414 <para>March 29, 2006</para>
415 <itemizedlist>
416 <listitem>
417 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
418 to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
419 the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
420 </listitem>
421 </itemizedlist>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>March 22, 2006</para>
426 <itemizedlist>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>[archaic] - Updated to
429 lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
430 </listitem>
431 </itemizedlist>
432 </listitem>
433
434 <listitem>
435 <para>March 21, 2006</para>
436 <itemizedlist>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
439 hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
440 udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
441 </para>
442 </listitem>
443 </itemizedlist>
444 </listitem>
445
446 <listitem>
447 <para>March 18, 2006</para>
448 <itemizedlist>
449 <listitem>
450 <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
451 is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
452 patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
453 </listitem>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
456 tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
457 #1713.</para>
458 </listitem>
459 <listitem>
460 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
461 </listitem>
462 <listitem>
463 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
464 </listitem>
465 <listitem>
466 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
467 </listitem>
468 <listitem>
469 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
470 </listitem>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
473 </listitem>
474 <listitem>
475 <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
476 patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
477 installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
478 </listitem>
479 </itemizedlist>
480 </listitem>
481
482 <listitem>
483 <para>March 11, 2006</para>
484 <itemizedlist>
485 <listitem>
486 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
487 </listitem>
488 </itemizedlist>
489 </listitem>
490
491 <listitem>
492 <para>March 8, 2006</para>
493 <itemizedlist>
494 <listitem>
495 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
496 </listitem>
497 <listitem>
498 <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
499 does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
500 Patrakov.</para>
501 </listitem>
502 <listitem>
503 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
504 </listitem>
505 <listitem>
506 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
507 </listitem>
508 <listitem>
509 <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
510 present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
511 </listitem>
512 </itemizedlist>
513 </listitem>
514
515 <listitem>
516 <para>March 7, 2006</para>
517 <itemizedlist>
518 <listitem>
519 <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
520 upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
521 device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
522 </listitem>
523 <listitem>
524 <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
525 LFS-style patch.</para>
526 </listitem>
527 </itemizedlist>
528 </listitem>
529
530 <listitem>
531 <para>March 3, 2006</para>
532 <itemizedlist>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
535 to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
536 </listitem>
537 </itemizedlist>
538 </listitem>
539
540 <listitem>
541 <para>March 1, 2006</para>
542 <itemizedlist>
543 <listitem>
544 <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
545 symlinks.</para>
546 </listitem>
547 <listitem>
548 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
549 help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
550 </listitem>
551 </itemizedlist>
552 </listitem>
553
554 <listitem>
555 <para>February 27, 2006</para>
556 <itemizedlist>
557 <listitem>
558 <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
559 upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
560 </listitem>
561 </itemizedlist>
562 </listitem>
563
564 <listitem>
565 <para>February 20, 2006</para>
566 <itemizedlist>
567 <listitem>
568 <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
569 keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
570 expanded by the shell.</para>
571 </listitem>
572 <listitem>
573 <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
574 </listitem>
575 <listitem>
576 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
577 </listitem>
578 </itemizedlist>
579 </listitem>
580
581 <listitem>
582 <para>February 19, 2006</para>
583 <itemizedlist>
584 <listitem>
585 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
586 to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
587 </listitem>
588 <listitem>
589 <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
590 every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
591 </listitem>
592 <listitem>
593 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
594 </listitem>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
597 </listitem>
598 <listitem>
599 <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
600 --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
601 for the report and the fix.</para>
602 </listitem>
603 <listitem>
604 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
605 </listitem>
606 <listitem>
607 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
608 </listitem>
609 <listitem>
610 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
611 </listitem>
612 <listitem>
613 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
614 </listitem>
615 <listitem>
616 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
617 </listitem>
618 <listitem>
619 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
620 </listitem>
621 <listitem>
622 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
623 vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
624 </listitem>
625 <listitem>
626 <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
627 Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
628 </listitem>
629 <listitem>
630 <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
631 instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
632 &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
633 <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
634 can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
635 </listitem>
636 </itemizedlist>
637 </listitem>
638
639 <listitem>
640 <para>February 10, 2006</para>
641 <itemizedlist>
642 <listitem>
643 <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
644 changes.</para>
645 </listitem>
646 </itemizedlist>
647 </listitem>
648
649 <listitem>
650 <para>February 8, 2006</para>
651 <itemizedlist>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
