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8<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
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>January 20, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
44 vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
45 it out.</para>
46 </listitem>
47 </itemizedlist>
48 </listitem>
49
50 <listitem>
51 <para>January 17, 2006</para>
52 <itemizedlist>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
55 to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
56 </listitem>
57 </itemizedlist>
58 </listitem>
59
60 <listitem>
61 <para>January 10, 2006</para>
62 <itemizedlist>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>[ken]: Added a sed to correct gccbug.</para>
65 </listitem>
66 </itemizedlist>
67 </listitem>
68
69 <listitem>
70 <para>January 7, 2006</para>
71 <itemizedlist>
72 <listitem>
73 <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
74 /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
75 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
76 for explaining this.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
80 '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
81 Randy McMurchy.</para>
82 </listitem>
83 </itemizedlist>
84 </listitem>
85
86 <listitem>
87 <para>January 5, 2006</para>
88 <itemizedlist>
89 <listitem>
90 <para>[jhuntwork]: Readjust some package order based on findings by
91 Dan Nicholson. Flex and bison circular dependencies, perl needs sed
92 and groff, e2fsprogs wants gettext.</para>
93 </listitem>
94 <listitem>
95 <para>[jhuntwork]: Update dependency information. Thanks Chris
96 Staub.</para>
97 </listitem>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
100 have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
101 </listitem>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
104 Alexander Patrakov.</para>
105 </listitem>
106 </itemizedlist>
107 </listitem>
108
109 <listitem>
110 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
111 <itemizedlist>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
114 configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
115 </listitem>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
118 </listitem>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 <listitem>
123 <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
124 chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
125 </listitem>
126 </itemizedlist>
127 </listitem>
128
129 <listitem>
130 <para>December 31, 2005</para>
131 <itemizedlist>
132 <listitem>
133 <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
134 to be repeatable.</para>
135 </listitem>
136 </itemizedlist>
137 </listitem>
138
139 <listitem>
140 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
141 <itemizedlist>
142 <listitem>
143 <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
144 </listitem>
145 </itemizedlist>
146 </listitem>
147
148 <listitem>
149 <para>December 21, 2005</para>
150 <itemizedlist>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
153 Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
154 </listitem>
155 </itemizedlist>
156 </listitem>
157
158 <listitem>
159 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
160 <itemizedlist>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
163 configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
164 </listitem>
165 <listitem>
166 <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
167 bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
168 Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
169 </listitem>
170 <listitem>
171 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
172 </listitem>
173 <listitem>
174 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
175 </listitem>
176 </itemizedlist>
177 </listitem>
178
179 <listitem>
180 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
181 <itemizedlist>
182 <listitem>
183 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
184 testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
185 </listitem>
186 </itemizedlist>
187 </listitem>
188
189 <listitem>
190 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
191 <itemizedlist>
192 <listitem>
193 <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
194 allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
195 Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
196 bug 1670).</para>
197 </listitem>
198 </itemizedlist>
199 </listitem>
200
201 <listitem>
202 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
203 <itemizedlist>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
206 with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
207 Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
208 </listitem>
209 </itemizedlist>
210 </listitem>
211
212 <listitem>
213 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
214 <itemizedlist>
215 <listitem>
216 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
217 </listitem>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
220 </listitem>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
223 and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
224 </listitem>
225 <listitem>
226 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
227 the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
228 Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
229 </listitem>
230 <listitem>
231 <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
232 in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
233 </listitem>
234 </itemizedlist>
235 </listitem>
236
237 <listitem>
238 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
239 <itemizedlist>
240 <listitem>
241 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
242 </listitem>
243 <listitem>
244 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
245 </para>
246 </listitem>
247 <listitem>
248 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
249 </listitem>
250 </itemizedlist>
251 </listitem>
252
253 <listitem>
