1 | <sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
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2 | <title>Changelog</title>
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3 | <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html" dir="chapter01"?>
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4 |
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5 | <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
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7 | <itemizedlist>
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8 |
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9 | <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
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10 | descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>
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12 | </itemizedlist>
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13 |
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14 | <para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>
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15 |
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16 | <itemizedlist>
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17 |
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18 | <listitem><para>Updated to:
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20 | <itemizedlist>
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21 |
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22 | <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>
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23 |
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24 | </itemizedlist>
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25 |
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26 | </para></listitem>
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27 |
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28 | <listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
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29 | mailing list information to reflect the new ml
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30 | structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
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31 | to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>
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32 |
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33 | <listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
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34 | Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
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35 | --enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads when
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36 | not specified, it's clearer this way what's being enabled.</para></listitem>
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37 |
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38 | <listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
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39 | Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
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40 | isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
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41 | configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
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42 | rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
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43 | /bin).</para></listitem>
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44 |
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45 | <listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
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46 | Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
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47 | /usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
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48 | /usr/bin.</para></listitem>
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49 |
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50 | <listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
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51 | Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>
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52 |
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53 | <listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
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54 | missing && to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
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55 | instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
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56 | running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>
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57 |
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58 | </itemizedlist>
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59 |
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60 | <para>3.0-rc2 - September 8th, 2001</para>
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61 |
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62 | <itemizedlist>
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63 |
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64 | <listitem><para>Updated to:
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65 |
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66 | <itemizedlist>
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67 |
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68 | <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.82</para></listitem>
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69 |
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70 | </itemizedlist>
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71 |
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72 | </para></listitem>
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73 |
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74 | <listitem><para>September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Sysvinit:
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75 | Seperated the commands to change the status msg in init.c from the main
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76 | commands.</para></listitem>
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77 |
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78 | <listitem><para>September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bash: Added
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79 | --login to the exec /bin/bash command.</para></listitem>
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80 |
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81 | <listitem><para>September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - GCC: Removed
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82 | duplicate explanation (the patch and --enable-languages ones) that are
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83 | already in chapter 5 - gcc.</para></listitem>
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84 |
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85 | <listitem><para>September 7th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Sysvinit:
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86 | updated to 2.82.</para></listitem>
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87 |
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88 | <listitem><para>September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 2: Added "How to
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89 | ask for help" section.</para></listitem>
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90 |
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91 | <listitem><para>September 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Makedev:
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92 | changed chmod to 754. Makes more sense, non-root can't run it
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93 | anways.</para></listitem>
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94 |
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95 | <listitem><para>September 6th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Diffutils, Grep
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96 | and Sed: Moved the export CPPFLAGS fixes out of the main install
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97 | instructions and explained when they are necessary.</para></listitem>
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98 |
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99 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Gzip and
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100 | Sh-utils: Moved the patches out of the main install instructions to a
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101 | seperate section as we already do with the tar patch. Also removed
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102 | gzip-exp.xml and shellutils-exp.xml as the explanations are now part of
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103 | the installation text.</para></listitem>
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104 |
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105 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Bash: Added
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106 | notes that the ncurses-dev package must be installed and the libcurses.a
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107 | symlink created if missing. Added --with-curses back to Bash's
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108 | installation, this now functions as a good test to make sure ncurses is
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109 | installed (if not, texinfo will fail).</para></listitem>
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110 |
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111 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Net-tools:
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112 | Instead of running make install, we now run make update. It does the
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113 | same, except make update doesn't make backup of programs it's
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114 | replacing.</para></listitem>
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115 |
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116 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Procinfo:
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117 | Removed sed and replaced with a flag to make.</para></listitem>
