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9 <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>
10
11 <title>Changelog</title>
12
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
17
18 <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
19 book.</para>
20
21 <itemizedlist>
22 <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26 <listitem>
27 <para>Date</para>
28 <itemizedlist>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 </itemizedlist>
36 </listitem>
37-->
38
39 <listitem>
40 <para>May 14, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[manuel] - Updated SBU and disk usage values.</para>
44 </listitem>
45 <listitem>
46 <para>[manuel] - Created packages.ent. Moved data about packages
47 to packages.ent as entities.</para>
48 </listitem>
49 </itemizedlist>
50 </listitem>
51
52 <listitem>
53 <para>May 12, 2006</para>
54 <itemizedlist>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.16.</para>
57 </listitem>
58 </itemizedlist>
59 </listitem>
60
61 <listitem>
62 <para>May 9, 2006</para>
63 <itemizedlist>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>[manuel] - Updated packages and patches sizes.</para>
66 </listitem>
67 </itemizedlist>
68 </listitem>
69
70 <listitem>
71 <para>May 8, 2006</para>
72 <itemizedlist>
73 <listitem>
74 <para>[archaic] - Made the directory tree creation more concise and
75 removed the extraneous /opt/* hierarchy (it is not required by
76 FHS). Closes ticket #1656.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 </itemizedlist>
79 </listitem>
80
81 <listitem>
82 <para>May 7, 2006</para>
83 <itemizedlist>
84 <listitem>
85 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.14.</para>
86 </listitem>
87 <listitem>
88 <para>[ken] - Use ext3 filesystem instead of ext2.
89 Resolves ticket #1792.</para>
90 </listitem>
91 </itemizedlist>
92 </listitem>
93
94 <listitem>
95 <para>May 6, 2006</para>
96 <itemizedlist>
97 <listitem>
98 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added MD5 sums for packages and patches.
99 Resolves ticket #1788.</para>
100 </listitem>
101 </itemizedlist>
102 </listitem>
103
104 <listitem>
105 <para>May 3, 2006</para>
106 <itemizedlist>
107 <listitem>
108 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.16.13.</para>
109 </listitem>
110 <listitem>
111 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current
112 findings. Resolves ticket #1657.</para>
113 </listitem>
114 <listitem>
115 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent
116 leakage reports.</para>
117 </listitem>
118 </itemizedlist>
119 </listitem>
120
121 <listitem>
122 <para>May 2, 2006</para>
123 <itemizedlist>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC
126 and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768.</para>
127 </listitem>
128 <listitem>
129 <para>[archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since
130 it is already covered in BLFS.</para>
131 </listitem>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>[archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31.</para>
134 </listitem>
135 <listitem>
136 <para>[archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10.</para>
137 </listitem>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>[archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13.</para>
140 </listitem>
141 </itemizedlist>
142 </listitem>
143
144 <listitem>
145 <para>May 1, 2006</para>
146 <itemizedlist>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>[archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with
149 Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix
150 and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770.</para>
151 </listitem>
152 <listitem>
153 <para>[archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not
154 re-install its binaries.</para>
155 </listitem>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>[archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11.</para>
158 </listitem>
159 <listitem>
160 <para>[archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of
161 udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle
162 program.</para>
163 </listitem>
164 </itemizedlist>
165 </listitem>
166
167 <listitem>
168 <para>April 27, 2006</para>
169 <itemizedlist>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>[manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators
172 acknowledgements.</para>
173 </listitem>
174 </itemizedlist>
175 </listitem>
176
177 <listitem>
178 <para>April 23, 2006</para>
179 <itemizedlist>
180 <listitem>
181 <para>[manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools
182 ownership. Resolves ticket #1780.</para>
183 </listitem>
184 </itemizedlist>
185 </listitem>
186
187 <listitem>
188 <para>April 22, 2006</para>
189 <itemizedlist>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>[manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page
192 wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves
193 ticket #1779.</para>
194 </listitem>
195 </itemizedlist>
196 </listitem>
197
198 <listitem>
199 <para>April 21, 2006</para>
200 <itemizedlist>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>[manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the
203 required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs
204 for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for reviewing the
205 wording.</para>
206 </listitem>
207 <listitem>
208 <para>[manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin
209 R. Knierim for the patch.</para>
210 </listitem>
211 </itemizedlist>
212 </listitem>
213
214 <listitem>
215 <para>April 20, 2006</para>
216 <itemizedlist>
217 <listitem>
218 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch.
219 Resolves Ticket 1775.</para>
220 </listitem>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>[manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3
223 is required on the host system.</para>
224 </listitem>
225 <listitem>
226 <para>[manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub
227 for the patch.</para>
228 </listitem>
229 </itemizedlist>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>April 19, 2006</para>
234 <itemizedlist>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum
237 software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these
238 and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement.
