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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>February 3, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
44 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
48 download.</para>
49 </listitem>
50 <listitem>
51 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
52 </listitem>
53 </itemizedlist>
54 </listitem>
55
56 <listitem>
57 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
58 <itemizedlist>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
61 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
62 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
63 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript
67 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
68 </listitem>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
71 </listitem>
72 </itemizedlist>
73 </listitem>
74
75 <listitem>
76 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
77 <itemizedlist>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
80 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
81 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
82 </listitem>
83 <listitem>
84 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
85 Staub.</para>
86 </listitem>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
89 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
90 </listitem>
91 </itemizedlist>
92 </listitem>
93
94 <listitem>
95 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
96 <itemizedlist>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
99 </listitem>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
102 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
103 </listitem>
104 </itemizedlist>
105 </listitem>
106
107 <listitem>
108 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
109 <itemizedlist>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
112 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 <listitem>
115 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
116 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
117 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
118 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
119 </listitem>
120 <listitem>
121 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
122 section.</para>
123 </listitem>
124 </itemizedlist>
125 </listitem>
126
127 <listitem>
128 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
129 <itemizedlist>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
132 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
133 </listitem>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
136 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
137 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
138 </listitem>
139 <listitem>
140 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
141 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
142 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
143 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
144 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
145 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
146 issue.</para>
147 </listitem>
148 <listitem>
149 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
150 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
151 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
152 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
153 </listitem>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
156 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
157 </listitem>
158 </itemizedlist>
159 </listitem>
160
161 <listitem>
162 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
163 <itemizedlist>
164 <listitem>
165 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
166 </listitem>
167 </itemizedlist>
168 </listitem>
169
170 <listitem>
171 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
172 <itemizedlist>
173 <listitem>
174 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
175 </listitem>
176 <listitem>
177 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
178 </listitem>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
181 </listitem>
182 <listitem>
183 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
184 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
185 </listitem>
186 <listitem>
187 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
188 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
189 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
190 </listitem>
191 </itemizedlist>
192 </listitem>
193
194 <listitem>
195 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
196 <itemizedlist>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
199 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
200 it out.</para>
201 </listitem>
202 </itemizedlist>
203 </listitem>
204
205 <listitem>
206 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
207 <itemizedlist>
208 <listitem>
209 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
210 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
211 </listitem>
212 </itemizedlist>
213 </listitem>
214
215 <listitem>
216 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
217 <itemizedlist>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
220 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
221 to Greg Schafer.</para>
222 </listitem>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
225 gccbug.</para>
226 </listitem>
227 </itemizedlist>
228 </listitem>
229
230 <listitem>
231 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
232 <itemizedlist>
233 <listitem>
234 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
235 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
236 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
237 for explaining this.</para>
238 </listitem>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
241 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
242 </listitem>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
245 use mktemp.</para>
246 </listitem>
247 <listitem>
248 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
249 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
250 Randy McMurchy.</para>
251 </listitem>
252 </itemizedlist>
253 </listitem>
254
255 <listitem>
256 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
257 <itemizedlist>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
260 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
261 </listitem>
262 <listitem>
263 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
264 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
265 </listitem>
266 </itemizedlist>
267 </listitem>
268
269 <listitem>
270 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
271 <itemizedlist>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