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118 |
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119 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
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120 | Added explanation as to why we use --with-root-prefix=/</para></listitem>
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121 |
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122 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: We
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123 | can supply a value to --with-root-prefix now. It's not necessary, but
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124 | it makes things a lot clearer.</para></listitem>
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125 |
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126 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
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127 | Removed command to move mklost+found to /sbin.</para></listitem>
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128 |
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129 | <listitem><para>September 5th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapters 5 & 6: Added
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130 | notes to the gcc, binutils and glibc installations that these packages
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131 | behave badly when the default optimization flags are changed and should
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132 | be left alone.</para></listitem>
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133 |
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134 | <listitem><para>September 4th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Bzip2: Added ln
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135 | command to create /lib/libbz2.so</para></listitem>
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136 |
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137 | <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Appendix A - Psmisc: This
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138 | package provides a pidof as well, added explanation of
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139 | it.</para></listitem>
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140 |
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141 | <listitem><para>September 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed, Vim,
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142 | Shadow: Added missing && after the sed and echo
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143 | commands.</para></listitem>
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144 |
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145 | <listitem><para>September 1st, 2001 [gerard]: Changed links to other
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146 | areas in the book to xml xref tags so you can click on them when reading
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147 | non-html formats (like pdf).</para></listitem>
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148 |
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149 | <listitem><para>September 1st, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - Contact
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150 | information: Changed the text to use one of the mailing lists, not just
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151 | lfs-discuss (and provide a link to maillist.xml for the mailing lists
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152 | list).</para></listitem>
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153 |
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154 | <listitem><para>August 31st, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter7 - mountfs,
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155 | functions: Added the -f option to the rm command that removes fastboot
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156 | and forcecheck. This option should never have been removed in the first
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157 | place.</para></listitem>
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158 |
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159 | </itemizedlist>
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160 |
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161 | <para>3.0-RC1 - August 31st, 2001</para>
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162 |
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163 | <itemizedlist>
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164 |
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165 | <listitem><para>Updated to:
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166 |
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167 | <itemizedlist>
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168 |
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169 | <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.3</para></listitem>
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170 | <listitem><para>autoconf-2.52</para></listitem>
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171 | <listitem><para>automake-1.5</para></listitem>
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172 | <listitem><para>binutils-2.11.2</para></listitem>
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173 | <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.23</para></listitem>
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174 | <listitem><para>file-3.36</para></listitem>
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175 | <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
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176 | <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.39</para></listitem>
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177 | <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.4</para></listitem>
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178 | <listitem><para>groff-1.17.2</para></listitem>
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179 | <listitem><para>linux-2.4.8</para></listitem>
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180 | <listitem><para>man-pages-1.39</para></listitem>
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181 | <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.7</para></listitem>
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182 | <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.81</para></listitem>
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183 | <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11h</para></listitem>
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184 |
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185 | </itemizedlist>
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186 |
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187 | </para></listitem>
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188 |
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189 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter6 - Kbd: Removed the
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190 | removal of the defkeymap file. Instead just make install it, added a
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191 | note that loadkeys -d doesn't work properly and leave it with
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192 | that..</para></listitem>
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193 |
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194 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Binutils:
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195 | removed the -e options to 'make' which aren't necessary anymore. They
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196 | were removed in chapter 5 already, but forgotten to commit changes to
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197 | chapter 6.</para></listitem>
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198 |
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199 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bin86: Added a
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200 | note that this package may not be needed if lilo isn't
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201 | used.</para></listitem>
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202 |
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203 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Added a note
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204 | that nothing in LFS depends on Ed (except for patch, but ed formatted
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205 | patch files are very rare these days), so you can safely skip
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206 | it.</para></listitem>
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207 |
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208 | <listitem><para>August 29th, 2001 [gerard]: Various updates to the text
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209 | through the entire book (mostly grammatical fixes and
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210 | such).</para></listitem>
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211 |
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212 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Texinfo: Added
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213 | the explanation of the make TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf install-tex
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214 | command.</para></listitem>
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215 |
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216 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-M4: Removed the note
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217 | about linking m4 statically outside of chroot. LFS doesn't use
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218 | Glibc-2.1.x anymore, so this claim may not be true. It'll have to be
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219 | tested again.</para></listitem>
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220 |
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221 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6+*: Removed the
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222 | -f flags from cp commands. cp's behaviour has changed with
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223 | fileutils-4.1, doing something totally different than
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224 | expected.</para></listitem>
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225 |