654 reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
655 module loading.</para>
656 </listitem>
657 </itemizedlist>
658 </listitem>
659
660 <listitem>
661 <para>February 3, 2006</para>
662 <itemizedlist>
663 <listitem>
664 <para>[matthew] - Create the
665 <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
666 can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
667 </para>
668 </listitem>
669 <listitem>
670 <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
671 </listitem>
672 <listitem>
673 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
674 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
675 </listitem>
676 <listitem>
677 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
678 download.</para>
679 </listitem>
680 <listitem>
681 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
682 </listitem>
683 </itemizedlist>
684 </listitem>
685
686 <listitem>
687 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
688 <itemizedlist>
689 <listitem>
690 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
691 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
692 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
693 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
694 </listitem>
695 <listitem>
696 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript.
697 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
698 </listitem>
699 <listitem>
700 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
701 </listitem>
702 </itemizedlist>
703 </listitem>
704
705 <listitem>
706 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
707 <itemizedlist>
708 <listitem>
709 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
710 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
711 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
712 </listitem>
713 <listitem>
714 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
715 Staub.</para>
716 </listitem>
717 <listitem>
718 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
719 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
720 </listitem>
721 </itemizedlist>
722 </listitem>
723
724 <listitem>
725 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
726 <itemizedlist>
727 <listitem>
728 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
729 </listitem>
730 <listitem>
731 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
732 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
733 </listitem>
734 </itemizedlist>
735 </listitem>
736
737 <listitem>
738 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
739 <itemizedlist>
740 <listitem>
741 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
742 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
743 </listitem>
744 <listitem>
745 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
746 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
747 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
748 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
749 </listitem>
750 <listitem>
751 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
752 section.</para>
753 </listitem>
754 </itemizedlist>
755 </listitem>
756
757 <listitem>
758 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
759 <itemizedlist>
760 <listitem>
761 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
762 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
763 </listitem>
764 <listitem>
765 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
766 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
767 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
768 </listitem>
769 <listitem>
770 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
771 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
772 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
773 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
774 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
775 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
776 issue.</para>
777 </listitem>
778 <listitem>
779 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
780 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
781 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
782 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
783 </listitem>
784 <listitem>
785 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
786 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
787 </listitem>
788 </itemizedlist>
789 </listitem>
790
791 <listitem>
792 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
793 <itemizedlist>
794 <listitem>
795 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
796 </listitem>
797 </itemizedlist>
798 </listitem>
799
800 <listitem>
801 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
802 <itemizedlist>
803 <listitem>
804 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
805 </listitem>
806 <listitem>
807 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
808 </listitem>
809 <listitem>
810 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
811 </listitem>
812 <listitem>
813 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
814 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
815 </listitem>
816 <listitem>
817 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
818 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
819 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
820 </listitem>
821 </itemizedlist>
822 </listitem>
823
824 <listitem>
825 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
826 <itemizedlist>
827 <listitem>
828 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
829 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
830 it out.</para>
831 </listitem>
832 </itemizedlist>
833 </listitem>
834
835 <listitem>
836 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
837 <itemizedlist>
838 <listitem>
839 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
840 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
841 </listitem>
842 </itemizedlist>
843 </listitem>
844
845 <listitem>
846 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
847 <itemizedlist>
848 <listitem>
849 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
850 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
851 to Greg Schafer.</para>
852 </listitem>
853 <listitem>
854 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
855 gccbug.</para>
856 </listitem>
857 </itemizedlist>
858 </listitem>
859
860 <listitem>
861 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
862 <itemizedlist>
863 <listitem>
864 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
865 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
866 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
867 for explaining this.</para>
868 </listitem>
869 <listitem>
870 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
871 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
872 </listitem>
873 <listitem>
874 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
875 use mktemp.</para>