239 Resolves Ticket 1598.</para>
240 </listitem>
241 </itemizedlist>
242 </listitem>
243
244 <listitem>
245 <para>April 18, 2006</para>
246 <itemizedlist>
247 <listitem>
248 <para>[jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page,
249 Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the
250 build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this
251 information is complete enough at this point to close out the
252 long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson
253 and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished.</para>
254 </listitem>
255 </itemizedlist>
256 </listitem>
257
258 <listitem>
259 <para>April 15, 2006</para>
260 <itemizedlist>
261 <listitem>
262 <para>[archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415.</para>
263 </listitem>
264 <listitem>
265 <para>[archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages
266 that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h.</para>
267 </listitem>
268 </itemizedlist>
269 </listitem>
270
271 <listitem>
272 <para>April 14, 2006</para>
273 <itemizedlist>
274 <listitem>
275 <para>[ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300.</para>
276 </listitem>
277 <listitem>
278 <para>[archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No
279 command changes.</para>
280 </listitem>
281 <listitem>
282 <para>[manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now,
283 replaceable text is encapsulated inside &lt; &gt;, optional text
284 inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to
285 Bruce Dubbs for the patch.</para>
286 </listitem>
287 </itemizedlist>
288 </listitem>
289
290 <listitem>
291 <para>April 13, 2006</para>
292 <itemizedlist>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
295 removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
296 </listitem>
297 <listitem>
298 <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
299 </listitem>
300 <listitem>
301 <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
302 Shadow.</para>
303 </listitem>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
306 </listitem>
307 </itemizedlist>
308 </listitem>
309
310 <listitem>
311 <para>April 12, 2006</para>
312 <itemizedlist>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
315 Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
316 </listitem>
317 <listitem>
318 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
319 Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
320 convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
321 Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
322 </listitem>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
325 in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
326 the symlink we used to create.</para>
327 </listitem>
328 </itemizedlist>
329 </listitem>
330
331 <listitem>
332 <para>April 11, 2006</para>
333 <itemizedlist>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
336 </listitem>
337 </itemizedlist>
338 </listitem>
339
340 <listitem>
341 <para>April 8, 2006</para>
342 <itemizedlist>
343 <listitem>
344 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
345 in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
346 programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
347 slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
348 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
349 </listitem>
350 </itemizedlist>
351 </listitem>
352
353 <listitem>
354 <para>April 6, 2006</para>
355 <itemizedlist>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
358 links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
359 </listitem>
360 <listitem>
361 <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
362 </listitem>
363 </itemizedlist>
364 </listitem>
365
366 <listitem>
367 <para>April 2, 2006</para>
368 <itemizedlist>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
371 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
372 mounting of kernel filesystems before the package management page and
373 rewrote the page to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel
374 filesystems while outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering
375 chroot and remounting kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list
376 of dirs created in chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
377 </listitem>
378 </itemizedlist>
379 </listitem>
380
381 <listitem>
382 <para>March 30, 2006</para>
383 <itemizedlist>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
386 Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
387 </listitem>
388 <listitem>
389 <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
390 and Udev-088.</para>
391 </listitem>
392 </itemizedlist>
393 </listitem>
394
395 <listitem>
396 <para>March 29, 2006</para>
397 <itemizedlist>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
400 to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
401 the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
402 </listitem>
403 </itemizedlist>
404 </listitem>
405
406 <listitem>
407 <para>March 22, 2006</para>
408 <itemizedlist>
409 <listitem>
410 <para>[archaic] - Updated to
411 lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
412 </listitem>
413 </itemizedlist>
414 </listitem>
415
416 <listitem>
417 <para>March 21, 2006</para>
418 <itemizedlist>
419 <listitem>
420 <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
421 hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
422 udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
423 </para>
424 </listitem>
425 </itemizedlist>
426 </listitem>
427
428 <listitem>
429 <para>March 18, 2006</para>
430 <itemizedlist>
431 <listitem>
432 <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
433 is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
434 patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
435 </listitem>
436 <listitem>
437 <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
438 tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
439 #1713.</para>
440 </listitem>
441 <listitem>
442 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
443 </listitem>
444 <listitem>
445 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
446 </listitem>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
449 </listitem>
450 <listitem>
451 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
452 </listitem>
453 <listitem>
454 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
455 </listitem>
456 <listitem>
457 <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
458 patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
459 installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
460 </listitem>
461 </itemizedlist>
462 </listitem>
463
464 <listitem>
465 <para>March 11, 2006</para>
466 <itemizedlist>
467 <listitem>
468 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
469 </listitem>
470 </itemizedlist>
471 </listitem>
472
473 <listitem>
474 <para>March 8, 2006</para>
475 <itemizedlist>
476 <listitem>
477 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
478 </listitem>
479 <listitem>
480 <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
481 does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
482 Patrakov.</para>
483 </listitem>
484 <listitem>
485 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
486 </listitem>
487 <listitem>
488 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
489 </listitem>
490 <listitem>
491 <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
492 present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
493 </listitem>
494 </itemizedlist>
495 </listitem>
496
497 <listitem>
498 <para>March 7, 2006</para>
499 <itemizedlist>
500 <listitem>
501 <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
502 upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
503 device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
504 </listitem>
505 <listitem>
506 <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
507 LFS-style patch.</para>
508 </listitem>
509 </itemizedlist>
510 </listitem>
511
512 <listitem>
513 <para>March 3, 2006</para>
