%general-entities; ]> This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via . Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. 2014-02-17 [krejzi] - LFS-7.5-systemd-rc1 released. [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20140216 book. 2014-02-16 [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.5.9. [bdubbs] - Incorporate beta FHS. Add /usr/share/ppd, /usr/libexec, /usr/share/color, /usr/local/share/color, /var/lib/color, and /usr/share/dict. [bdubbs] - Incorporate beta FHS. Remove overrides for /usr/libexec: coreutils, findutils, gawk, gcc, glibc, inetutils, man-db, and tar. Also fixes #3498. [bdubbs] - Incorporate beta FHS. Move grub sbin executables from /usr/sbin to /sbin. [bdubbs] - Document two new glibc errors in the regression tests. [bdubbs] - Move man-db after util-linux to satisfy a test dependency. [bdubbs] - Update automake tests to accomodate util-linux in /tools and to speed the test up. [bdubbs] - Restore building the flex static library. 2014-02-14 [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20140214 book. [bdubbs] - Make sed for omit-frame-pointers the same in Chapters 5 and 6. Fixes #3497. [bdubbs] - Simplify zimesone configuration in glibc. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes #3496. [bdubbs] - Let the glibc Makefile install rpc headers. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes #3495. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13.3. Fixes #3493. 2014-02-13 [bdubbs] - Update to file-5.17. Fixes #3491. [bdubbs] - Update to flex-2.5.38. Fixes #3492. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.58. Fixes #3490. 2014-02-10 [bdubbs] - Update coreutils i18n patch. Thanks to Igor Izivkov for pointing it out. Fixes #3488. 2014-02-08 [bdubbs] - Update to glibc-2.19. Fixes #3486. 2014-02-07 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13.2. Fixes #3485. 2014-02-05 [bdubbs] - Change expect library type in Chapter 5. Thanks to kammet for the report. Fixes #3484. [bdubbs] - Fix e2fsprogs tests to run properly in the LFS chroot environment. [bdubbs] - Remove unnecessary mkdir in groff. 2014-02-04 [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20140202 book. [krejzi] - Update to D-Bus 1.8.0. [krejzi] - Fix Systemd to build with recent LFS changes. 2014-02-02 [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13.1. Fixes #3483. 2014-01-27 [bdubbs] - Add an environment variable to util-linux in Chapter 5 to prevent an installation error for hosts that have unneeded capabilities availible. 2014-01-26 [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.57. Fixes #3480. [bdubbs] - Update to man-db-2.6.6. Fixes #3479. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.13. Fixes #3478. 2014-01-25 [bdubbs] - Add a configure switch to util-linux in Chapter 5 to prevent an installation error for hosts that have systemd installed. 2014-01-22 [bdubbs] - Update to check-0.9.12. Fixes #3477. [bdubbs] - Update to util-linux-2.24.1. Fixes #3476. [bdubbs] - Update to mpc-1.0.2. Fixes #3474. [bdubbs] - Update to man-pages-3.56. Fixes #3470. [bdubbs] - Update to linux-3.12.7. Fixes #3469. [bdubbs] - Update to perl-5.18.2. Fixes #3465. [bdubbs] - Update to gettext-0.18.3.2. Fixes #3464. 2014-01-21 [bdubbs] - Moved util-linux final build to be after udev. Fixed up e2fsprogs and udev to use the Chapter 5 build of util-linux. Fixes #3467. 2014-01-17 [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20140114 book. 2014-01-15 [bdubbs] - Added a Chapter 5 build of util-linux in preparation for moving the Chapter 6 build to after udev. This is not the complete fix as this build has not yet been incorporated into Chapter 6. [bdubbs] - Mount /run as a tmpfs for Chapter 6. 2014-01-14 [bdubbs] - Update to inetutils-1.9.2 and remove referece to old BLFS page. Fixes #3471 and #3473. [bdubbs] - Fix hardcoded reference to /tools in Chapter 6 gcc. Fixes #3466. [bdubbs] - Clean up /run and /tmp. Fixes #3463. 2014-01-10 [krejzi] - Update to libcap-2.24. [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20140102 book. 2014-01-02 [bdubbs] - Update to grep-2.16. Fixes #3418. 2013-12-29 [bdubbs] - Update to e2fsprogs-1.42.9. Fixes #3462. [bdubbs] - Update to gdbm-1.11. Fixes #3459. [bdubbs] - Update to kmod-16. Fixes #3455. [bdubbs] - Update to automake-1.14.1. Fixes #3458. [bdubbs] - Update readline patch to upstream level. Fixes #3461. [bdubbs] - Use gcc version of libiberty.a. Fixes #3456. [bdubbs] - Use different URL for shadow. Fixes #3453. [bdubbs] - Update coreutils i18n patch to fix problem with uniq. Fixes #3457. [bdubbs] - Remove no longer needed makeinfo from Host System Requirements. Fixes #3460. 2013-12-22 [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20131222 book. [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.12.6. Fixes #3452. [matthew] - Update to Tzdata-2013i. Fixes #3451. [matthew] - Update to Libpipeline-1.2.6. Fixes #3449. [matthew] - Fix the coreutils-i18n patch, which introduced a regression in cut. Fixes #3448. 2013-12-21 [krejzi] - Added LFS-Network-Script page. Fixes #3350. [krejzi] - Update Systemd instructions and contents for latest version of Systemd. [krejzi] - Update network configuration page to use LFS Systemd specific network configuration. [krejzi] - Merge LFS SVN-20131216 book. 2013-12-16 [matthew] - Update to Coreutils-8.22. Fixes #3447. [matthew] - Update to Man-Pages-3.55. Fixes #3446. [matthew] - Update to Bison-3.0.2. Fixes #3442. [matthew] - Update to Libpipeline-1.2.5. Fixes #3440. [matthew] - Update to Binutils-2.24. Fixes #3438. [matthew] - Update to File-5.16. Fixes #3437. [matthew] - Update to Linux-3.12.5. Fixes #3436. 2013-12-13 [bdubbs] - Fix kmod, procps-ng, zlib, readline, ncurses, and xz methods of establishing correct symbolic links for libraries. [bdubbs] - Update to procps-ng-3.3.9. Fixes #3439. [bdubbs] - Install non-essential programs from the xz package in /usr/bin. Fixes #3445. 2013-12-10 [krejzi] - Start over. [krejzi] - Import LFS SVN-20131207. [krejzi] - Remove LFS-Bootscripts-20130821, Sysklogd-1.5. [krejzi] - Remove Sysvinit-2.88dsf, Udev-208. [krejzi] - Added Acl-2.2.52, Attr-2.4.47, Libcap-2.22. [krejzi] - Added D-Bus-1.6.18, Expat-2.1.0, Gperf-3.0.4. [krejzi] - Added Intltool-0.50.2, XML::Parser-2.42_01. [krejzi] - Added Libdbus-1.6.18, a package required to satisfy circular dependency between D-Bus and Systemd. [krejzi] - Added Systemd-208. [krejzi] - Added new LFS-Network-Scripts, a replacement for LFS-Bootscripts in Systemd environment. [krejzi] - Updated most of the Chapter 7 instruction for use with Systemd environment. Removed obsolete pages. [krejzi] - Updated Kernel configuration page and added required setup for Systemd. [krejzi] - Removed unneeded pseudo file systems from /etc/fstab file creation. They are now handled by Systemd. [krejzi] - Added glibc FHS patch which prevents nscd daemon from writing into a non-FHS compliant directory. [krejzi] - Removed instructions from Coreutils and Findutils that were specific to LFS-Bootscripts.