254 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
255 <itemizedlist>
256 <listitem>
257 <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
258 packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
259 and analysis of affected packages.</para>
260 </listitem>
261 </itemizedlist>
262 </listitem>
263
264 <listitem>
265 <para>November 26, 2005</para>
266 <itemizedlist>
267 <listitem>
268 <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
269 threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
270 man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
271 </listitem>
272 <listitem>
273 <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
274 a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
275 </listitem>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
278 </listitem>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
281 for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
282 McMurchy for the report).</para>
283 </listitem>
284 <listitem>
285 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
286 </listitem>
287 <listitem>
288 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
289 </listitem>
290 <listitem>
291 <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
292 unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
293 </listitem>
294 </itemizedlist>
295 </listitem>
296
297 <listitem>
298 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
299 <itemizedlist>
300 <listitem>
301 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
302 </listitem>
303 </itemizedlist>
304 </listitem>
305
306 <listitem>
307 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
308 <itemizedlist>
309 <listitem>
310 <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
311 documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
312 </listitem>
313 </itemizedlist>
314 </listitem>
315
316 <listitem>
317 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
318 <itemizedlist>
319 <listitem>
320 <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
321 package.</para>
322 </listitem>
323 </itemizedlist>
324 </listitem>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
328 <itemizedlist>
329 <listitem>
330 <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
331 </listitem>
332 </itemizedlist>
333 </listitem>
334
335 <listitem>
336 <para>November 16, 2005</para>
337 <itemizedlist>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
340 chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
341 </listitem>
342 </itemizedlist>
343 </listitem>
344
345 <listitem>
346 <para>November 15, 2005</para>
347 <itemizedlist>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
350 to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
351 </listitem>
352 </itemizedlist>
353 </listitem>
354
355 <listitem>
356 <para>November 14, 2005</para>
357 <itemizedlist>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
360 gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
361 gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
362 Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
363 </listitem>
364 </itemizedlist>
365 </listitem>
366
367 <listitem>
368 <para>November 12, 2005</para>
369 <itemizedlist>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
372 </listitem>
373 <listitem>
374 <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
375 Chris Staub.</para>
376 </listitem>
377 <listitem>
378 <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
379 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
380 Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
381 issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
382 </listitem>
383 </itemizedlist>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>November 11, 2005</para>
388 <itemizedlist>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
391 as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
392 </listitem>
393 </itemizedlist>
394 </listitem>
395
396 <listitem>
397 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
398 <itemizedlist>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
401 Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
402 </listitem>
403 </itemizedlist>
404 </listitem>
405
406 <listitem>
407 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
408 <itemizedlist>
409 <listitem>
410 <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
411 of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
412 </listitem>
413 <listitem>
414 <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
415 GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
416 option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
417 convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
418 </listitem>
419 </itemizedlist>
420 </listitem>
421
422 <listitem>
423 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
424 <itemizedlist>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
427 toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
428 </listitem>
429 <listitem>
430 <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
431 /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
432 (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
433 Huntwork for the fix.</para>
434 </listitem>
435 <listitem>
436 <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
437 system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
438 report and the fix.</para>
439 </listitem>
440 <listitem>
441 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
442 </listitem>
443 <listitem>
444 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
445 </listitem>
446 <listitem>
447 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
448 </listitem>
449 </itemizedlist>
450 </listitem>
451
452 <listitem>
453 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
454 <itemizedlist>
455 <listitem>
456 <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
457 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
458 toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
459 </listitem>