514 <itemizedlist>
515 <listitem>
516 <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
517 to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
518 </listitem>
519 </itemizedlist>
520 </listitem>
521
522 <listitem>
523 <para>March 1, 2006</para>
524 <itemizedlist>
525 <listitem>
526 <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
527 symlinks.</para>
528 </listitem>
529 <listitem>
530 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
531 help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
532 </listitem>
533 </itemizedlist>
534 </listitem>
535
536 <listitem>
537 <para>February 27, 2006</para>
538 <itemizedlist>
539 <listitem>
540 <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
541 upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
542 </listitem>
543 </itemizedlist>
544 </listitem>
545
546 <listitem>
547 <para>February 20, 2006</para>
548 <itemizedlist>
549 <listitem>
550 <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
551 keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
552 expanded by the shell.</para>
553 </listitem>
554 <listitem>
555 <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
556 </listitem>
557 <listitem>
558 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
559 </listitem>
560 </itemizedlist>
561 </listitem>
562
563 <listitem>
564 <para>February 19, 2006</para>
565 <itemizedlist>
566 <listitem>
567 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
568 to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
569 </listitem>
570 <listitem>
571 <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
572 every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
573 </listitem>
574 <listitem>
575 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
576 </listitem>
577 <listitem>
578 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
579 </listitem>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
582 --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
583 for the report and the fix.</para>
584 </listitem>
585 <listitem>
586 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
587 </listitem>
588 <listitem>
589 <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
590 </listitem>
591 <listitem>
592 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
593 </listitem>
594 <listitem>
595 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
596 </listitem>
597 <listitem>
598 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
599 </listitem>
600 <listitem>
601 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
602 </listitem>
603 <listitem>
604 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
605 vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
606 </listitem>
607 <listitem>
608 <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
609 Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
610 </listitem>
611 <listitem>
612 <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
613 instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
614 &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
615 <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
616 can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
617 </listitem>
618 </itemizedlist>
619 </listitem>
620
621 <listitem>
622 <para>February 10, 2006</para>
623 <itemizedlist>
624 <listitem>
625 <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
626 changes.</para>
627 </listitem>
628 </itemizedlist>
629 </listitem>
630
631 <listitem>
632 <para>February 8, 2006</para>
633 <itemizedlist>
634 <listitem>
635 <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
636 reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
637 module loading.</para>
638 </listitem>
639 </itemizedlist>
640 </listitem>
641
642 <listitem>
643 <para>February 3, 2006</para>
644 <itemizedlist>
645 <listitem>
646 <para>[matthew] - Create the
647 <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
648 can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
649 </para>
650 </listitem>
651 <listitem>
652 <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
653 </listitem>
654 <listitem>
655 <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
656 hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
657 </listitem>
658 <listitem>
659 <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
660 download.</para>
661 </listitem>
662 <listitem>
663 <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
664 </listitem>
665 </itemizedlist>
666 </listitem>
667
668 <listitem>
669 <para>February 2, 2006</para>
670 <itemizedlist>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
673 enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
674 rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
675 bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
676 </listitem>
677 <listitem>
678 <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript.
679 Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
680 </listitem>
681 <listitem>
682 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
683 </listitem>
684 </itemizedlist>
685 </listitem>
686
687 <listitem>
688 <para>January 30, 2006</para>
689 <itemizedlist>
690 <listitem>
691 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
692 on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
693 of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
694 </listitem>
695 <listitem>
696 <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
697 Staub.</para>
698 </listitem>
699 <listitem>
700 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
701 pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
702 </listitem>
703 </itemizedlist>
704 </listitem>
705
706 <listitem>
707 <para>January 29, 2006</para>
708 <itemizedlist>
709 <listitem>
710 <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
711 </listitem>
712 <listitem>
713 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
714 readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
715 </listitem>
716 </itemizedlist>
717 </listitem>
718
719 <listitem>
720 <para>January 26, 2006</para>
721 <itemizedlist>
722 <listitem>
723 <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
724 allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
725 </listitem>
726 <listitem>
727 <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
728 for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
729 sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
730 Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
731 </listitem>
732 <listitem>
733 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
734 section.</para>
735 </listitem>
736 </itemizedlist>
737 </listitem>
738
739 <listitem>
740 <para>January 25, 2006</para>
741 <itemizedlist>
742 <listitem>
743 <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
744 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
745 </listitem>
746 <listitem>
747 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
748 the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
749 and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
750 </listitem>
751 <listitem>
752 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
753 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
754 so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
755 Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
756 chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
757 Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
758 issue.</para>
759 </listitem>
760 <listitem>
761 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
762 <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
763 coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
764 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
765 </listitem>
766 <listitem>
767 <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
768 the BLFS project for the text.</para>
769 </listitem>
770 </itemizedlist>
771 </listitem>
772
773 <listitem>
774 <para>January 24, 2006</para>
775 <itemizedlist>
776 <listitem>
777 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
778 </listitem>