274 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
275 </listitem>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
278 </listitem>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
281 </listitem>
282 <listitem>
283 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
284 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
285 </listitem>
286 </itemizedlist>
287 </listitem>
288
289 <listitem>
290 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
291 <itemizedlist>
292 <listitem>
293 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
294 to be repeatable.</para>
295 </listitem>
296 </itemizedlist>
297 </listitem>
298
299 <listitem>
300 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
301 <itemizedlist>
302 <listitem>
303 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
304 </listitem>
305 </itemizedlist>
306 </listitem>
307
308 <listitem>
309 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
310 <itemizedlist>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
313 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
314 </listitem>
315 </itemizedlist>
316 </listitem>
317
318 <listitem>
319 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
320 <itemizedlist>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
323 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
324 </listitem>
325 <listitem>
326 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
327 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
328 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
329 </listitem>
330 <listitem>
331 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
332 </listitem>
333 <listitem>
334 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
335 </listitem>
336 </itemizedlist>
337 </listitem>
338
339 <listitem>
340 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
341 <itemizedlist>
342 <listitem>
343 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
344 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
345 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
346 bug 1670).</para>
347 </listitem>
348 </itemizedlist>
349 </listitem>
350
351 <listitem>
352 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
353 <itemizedlist>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
356 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
357 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
358 </listitem>
359 </itemizedlist>
360 </listitem>
361
362 <listitem>
363 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
364 <itemizedlist>
365 <listitem>
366 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
367 </listitem>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
370 </listitem>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
373 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
374 </listitem>
375 <listitem>
376 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
377 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
378 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
379 </listitem>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
382 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
383 </listitem>
384 </itemizedlist>
385 </listitem>
386
387 <listitem>
388 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
389 <itemizedlist>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
392 </listitem>
393 <listitem>
394 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
395 </para>
396 </listitem>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
399 </listitem>
400 </itemizedlist>
401 </listitem>
402
403 <listitem>
404 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
405 <itemizedlist>
406 <listitem>
407 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
408 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
409 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
410 </listitem>
411 </itemizedlist>
412 </listitem>
413
414 <listitem>
415 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
416 <itemizedlist>
417 <listitem>
418 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
419 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
420 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
421 </listitem>
422 <listitem>
423 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
424 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
425 </listitem>
426 <listitem>
427 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
428 </listitem>
429 <listitem>
430 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
431 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
432 McMurchy for the report).</para>
433 </listitem>
434 <listitem>
435 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
436 </listitem>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
439 </listitem>
440 <listitem>
441 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
442 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
443 </listitem>
444 </itemizedlist>
445 </listitem>
446
447 <listitem>
448 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
449 <itemizedlist>
450 <listitem>
451 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
452 </listitem>
453 </itemizedlist>
454 </listitem>
455
456 <listitem>
457 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
458 <itemizedlist>
459 <listitem>
460 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
461 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
462 </listitem>
463 </itemizedlist>
464 </listitem>
465
466 <listitem>
467 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
468 <itemizedlist>
469 <listitem>
470 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
471 package.</para>
472 </listitem>
473 </itemizedlist>
474 </listitem>
475
476 <listitem>
477 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
478 <itemizedlist>
479 <listitem>
480 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
481 </listitem>
482 </itemizedlist>
483 </listitem>
484
485 <listitem>
486 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
487 <itemizedlist>
488 <listitem>
489 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
490 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
491 </listitem>
492 </itemizedlist>
493 </listitem>
494
495 <listitem>
496 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
497 <itemizedlist>
498 <listitem>
499 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
500 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
501 </listitem>
502 </itemizedlist>
503 </listitem>
504
505 <listitem>
506 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
507 <itemizedlist>
508 <listitem>
509 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
510 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
511 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