876 </listitem>
877 <listitem>
878 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
879 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
880 Randy McMurchy.</para>
881 </listitem>
882 </itemizedlist>
883 </listitem>
884
885 <listitem>
886 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
887 <itemizedlist>
888 <listitem>
889 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
890 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
891 </listitem>
892 <listitem>
893 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
894 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
895 </listitem>
896 </itemizedlist>
897 </listitem>
898
899 <listitem>
900 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
901 <itemizedlist>
902 <listitem>
903 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
904 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
905 </listitem>
906 <listitem>
907 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
908 </listitem>
909 <listitem>
910 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
911 </listitem>
912 <listitem>
913 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
914 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
915 </listitem>
916 </itemizedlist>
917 </listitem>
918
919 <listitem>
920 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
921 <itemizedlist>
922 <listitem>
923 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
924 to be repeatable.</para>
925 </listitem>
926 </itemizedlist>
927 </listitem>
928
929 <listitem>
930 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
931 <itemizedlist>
932 <listitem>
933 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
934 </listitem>
935 </itemizedlist>
936 </listitem>
937
938 <listitem>
939 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
940 <itemizedlist>
941 <listitem>
942 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
943 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
944 </listitem>
945 </itemizedlist>
946 </listitem>
947
948 <listitem>
949 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
950 <itemizedlist>
951 <listitem>
952 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
953 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
954 </listitem>
955 <listitem>
956 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
957 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
958 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
959 </listitem>
960 <listitem>
961 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
962 </listitem>
963 <listitem>
964 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
965 </listitem>
966 </itemizedlist>
967 </listitem>
968
969 <listitem>
970 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
971 <itemizedlist>
972 <listitem>
973 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
974 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
975 </listitem>
976 </itemizedlist>
977 </listitem>
978
979 <listitem>
980 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
981 <itemizedlist>
982 <listitem>
983 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
984 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
985 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
986 bug 1670).</para>
987 </listitem>
988 </itemizedlist>
989 </listitem>
990
991 <listitem>
992 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
993 <itemizedlist>
994 <listitem>
995 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
996 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
997 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
998 </listitem>
999 </itemizedlist>
1000 </listitem>
1001
1002 <listitem>
1003 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
1004 <itemizedlist>
1005 <listitem>
1006 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
1007 </listitem>
1008 <listitem>
1009 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
1010 </listitem>
1011 <listitem>
1012 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
1013 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
1014 </listitem>
1015 <listitem>
1016 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
1017 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
1018 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1019 </listitem>
1020 <listitem>
1021 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
1022 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1023 </listitem>
1024 </itemizedlist>
1025 </listitem>
1026
1027 <listitem>
1028 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
1029 <itemizedlist>
1030 <listitem>
1031 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
1032 </listitem>
1033 <listitem>
1034 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
1035 </para>
1036 </listitem>
1037 <listitem>
1038 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
1039 </listitem>
1040 </itemizedlist>
1041 </listitem>
1042
1043 <listitem>
1044 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
1045 <itemizedlist>
1046 <listitem>
1047 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
1048 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
1049 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
1050 </listitem>
1051 </itemizedlist>
1052 </listitem>
1053
1054 <listitem>
1055 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
1056 <itemizedlist>
1057 <listitem>
1058 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
1059 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
1060 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
1061 </listitem>
1062 <listitem>
1063 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
1064 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
1065 </listitem>
1066 <listitem>
1067 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
1068 </listitem>
1069 <listitem>
1070 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
1071 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
1072 McMurchy for the report).</para>
1073 </listitem>
1074 <listitem>
1075 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
1076 </listitem>
1077 <listitem>
1078 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
1079 </listitem>
1080 <listitem>
1081 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
1082 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
1083 </listitem>
1084 </itemizedlist>
1085 </listitem>
1086
1087 <listitem>
1088 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
1089 <itemizedlist>
1090 <listitem>
1091 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
1092 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
1093 </listitem>
1094 </itemizedlist>
1095 </listitem>
1096
1097 <listitem>
1098 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
1099 <itemizedlist>
1100 <listitem>
1101 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
1102 package.</para>
1103 </listitem>
1104 </itemizedlist>
1105 </listitem>
1106
1107 <listitem>