779 </itemizedlist>
780 </listitem>
781
782 <listitem>
783 <para>January 23, 2006</para>
784 <itemizedlist>
785 <listitem>
786 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
787 </listitem>
788 <listitem>
789 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
790 </listitem>
791 <listitem>
792 <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
793 </listitem>
794 <listitem>
795 <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
796 to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
797 </listitem>
798 <listitem>
799 <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
800 compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
801 Patrakov for the patch.</para>
802 </listitem>
803 </itemizedlist>
804 </listitem>
805
806 <listitem>
807 <para>January 20, 2006</para>
808 <itemizedlist>
809 <listitem>
810 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
811 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
812 it out.</para>
813 </listitem>
814 </itemizedlist>
815 </listitem>
816
817 <listitem>
818 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
819 <itemizedlist>
820 <listitem>
821 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
822 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
823 </listitem>
824 </itemizedlist>
825 </listitem>
826
827 <listitem>
828 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
829 <itemizedlist>
830 <listitem>
831 <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
832 difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
833 to Greg Schafer.</para>
834 </listitem>
835 <listitem>
836 <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
837 gccbug.</para>
838 </listitem>
839 </itemizedlist>
840 </listitem>
841
842 <listitem>
843 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
844 <itemizedlist>
845 <listitem>
846 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
847 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
848 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
849 for explaining this.</para>
850 </listitem>
851 <listitem>
852 <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
853 will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
854 </listitem>
855 <listitem>
856 <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
857 use mktemp.</para>
858 </listitem>
859 <listitem>
860 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
861 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
862 Randy McMurchy.</para>
863 </listitem>
864 </itemizedlist>
865 </listitem>
866
867 <listitem>
868 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
869 <itemizedlist>
870 <listitem>
871 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
872 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
873 </listitem>
874 <listitem>
875 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
876 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
877 </listitem>
878 </itemizedlist>
879 </listitem>
880
881 <listitem>
882 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
883 <itemizedlist>
884 <listitem>
885 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
886 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
887 </listitem>
888 <listitem>
889 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
890 </listitem>
891 <listitem>
892 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
893 </listitem>
894 <listitem>
895 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
896 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
897 </listitem>
898 </itemizedlist>
899 </listitem>
900
901 <listitem>
902 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
903 <itemizedlist>
904 <listitem>
905 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
906 to be repeatable.</para>
907 </listitem>
908 </itemizedlist>
909 </listitem>
910
911 <listitem>
912 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
913 <itemizedlist>
914 <listitem>
915 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
916 </listitem>
917 </itemizedlist>
918 </listitem>
919
920 <listitem>
921 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
922 <itemizedlist>
923 <listitem>
924 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
925 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
926 </listitem>
927 </itemizedlist>
928 </listitem>
929
930 <listitem>
931 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
932 <itemizedlist>
933 <listitem>
934 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
935 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
936 </listitem>
937 <listitem>
938 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
939 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
940 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
941 </listitem>
942 <listitem>
943 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
944 </listitem>
945 <listitem>
946 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
947 </listitem>
948 </itemizedlist>
949 </listitem>
950
951 <listitem>
952 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
953 <itemizedlist>
954 <listitem>
955 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
956 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
957 </listitem>
958 </itemizedlist>
959 </listitem>
960
961 <listitem>
962 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
963 <itemizedlist>
964 <listitem>
965 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
966 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
967 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
968 bug 1670).</para>
969 </listitem>
970 </itemizedlist>
971 </listitem>
972
973 <listitem>
974 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
975 <itemizedlist>
976 <listitem>
977 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
978 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
979 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
980 </listitem>
981 </itemizedlist>
982 </listitem>
983
984 <listitem>
985 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
986 <itemizedlist>
987 <listitem>
988 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
989 </listitem>
990 <listitem>
991 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
992 </listitem>
993 <listitem>
994 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
995 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
996 </listitem>
997 <listitem>
998 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
999 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
1000 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
1001 </listitem>
1002 <listitem>
1003 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
1004 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
1005 </listitem>
1006 </itemizedlist>
1007 </listitem>
1008
1009 <listitem>
1010 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
1011 <itemizedlist>
1012 <listitem>
1013 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
1014 </listitem>
1015 <listitem>
1016 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
1017 </para>
1018 </listitem>
1019 <listitem>
1020 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
1021 </listitem>
1022 </itemizedlist>
1023 </listitem>
1024
1025 <listitem>
1026 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
1027 <itemizedlist>
1028 <listitem>
1029 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
1030 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
1031 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
1032 </listitem>
1033 </itemizedlist>
1034 </listitem>
1035
1036 <listitem>
1037 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
1038 <itemizedlist>
1039 <listitem>
1040 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
1041 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
1042 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
1043 </listitem>
1044 <listitem>
1045 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
1046 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
1047 </listitem>
1048 <listitem>
1049 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
