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10
11 <title>Changelog</title>
12
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
17
18 <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
19 book.</para>
20
21 <itemizedlist>
22 <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26 <listitem>
27 <para>Date</para>
28 <itemizedlist>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 </itemizedlist>
36 </listitem>
37-->
38
39 <listitem>
40 <para>May 2, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
44 it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
54 </listitem>
55 </itemizedlist>
56 </listitem>
57
58 <listitem>
59 <para>May 1, 2006</para>
60 <itemizedlist>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
63 Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
64 and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
68 re-install its binaries.</para>
69 </listitem>
70 <listitem>
71 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
72 </listitem>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
75 udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
76 program.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 </itemizedlist>
79 </listitem>
80
81 <listitem>
82 <para>April 27, 2006</para>
83 <itemizedlist>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
86 acknowledgements.</para>
87 </listitem>
88 </itemizedlist>
89 </listitem>
90
91 <listitem>
92 <para>April 23, 2006</para>
93 <itemizedlist>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
96 ownewrship. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
97 </listitem>
98 </itemizedlist>
99 </listitem>
100
101 <listitem>
102 <para>April 22, 2006</para>
103 <itemizedlist>
104 <listitem>
105 <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
106 wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
107 ticket #1779.</para>
108 </listitem>
109 </itemizedlist>
110 </listitem>
111
112 <listitem>
113 <para>April 21, 2006</para>
114 <itemizedlist>
115 <listitem>
116 <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
117 required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
118 for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for review the wording.</para>
119 </listitem>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
122 R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
123 </listitem>
124 </itemizedlist>
125 </listitem>
126
127 <listitem>
128 <para>April 20, 2006</para>
129 <itemizedlist>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
132 Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
133 </listitem>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
136 is required on the host system.</para>
137 </listitem>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
140 for the patch.</para>
141 </listitem>
142 </itemizedlist>
143 </listitem>
144
145 <listitem>
146 <para>April 19, 2006</para>
147 <itemizedlist>
148 <listitem>
149 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
150 software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
151 and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
152 Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
153 </listitem>
154 </itemizedlist>
155 </listitem>
156
157 <listitem>
158 <para>April 18, 2006</para>
159 <itemizedlist>
160 <listitem>
161 <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
162 Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
163 build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
164 information is complete enough at this point to close out the
165 long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
166 and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
167 </listitem>
168 </itemizedlist>
169 </listitem>
170
171 <listitem>
172 <para>April 15, 2006</para>
173 <itemizedlist>
174 <listitem>
175 <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
176 </listitem>
177 <listitem>
178 <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
179 that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
180 </listitem>
181 </itemizedlist>
182 </listitem>
183
184 <listitem>
185 <para>April 14, 2006</para>
186 <itemizedlist>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
189 </listitem>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
192 command changes.</para>
193 </listitem>
194 <listitem>
195 <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
196 replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
197 inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
198 Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
199 </listitem>
200 </itemizedlist>
201 </listitem>
202
203 <listitem>
204 <para>April 13, 2006</para>
205 <itemizedlist>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
208 removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
209 </listitem>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
212 </listitem>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
215 Shadow.</para>
216 </listitem>
217 <listitem>
218 <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
219 </listitem>
220 </itemizedlist>
221 </listitem>
222
223 <listitem>
224 <para>April 12, 2006</para>
225 <itemizedlist>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
228 Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
229 </listitem>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
232 Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
233 convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
234 Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
235 </listitem>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
238 in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
239 the symlink we used to create.</para>
240 </listitem>
241 </itemizedlist>
242 </listitem>
243
244 <listitem>
245 <para>April 11, 2006</para>
246 <itemizedlist>
247 <listitem>
248 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
249 </listitem>
250 </itemizedlist>
251 </listitem>
252
253 <listitem>
254 <para>April 8, 2006</para>
255 <itemizedlist>
256 <listitem>
257 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
258 in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
259 programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
260 slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
261 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
262 </listitem>
263 </itemizedlist>
264 </listitem>
265
266 <listitem>
267 <para>April 6, 2006</para>
268 <itemizedlist>
269 <listitem>
270 <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
271 links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
272 </listitem>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
275 </listitem>
276 </itemizedlist>
277 </listitem>
278
279 <listitem>
280 <para>April 2, 2006</para>
281 <itemizedlist>
282 <listitem>
283 <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
284 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
285 mounting of kernel filesystems before pkgmgt page and rewrote the page
286 to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel filesystems while
287 outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering chroot and remounting
288 kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list of dirs created in