1108 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
1109 <itemizedlist>
1110 <listitem>
1111 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
1112 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
1113 </listitem>
1114 </itemizedlist>
1115 </listitem>
1116
1117 <listitem>
1118 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
1119 <itemizedlist>
1120 <listitem>
1121 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
1122 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
1123 </listitem>
1124 </itemizedlist>
1125 </listitem>
1126
1127 <listitem>
1128 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
1129 <itemizedlist>
1130 <listitem>
1131 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
1132 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
1133 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
1134 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
1135 </listitem>
1136 </itemizedlist>
1137 </listitem>
1138
1139 <listitem>
1140 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
1141 <itemizedlist>
1142 <listitem>
1143 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
1144 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
1145 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
1146 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
1147 </listitem>
1148 <listitem>
1149 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
1150 </listitem>
1151 <listitem>
1152 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
1153 Chris Staub.</para>
1154 </listitem>
1155 </itemizedlist>
1156 </listitem>
1157
1158 <listitem>
1159 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
1160 <itemizedlist>
1161 <listitem>
1162 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
1163 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
1164 </listitem>
1165 </itemizedlist>
1166 </listitem>
1167
1168 <listitem>
1169 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
1170 <itemizedlist>
1171 <listitem>
1172 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
1173 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
1174 </listitem>
1175 </itemizedlist>
1176 </listitem>
1177
1178 <listitem>
1179 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
1180 <itemizedlist>
1181 <listitem>
1182 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
1183 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
1184 </listitem>
1185 <listitem>
1186 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
1187 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
1188 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
1189 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
1190 </listitem>
1191 </itemizedlist>
1192 </listitem>
1193
1194 <listitem>
1195 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
1196 <itemizedlist>
1197 <listitem>
1198 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
1199 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
1200 </listitem>
1201 <listitem>
1202 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
1203 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
1204 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
1205 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
1206 </listitem>
1207 <listitem>
1208 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
1209 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
1210 report and the fix.</para>
1211 </listitem>
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
1214 </listitem>
1215 <listitem>
1216 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
1217 </listitem>
1218 <listitem>
1219 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
1220 </listitem>
1221 </itemizedlist>
1222 </listitem>
1223
1224 <listitem>
1225 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
1226 <itemizedlist>
1227 <listitem>
1228 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
1229 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
1230 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
1231 </listitem>
1232 </itemizedlist>
1233 </listitem>
1234
1235 <listitem>
1236 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
1237 <itemizedlist>
1238 <listitem>
1239 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
1240 </listitem>
1241 <listitem>
1242 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
1243 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
1244 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
1245 </listitem>
1246 </itemizedlist>
1247 </listitem>
1248
1249 <listitem>
1250 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
1251 <itemizedlist>
1252 <listitem>
1253 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
1254 </listitem>
1255 <listitem>
1256 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
1257 </listitem>
1258 <listitem>
1259 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
1260 </listitem>
1261 <listitem>
1262 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
1263 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
1264 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
1265 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
1266 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
1267 of LFS.</para>
1268 </listitem>
1269 </itemizedlist>
1270 </listitem>
1271
1272 <listitem>
1273 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
1274 <itemizedlist>
1275 <listitem>
1276 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
1277 </listitem>
1278 <listitem>
1279 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
1280 </listitem>
1281 <listitem>
1282 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
1283 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
1284 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
1285 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
1286 </listitem>
1287 </itemizedlist>
1288 </listitem>
1289
1290 <listitem>
1291 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
1292 <itemizedlist>
1293 <listitem>
1294 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
1295 </listitem>
1296 </itemizedlist>
1297 </listitem>
1298
1299 <listitem>
1300 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
1301 <itemizedlist>
1302 <listitem>
1303 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
1304 </listitem>
1305 <listitem>
1306 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
1307 </listitem>
1308 <listitem>
1309 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
1310 </listitem>
1311 </itemizedlist>
1312 </listitem>
1313
1314 <listitem>
1315 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
1316 <itemizedlist>
1317 <listitem>
1318 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
1319 </listitem>
1320 <listitem>
1321 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
1322 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
1323 </listitem>
1324 <listitem>
1325 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules.