1050 </listitem>
1051 <listitem>
1052 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
1053 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
1054 McMurchy for the report).</para>
1055 </listitem>
1056 <listitem>
1057 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
1058 </listitem>
1059 <listitem>
1060 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
1061 </listitem>
1062 <listitem>
1063 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
1064 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
1065 </listitem>
1066 </itemizedlist>
1067 </listitem>
1068
1069 <listitem>
1070 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
1071 <itemizedlist>
1072 <listitem>
1073 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
1074 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
1075 </listitem>
1076 </itemizedlist>
1077 </listitem>
1078
1079 <listitem>
1080 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
1081 <itemizedlist>
1082 <listitem>
1083 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
1084 package.</para>
1085 </listitem>
1086 </itemizedlist>
1087 </listitem>
1088
1089 <listitem>
1090 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
1091 <itemizedlist>
1092 <listitem>
1093 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
1094 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
1095 </listitem>
1096 </itemizedlist>
1097 </listitem>
1098
1099 <listitem>
1100 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
1101 <itemizedlist>
1102 <listitem>
1103 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
1104 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
1105 </listitem>
1106 </itemizedlist>
1107 </listitem>
1108
1109 <listitem>
1110 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
1111 <itemizedlist>
1112 <listitem>
1113 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
1114 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
1115 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
1116 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
1117 </listitem>
1118 </itemizedlist>
1119 </listitem>
1120
1121 <listitem>
1122 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
1123 <itemizedlist>
1124 <listitem>
1125 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
1126 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
1127 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
1128 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
1129 </listitem>
1130 <listitem>
1131 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
1132 </listitem>
1133 <listitem>
1134 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
1135 Chris Staub.</para>
1136 </listitem>
1137 </itemizedlist>
1138 </listitem>
1139
1140 <listitem>
1141 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
1142 <itemizedlist>
1143 <listitem>
1144 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
1145 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
1146 </listitem>
1147 </itemizedlist>
1148 </listitem>
1149
1150 <listitem>
1151 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
1152 <itemizedlist>
1153 <listitem>
1154 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
1155 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
1156 </listitem>
1157 </itemizedlist>
1158 </listitem>
1159
1160 <listitem>
1161 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
1162 <itemizedlist>
1163 <listitem>
1164 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
1165 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
1166 </listitem>
1167 <listitem>
1168 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
1169 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
1170 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
1171 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
1172 </listitem>
1173 </itemizedlist>
1174 </listitem>
1175
1176 <listitem>
1177 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
1178 <itemizedlist>
1179 <listitem>
1180 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
1181 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
1182 </listitem>
1183 <listitem>
1184 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
1185 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
1186 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
1187 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
1188 </listitem>
1189 <listitem>
1190 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
1191 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
1192 report and the fix.</para>
1193 </listitem>
1194 <listitem>
1195 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
1196 </listitem>
1197 <listitem>
1198 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
1199 </listitem>
1200 <listitem>
1201 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
1202 </listitem>
1203 </itemizedlist>
1204 </listitem>
1205
1206 <listitem>
1207 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
1208 <itemizedlist>
1209 <listitem>
1210 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
1211 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
1212 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
1213 </listitem>
1214 </itemizedlist>
1215 </listitem>
1216
1217 <listitem>
1218 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
1219 <itemizedlist>
1220 <listitem>
1221 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
1222 </listitem>
1223 <listitem>
1224 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
1225 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
1226 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
1227 </listitem>
1228 </itemizedlist>
1229 </listitem>
1230
1231 <listitem>
1232 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
1233 <itemizedlist>
1234 <listitem>
1235 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
1236 </listitem>
1237 <listitem>
1238 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
1239 </listitem>
1240 <listitem>
1241 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
1242 </listitem>
1243 <listitem>
1244 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
1245 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
1246 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
1247 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
1248 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
1249 of LFS.</para>
1250 </listitem>
1251 </itemizedlist>
1252 </listitem>
1253
1254 <listitem>
1255 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
1256 <itemizedlist>
1257 <listitem>
1258 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
1259 </listitem>
1260 <listitem>
1261 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
1262 </listitem>
1263 <listitem>
1264 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
1265 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
1266 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
1267 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
1268 </listitem>
1269 </itemizedlist>
1270 </listitem>
1271
1272 <listitem>
1273 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
1274 <itemizedlist>
1275 <listitem>
1276 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
1277 </listitem>
1278 </itemizedlist>
1279 </listitem>
1280
1281 <listitem>
1282 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
1283 <itemizedlist>
1284 <listitem>
1285 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
1286 </listitem>
1287 <listitem>
1288 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
1289 </listitem>
1290 <listitem>
1291 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
1292 </listitem>
1293 </itemizedlist>
1294 </listitem>
1295
1296 <listitem>
1297 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
1298 <itemizedlist>
1299 <listitem>
1300 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
1301 </listitem>
1302 <listitem>
1303 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
1304 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
1305 </listitem>
1306 <listitem>
1307 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules.