289 chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
290 </listitem>
291 </itemizedlist>
292 </listitem>
293
294 <listitem>
295 <para>March 30, 2006</para>
296 <itemizedlist>
297 <listitem>
298 <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
299 Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
300 </listitem>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
303 and Udev-088.</para>
304 </listitem>
305 </itemizedlist>
306 </listitem>
307
308 <listitem>
309 <para>March 29, 2006</para>
310 <itemizedlist>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
313 to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
314 the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
315 </listitem>
316 </itemizedlist>
317 </listitem>
318
319 <listitem>
320 <para>March 22, 2006</para>
321 <itemizedlist>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>[archaic] - Updated to
324 lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
325 </listitem>
326 </itemizedlist>
327 </listitem>
328
329 <listitem>
330 <para>March 21, 2006</para>
331 <itemizedlist>
332 <listitem>
333 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
334 hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
335 udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
336 </para>
337 </listitem>
338 </itemizedlist>
339 </listitem>
340
341 <listitem>
342 <para>March 18, 2006</para>
343 <itemizedlist>
344 <listitem>
345 <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
346 is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
347 patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
348 </listitem>
349 <listitem>
350 <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
351 tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
352 #1713.</para>
353 </listitem>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
356 </listitem>
357 <listitem>
358 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
359 </listitem>
360 <listitem>
361 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
362 </listitem>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
365 </listitem>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
368 </listitem>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
371 patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
372 installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
373 </listitem>
374 </itemizedlist>
375 </listitem>
376
377 <listitem>
378 <para>March 11, 2006</para>
379 <itemizedlist>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
382 </listitem>
383 </itemizedlist>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>March 8, 2006</para>
388 <itemizedlist>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
391 </listitem>
392 <listitem>
393 <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
394 does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
395 Patrakov.</para>
396 </listitem>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
399 </listitem>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
402 </listitem>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
405 present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
406 </listitem>
407 </itemizedlist>
408 </listitem>
409
410 <listitem>
411 <para>March 7, 2006</para>
412 <itemizedlist>
413 <listitem>
414 <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
415 upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
416 device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
417 </listitem>
418 <listitem>
419 <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
420 LFS-style patch.</para>
421 </listitem>
422 </itemizedlist>
423 </listitem>
424
425 <listitem>
426 <para>March 3, 2006</para>
427 <itemizedlist>
428 <listitem>
429 <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
430 to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
431 </listitem>
432 </itemizedlist>
433 </listitem>
434
435 <listitem>
436 <para>March 1, 2006</para>
437 <itemizedlist>
438 <listitem>
439 <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
440 symlinks.</para>
441 </listitem>
442 <listitem>
443 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
444 help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
445 </listitem>
446 </itemizedlist>
447 </listitem>
448
449 <listitem>
450 <para>February 27, 2006</para>
451 <itemizedlist>
452 <listitem>
453 <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
454 upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
455 </listitem>
456 </itemizedlist>
457 </listitem>
458
459 <listitem>
460 <para>February 20, 2006</para>
461 <itemizedlist>
462 <listitem>
463 <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
464 keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
465 expanded by the shell.</para>
466 </listitem>
467 <listitem>
468 <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
469 </listitem>
470 <listitem>
471 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
472 </listitem>
473 </itemizedlist>
474 </listitem>
475
476 <listitem>
477 <para>February 19, 2006</para>
478 <itemizedlist>
479 <listitem>
480 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
481 to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
482 </listitem>
483 <listitem>
484 <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
485 every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
486 </listitem>
487 <listitem>
488 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
489 </listitem>
490 <listitem>
491 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
492 </listitem>
493 <listitem>
494 <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
495 --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
496 for the report and the fix.</para>
497 </listitem>
498 <listitem>
499 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
500 </listitem>
501 <listitem>
502 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
503 </listitem>
504 <listitem>
505 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
506 </listitem>
507 <listitem>
508 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
509 </listitem>
510 <listitem>
511 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
512 </listitem>
513 <listitem>
514 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
515 </listitem>
516 <listitem>
517 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
518 vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
519 </listitem>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
522 Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
523 </listitem>
524 <listitem>
525 <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
526 instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
527 &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
528 <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
529 can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
530 </listitem>
531 </itemizedlist>
532 </listitem>
533
534 <listitem>
535 <para>February 10, 2006</para>
536 <itemizedlist>
537 <listitem>
538 <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
539 changes.</para>
540 </listitem>
541 </itemizedlist>
542 </listitem>
543
544 <listitem>
545 <para>February 8, 2006</para>