1326 file</para>
1327 </listitem>
1328 </itemizedlist>
1329 </listitem>
1330
1331 <listitem>
1332 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
1333 <itemizedlist>
1334 <listitem>
1335 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
1336 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
1337 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
1338 </listitem>
1339 </itemizedlist>
1340 </listitem>
1341
1342 <listitem>
1343 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
1344 <itemizedlist>
1345 <listitem>
1346 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
1347 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
1348 </listitem>
1349 <listitem>
1350 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
1351 </listitem>
1352 </itemizedlist>
1353 </listitem>
1354
1355 <listitem>
1356 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
1357 <itemizedlist>
1358 <listitem>
1359 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
1360 </listitem>
1361 </itemizedlist>
1362 </listitem>
1363
1364 <listitem>
1365 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
1366 <itemizedlist>
1367 <listitem>
1368 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
1369 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
1370 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
1371 </listitem>
1372 </itemizedlist>
1373 </listitem>
1374
1375 <listitem>
1376 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
1377 <itemizedlist>
1378 <listitem>
1379 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
1380 bug 1629).</para>
1381 </listitem>
1382 <listitem>
1383 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
1384 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
1385 </listitem>
1386 </itemizedlist>
1387 </listitem>
1388
1389 <listitem>
1390 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
1391 <itemizedlist>
1392 <listitem>
1393 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
1394 </listitem>
1395 </itemizedlist>
1396 </listitem>
1397
1398 <listitem>
1399 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
1400 <itemizedlist>
1401 <listitem>
1402 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
1403 </listitem>
1404 <listitem>
1405 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
1406 </listitem>
1407 <listitem>
1408 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
1409 </listitem>
1410 </itemizedlist>
1411 </listitem>
1412
1413 <listitem>
1414 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
1415 <itemizedlist>
1416 <listitem>
1417 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
1418 </listitem>
1419 </itemizedlist>
1420 </listitem>
1421
1422 <listitem>
1423 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
1424 <itemizedlist>
1425 <listitem>
1426 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
1427 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
1428 </listitem>
1429 <listitem>
1430 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
1431 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
1432 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
1433 </listitem>
1434 </itemizedlist>
1435 </listitem>
1436
1437 <listitem>
1438 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
1439 <itemizedlist>
1440 <listitem>
1441 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
1442 vulnerability.</para>
1443 </listitem>
1444 </itemizedlist>
1445 </listitem>
1446
1447 <listitem>
1448 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
1449 <itemizedlist>
1450 <listitem>
1451 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
1452 </listitem>
1453 </itemizedlist>
1454 </listitem>
1455
1456 <listitem>
1457 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
1458 <itemizedlist>
1459 <listitem>
1460 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
1461 </listitem>
1462 </itemizedlist>
1463 </listitem>
1464
1465 <listitem>
1466 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
1467 <itemizedlist>
1468 <listitem>
1469 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
1470 </listitem>
1471 </itemizedlist>
1472 </listitem>
1473
1474 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
1475 <itemizedlist>
1476 <listitem>
1477 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
1478 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
1479 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604).</para>
1480 </listitem>
1481 <listitem>
1482 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20.</para>
1483 </listitem>
1484 <listitem>
1485 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25.</para>
1486 </listitem>
1487 </itemizedlist>
1488 </listitem>
1489
1490 <listitem>
1491 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
1492 <itemizedlist>
1493 <listitem>
1494 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
1495 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
1496 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
1497 to actually work.</para>
1498 </listitem>
1499 <listitem>
1500 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
1501 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
1502 </listitem>
1503 </itemizedlist>
1504 </listitem>
1505
1506 <listitem>
1507 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
1508 <itemizedlist>
1509 <listitem>
1510 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
1511 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
1512 </listitem>
1513 <listitem>
1514 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