512 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
513 </listitem>
514 </itemizedlist>
515 </listitem>
516
517 <listitem>
518 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
519 <itemizedlist>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
522 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
523 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
524 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
525 </listitem>
526 </itemizedlist>
527 </listitem>
528
529 <listitem>
530 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
531 <itemizedlist>
532 <listitem>
533 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
534 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
535 </listitem>
536 </itemizedlist>
537 </listitem>
538
539 <listitem>
540 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
541 <itemizedlist>
542 <listitem>
543 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
544 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
545 </listitem>
546 <listitem>
547 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
548 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
549 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
550 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
551 </listitem>
552 </itemizedlist>
553 </listitem>
554
555 <listitem>
556 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
557 <itemizedlist>
558 <listitem>
559 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
560 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
561 </listitem>
562 <listitem>
563 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
564 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
565 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
566 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
567 </listitem>
568 <listitem>
569 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
570 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
571 report and the fix.</para>
572 </listitem>
573 <listitem>
574 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
575 </listitem>
576 <listitem>
577 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
578 </listitem>
579 <listitem>
580 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
581 </listitem>
582 </itemizedlist>
583 </listitem>
584
585 <listitem>
586 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
587 <itemizedlist>
588 <listitem>
589 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
590 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
591 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
592 </listitem>
593 </itemizedlist>
594 </listitem>
595
596 <listitem>
597 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
598 <itemizedlist>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
601 </listitem>
602 <listitem>
603 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
604 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
605 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
606 </listitem>
607 </itemizedlist>
608 </listitem>
609
610 <listitem>
611 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
612 <itemizedlist>
613 <listitem>
614 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
615 </listitem>
616 <listitem>
617 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
618 </listitem>
619 <listitem>
620 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
621 </listitem>
622 <listitem>
623 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
624 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
625 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
626 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
627 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
628 of LFS.</para>
629 </listitem>
630 </itemizedlist>
631 </listitem>
632
633 <listitem>
634 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
635 <itemizedlist>
636 <listitem>
637 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
638 </listitem>
639 <listitem>
640 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
641 </listitem>
642 <listitem>
643 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
644 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
645 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
646 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
647 </listitem>
648 </itemizedlist>
649 </listitem>
650
651 <listitem>
652 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
653 <itemizedlist>
654 <listitem>
655 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
656 </listitem>
657 </itemizedlist>
658 </listitem>
659
660 <listitem>
661 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
662 <itemizedlist>
663 <listitem>
664 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
665 </listitem>
666 <listitem>
667 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
668 </listitem>
669 <listitem>
670 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
671 </listitem>
672 </itemizedlist>
673 </listitem>
674
675 <listitem>
676 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
677 <itemizedlist>
678 <listitem>
679 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
680 </listitem>
681 <listitem>
682 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
683 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
684 </listitem>
685 <listitem>
686 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
687 file</para>
688 </listitem>
689 </itemizedlist>
690 </listitem>
691
692 <listitem>
693 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
694 <itemizedlist>
695 <listitem>
696 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
697 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
698 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
699 </listitem>
700 </itemizedlist>
701 </listitem>
702
703 <listitem>
704 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
705 <itemizedlist>
706 <listitem>
707 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
708 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
709 </listitem>
710 <listitem>
711 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
712 </listitem>
713 </itemizedlist>
714 </listitem>
715
716 <listitem>
717 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
718 <itemizedlist>
719 <listitem>
720 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
721 </listitem>
722 </itemizedlist>
723 </listitem>
724
725 <listitem>
726 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
727 <itemizedlist>
728 <listitem>
729 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
730 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
731 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
732 </listitem>
733 </itemizedlist>
734 </listitem>
735
736 <listitem>