460 </itemizedlist>
461 </listitem>
462
463 <listitem>
464 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
465 <itemizedlist>
466 <listitem>
467 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
468 </listitem>
469 <listitem>
470 <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
471 testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
472 and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
473 </listitem>
474 </itemizedlist>
475 </listitem>
476
477 <listitem>
478 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
479 <itemizedlist>
480 <listitem>
481 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
482 </listitem>
483 <listitem>
484 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
485 </listitem>
486 <listitem>
487 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
488 </listitem>
489 <listitem>
490 <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
491 the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
492 the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
493 Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
494 and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
495 of LFS.</para>
496 </listitem>
497 </itemizedlist>
498 </listitem>
499
500 <listitem>
501 <para>October 29, 2005</para>
502 <itemizedlist>
503 <listitem>
504 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
505 </listitem>
506 <listitem>
507 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
508 </listitem>
509 <listitem>
510 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
511 the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
512 required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
513 Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
514 </listitem>
515 </itemizedlist>
516 </listitem>
517
518 <listitem>
519 <para>October 22, 2005</para>
520 <itemizedlist>
521 <listitem>
522 <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
523 </listitem>
524 </itemizedlist>
525 </listitem>
526
527 <listitem>
528 <para>October 21, 2005</para>
529 <itemizedlist>
530 <listitem>
531 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
532 </listitem>
533 <listitem>
534 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
535 </listitem>
536 <listitem>
537 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
538 </listitem>
539 </itemizedlist>
540 </listitem>
541
542 <listitem>
543 <para>October 15, 2005</para>
544 <itemizedlist>
545 <listitem>
546 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
547 </listitem>
548 <listitem>
549 <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
550 (fixes bug 1639).</para>
551 </listitem>
552 <listitem>
553 <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
554 file</para>
555 </listitem>
556 </itemizedlist>
557 </listitem>
558
559 <listitem>
560 <para>October 9, 2005</para>
561 <itemizedlist>
562 <listitem>
563 <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
564 directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
565 Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
566 </listitem>
567 </itemizedlist>
568 </listitem>
569
570 <listitem>
571 <para>October 8, 2005</para>
572 <itemizedlist>
573 <listitem>
574 <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
575 Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
576 </listitem>
577 <listitem>
578 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
579 </listitem>
580 </itemizedlist>
581 </listitem>
582
583 <listitem>
584 <para>October 7, 2005</para>
585 <itemizedlist>
586 <listitem>
587 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
588 </listitem>
589 </itemizedlist>
590 </listitem>
591
592 <listitem>
593 <para>October 4, 2005</para>
594 <itemizedlist>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
597 script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
598 and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
599 </listitem>
600 </itemizedlist>
601 </listitem>
602
603 <listitem>
604 <para>September 29, 2005</para>
605 <itemizedlist>
606 <listitem>
607 <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
608 bug 1629).</para>
609 </listitem>
610 <listitem>
611 <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
612 (fixes bug 1612).</para>
613 </listitem>
614 </itemizedlist>
615 </listitem>
616
617 <listitem>
618 <para>September 26, 2005</para>
619 <itemizedlist>
620 <listitem>
621 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
622 </listitem>
623 </itemizedlist>
624 </listitem>
625
626 <listitem>
627 <para>September 24, 2005</para>
628 <itemizedlist>
629 <listitem>
630 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
631 </listitem>
632 <listitem>
633 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
634 </listitem>
635 <listitem>
636 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
637 </listitem>
638 </itemizedlist>
639 </listitem>
640
641 <listitem>
642 <para>September 20, 2005</para>
643 <itemizedlist>
644 <listitem>
645 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
646 </listitem>
647 </itemizedlist>
648 </listitem>
649
650 <listitem>
651 <para>September 17, 2005</para>
652 <itemizedlist>
653 <listitem>
654 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
655 &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
656 </listitem>
657 <listitem>
658 <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
659 and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
660 as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
661 </listitem>
662 </itemizedlist>
663 </listitem>
664
665 <listitem>
666 <para>September 15, 2005</para>
667 <itemizedlist>
668 <listitem>
669 <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
670 vulnerability.</para>
671 </listitem>
672 </itemizedlist>
673 </listitem>
674
675 <listitem>
676 <para>September 8, 2005</para>
677 <itemizedlist>
678 <listitem>
679 <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
680 </listitem>
681 </itemizedlist>
682 </listitem>
683
684 <listitem>
685 <para>September 6, 2005</para>