1308 file</para>
1309 </listitem>
1310 </itemizedlist>
1311 </listitem>
1312
1313 <listitem>
1314 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
1315 <itemizedlist>
1316 <listitem>
1317 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
1318 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
1319 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
1320 </listitem>
1321 </itemizedlist>
1322 </listitem>
1323
1324 <listitem>
1325 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
1326 <itemizedlist>
1327 <listitem>
1328 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
1329 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
1330 </listitem>
1331 <listitem>
1332 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
1333 </listitem>
1334 </itemizedlist>
1335 </listitem>
1336
1337 <listitem>
1338 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
1339 <itemizedlist>
1340 <listitem>
1341 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
1342 </listitem>
1343 </itemizedlist>
1344 </listitem>
1345
1346 <listitem>
1347 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
1348 <itemizedlist>
1349 <listitem>
1350 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
1351 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
1352 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
1353 </listitem>
1354 </itemizedlist>
1355 </listitem>
1356
1357 <listitem>
1358 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
1359 <itemizedlist>
1360 <listitem>
1361 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
1362 bug 1629).</para>
1363 </listitem>
1364 <listitem>
1365 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
1366 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
1367 </listitem>
1368 </itemizedlist>
1369 </listitem>
1370
1371 <listitem>
1372 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
1373 <itemizedlist>
1374 <listitem>
1375 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
1376 </listitem>
1377 </itemizedlist>
1378 </listitem>
1379
1380 <listitem>
1381 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
1382 <itemizedlist>
1383 <listitem>
1384 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
1385 </listitem>
1386 <listitem>
1387 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
1388 </listitem>
1389 <listitem>
1390 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
1391 </listitem>
1392 </itemizedlist>
1393 </listitem>
1394
1395 <listitem>
1396 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
1397 <itemizedlist>
1398 <listitem>
1399 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
1400 </listitem>
1401 </itemizedlist>
1402 </listitem>
1403
1404 <listitem>
1405 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
1406 <itemizedlist>
1407 <listitem>
1408 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
1409 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
1410 </listitem>
1411 <listitem>
1412 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
1413 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
1414 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
1415 </listitem>
1416 </itemizedlist>
1417 </listitem>
1418
1419 <listitem>
1420 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
1421 <itemizedlist>
1422 <listitem>
1423 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
1424 vulnerability.</para>
1425 </listitem>
1426 </itemizedlist>
1427 </listitem>
1428
1429 <listitem>
1430 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
1431 <itemizedlist>
1432 <listitem>
1433 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
1434 </listitem>
1435 </itemizedlist>
1436 </listitem>
1437
1438 <listitem>
1439 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
1440 <itemizedlist>
1441 <listitem>
1442 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
1443 </listitem>
1444 </itemizedlist>
1445 </listitem>
1446
1447 <listitem>
1448 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
1449 <itemizedlist>
1450 <listitem>
1451 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
1452 </listitem>
1453 </itemizedlist>
1454 </listitem>
1455
1456 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
1457 <itemizedlist>
1458 <listitem>
1459 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
1460 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
1461 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604).</para>
1462 </listitem>
1463 <listitem>
1464 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20.</para>
1465 </listitem>
1466 <listitem>
1467 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25.</para>
1468 </listitem>
1469 </itemizedlist>
1470 </listitem>
1471
1472 <listitem>
1473 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
1474 <itemizedlist>
1475 <listitem>
1476 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
1477 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
1478 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
1479 to actually work.</para>
1480 </listitem>
1481 <listitem>
1482 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
1483 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
1484 </listitem>
1485 </itemizedlist>
1486 </listitem>
1487
1488 <listitem>
1489 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
1490 <itemizedlist>
1491 <listitem>
1492 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
1493 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
1494 </listitem>
1495 <listitem>
1496 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
1497 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
1498 </listitem>
1499 <listitem>
1500 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
1501 </listitem>
1502 <listitem>
1503 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
1504 gcc-pass2.</para>
1505 </listitem>
1506 </itemizedlist>
1507 </listitem>
1508
1509 <listitem>
1510 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
1511 <itemizedlist>
1512 <listitem>
1513 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
1514 builds for consistency</para>
1515 </listitem>
1516 </itemizedlist>
1517 </listitem>
1518
1519 <listitem>
1520 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
1521 <itemizedlist>
1522 <listitem>
1523 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
1524 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
1525 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
1526 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
1527 </listitem>
1528 <listitem>
1529 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
1530 rules (fixes bug 1622).</para>
1531 </listitem>
1532 <listitem>
1533 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a.</para>
1534 </listitem>
1535 </itemizedlist>
1536 </listitem>
1537
1538 <listitem>
1539 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
1540 <itemizedlist>
1541 <listitem>
1542 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils' binaries to /bin as
1543 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
1544 </listitem>
1545 </itemizedlist>
1546 </listitem>
1547
1548 <listitem>
1549 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
1550 <itemizedlist>
1551 <listitem>
1552 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068.</para>
1553 </listitem>
1554 <listitem>
1555 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00.</para>
1556 </listitem>
1557 <listitem>