546 <itemizedlist>
547 <listitem>
548 <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
549 reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
550 module loading.</para>
551 </listitem>
552 </itemizedlist>
553 </listitem>
554
555 <listitem>
556 <para>February 3, 2006</para>
557 <itemizedlist>
558 <listitem>
559 <para>[matthew] - Create the
560 <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
561 can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
562 </para>
563 </listitem>
564 <listitem>
565 <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
566 </listitem>
567 <listitem>
568 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
569 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
570 </listitem>
571 <listitem>
572 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
573 download.</para>
574 </listitem>
575 <listitem>
576 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
577 </listitem>
578 </itemizedlist>
579 </listitem>
580
581 <listitem>
582 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
583 <itemizedlist>
584 <listitem>
585 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
586 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
587 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
588 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
589 </listitem>
590 <listitem>
591 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript
592 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
593 </listitem>
594 <listitem>
595 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
596 </listitem>
597 </itemizedlist>
598 </listitem>
599
600 <listitem>
601 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
602 <itemizedlist>
603 <listitem>
604 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
605 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
606 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
607 </listitem>
608 <listitem>
609 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
610 Staub.</para>
611 </listitem>
612 <listitem>
613 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
614 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
615 </listitem>
616 </itemizedlist>
617 </listitem>
618
619 <listitem>
620 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
621 <itemizedlist>
622 <listitem>
623 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
624 </listitem>
625 <listitem>
626 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
627 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
628 </listitem>
629 </itemizedlist>
630 </listitem>
631
632 <listitem>
633 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
634 <itemizedlist>
635 <listitem>
636 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
637 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
638 </listitem>
639 <listitem>
640 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
641 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
642 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
643 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
644 </listitem>
645 <listitem>
646 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
647 section.</para>
648 </listitem>
649 </itemizedlist>
650 </listitem>
651
652 <listitem>
653 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
654 <itemizedlist>
655 <listitem>
656 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
657 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
658 </listitem>
659 <listitem>
660 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
661 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
662 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
663 </listitem>
664 <listitem>
665 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
666 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
667 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
668 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
669 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
670 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
671 issue.</para>
672 </listitem>
673 <listitem>
674 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
675 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
676 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
677 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
678 </listitem>
679 <listitem>
680 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
681 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
682 </listitem>
683 </itemizedlist>
684 </listitem>
685
686 <listitem>
687 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
688 <itemizedlist>
689 <listitem>
690 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
691 </listitem>
692 </itemizedlist>
693 </listitem>
694
695 <listitem>
696 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
697 <itemizedlist>
698 <listitem>
699 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
700 </listitem>
701 <listitem>
702 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
703 </listitem>
704 <listitem>
705 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
706 </listitem>
707 <listitem>
708 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
709 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
710 </listitem>
711 <listitem>
712 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
713 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
714 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
715 </listitem>
716 </itemizedlist>
717 </listitem>
718
719 <listitem>
720 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
721 <itemizedlist>
722 <listitem>
723 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
724 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
725 it out.</para>
726 </listitem>
727 </itemizedlist>
728 </listitem>
729
730 <listitem>
731 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
732 <itemizedlist>
733 <listitem>
734 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
735 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
736 </listitem>
737 </itemizedlist>
738 </listitem>
739
740 <listitem>
741 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
742 <itemizedlist>
743 <listitem>
744 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
745 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
746 to Greg Schafer.</para>
747 </listitem>
748 <listitem>
749 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
750 gccbug.</para>
751 </listitem>
752 </itemizedlist>
753 </listitem>
754
755 <listitem>
756 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
757 <itemizedlist>
758 <listitem>
759 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
760 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
761 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
762 for explaining this.</para>
763 </listitem>
764 <listitem>
765 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
766 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
767 </listitem>
768 <listitem>
769 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
770 use mktemp.</para>
771 </listitem>
772 <listitem>
773 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
774 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