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226 | <listitem><para>August 28th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6: Removed some
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227 | unnecessary line breaks (so a command continues on a next
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228 | line).</para></listitem>
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229 |
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230 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5: The former two sed
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231 | operations are combined into one sed operation now.</para></listitem>
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232 |
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233 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Preface: Inserted the
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234 | currrent LFS website's introduction into "Who wants to read this
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235 | book".</para></listitem>
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236 |
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237 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Synchronized the
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238 | changelog, http and ftp mirrors with the LFS website.</para></listitem>
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239 |
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240 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6-Glibc and Bash:
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241 | simplified the installation instructions. We no longer exit chroot to
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242 | finish the installation. This _may_ not work properly if your host
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243 | distribution is an old 2.0.x based kernel, but we have no way of testing
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244 | this at the moment. We'll deal with that when bug reports come
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245 | in.</para></listitem>
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246 |
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247 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Moved rebooting into LFS from
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248 | chapter 8 to chapter 9, after we run that find
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249 | command.</para></listitem>
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250 |
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251 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Updated the find command in
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252 | chapter 9.</para></listitem>
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253 |
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254 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [markh]: upgraded to e2fsprogs-1.23 and
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255 | MAKEDEV-1.3.</para></listitem>
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256 |
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257 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [gerard]: Added dependency lists for
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258 | all installed packages. You now can see which programs from which
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259 | packages you need in order to compile and install a
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260 | package.</para></listitem>
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261 |
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262 | <listitem><para>August 27th, 2001 [markh]: After a discussion on #lfs,
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263 | we've downgraded the book to linux-2.4.8 due to performance problems
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264 | with 2.4.9.</para></listitem>
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265 |
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266 | <listitem><para>August 26th, 2001 [markh]: Moved appendix c --> appendix d and
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267 | appendix b --> appendix c in order to create room for the dependency
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268 | information to go into appendix b.</para></listitem>
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269 |
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270 | <listitem><para>After much testing and discussing, it's been decided to
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271 | downgrade to gcc-2.95.3 for the time being, until problems with the new
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272 | gcc-3.0 version have been fixed.</para></listitem>
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273 |
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274 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: sed commands for bzip2 and mawk static
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275 | compiles have been replaced with a simpler flag to gcc.</para></listitem>
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276 |
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277 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: A sed for fileutils-4.1 static has been added to
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278 | avoid Segmentation Fault problems on glibc-2.2.3 systems.</para></listitem>
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279 |
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280 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Binutils doens't require us passing -e to
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281 | make in order for LDFLAGS=-static to work properly.</para></listitem>
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282 |
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283 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: GCC isn't statically linked anymore by using
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284 | make -e LDFLAGS=-static, but by make BOOT_LDFLAGS=-static.</para></listitem>
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285 |
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286 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed kernel patch for gcc-3.0
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287 | compilation</para></listitem>
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288 |
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289 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added gcc-patch to fix re_max_failure
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290 | compile problems</para></listitem>
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291 |
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292 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added missing chown root.root
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293 | $LFS/usr/include/linux to kernel installation </para></listitem>
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294 |
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295 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5 & 6: Changed tar patch to use -j for bzip2
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296 | files instead of -y in order to be compatible with next tar release. Also
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297 | renamed patch file to tar-1.13.patch</para></listitem>
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298 |
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299 | <listitem><para>Chapters 5 & 6: Added a new patch for gcc-2.95.3
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300 | which fixes various problems such as the weak symbol
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301 | bug.</para></listitem>
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302 |
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303 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Bzip2 and shadowutils static libraries
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304 | are now put in /usr/lib instead of /lib. There are now also links
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305 | from /usr/lib to their dynamic libraries in /lib to enable the linker to
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306 | still find the dynamic versions.</para></listitem>
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307 |
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308 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: ncurses patch totally
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309 | removed. Static libraries now moved to /usr/lib and libcurses.a symlink
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310 | created manually. A symlink is also created from /usr/lib to the
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311 | dynamic libraries in /lib so that the linker still sees them.</para></listitem>
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312 |
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313 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Yacc script in bison page now uses exec bison
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314 | which replaces the shell.</para></listitem>
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315 |
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316 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Util-linux sed command has been replaced with a
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317 | flag to make.</para></listitem>
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318 |
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319 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Man patch replaced with
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320 | sed command.</para></listitem>
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321 |
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322 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed shadow-utils patch in favour of a sed
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323 | command</para></listitem>
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324 |
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325 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed sysvinit patch in favour of a sed
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326 | command.</para></listitem>
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327 |
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328 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed the Groff command explanation