686 <itemizedlist>
687 <listitem>
688 <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
689 </listitem>
690 </itemizedlist>
691 </listitem>
692
693 <listitem>
694 <para>September 5, 2005</para>
695 <itemizedlist>
696 <listitem>
697 <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
698 </listitem>
699 </itemizedlist>
700 </listitem>
701
702 <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
703 <itemizedlist>
704 <listitem>
705 <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
706 when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
707 ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
708 </listitem>
709 <listitem>
710 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
711 </listitem>
712 <listitem>
713 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
714 </listitem>
715 </itemizedlist>
716 </listitem>
717
718 <listitem>
719 <para>September 2, 2005</para>
720 <itemizedlist>
721 <listitem>
722 <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
723 <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
724 so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
725 to actually work.</para>
726 </listitem>
727 <listitem>
728 <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
729 <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
730 </listitem>
731 </itemizedlist>
732 </listitem>
733
734 <listitem>
735 <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
736 <itemizedlist>
737 <listitem>
738 <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
739 instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
740 </listitem>
741 <listitem>
742 <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
743 for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
744 </listitem>
745 <listitem>
746 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
747 </listitem>
748 <listitem>
749 <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
750 gcc-pass2.</para>
751 </listitem>
752 </itemizedlist>
753 </listitem>
754
755 <listitem>
756 <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
757 <itemizedlist>
758 <listitem>
759 <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
760 builds for consistency</para>
761 </listitem>
762 </itemizedlist>
763 </listitem>
764
765 <listitem>
766 <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
767 <itemizedlist>
768 <listitem>
769 <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
770 condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
771 chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
772 fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
773 </listitem>
774 <listitem>
775 <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
776 rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
777 </listitem>
778 <listitem>
779 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
780 </listitem>
781 </itemizedlist>
782 </listitem>
783
784 <listitem>
785 <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
786 <itemizedlist>
787 <listitem>
788 <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
789 they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
790 </listitem>
791 </itemizedlist>
792 </listitem>
793
794 <listitem>
795 <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
796 <itemizedlist>
797 <listitem>
798 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
799 </listitem>
800 <listitem>
801 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
802 </listitem>
803 <listitem>
804 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
805 </listitem>
806 </itemizedlist>
807 </listitem>
808
809 <listitem>
810 <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
811 <itemizedlist>
812 <listitem>
813 <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
814 specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
815 assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
816 </listitem>
817 <listitem>
818 <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
819 filenames.</para>
820 </listitem>
821 </itemizedlist>
822 </listitem>
823
824 <listitem>
825 <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
826 <itemizedlist>
827 <listitem>
828 <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
829 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
830 </listitem>
831 <listitem>
832 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
833 </listitem>
834 </itemizedlist>
835 </listitem>
836
837 <listitem>
838 <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
839 <itemizedlist>
840 <listitem>
841 <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
842 from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
843 </listitem>
844 </itemizedlist>
845 </listitem>
846
847 <listitem>
848 <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
849 <itemizedlist>
850 <listitem>
851 <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
852 advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
853 </listitem>
854 <listitem>
855 <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
856 (fixes bug 1615).</para>
857 </listitem>
858 <listitem>
859 <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
860 bug 1603).</para>
861 </listitem>
862 <listitem>
863 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
864 </listitem>
865 <listitem>
866 <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
867 ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
868 bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
869 </listitem>
870 <listitem>
871 <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
872 test (bug 1611).</para>
873 </listitem>
874 </itemizedlist>
875 </listitem>
876
877 <listitem>
878 <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
879 <itemizedlist>
880 <listitem>
881 <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
882 system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
883 </listitem>
884 <listitem>
885 <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
886 (fixes bug 1601).</para>
887 </listitem>