737 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
738 <itemizedlist>
739 <listitem>
740 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
741 bug 1629).</para>
742 </listitem>
743 <listitem>
744 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
745 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
746 </listitem>
747 </itemizedlist>
748 </listitem>
749
750 <listitem>
751 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
752 <itemizedlist>
753 <listitem>
754 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
755 </listitem>
756 </itemizedlist>
757 </listitem>
758
759 <listitem>
760 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
761 <itemizedlist>
762 <listitem>
763 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
764 </listitem>
765 <listitem>
766 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
767 </listitem>
768 <listitem>
769 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
770 </listitem>
771 </itemizedlist>
772 </listitem>
773
774 <listitem>
775 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
776 <itemizedlist>
777 <listitem>
778 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
779 </listitem>
780 </itemizedlist>
781 </listitem>
782
783 <listitem>
784 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
785 <itemizedlist>
786 <listitem>
787 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
788 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
789 </listitem>
790 <listitem>
791 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
792 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
793 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
794 </listitem>
795 </itemizedlist>
796 </listitem>
797
798 <listitem>
799 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
800 <itemizedlist>
801 <listitem>
802 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
803 vulnerability.</para>
804 </listitem>
805 </itemizedlist>
806 </listitem>
807
808 <listitem>
809 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
810 <itemizedlist>
811 <listitem>
812 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
813 </listitem>
814 </itemizedlist>
815 </listitem>
816
817 <listitem>
818 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
819 <itemizedlist>
820 <listitem>
821 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
822 </listitem>
823 </itemizedlist>
824 </listitem>
825
826 <listitem>
827 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
828 <itemizedlist>
829 <listitem>
830 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
831 </listitem>
832 </itemizedlist>
833 </listitem>
834
835 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
836 <itemizedlist>
837 <listitem>
838 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
839 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
840 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
841 </listitem>
842 <listitem>
843 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
844 </listitem>
845 <listitem>
846 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
847 </listitem>
848 </itemizedlist>
849 </listitem>
850
851 <listitem>
852 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
853 <itemizedlist>
854 <listitem>
855 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
856 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
857 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
858 to actually work.</para>
859 </listitem>
860 <listitem>
861 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
862 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
863 </listitem>
864 </itemizedlist>
865 </listitem>
866
867 <listitem>
868 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
869 <itemizedlist>
870 <listitem>
871 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
872 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
873 </listitem>
874 <listitem>
875 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
876 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
877 </listitem>
878 <listitem>
879 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
880 </listitem>
881 <listitem>
882 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
883 gcc-pass2.</para>
884 </listitem>
885 </itemizedlist>
886 </listitem>
887
888 <listitem>
889 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
890 <itemizedlist>
891 <listitem>
892 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
893 builds for consistency</para>
894 </listitem>
895 </itemizedlist>
896 </listitem>
897
898 <listitem>
899 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
900 <itemizedlist>
901 <listitem>
902 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
903 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
904 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
905 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
906 </listitem>
907 <listitem>
908 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
909 rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
910 </listitem>
911 <listitem>
912 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
913 </listitem>
914 </itemizedlist>
915 </listitem>
916
917 <listitem>
918 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
919 <itemizedlist>
920 <listitem>
921 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
922 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
923 </listitem>
924 </itemizedlist>
925 </listitem>
926
927 <listitem>
928 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
929 <itemizedlist>
930 <listitem>
931 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
932 </listitem>
933 <listitem>
934 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
935 </listitem>
936 <listitem>
937 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
938 </listitem>
939 </itemizedlist>
940 </listitem>
941
942 <listitem>
943 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
944 <itemizedlist>
945 <listitem>
946 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
947 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
948 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
949 </listitem>
950 <listitem>
951 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
952 filenames.</para>
953 </listitem>
954 </itemizedlist>
955 </listitem>
956
957 <listitem>
958 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
959 <itemizedlist>
960 <listitem>
961 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
962 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
963 </listitem>
964 <listitem>
965 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
966 </listitem>
967 </itemizedlist>
968 </listitem>
969
970 <listitem>
971 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
972 <itemizedlist>
973 <listitem>
974 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
