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<sect1 id="materials-patches">
<title>Needed patches</title>
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<para>Besides all those packages, you'll also need several patches. These
correct tiny mistakes in the packages that should be fixed by the maintainer,
or just make some small modifications to bend things our way. You'll need the
following:</para>

<variablelist role="materials"><title>Patches</title>

<varlistentry>
<term>Bash GNU Fixes Patch - 7 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;bash-&bash-version;-gnu_fixes-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Coreutils Suppress Hostname, Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 16 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;coreutils-&coreutils-version;-suppress_hostname_uptime_kill_su-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Coreutils Uname Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;coreutils-&coreutils-version;-uname-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Expect Spawn Patch - 6 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;expect-&expect-version;-spawn-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Flex Brokenness Patch - 8 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;flex-&flex-version;-debian_fixes-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;gcc-&gcc-short-version;-no_fixincludes-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>GCC Specs Patch - 11 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;gcc-&gcc-short-version;-specs-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>GRUB GCC 3.4 Compatibility Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;grub-&grub-version;-gcc34-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Hotplug Bogus Dependencies Patch- 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;hotplug-&hotplug-version;-bogus_deps-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Hotplug Fix for USB Coldplugging - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;hotplug-&hotplug-version;-device-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Hotplug ISAPNP Coldplugging Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;hotplug-&hotplug-version;-isapnp-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Inetutils Kernel Headers Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;inetutils-&inetutils-version;-kernel_headers-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;inetutils-&inetutils-version;-no_server_man_pages-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Man 80-Columns Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;man-&man-version;-80cols-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;mktemp-&mktemp-version;-add_tempfile-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Net-tools GCC 3.4 Compatibility Patch - 3 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;net-tools-&net-tools-version;-gcc34-2.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;perl-&perl-version;-libc-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Readline GNU Fixes Patch - 5 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;readline-&readline-version;-gnu_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Sysklogd Kernel Headers Patch - 3 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;-kernel_headers-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Sysklogd Signal Handling Patch - 1 KB:</term> <listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;sysklogd-&sysklogd-version;-signal-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Sysvinit /proc Title Length Patch - 1 KB:</term> <listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;sysvinit-&sysvinit-version;-proclen-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Udev Configuration Patch - 6 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;udev-&udev-version;-config-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term>Util-Linux Kernel Headers Patch - 3 KB:</term>
<listitem>
<para><ulink url="&patches-root;util-linux-&util-linux-version;-kernel_headers-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

</variablelist>

<para>In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of
optional ones created by the LFS community. Most of these solve slight
problems, or enable some functionality that's not enabled by default.
Feel free to examine the patches database, located at <ulink url="&lfs-root;patches/"/>, 
and pick any additional patches you wish to use.</para>

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