775 Randy McMurchy.</para>
776 </listitem>
777 </itemizedlist>
778 </listitem>
779
780 <listitem>
781 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
782 <itemizedlist>
783 <listitem>
784 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
785 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
786 </listitem>
787 <listitem>
788 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
789 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
790 </listitem>
791 </itemizedlist>
792 </listitem>
793
794 <listitem>
795 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
796 <itemizedlist>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
799 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
800 </listitem>
801 <listitem>
802 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
803 </listitem>
804 <listitem>
805 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
806 </listitem>
807 <listitem>
808 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
809 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
810 </listitem>
811 </itemizedlist>
812 </listitem>
813
814 <listitem>
815 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
816 <itemizedlist>
817 <listitem>
818 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
819 to be repeatable.</para>
820 </listitem>
821 </itemizedlist>
822 </listitem>
823
824 <listitem>
825 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
826 <itemizedlist>
827 <listitem>
828 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
829 </listitem>
830 </itemizedlist>
831 </listitem>
832
833 <listitem>
834 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
835 <itemizedlist>
836 <listitem>
837 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
838 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
839 </listitem>
840 </itemizedlist>
841 </listitem>
842
843 <listitem>
844 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
845 <itemizedlist>
846 <listitem>
847 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
848 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
849 </listitem>
850 <listitem>
851 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
852 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
853 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
854 </listitem>
855 <listitem>
856 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
857 </listitem>
858 <listitem>
859 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
860 </listitem>
861 </itemizedlist>
862 </listitem>
863
864 <listitem>
865 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
866 <itemizedlist>
867 <listitem>
868 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
869 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
870 </listitem>
871 </itemizedlist>
872 </listitem>
873
874 <listitem>
875 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
876 <itemizedlist>
877 <listitem>
878 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
879 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
880 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
881 bug 1670).</para>
882 </listitem>
883 </itemizedlist>
884 </listitem>
885
886 <listitem>
887 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
888 <itemizedlist>
889 <listitem>
890 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
891 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
892 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
893 </listitem>
894 </itemizedlist>
895 </listitem>
896
897 <listitem>
898 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
899 <itemizedlist>
900 <listitem>
901 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
902 </listitem>
903 <listitem>
904 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
905 </listitem>
906 <listitem>
907 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
908 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
909 </listitem>
910 <listitem>
911 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
912 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
913 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
914 </listitem>
915 <listitem>
916 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
917 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
918 </listitem>
919 </itemizedlist>
920 </listitem>
921
922 <listitem>
923 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
924 <itemizedlist>
925 <listitem>
926 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
927 </listitem>
928 <listitem>
929 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
930 </para>
931 </listitem>
932 <listitem>
933 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
934 </listitem>
935 </itemizedlist>
936 </listitem>
937
938 <listitem>
939 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
940 <itemizedlist>
941 <listitem>
942 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
943 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
944 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
945 </listitem>
946 </itemizedlist>
947 </listitem>
948
949 <listitem>
950 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
951 <itemizedlist>
952 <listitem>
953 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
954 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
955 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
956 </listitem>
957 <listitem>
958 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
959 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
960 </listitem>
961 <listitem>
962 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
963 </listitem>
964 <listitem>
965 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
966 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
967 McMurchy for the report).</para>
968 </listitem>
969 <listitem>
970 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
971 </listitem>
972 <listitem>
973 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
974 </listitem>
975 <listitem>
976 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
977 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
978 </listitem>
979 </itemizedlist>
980 </listitem>
981
982 <listitem>
983 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
984 <itemizedlist>
985 <listitem>
986 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
987 </listitem>
988 </itemizedlist>
989 </listitem>
990
991 <listitem>
992 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
993 <itemizedlist>
994 <listitem>
995 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
996 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
997 </listitem>
998 </itemizedlist>
999 </listitem>
1000
1001 <listitem>
1002 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
1003 <itemizedlist>
1004 <listitem>
1005 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
1006 package.</para>
1007 </listitem>
1008 </itemizedlist>
1009 </listitem>
1010
1011 <listitem>
1012 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
1013 <itemizedlist>
1014 <listitem>
1015 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
1016 </listitem>
1017 </itemizedlist>
1018 </listitem>
1019
1020 <listitem>
1021 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
1022 <itemizedlist>
1023 <listitem>