975 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
976 </listitem>
977 </itemizedlist>
978 </listitem>
979
980 <listitem>
981 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
982 <itemizedlist>
983 <listitem>
984 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
985 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
986 </listitem>
987 <listitem>
988 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
989 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
990 </listitem>
991 <listitem>
992 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
993 bug 1603).</para>
994 </listitem>
995 <listitem>
996 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
997 </listitem>
998 <listitem>
999 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
1000 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
1001 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
1002 </listitem>
1003 <listitem>
1004 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
1005 test (bug 1611).</para>
1006 </listitem>
1007 </itemizedlist>
1008 </listitem>
1009
1010 <listitem>
1011 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
1012 <itemizedlist>
1013 <listitem>
1014 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
1015 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
1016 </listitem>
1017 <listitem>
1018 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
1019 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
1020 </listitem>
1021 <listitem>
1022 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1023 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1024 </listitem>
1025 <listitem>
1026 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1027 of chapter 6.</para>
1028 </listitem>
1029 <listitem>
1030 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1031 library (Bug 1608)</para>
1032 </listitem>
1033 </itemizedlist>
1034 </listitem>
1035
1036 <listitem>
1037 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1038 <itemizedlist>
1039 <listitem>
1040 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1041 from BLFS first.</para>
1042 </listitem>
1043 </itemizedlist>
1044 </listitem>
1045
1046 <listitem>
1047 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1048 <itemizedlist>
1049 <listitem>
1050 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1051 </listitem>
1052 <listitem>
1053 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1054 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1055 </listitem>
1056 </itemizedlist>
1057 </listitem>
1058
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1061 <itemizedlist>
1062 <listitem>
1063 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1064 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1065 </listitem>
1066 <listitem>
1067 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1068 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1069 </listitem>
1070 </itemizedlist>
1071 </listitem>
1072
1073 <listitem>
1074 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1075 <itemizedlist>
1076 <listitem>
1077 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1078 </listitem>
1079 </itemizedlist>
1080 </listitem>
1081
1082 <listitem>
1083 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1084 <itemizedlist>
1085 <listitem>
1086 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
1087 </listitem>
1088 <listitem>
1089 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
1090 </listitem>
1091 <listitem>
1092 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1093 The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
1094 </listitem>
1095 <listitem>
1096 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
1097 </listitem>
1098 </itemizedlist>
1099 </listitem>
1100
1101 <listitem>
1102 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1103 <itemizedlist>
1104 <listitem>
1105 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1106 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1107 </listitem>
1108 </itemizedlist>
1109 </listitem>
1110
1111 <listitem>
1112 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1113 <itemizedlist>
1114 <listitem>
1115 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1116 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1117 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1118 </listitem>
1119 <listitem>
1120 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1121 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1122 </listitem>
1123 </itemizedlist>
1124 </listitem>
1125
1126 <listitem>
1127 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1128 <itemizedlist>
1129 <listitem>
1130 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1131 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1132 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1133 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1134 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1135 </listitem>
1136 <listitem>
1137 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1138 </listitem>
1139 <listitem>
1140 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1141 </listitem>
1142 </itemizedlist>
1143 </listitem>
1144
1145 <listitem>
1146 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1147 <itemizedlist>
1148 <listitem>
1149 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1150 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1151 </listitem>
1152 </itemizedlist>
1153 </listitem>
1154
1155 <listitem>
1156 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1157 <itemizedlist>
1158 <listitem>
1159 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
1160 </listitem>
1161 <listitem>
1162 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1163 needed.</para>
1164 </listitem>
1165 </itemizedlist>
1166 </listitem>
1167
1168 <listitem>
1169 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1170 <itemizedlist>
1171 <listitem>
1172 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1173 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1174 </listitem>
1175 </itemizedlist>
1176 </listitem>
1177
1178 <listitem>
1179 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1180 <itemizedlist>
1181 <listitem>
1182 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1183 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1184 of the specs patch.</para>
1185 </listitem>
1186 <listitem>
1187 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1188 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1189 </listitem>
1190 </itemizedlist>
1191 </listitem>
1192
1193 <listitem>
1194 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1195 <itemizedlist>
1196 <listitem>
1197 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1198 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1199 </listitem>