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329 | regarding CXXFLAGS which has been made obsolete with the update
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330 | to groff-1.17.1</para></listitem>
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331 |
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332 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Moved the net-tools installation until after
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333 | sh-utils so that net-tools can replace sh-utils's
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334 | /bin/hostname.</para></listitem>
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335 |
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336 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: After installing Glibc, run exec /bin/bash
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337 | --login instead of exiting and re-entering the chroot'ed
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338 | environment.</para></listitem>
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339 |
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340 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Changed $* into "$@" in the functions and rc
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341 | scripts. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks.</para></listitem>
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342 |
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343 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added print_error_msg from the rcS script as
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344 | it appears in the rc script as well.</para></listitem>
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345 |
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346 | </itemizedlist>
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347 |
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348 | <para>3.0-pre4 - June 22nd, 2001</para>
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349 |
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350 | <itemizedlist>
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351 |
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352 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Reordered the installations
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353 | alphabetically.</para></listitem>
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354 |
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355 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Moved the installations of ed and
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356 | patch into their alphabetical positions.</para></listitem>
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357 |
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358 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added [ ATTN ] warning message to
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359 | the functions script. When you attemp to start a service that's
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360 | already running or stop a service that's not running, it'll not
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361 | print FAILED anymore but [ ATTN ] along with "Already running"
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362 | or "Not running".</para></listitem>
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363 |
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364 | <listitem><para>Chapter 9: Renamed the network-scripts
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365 | directory in nic-config.</para></listitem>
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366 |
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367 | </itemizedlist>
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368 |
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369 | <para>3.0-pre3 - May 12th, 2001</para>
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370 |
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371 | <itemizedlist>
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372 |
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373 | <listitem><para>Added numerous FHS compliance notes. These
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374 | instructions can be followed if one wishes to build a fully
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375 | FHS-compliant system.</para></listitem>
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376 |
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377 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Updated the directory list to be more
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378 | FHS compliant. Mainly this meant adding the opt directories and
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379 | removing /usr/tmp and /usr/local/tmp</para></listitem>
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380 |
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381 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: We now copy the kernel include directories
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382 | instead of linking to them. This is theoretically safer if we plan on
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383 | upgrading the kernel.</para></listitem>
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384 |
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385 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Removed fileutils-patch. After upgrading
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386 | to fileutils-4.1 the patch isn't needed anymore.</para></listitem>
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387 |
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388 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Put back the instructions on how to
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389 | copy/remove the old NSS library files, in case the original distribution
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390 | uses glibc-2.0.x.</para></listitem>
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391 |
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392 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added the notice about an old version
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393 | of install-info.</para></listitem>
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394 |
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395 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed the installation of a static
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396 | gettext.</para></listitem>
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397 |
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398 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed bin86's installation from
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399 | "make PREFIX=/usr install" to "make INSTALL_OPTS="-m 755"
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400 | PREFIX=/usr install". This will prevent install from invoking strip -s
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401 | on the files. This fails because a couple of the installed files are
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402 | shell scripts rather than programs, so they can't be stripped.</para></listitem>
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403 |
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404 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Removed the ld.so section since we
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405 | only used the man pages and replaced it with a patch to man-pages.</para></listitem>
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406 |
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407 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7+8: Moved the creation of /etc/fstab
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408 | to chapter 8.</para></listitem>
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409 |
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410 | <listitem><para>Appendix A: Added missing descriptions of frcode,
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411 | code and bigram in the findutils-4.1 package.</para></listitem>
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412 |
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413 | </itemizedlist>
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414 |
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415 | <para>3.0-pre2 - April 14th, 2001</para>
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416 |
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417 | <itemizedlist>
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418 |
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419 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Simplified ln commands.</para></listitem>
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420 |
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421 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Removed prefix=$LFS/usr from tar's
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422 | make install.</para></listitem>
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423 |
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424 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Removed --disable-nls from configuration
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425 | of programs that don't need it (bash, diffutils, gzip, sed,
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426 | m4).</para></listitem>
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427 |
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428 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Changed from "cd dir && make"
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429 | to "make -C dir" (gettext-static, sysvinit).</para></listitem>
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430 |
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431 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Beautified the static link process
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432 | for mawk.</para></listitem>
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433 |
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434 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Changed the links we create during
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435 | gcc-installation to $LFS/usr/bin/cpp.</para></listitem>
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436 |
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437 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed the procps installation