1024 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
1025 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
1026 </listitem>
1027 </itemizedlist>
1028 </listitem>
1029
1030 <listitem>
1031 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
1032 <itemizedlist>
1033 <listitem>
1034 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
1035 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
1036 </listitem>
1037 </itemizedlist>
1038 </listitem>
1039
1040 <listitem>
1041 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
1042 <itemizedlist>
1043 <listitem>
1044 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
1045 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
1046 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
1047 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
1048 </listitem>
1049 </itemizedlist>
1050 </listitem>
1051
1052 <listitem>
1053 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
1054 <itemizedlist>
1055 <listitem>
1056 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
1057 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
1058 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
1059 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
1060 </listitem>
1061 <listitem>
1062 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
1063 </listitem>
1064 <listitem>
1065 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
1066 Chris Staub.</para>
1067 </listitem>
1068 </itemizedlist>
1069 </listitem>
1070
1071 <listitem>
1072 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
1073 <itemizedlist>
1074 <listitem>
1075 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
1076 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
1077 </listitem>
1078 </itemizedlist>
1079 </listitem>
1080
1081 <listitem>
1082 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
1083 <itemizedlist>
1084 <listitem>
1085 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
1086 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
1087 </listitem>
1088 </itemizedlist>
1089 </listitem>
1090
1091 <listitem>
1092 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
1093 <itemizedlist>
1094 <listitem>
1095 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
1096 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
1097 </listitem>
1098 <listitem>
1099 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
1100 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
1101 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
1102 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
1103 </listitem>
1104 </itemizedlist>
1105 </listitem>
1106
1107 <listitem>
1108 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
1109 <itemizedlist>
1110 <listitem>
1111 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
1112 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
1113 </listitem>
1114 <listitem>
1115 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
1116 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
1117 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
1118 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
1119 </listitem>
1120 <listitem>
1121 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
1122 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
1123 report and the fix.</para>
1124 </listitem>
1125 <listitem>
1126 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
1127 </listitem>
1128 <listitem>
1129 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
1130 </listitem>
1131 <listitem>
1132 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
1133 </listitem>
1134 </itemizedlist>
1135 </listitem>
1136
1137 <listitem>
1138 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
1139 <itemizedlist>
1140 <listitem>
1141 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
1142 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
1143 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
1144 </listitem>
1145 </itemizedlist>
1146 </listitem>
1147
1148 <listitem>
1149 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
1150 <itemizedlist>
1151 <listitem>
1152 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
1153 </listitem>
1154 <listitem>
1155 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
1156 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
1157 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
1158 </listitem>
1159 </itemizedlist>
1160 </listitem>
1161
1162 <listitem>
1163 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
1164 <itemizedlist>
1165 <listitem>
1166 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
1167 </listitem>
1168 <listitem>
1169 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
1170 </listitem>
1171 <listitem>
1172 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
1173 </listitem>
1174 <listitem>
1175 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
1176 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
1177 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
1178 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
1179 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
1180 of LFS.</para>
1181 </listitem>
1182 </itemizedlist>
1183 </listitem>
1184
1185 <listitem>
1186 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
1187 <itemizedlist>
1188 <listitem>
1189 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
1190 </listitem>
1191 <listitem>
1192 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
1193 </listitem>
1194 <listitem>
1195 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
1196 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
1197 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
1198 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
1199 </listitem>
1200 </itemizedlist>
1201 </listitem>
1202
1203 <listitem>
1204 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
1205 <itemizedlist>
1206 <listitem>
1207 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
1208 </listitem>
1209 </itemizedlist>
1210 </listitem>
1211
1212 <listitem>
1213 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
1214 <itemizedlist>
1215 <listitem>
1216 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
1217 </listitem>
1218 <listitem>
1219 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
1220 </listitem>
1221 <listitem>
1222 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
1223 </listitem>
1224 </itemizedlist>
1225 </listitem>
1226
1227 <listitem>
1228 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
1229 <itemizedlist>
1230 <listitem>
1231 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
1232 </listitem>
1233 <listitem>
1234 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
1235 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
1236 </listitem>
1237 <listitem>
1238 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
1239 file</para>
1240 </listitem>
1241 </itemizedlist>
1242 </listitem>
1243
1244 <listitem>
1245 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
1246 <itemizedlist>
1247 <listitem>
1248 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
1249 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
1250 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