1558 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15.</para>
1559 </listitem>
1560 </itemizedlist>
1561 </listitem>
1562
1563 <listitem>
1564 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
1565 <itemizedlist>
1566 <listitem>
1567 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
1568 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
1569 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
1570 </listitem>
1571 <listitem>
1572 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
1573 filenames.</para>
1574 </listitem>
1575 </itemizedlist>
1576 </listitem>
1577
1578 <listitem>
1579 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
1580 <itemizedlist>
1581 <listitem>
1582 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
1583 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
1584 </listitem>
1585 <listitem>
1586 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
1587 </listitem>
1588 </itemizedlist>
1589 </listitem>
1590
1591 <listitem>
1592 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
1593 <itemizedlist>
1594 <listitem>
1595 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
1596 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer).</para>
1597 </listitem>
1598 </itemizedlist>
1599 </listitem>
1600
1601 <listitem>
1602 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
1603 <itemizedlist>
1604 <listitem>
1605 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
1606 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
1607 </listitem>
1608 <listitem>
1609 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
1610 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
1611 </listitem>
1612 <listitem>
1613 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
1614 bug 1603).</para>
1615 </listitem>
1616 <listitem>
1617 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
1618 </listitem>
1619 <listitem>
1620 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
1621 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
1622 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
1623 </listitem>
1624 <listitem>
1625 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
1626 test (bug 1611).</para>
1627 </listitem>
1628 </itemizedlist>
1629 </listitem>
1630
1631 <listitem>
1632 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
1633 <itemizedlist>
1634 <listitem>
1635 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
1636 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
1637 </listitem>
1638 <listitem>
1639 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
1640 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
1641 </listitem>
1642 <listitem>
1643 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
1644 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
1645 </listitem>
1646 <listitem>
1647 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
1648 of chapter 6.</para>
1649 </listitem>
1650 <listitem>
1651 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
1652 library (Bug 1608).</para>
1653 </listitem>
1654 </itemizedlist>
1655 </listitem>
1656
1657 <listitem>
1658 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
1659 <itemizedlist>
1660 <listitem>
1661 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
1662 from BLFS first.</para>
1663 </listitem>
1664 </itemizedlist>
1665 </listitem>
1666
1667 <listitem>
1668 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
1669 <itemizedlist>
1670 <listitem>
1671 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
1672 </listitem>
1673 <listitem>
1674 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
1675 modeline vulnerability.</para>
1676 </listitem>
1677 </itemizedlist>
1678 </listitem>
1679
1680 <listitem>
1681 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
1682 <itemizedlist>
1683 <listitem>
1684 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
1685 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1686 </listitem>
1687 <listitem>
1688 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
1689 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
1690 </listitem>
1691 </itemizedlist>
1692 </listitem>
1693
1694 <listitem>
1695 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
1696 <itemizedlist>
1697 <listitem>
1698 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
1699 </listitem>
1700 </itemizedlist>
1701 </listitem>
1702
1703 <listitem>
1704 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
1705 <itemizedlist>
1706 <listitem>
1707 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd.</para>
1708 </listitem>
1709 <listitem>
1710 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils.</para>
1711 </listitem>
1712 <listitem>
1713 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
1714 The test no longer fails under GCC-4.</para>
1715 </listitem>
1716 <listitem>
1717 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar.</para>
1718 </listitem>
1719 </itemizedlist>
1720 </listitem>
1721
1722 <listitem>
1723 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
1724 <itemizedlist>
1725 <listitem>
1726 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
1727 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
1728 </listitem>
1729 </itemizedlist>
1730 </listitem>
1731
1732 <listitem>
1733 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
1734 <itemizedlist>
1735 <listitem>
1736 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
1737 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
1738 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
1739 </listitem>
1740 <listitem>
1741 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
1742 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
1743 </listitem>
1744 </itemizedlist>
1745 </listitem>
1746
1747 <listitem>
1748 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
1749 <itemizedlist>
1750 <listitem>
1751 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
1752 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
1753 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1754 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1755 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1756 </listitem>
1757 <listitem>
1758 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1759 </listitem>
1760 <listitem>
1761 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1762 </listitem>
1763 </itemizedlist>
1764 </listitem>
1765
1766 <listitem>
1767 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1768 <itemizedlist>
1769 <listitem>
1770 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1771 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1772 </listitem>
1773 </itemizedlist>
1774 </listitem>
1775
1776 <listitem>
1777 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1778 <itemizedlist>
1779 <listitem>
1780 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc.</para>
1781 </listitem>
1782 <listitem>
1783 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1784 needed.</para>
1785 </listitem>
1786 </itemizedlist>
1787 </listitem>
1788
1789 <listitem>
1790 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1791 <itemizedlist>
1792 <listitem>
1793 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1794 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1795 </listitem>
1796 </itemizedlist>
1797 </listitem>
1798
1799 <listitem>
1800 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1801 <itemizedlist>