888 <listitem>
889 <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
890 to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
891 </listitem>
892 <listitem>
893 <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
894 of chapter 6.</para>
895 </listitem>
896 <listitem>
897 <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
898 library (Bug 1608)</para>
899 </listitem>
900 </itemizedlist>
901 </listitem>
902
903 <listitem>
904 <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
905 <itemizedlist>
906 <listitem>
907 <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
908 from BLFS first.</para>
909 </listitem>
910 </itemizedlist>
911 </listitem>
912
913 <listitem>
914 <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
915 <itemizedlist>
916 <listitem>
917 <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
918 </listitem>
919 <listitem>
920 <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
921 modeline vulnerability.</para>
922 </listitem>
923 </itemizedlist>
924 </listitem>
925
926 <listitem>
927 <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
928 <itemizedlist>
929 <listitem>
930 <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
931 (Randy McMurchy).</para>
932 </listitem>
933 <listitem>
934 <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
935 as it's no longer used in the book</para>
936 </listitem>
937 </itemizedlist>
938 </listitem>
939
940 <listitem>
941 <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
942 <itemizedlist>
943 <listitem>
944 <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
945 </listitem>
946 </itemizedlist>
947 </listitem>
948
949 <listitem>
950 <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
951 <itemizedlist>
952 <listitem>
953 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
954 </listitem>
955 <listitem>
956 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
957 </listitem>
958 <listitem>
959 <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
960 The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
961 </listitem>
962 <listitem>
963 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
964 </listitem>
965 </itemizedlist>
966 </listitem>
967
968 <listitem>
969 <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
970 <itemizedlist>
971 <listitem>
972 <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
973 compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
974 </listitem>
975 </itemizedlist>
976 </listitem>
977
978 <listitem>
979 <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
980 <itemizedlist>
981 <listitem>
982 <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
983 installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
984 instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
985 </listitem>
986 <listitem>
987 <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
988 license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
989 </listitem>
990 </itemizedlist>
991 </listitem>
992
993 <listitem>
994 <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
995 <itemizedlist>
996 <listitem>
997 <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
998 so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
999 that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
1000 document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
1001 acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
1002 </listitem>
1003 <listitem>
1004 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
1005 </listitem>
1006 <listitem>
1007 <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
1008 </listitem>
1009 </itemizedlist>
1010 </listitem>
1011
1012 <listitem>
1013 <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
1014 <itemizedlist>
1015 <listitem>
1016 <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
1017 obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
1018 </listitem>
1019 </itemizedlist>
1020 </listitem>
1021
1022 <listitem>
1023 <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
1024 <itemizedlist>
1025 <listitem>
1026 <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
1027 </listitem>
1028 <listitem>
1029 <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
1030 needed.</para>
1031 </listitem>
1032 </itemizedlist>
1033 </listitem>
1034
1035 <listitem>
1036 <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
1037 <itemizedlist>
1038 <listitem>
1039 <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
1040 it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
1041 </listitem>
1042 </itemizedlist>
1043 </listitem>
1044
1045 <listitem>
1046 <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
1047 <itemizedlist>
1048 <listitem>
1049 <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
1050 and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
1051 of the specs patch.</para>
1052 </listitem>
1053 <listitem>
1054 <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
1055 process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
1056 </listitem>
1057 </itemizedlist>
1058 </listitem>
1059
1060 <listitem>
1061 <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
1062 <itemizedlist>
1063 <listitem>
1064 <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
1065 multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
1066 </listitem>
1067 <listitem>
1068 <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
1069 need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
1070 of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
1071 </listitem>
1072 </itemizedlist>
1073 </listitem>
1074
1075 <listitem>
1076 <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
1077 <itemizedlist>
1078 <listitem>
1079 <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
1080 fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
1081 </listitem>
1082 <listitem>
1083 <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
1084 gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
1085 </listitem>
1086 <listitem>