1251 </listitem>
1252 </itemizedlist>
1253 </listitem>
1254
1255 <listitem>
1256 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
1257 <itemizedlist>
1258 <listitem>
1259 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
1260 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
1261 </listitem>
1262 <listitem>
1263 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
1264 </listitem>
1265 </itemizedlist>
1266 </listitem>
1267
1268 <listitem>
1269 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
1270 <itemizedlist>
1271 <listitem>
1272 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
1273 </listitem>
1274 </itemizedlist>
1275 </listitem>
1276
1277 <listitem>
1278 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
1279 <itemizedlist>
1280 <listitem>
1281 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
1282 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
1283 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
1284 </listitem>
1285 </itemizedlist>
1286 </listitem>
1287
1288 <listitem>
1289 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
1290 <itemizedlist>
1291 <listitem>
1292 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
1293 bug 1629).</para>
1294 </listitem>
1295 <listitem>
1296 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
1297 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
1298 </listitem>
1299 </itemizedlist>
1300 </listitem>
1301
1302 <listitem>
1303 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
1304 <itemizedlist>
1305 <listitem>
1306 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
1307 </listitem>
1308 </itemizedlist>
1309 </listitem>
1310
1311 <listitem>
1312 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
1313 <itemizedlist>
1314 <listitem>
1315 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
1316 </listitem>
1317 <listitem>
1318 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
1319 </listitem>
1320 <listitem>
1321 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
1322 </listitem>
1323 </itemizedlist>
1324 </listitem>
1325
1326 <listitem>
1327 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
1328 <itemizedlist>
1329 <listitem>
1330 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
1331 </listitem>
1332 </itemizedlist>
1333 </listitem>
1334
1335 <listitem>
1336 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
1337 <itemizedlist>
1338 <listitem>
1339 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
1340 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
1341 </listitem>
1342 <listitem>
1343 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
1344 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
1345 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
1346 </listitem>
1347 </itemizedlist>
1348 </listitem>
1349
1350 <listitem>
1351 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
1352 <itemizedlist>
1353 <listitem>
1354 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
1355 vulnerability.</para>
1356 </listitem>
1357 </itemizedlist>
1358 </listitem>
1359
1360 <listitem>
1361 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
1362 <itemizedlist>
1363 <listitem>
1364 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
1365 </listitem>
1366 </itemizedlist>
1367 </listitem>
1368
1369 <listitem>
1370 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
1371 <itemizedlist>
1372 <listitem>
1373 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
1374 </listitem>
1375 </itemizedlist>
1376 </listitem>
1377
1378 <listitem>
1379 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
1380 <itemizedlist>
1381 <listitem>
1382 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
1383 </listitem>
1384 </itemizedlist>
1385 </listitem>
1386
1387 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
1388 <itemizedlist>
1389 <listitem>
1390 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
1391 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
1392 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
1393 </listitem>
1394 <listitem>
1395 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
1396 </listitem>
1397 <listitem>
1398 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
1399 </listitem>
1400 </itemizedlist>
1401 </listitem>
1402
1403 <listitem>
1404 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
1405 <itemizedlist>
1406 <listitem>
1407 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
1408 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
1409 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
1410 to actually work.</para>
1411 </listitem>
1412 <listitem>
1413 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
1414 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
1415 </listitem>
1416 </itemizedlist>
1417 </listitem>
1418
1419 <listitem>
1420 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
1421 <itemizedlist>
1422 <listitem>
1423 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
1424 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
1425 </listitem>
1426 <listitem>
1427 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
1428 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
1429 </listitem>
1430 <listitem>
1431 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
1432 </listitem>
1433 <listitem>
1434 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
1435 gcc-pass2.</para>
1436 </listitem>
1437 </itemizedlist>
1438 </listitem>
1439
1440 <listitem>
1441 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
1442 <itemizedlist>
1443 <listitem>
1444 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
1445 builds for consistency</para>
1446 </listitem>
1447 </itemizedlist>
1448 </listitem>
1449
1450 <listitem>
1451 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
1452 <itemizedlist>
1453 <listitem>
1454 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
1455 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
1456 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
1457 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
1458 </listitem>
1459 <listitem>
1460 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
1461 rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
1462 </listitem>
1463 <listitem>
1464 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
1465 </listitem>
1466 </itemizedlist>
1467 </listitem>
1468
1469 <listitem>
1470 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
1471 <itemizedlist>
1472 <listitem>
1473 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
1474 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
1475 </listitem>
1476 </itemizedlist>
1477 </listitem>
1478
1479 <listitem>
1480 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
1481 <itemizedlist>
1482 <listitem>
1483 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
1484 </listitem>
1485 <listitem>
1486 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
1487 </listitem>
1488 <listitem>
1489 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
1490 </listitem>
1491 </itemizedlist>
1492 </listitem>
1493
1494 <listitem>
1495 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
1496 <itemizedlist>
1497 <listitem>
1498 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