1515 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
1516 </listitem>
1517 <listitem>
1518 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
1519 </listitem>
1520 <listitem>
1521 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
1522 gcc-pass2.</para>
1523 </listitem>
1524 </itemizedlist>
1525 </listitem>
1526
1527 <listitem>
1528 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
1529 <itemizedlist>
1530 <listitem>
1531 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
1532 builds for consistency</para>
1533 </listitem>
1534 </itemizedlist>
1535 </listitem>
1536
1537 <listitem>
1538 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
1539 <itemizedlist>
1540 <listitem>
1541 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
1542 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
1543 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
1544 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
1545 </listitem>
1546 <listitem>
1547 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
1548 rules (fixes bug 1622).</para>
1549 </listitem>
1550 <listitem>
1551 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a.</para>
1552 </listitem>
1553 </itemizedlist>
1554 </listitem>
1555
1556 <listitem>
1557 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
1558 <itemizedlist>
1559 <listitem>
1560 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils' binaries to /bin as
1561 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
1562 </listitem>
1563 </itemizedlist>
1564 </listitem>
1565
1566 <listitem>
1567 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
1568 <itemizedlist>
1569 <listitem>
1570 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068.</para>
1571 </listitem>
1572 <listitem>
1573 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00.</para>
1574 </listitem>
1575 <listitem>
1576 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15.</para>
1577 </listitem>
1578 </itemizedlist>
1579 </listitem>
1580
1581 <listitem>
1582 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
1583 <itemizedlist>
1584 <listitem>
1585 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
1586 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
1587 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
1588 </listitem>
1589 <listitem>
1590 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
1591 filenames.</para>
1592 </listitem>
1593 </itemizedlist>
1594 </listitem>
1595
1596 <listitem>
1597 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
1598 <itemizedlist>
1599 <listitem>
1600 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
1601 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
1602 </listitem>
1603 <listitem>
1604 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
1605 </listitem>
1606 </itemizedlist>
1607 </listitem>
1608
1609 <listitem>
1610 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
1611 <itemizedlist>
1612 <listitem>
1613 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
1614 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer).</para>
1615 </listitem>
1616 </itemizedlist>
1617 </listitem>
1618
1619 <listitem>
1620 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
1621 <itemizedlist>
1622 <listitem>
1623 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
1624 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
1625 </listitem>
1626 <listitem>
1627 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
1628 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
1629 </listitem>
1630 <listitem>
1631 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
1632 bug 1603).</para>
1633 </listitem>
1634 <listitem>
1635 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
1636 </listitem>
1637 <listitem>
1638 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
1639 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
1640 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
1641 </listitem>
1642 <listitem>
1643 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
1644 test (bug 1611).</para>
1645 </listitem>
1646 </itemizedlist>
1647 </listitem>
1648
1649 <listitem>
1650 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
1651 <itemizedlist>
1652 <listitem>
1653 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
1654 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
1655 </listitem>
1656 <listitem>
1657 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
1658 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
1659 </listitem>
1660 <listitem>
1661 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1662 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1663 </listitem>
1664 <listitem>
1665 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1666 of chapter 6.</para>
1667 </listitem>
1668 <listitem>
1669 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1670 library (Bug 1608).</para>
1671 </listitem>
1672 </itemizedlist>
1673 </listitem>
1674
1675 <listitem>
1676 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1677 <itemizedlist>
1678 <listitem>
1679 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1680 from BLFS first.</para>
1681 </listitem>
1682 </itemizedlist>
1683 </listitem>
1684
1685 <listitem>
1686 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1687 <itemizedlist>
1688 <listitem>
1689 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1690 </listitem>
1691 <listitem>
1692 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1693 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1694 </listitem>
1695 </itemizedlist>