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438 | from sed'ing to an easier way.</para></listitem>
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439 |
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440 | <listitem><para> Chapter 6: Changed all "rm file && ln -s dest
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441 | file" into "ln -sf file" (in glibc, bzip2 and gzip
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442 | installations).</para></listitem>
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443 |
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444 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Added a sed to fix a problem during
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445 | glibc-installation. pt_chown can not be installed setuid root,
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446 | because "root" is not known by glibc yet (kind of hen and
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447 | egg-problem).</para></listitem>
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448 |
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449 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed consoledata/tools to kbd, which
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450 | is more actively developed, and less of a pain to install.</para></listitem>
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451 |
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452 | <listitem><para>Appendix A: Added the description of the Netkit-base
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453 | and Net-tools packages.</para></listitem>
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454 |
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455 | </itemizedlist>
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456 |
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457 | <para>3.0-pre1 - February 27th, 2001</para>
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458 |
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459 | <itemizedlist>
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460 |
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461 | <listitem><para>Converted the SGML source to XML.</para></listitem>
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462 |
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463 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Tell the user to use cfdisk rather than
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464 | fdisk. The fdisk man page recommends cfdisk over fdisk because
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465 | it's more stable.</para></listitem>
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466 |
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467 | <listitem><para>Chapter 4: Changed the wording to make it more general
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468 | as ext2 no longer is the only used file system. Reiser for example is
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469 | often used too now.</para></listitem>
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470 |
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471 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo and partially
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472 | gettext to faciliate the move of Glibc from Chapter 5
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473 | to Chapter 6.</para></listitem>
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474 |
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475 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Added Makedev to chapter 5. We don't create
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476 | the device files here, only copy the MAKEDEV script and make a temp
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477 | copy which will be used to create device files. This second file
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478 | (MAKEDEV-temp) doesn't contain user names and group names but only user
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479 | id's and group id's. We need a few device files to get Glibc installed,
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480 | but before GLibc is installed user and group names are not recognized yet;
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481 | only the numeric id's. This requires a slightly modified MAKEDEV script
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482 | which will be generated by patching the original one. This patching is done
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483 | here in chapter 5. Also, fixed the explanations on both
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484 | makedev installations.</para></listitem>
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485 |
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486 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5: Recommended to install all the software
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487 | while logged in (or su'ed to) user root.</para></listitem>
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488 |
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489 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is
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490 | needed to compile the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems
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491 | (such as the upcoming LFS-3.0 system).</para></listitem>
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492 |
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493 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Upgraded from gcc-2.95.2 to
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494 | gcc-2.95.2.1</para></listitem>
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495 |
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496 | <listitem><para>Chapter 5+6: Moved Glibc from chapter 5 to
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497 | chapter 6</para></listitem>
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498 |
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499 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils
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500 | to libexecdir=/bin</para></listitem>
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501 |
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502 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Updated Glibc installation instructions.
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503 | 'configparms' file creation has been deleted. No need to pick a compiler
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504 | (either distro's native or the /usr/local/gcc2952/bin/gcc one);
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505 | we're in chroot now so we'll use the one we have</para></listitem>
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506 |
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507 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Only copy the man pages from the
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508 | ld.so package. We don't need the ldconfig and ldd programs anymore;
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509 | Glibc-2.2.1 comes with good working versions.</para></listitem>
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510 |
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511 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Added the creation of the lex symlink
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512 | to the flex installation.</para></listitem>
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513 |
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514 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Changed $* into "$@" in the yacc script
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515 | during bison's installation. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments
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516 | with blanks. </para></listitem>
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517 |
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518 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Fixed the man page installation during
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519 | console-tools' installation.</para></listitem>
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520 |
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521 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: When entering chroot the $TERM variable
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522 | inside chroot is set properly. This is accomplished by: chroot ...
|
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523 | -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM...</para></listitem>
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524 |
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525 | <listitem><para>Chapter 6: Merged the different sulogin lines from
|
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526 | the inittab file into one line.</para></listitem>
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527 |
|
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528 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Fixed the delays in the killproc function
|
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529 | in the functions script. Now after kill, first check PIDs, then
|
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530 | sleep 2 if needed. More details can be read in the comments
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531 | in the script itself.</para></listitem>
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532 |
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533 | <listitem><para>Chapter 7: Added the explanation how the runlevels
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534 | and boot process works when using the LFS scripts.</para></listitem>
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535 |
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536 | <listitem><para>Chapter 10: Added this chapter. It contains "thanks
|
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537 | and good luck"notes and suggest creating the /etc/lfs-&version;
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538 | file</para></listitem>
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539 |
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540 | </itemizedlist>
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541 |
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542 | </sect1>
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543 |
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