1499 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
1500 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
1501 </listitem>
1502 <listitem>
1503 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
1504 filenames.</para>
1505 </listitem>
1506 </itemizedlist>
1507 </listitem>
1508
1509 <listitem>
1510 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
1511 <itemizedlist>
1512 <listitem>
1513 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
1514 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
1515 </listitem>
1516 <listitem>
1517 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
1518 </listitem>
1519 </itemizedlist>
1520 </listitem>
1521
1522 <listitem>
1523 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
1524 <itemizedlist>
1525 <listitem>
1526 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
1527 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
1528 </listitem>
1529 </itemizedlist>
1530 </listitem>
1531
1532 <listitem>
1533 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
1534 <itemizedlist>
1535 <listitem>
1536 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
1537 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
1538 </listitem>
1539 <listitem>
1540 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
1541 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
1542 </listitem>
1543 <listitem>
1544 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
1545 bug 1603).</para>
1546 </listitem>
1547 <listitem>
1548 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
1549 </listitem>
1550 <listitem>
1551 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
1552 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
1553 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
1554 </listitem>
1555 <listitem>
1556 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
1557 test (bug 1611).</para>
1558 </listitem>
1559 </itemizedlist>
1560 </listitem>
1561
1562 <listitem>
1563 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
1564 <itemizedlist>
1565 <listitem>
1566 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
1567 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
1568 </listitem>
1569 <listitem>
1570 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
1571 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
1572 </listitem>
1573 <listitem>
1574 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1575 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1576 </listitem>
1577 <listitem>
1578 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1579 of chapter 6.</para>
1580 </listitem>
1581 <listitem>
1582 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1583 library (Bug 1608)</para>
1584 </listitem>
1585 </itemizedlist>
1586 </listitem>
1587
1588 <listitem>
1589 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1590 <itemizedlist>
1591 <listitem>
1592 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1593 from BLFS first.</para>
1594 </listitem>
1595 </itemizedlist>
1596 </listitem>
1597
1598 <listitem>
1599 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1600 <itemizedlist>
1601 <listitem>
1602 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1603 </listitem>
1604 <listitem>
1605 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1606 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1607 </listitem>
1608 </itemizedlist>
1609 </listitem>
1610
1611 <listitem>
1612 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1613 <itemizedlist>
1614 <listitem>
1615 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1616 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1617 </listitem>
1618 <listitem>
1619 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1620 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1621 </listitem>
1622 </itemizedlist>
1623 </listitem>
1624
1625 <listitem>
1626 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1627 <itemizedlist>
1628 <listitem>
1629 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1630 </listitem>
1631 </itemizedlist>
1632 </listitem>
1633
1634 <listitem>
1635 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1636 <itemizedlist>
1637 <listitem>
1638 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
1639 </listitem>
1640 <listitem>
1641 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
1642 </listitem>
1643 <listitem>
1644 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1645 The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
1646 </listitem>
1647 <listitem>
1648 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
1649 </listitem>
1650 </itemizedlist>
1651 </listitem>
1652
1653 <listitem>
1654 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1655 <itemizedlist>
1656 <listitem>
1657 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1658 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1659 </listitem>
1660 </itemizedlist>
1661 </listitem>
1662
1663 <listitem>
1664 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1665 <itemizedlist>
1666 <listitem>
1667 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1668 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1669 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1670 </listitem>
1671 <listitem>
1672 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1673 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1674 </listitem>
1675 </itemizedlist>
1676 </listitem>
1677
1678 <listitem>
1679 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1680 <itemizedlist>
1681 <listitem>
1682 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1683 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1684 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1685 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1686 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1687 </listitem>
1688 <listitem>
1689 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1690 </listitem>
1691 <listitem>
1692 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1693 </listitem>
1694 </itemizedlist>
1695 </listitem>
1696
1697 <listitem>
1698 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1699 <itemizedlist>
1700 <listitem>
1701 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1702 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1703 </listitem>
1704 </itemizedlist>
1705 </listitem>
1706
1707 <listitem>
1708 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1709 <itemizedlist>
1710 <listitem>
1711 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
1712 </listitem>
1713 <listitem>
1714 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1715 needed.</para>
1716 </listitem>
1717 </itemizedlist>
1718 </listitem>
1719
1720 <listitem>
1721 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1722 <itemizedlist>
1723 <listitem>
1724 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1725 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1726 </listitem>
1727 </itemizedlist>
1728 </listitem>
1729
1730 <listitem>
1731 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1732 <itemizedlist>
1733 <listitem>
1734 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1735 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1736 of the specs patch.</para>