1696 </listitem>
1697
1698 <listitem>
1699 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1700 <itemizedlist>
1701 <listitem>
1702 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1703 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1704 </listitem>
1705 <listitem>
1706 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1707 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1708 </listitem>
1709 </itemizedlist>
1710 </listitem>
1711
1712 <listitem>
1713 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1714 <itemizedlist>
1715 <listitem>
1716 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1717 </listitem>
1718 </itemizedlist>
1719 </listitem>
1720
1721 <listitem>
1722 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1723 <itemizedlist>
1724 <listitem>
1725 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd.</para>
1726 </listitem>
1727 <listitem>
1728 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils.</para>
1729 </listitem>
1730 <listitem>
1731 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1732 The test no longer fails under GCC-4.</para>
1733 </listitem>
1734 <listitem>
1735 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar.</para>
1736 </listitem>
1737 </itemizedlist>
1738 </listitem>
1739
1740 <listitem>
1741 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1742 <itemizedlist>
1743 <listitem>
1744 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1745 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1746 </listitem>
1747 </itemizedlist>
1748 </listitem>
1749
1750 <listitem>
1751 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1752 <itemizedlist>
1753 <listitem>
1754 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1755 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1756 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1757 </listitem>
1758 <listitem>
1759 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1760 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1761 </listitem>
1762 </itemizedlist>
1763 </listitem>
1764
1765 <listitem>
1766 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1767 <itemizedlist>
1768 <listitem>
1769 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1770 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1771 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1772 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1773 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1774 </listitem>
1775 <listitem>
1776 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1777 </listitem>
1778 <listitem>
1779 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1780 </listitem>
1781 </itemizedlist>
1782 </listitem>
1783
1784 <listitem>
1785 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1786 <itemizedlist>
1787 <listitem>
1788 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1789 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1790 </listitem>
1791 </itemizedlist>
1792 </listitem>
1793
1794 <listitem>
1795 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1796 <itemizedlist>
1797 <listitem>
1798 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc.</para>
1799 </listitem>
1800 <listitem>
1801 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1802 needed.</para>
1803 </listitem>
1804 </itemizedlist>
1805 </listitem>
1806
1807 <listitem>
1808 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1809 <itemizedlist>
1810 <listitem>
1811 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1812 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1813 </listitem>
1814 </itemizedlist>
1815 </listitem>
1816
1817 <listitem>
1818 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1819 <itemizedlist>
1820 <listitem>
1821 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1822 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1823 of the specs patch.</para>
1824 </listitem>
1825 <listitem>
1826 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1827 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1828 </listitem>
1829 </itemizedlist>
1830 </listitem>
1831
1832 <listitem>
1833 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1834 <itemizedlist>
1835 <listitem>
1836 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1837 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1838 </listitem>
1839 <listitem>
1840 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1841 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1842 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1843 </listitem>
1844 </itemizedlist>
1845 </listitem>
1846
1847 <listitem>
1848 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1849 <itemizedlist>
1850 <listitem>
1851 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1852 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1853 </listitem>
1854 <listitem>
1855 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1856 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1857 </listitem>
1858 <listitem>
1859 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1860 5 and 6.</para>
1861 </listitem>
1862 </itemizedlist>
1863 </listitem>
1864
1865 <listitem>
1866 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1867 <itemizedlist>
1868 <listitem>
1869 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1870 </listitem>
1871 <listitem>
1872 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1873 </listitem>
1874 <listitem>
1875 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1876 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1877 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1878 </listitem>