1802 <listitem>
1803 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1804 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1805 of the specs patch.</para>
1806 </listitem>
1807 <listitem>
1808 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1809 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1810 </listitem>
1811 </itemizedlist>
1812 </listitem>
1813
1814 <listitem>
1815 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1816 <itemizedlist>
1817 <listitem>
1818 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1819 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1820 </listitem>
1821 <listitem>
1822 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1823 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1824 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1825 </listitem>
1826 </itemizedlist>
1827 </listitem>
1828
1829 <listitem>
1830 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1831 <itemizedlist>
1832 <listitem>
1833 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1834 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1835 </listitem>
1836 <listitem>
1837 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1838 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1839 </listitem>
1840 <listitem>
1841 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1842 5 and 6.</para>
1843 </listitem>
1844 </itemizedlist>
1845 </listitem>
1846
1847 <listitem>
1848 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1849 <itemizedlist>
1850 <listitem>
1851 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1852 </listitem>
1853 <listitem>
1854 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1855 </listitem>
1856 <listitem>
1857 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1858 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1859 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1860 </listitem>
1861 <listitem>
1862 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1863 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1864 </listitem>
1865 <listitem>
1866 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1867 </listitem>
1868 <listitem>
1869 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1870 </listitem>
1871 </itemizedlist>
1872 </listitem>
1873
1874 <listitem>
1875 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1876 <itemizedlist>
1877 <listitem>
1878 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1879 </listitem>
1880 </itemizedlist>
1881 </listitem>
1882
1883 <listitem>
1884 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1885 <itemizedlist>
1886 <listitem>
1887 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1888 </listitem>
1889 <listitem>
1890 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1891 </listitem>
1892 <listitem>
1893 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1894 </listitem>
1895 <listitem>
1896 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1897 </listitem>
1898 <listitem>
1899 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1900 </listitem>
1901 </itemizedlist>
1902 </listitem>
1903
1904 <listitem>
1905 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1906 <itemizedlist>
1907 <listitem>
1908 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1909 as it is not needed.</para>
1910 </listitem>
1911 <listitem>
1912 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1913 </listitem>
1914 <listitem>
1915 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1916 </listitem>
1917 </itemizedlist>
1918 </listitem>
1919
1920 <listitem>
1921 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1922 <itemizedlist>
1923 <listitem>
1924 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1925 </listitem>
1926 <listitem>
1927 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1928 </listitem>
1929 <listitem>
1930 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1931 </listitem>
1932 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1933 </listitem>
1934 </itemizedlist>
1935 </listitem>
1936
1937 <listitem>
1938 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1939 <itemizedlist>
1940 <listitem>
1941 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1942 </listitem>
1943 <listitem>
1944 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1945 </listitem>
1946 <listitem>
1947 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1948 </listitem>
1949 <listitem>
1950 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1951 </listitem>
1952 </itemizedlist>
1953 </listitem>
1954
1955 <listitem>
1956 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1957 <itemizedlist>
1958 <listitem>
1959 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1960 </listitem>
1961 </itemizedlist>
1962 </listitem>
1963
1964 <listitem>
1965 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1966 <itemizedlist>
1967 <listitem>
1968 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1969 </listitem>
1970 </itemizedlist>
1971 </listitem>
1972
1973 <listitem>
1974 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1975 <itemizedlist>
1976 <listitem>
1977 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1978 </listitem>
1979 <listitem>
1980 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1981 </listitem>
1982 <listitem>
1983 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1984 </listitem>
1985 <listitem>
1986 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1987 </listitem>
1988 </itemizedlist>
1989 </listitem>
1990
1991 <listitem>
1992 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1993 <itemizedlist>
1994 <listitem>
1995 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1996 </listitem>
1997 <listitem>
1998 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1999 </listitem>
2000 <listitem>
2001 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
2002 </listitem>
2003 </itemizedlist>
2004 </listitem>
2005
2006 <listitem>
2007 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
2008 <itemizedlist>
2009 <listitem>
2010 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
2011 </listitem>
2012 </itemizedlist>
2013 </listitem>
2014
2015 <listitem>
2016 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
2017 <itemizedlist>
2018 <listitem>
2019 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
2020 </listitem>
2021 <listitem>
2022 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
2023 </listitem>
2024 </itemizedlist>
2025 </listitem>
2026
2027 <listitem>
2028 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
2029 <itemizedlist>
2030 <listitem>
2031 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
2032 </listitem>
2033 </itemizedlist>
2034 </listitem>
2035
2036 <listitem>
2037 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
2038 <itemizedlist>
2039 <listitem>
2040 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
2041 </listitem>
2042 </itemizedlist>
2043 </listitem>
2044
2045 <listitem>
2046 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
2047 <itemizedlist>
2048 <listitem>
2049 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
2050 </listitem>
2051 </itemizedlist>
2052 </listitem>
2053
2054 </itemizedlist>
2055
2056 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
2057 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
2058
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