1737 </listitem>
1738 <listitem>
1739 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1740 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1741 </listitem>
1742 </itemizedlist>
1743 </listitem>
1744
1745 <listitem>
1746 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1747 <itemizedlist>
1748 <listitem>
1749 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1750 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1751 </listitem>
1752 <listitem>
1753 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1754 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1755 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1756 </listitem>
1757 </itemizedlist>
1758 </listitem>
1759
1760 <listitem>
1761 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1762 <itemizedlist>
1763 <listitem>
1764 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1765 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1766 </listitem>
1767 <listitem>
1768 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1769 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1770 </listitem>
1771 <listitem>
1772 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1773 5 and 6.</para>
1774 </listitem>
1775 </itemizedlist>
1776 </listitem>
1777
1778 <listitem>
1779 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1780 <itemizedlist>
1781 <listitem>
1782 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1783 </listitem>
1784 <listitem>
1785 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1786 </listitem>
1787 <listitem>
1788 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1789 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1790 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1791 </listitem>
1792 <listitem>
1793 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1794 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1795 </listitem>
1796 <listitem>
1797 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1798 </listitem>
1799 <listitem>
1800 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1801 </listitem>
1802 </itemizedlist>
1803 </listitem>
1804
1805 <listitem>
1806 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1807 <itemizedlist>
1808 <listitem>
1809 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1810 </listitem>
1811 </itemizedlist>
1812 </listitem>
1813
1814 <listitem>
1815 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1816 <itemizedlist>
1817 <listitem>
1818 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1819 </listitem>
1820 <listitem>
1821 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1822 </listitem>
1823 <listitem>
1824 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1825 </listitem>
1826 <listitem>
1827 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1828 </listitem>
1829 <listitem>
1830 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1831 </listitem>
1832 </itemizedlist>
1833 </listitem>
1834
1835 <listitem>
1836 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1837 <itemizedlist>
1838 <listitem>
1839 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1840 as it is not needed.</para>
1841 </listitem>
1842 <listitem>
1843 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1844 </listitem>
1845 <listitem>
1846 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1847 </listitem>
1848 </itemizedlist>
1849 </listitem>
1850
1851 <listitem>
1852 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1853 <itemizedlist>
1854 <listitem>
1855 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1856 </listitem>
1857 <listitem>
1858 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1859 </listitem>
1860 <listitem>
1861 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1862 </listitem>
1863 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1864 </listitem>
1865 </itemizedlist>
1866 </listitem>
1867
1868 <listitem>
1869 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1870 <itemizedlist>
1871 <listitem>
1872 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1873 </listitem>
1874 <listitem>
1875 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1876 </listitem>
1877 <listitem>
1878 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1879 </listitem>
1880 <listitem>
1881 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1882 </listitem>
1883 </itemizedlist>
1884 </listitem>
1885
1886 <listitem>
1887 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1888 <itemizedlist>
1889 <listitem>
1890 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1891 </listitem>
1892 </itemizedlist>
1893 </listitem>
1894
1895 <listitem>
1896 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1897 <itemizedlist>
1898 <listitem>
1899 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1900 </listitem>
1901 </itemizedlist>
1902 </listitem>
1903
1904 <listitem>
1905 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1906 <itemizedlist>
1907 <listitem>
1908 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1909 </listitem>
1910 <listitem>
1911 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1912 </listitem>
1913 <listitem>
1914 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1915 </listitem>
1916 <listitem>
1917 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1918 </listitem>
1919 </itemizedlist>
1920 </listitem>
1921
1922 <listitem>
1923 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1924 <itemizedlist>
1925 <listitem>
1926 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1927 </listitem>
1928 <listitem>
1929 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1930 </listitem>
1931 <listitem>
1932 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
1933 </listitem>
1934 </itemizedlist>
1935 </listitem>
1936
1937 <listitem>
1938 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
1939 <itemizedlist>
1940 <listitem>
1941 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
1942 </listitem>
1943 </itemizedlist>
1944 </listitem>
1945
1946 <listitem>
1947 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
1948 <itemizedlist>
1949 <listitem>
1950 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
1951 </listitem>
1952 <listitem>
1953 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
1954 </listitem>
1955 </itemizedlist>
1956 </listitem>
1957
1958 <listitem>
1959 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
1960 <itemizedlist>
1961 <listitem>
1962 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
1963 </listitem>
1964 </itemizedlist>
1965 </listitem>
1966
1967 <listitem>
1968 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
1969 <itemizedlist>
1970 <listitem>
1971 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
1972 </listitem>
1973 </itemizedlist>
1974 </listitem>
1975
1976 <listitem>
1977 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
1978 <itemizedlist>
1979 <listitem>
1980 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
1981 </listitem>
1982 </itemizedlist>
1983 </listitem>
1984
1985 </itemizedlist>
1986
1987 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
1988 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
1989
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