1087 <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
1088 5 and 6.</para>
1089 </listitem>
1090 </itemizedlist>
1091 </listitem>
1092
1093 <listitem>
1094 <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
1095 <itemizedlist>
1096 <listitem>
1097 <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
1098 </listitem>
1099 <listitem>
1100 <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
1101 </listitem>
1102 <listitem>
1103 <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
1104 Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
1105 where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
1106 </listitem>
1107 <listitem>
1108 <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
1109 gcc-4.0.1</para>
1110 </listitem>
1111 <listitem>
1112 <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
1113 </listitem>
1114 <listitem>
1115 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
1116 </listitem>
1117 </itemizedlist>
1118 </listitem>
1119
1120 <listitem>
1121 <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
1122 <itemizedlist>
1123 <listitem>
1124 <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
1125 </listitem>
1126 </itemizedlist>
1127 </listitem>
1128
1129 <listitem>
1130 <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
1131 <itemizedlist>
1132 <listitem>
1133 <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
1134 </listitem>
1135 <listitem>
1136 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
1137 </listitem>
1138 <listitem>
1139 <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
1140 </listitem>
1141 <listitem>
1142 <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
1143 </listitem>
1144 <listitem>
1145 <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
1146 </listitem>
1147 </itemizedlist>
1148 </listitem>
1149
1150 <listitem>
1151 <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
1152 <itemizedlist>
1153 <listitem>
1154 <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
1155 as it is not needed.</para>
1156 </listitem>
1157 <listitem>
1158 <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
1159 </listitem>
1160 <listitem>
1161 <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
1162 </listitem>
1163 </itemizedlist>
1164 </listitem>
1165
1166 <listitem>
1167 <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
1168 <itemizedlist>
1169 <listitem>
1170 <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
1171 </listitem>
1172 <listitem>
1173 <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
1174 </listitem>
1175 <listitem>
1176 <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
1177 </listitem>
1178 <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
1179 </listitem>
1180 </itemizedlist>
1181 </listitem>
1182
1183 <listitem>
1184 <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
1185 <itemizedlist>
1186 <listitem>
1187 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
1188 </listitem>
1189 <listitem>
1190 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
1191 </listitem>
1192 <listitem>
1193 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
1194 </listitem>
1195 <listitem>
1196 <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
1197 </listitem>
1198 </itemizedlist>
1199 </listitem>
1200
1201 <listitem>
1202 <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
1203 <itemizedlist>
1204 <listitem>
1205 <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
1206 </listitem>
1207 </itemizedlist>
1208 </listitem>
1209
1210 <listitem>
1211 <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
1212 <itemizedlist>
1213 <listitem>
1214 <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
1215 </listitem>
1216 </itemizedlist>
1217 </listitem>
1218
1219 <listitem>
1220 <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
1221 <itemizedlist>
1222 <listitem>
1223 <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
1224 </listitem>
1225 <listitem>
1226 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
1227 </listitem>
1228 <listitem>
1229 <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
1230 </listitem>
1231 <listitem>
1232 <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
1233 </listitem>
1234 </itemizedlist>
1235 </listitem>
1236
1237 <listitem>
1238 <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
1239 <itemizedlist>
1240 <listitem>
1241 <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
1242 </listitem>
1243 <listitem>
1244 <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
1245 </listitem>
1246 <listitem>
1247 <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
1248 </listitem>
1249 </itemizedlist>
1250 </listitem>
1251
1252 <listitem>
1253 <para>April 14, 2005</para>
1254 <itemizedlist>
1255 <listitem>
1256 <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
1257 </listitem>
1258 </itemizedlist>
1259 </listitem>
1260
1261 <listitem>
1262 <para>April 13, 2005</para>
1263 <itemizedlist>
1264 <listitem>
1265 <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
1266 </listitem>
1267 <listitem>
1268 <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
1269 </listitem>
1270 </itemizedlist>
1271 </listitem>
1272
1273 <listitem>
1274 <para>April 12, 2005</para>
1275 <itemizedlist>
1276 <listitem>
1277 <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
1278 </listitem>
1279 </itemizedlist>
1280 </listitem>
1281
1282 <listitem>
1283 <para>April 11, 2005</para>
1284 <itemizedlist>
1285 <listitem>
1286 <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
1287 </listitem>
1288 </itemizedlist>
1289 </listitem>
1290
1291 <listitem>
1292 <para>April 6, 2005</para>
1293 <itemizedlist>
1294 <listitem>
1295 <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
1296 </listitem>
1297 </itemizedlist>
1298 </listitem>
1299
1300 </itemizedlist>
1301
1302 <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
1303 and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
1304
1305</sect1>
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