1879 <listitem>
1880 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1881 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1882 </listitem>
1883 <listitem>
1884 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1885 </listitem>
1886 <listitem>
1887 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1888 </listitem>
1889 </itemizedlist>
1890 </listitem>
1891
1892 <listitem>
1893 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1894 <itemizedlist>
1895 <listitem>
1896 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1897 </listitem>
1898 </itemizedlist>
1899 </listitem>
1900
1901 <listitem>
1902 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1903 <itemizedlist>
1904 <listitem>
1905 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1906 </listitem>
1907 <listitem>
1908 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1909 </listitem>
1910 <listitem>
1911 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1912 </listitem>
1913 <listitem>
1914 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1915 </listitem>
1916 <listitem>
1917 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1918 </listitem>
1919 </itemizedlist>
1920 </listitem>
1921
1922 <listitem>
1923 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1924 <itemizedlist>
1925 <listitem>
1926 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1927 as it is not needed.</para>
1928 </listitem>
1929 <listitem>
1930 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1931 </listitem>
1932 <listitem>
1933 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1934 </listitem>
1935 </itemizedlist>
1936 </listitem>
1937
1938 <listitem>
1939 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1940 <itemizedlist>
1941 <listitem>
1942 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1943 </listitem>
1944 <listitem>
1945 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1946 </listitem>
1947 <listitem>
1948 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1949 </listitem>
1950 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1951 </listitem>
1952 </itemizedlist>
1953 </listitem>
1954
1955 <listitem>
1956 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1957 <itemizedlist>
1958 <listitem>
1959 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1960 </listitem>
1961 <listitem>
1962 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1963 </listitem>
1964 <listitem>
1965 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1966 </listitem>
1967 <listitem>
1968 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1969 </listitem>
1970 </itemizedlist>
1971 </listitem>
1972
1973 <listitem>
1974 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1975 <itemizedlist>
1976 <listitem>
1977 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1978 </listitem>
1979 </itemizedlist>
1980 </listitem>
1981
1982 <listitem>
1983 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1984 <itemizedlist>
1985 <listitem>
1986 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1987 </listitem>
1988 </itemizedlist>
1989 </listitem>
1990
1991 <listitem>
1992 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1993 <itemizedlist>
1994 <listitem>
1995 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1996 </listitem>
1997 <listitem>
1998 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1999 </listitem>
2000 <listitem>
2001 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
2002 </listitem>
2003 <listitem>
2004 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
2005 </listitem>
2006 </itemizedlist>
2007 </listitem>
2008
2009 <listitem>
2010 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
2011 <itemizedlist>
2012 <listitem>
2013 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
2014 </listitem>
2015 <listitem>
2016 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
2017 </listitem>
2018 <listitem>
2019 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
2020 </listitem>
2021 </itemizedlist>
2022 </listitem>
2023
2024 <listitem>
2025 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
2026 <itemizedlist>
2027 <listitem>
2028 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
2029 </listitem>
2030 </itemizedlist>
2031 </listitem>
2032
2033 <listitem>
2034 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
2035 <itemizedlist>
2036 <listitem>
2037 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
2038 </listitem>
2039 <listitem>
2040 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
2041 </listitem>
2042 </itemizedlist>
2043 </listitem>
2044
2045 <listitem>
2046 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
2047 <itemizedlist>
2048 <listitem>
2049 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
2050 </listitem>
2051 </itemizedlist>
2052 </listitem>
2053
2054 <listitem>
2055 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
2056 <itemizedlist>
2057 <listitem>
2058 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
2059 </listitem>
2060 </itemizedlist>
2061 </listitem>
2062
2063 <listitem>
2064 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
2065 <itemizedlist>
2066 <listitem>
2067 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
2068 </listitem>
2069 </itemizedlist>
2070 </listitem>
2071
2072 </itemizedlist>
2073
2074 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
2075 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
2076
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