1200 <listitem>
1201 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1202 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1203 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1204 </listitem>
1205 </itemizedlist>
1206 </listitem>
1207
1208 <listitem>
1209 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1210 <itemizedlist>
1211 <listitem>
1212 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1213 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1214 </listitem>
1215 <listitem>
1216 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1217 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1218 </listitem>
1219 <listitem>
1220 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1221 5 and 6.</para>
1222 </listitem>
1223 </itemizedlist>
1224 </listitem>
1225
1226 <listitem>
1227 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1228 <itemizedlist>
1229 <listitem>
1230 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1231 </listitem>
1232 <listitem>
1233 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1234 </listitem>
1235 <listitem>
1236 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1237 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1238 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1239 </listitem>
1240 <listitem>
1241 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1242 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1243 </listitem>
1244 <listitem>
1245 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1246 </listitem>
1247 <listitem>
1248 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1249 </listitem>
1250 </itemizedlist>
1251 </listitem>
1252
1253 <listitem>
1254 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1255 <itemizedlist>
1256 <listitem>
1257 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1258 </listitem>
1259 </itemizedlist>
1260 </listitem>
1261
1262 <listitem>
1263 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1264 <itemizedlist>
1265 <listitem>
1266 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1267 </listitem>
1268 <listitem>
1269 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1270 </listitem>
1271 <listitem>
1272 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1273 </listitem>
1274 <listitem>
1275 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1276 </listitem>
1277 <listitem>
1278 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1279 </listitem>
1280 </itemizedlist>
1281 </listitem>
1282
1283 <listitem>
1284 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1285 <itemizedlist>
1286 <listitem>
1287 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1288 as it is not needed.</para>
1289 </listitem>
1290 <listitem>
1291 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1292 </listitem>
1293 <listitem>
1294 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1295 </listitem>
1296 </itemizedlist>
1297 </listitem>
1298
1299 <listitem>
1300 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1301 <itemizedlist>
1302 <listitem>
1303 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1304 </listitem>
1305 <listitem>
1306 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1307 </listitem>
1308 <listitem>
1309 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1310 </listitem>
1311 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1312 </listitem>
1313 </itemizedlist>
1314 </listitem>
1315
1316 <listitem>
1317 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1318 <itemizedlist>
1319 <listitem>
1320 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1321 </listitem>
1322 <listitem>
1323 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1324 </listitem>
1325 <listitem>
1326 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1327 </listitem>
1328 <listitem>
1329 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1330 </listitem>
1331 </itemizedlist>
1332 </listitem>
1333
1334 <listitem>
1335 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1336 <itemizedlist>
1337 <listitem>
1338 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1339 </listitem>
1340 </itemizedlist>
1341 </listitem>
1342
1343 <listitem>
1344 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1345 <itemizedlist>
1346 <listitem>
1347 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1348 </listitem>
1349 </itemizedlist>
1350 </listitem>
1351
1352 <listitem>
1353 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1354 <itemizedlist>
1355 <listitem>
1356 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1357 </listitem>
1358 <listitem>
1359 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1360 </listitem>
1361 <listitem>
1362 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1363 </listitem>
1364 <listitem>
1365 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1366 </listitem>
1367 </itemizedlist>
1368 </listitem>
1369
1370 <listitem>
1371 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1372 <itemizedlist>
1373 <listitem>
1374 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1375 </listitem>
1376 <listitem>
1377 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1378 </listitem>
1379 <listitem>
1380 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
1381 </listitem>
1382 </itemizedlist>
1383 </listitem>
1384
1385 <listitem>
1386 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
1387 <itemizedlist>
1388 <listitem>
1389 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
1390 </listitem>
1391 </itemizedlist>
1392 </listitem>
1393
1394 <listitem>
1395 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
1396 <itemizedlist>
1397 <listitem>
1398 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
1399 </listitem>
1400 <listitem>
1401 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
1402 </listitem>
1403 </itemizedlist>
1404 </listitem>
1405
1406 <listitem>
1407 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
1408 <itemizedlist>
1409 <listitem>
1410 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
1411 </listitem>
1412 </itemizedlist>
1413 </listitem>
1414
1415 <listitem>
1416 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
1417 <itemizedlist>
1418 <listitem>
1419 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
1420 </listitem>
1421 </itemizedlist>
1422 </listitem>
1423
1424 <listitem>
1425 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
1426 <itemizedlist>
1427 <listitem>
1428 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
1429 </listitem>
1430 </itemizedlist>
1431 </listitem>
1432
1433 </itemizedlist>
1434
1435 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
1436 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
1437
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