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  9. <title>Changelog</title>
  10. <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  11. &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
  12. version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  13. mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
  14. <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  15. book.</para>
  16. <itemizedlist>
  17. <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
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  20. <para>Date</para>
  21. <itemizedlist>
  22. <listitem>
  23. <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
  24. </listitem>
  25. <listitem>
  26. <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
  27. </listitem>
  28. </itemizedlist>
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  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>2007-03-24</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Readline fixes patch to include the
  36. latest 002 patch from upstream.</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. </itemizedlist>
  39. </listitem>
  40. <listitem>
  41. <para>2007-03-23</para>
  42. <itemizedlist>
  43. <listitem>
  44. <para>[dnicholson] - Don't install the kernel headers in
  45. <filename class="directory">/usr/include/scsi</filename> as the ones
  46. provided by Glibc are preferred.</para>
  47. </listitem>
  48. <listitem>
  49. <para>[dnicholson] - Force <command>ldd</command> to use
  50. <command>/bin/bash</command> since it contains Bash-specific
  51. syntax.</para>
  52. </listitem>
  53. <listitem>
  54. <para>[dnicholson] - When readjusting the GCC specs file, ensure
  55. that GCC will search for the system headers in /usr/include. An
  56. addition to the toolchain sanity checks has been made to test
  57. this. This fix originates from DIY Linux.</para>
  58. </listitem>
  59. <listitem>
  60. <para>[dnicholson] - Included the branch update patch for the
  61. temporary Glibc in Chapter 5 to help minimize differences with the
  62. final Glibc.</para>
  63. </listitem>
  64. </itemizedlist>
  65. </listitem>
  66. <listitem>
  67. <para>2007-03-21</para>
  68. <itemizedlist>
  69. <listitem>
  70. <para>[manuel] - Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5.</para>
  71. </listitem>
  72. </itemizedlist>
  73. </listitem>
  74. <listitem>
  75. <para>2007-03-19</para>
  76. <itemizedlist>
  77. <listitem>
  78. <para>[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new users and
  79. do not create mail spool files for them. Add a
  80. <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem> group so that if
  81. Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new users, it can
  82. do so without issuing a warning.</para>
  83. </listitem>
  84. <listitem>
  85. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1. Fixes
  86. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1850">#1850</ulink></para>
  87. </listitem>
  88. <listitem>
  89. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.3. Fixes
  90. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1971">#1971</ulink></para>
  91. </listitem>
  92. <listitem>
  93. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313. Fixes
  94. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1974">#1974</ulink></para>
  95. </listitem>
  96. <listitem>
  97. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest
  98. patch from upstream. Fixes
  99. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1973">#1973</ulink></para>
  100. </listitem>
  101. </itemizedlist>
  102. </listitem>
  103. <listitem>
  104. <para>2007-03-14</para>
  105. <itemizedlist>
  106. <listitem>
  107. <para>[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout
  108. Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since
  109. the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed
  110. in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates
  111. from DIY Linux.</para>
  112. </listitem>
  113. </itemizedlist>
  114. </listitem>
  115. <listitem>
  116. <para>2007-03-04</para>
  117. <itemizedlist>
  118. <listitem>
  119. <para>[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes
  120. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1954">#1954</ulink></para>
  121. </listitem>
  122. <listitem>
  123. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all
  124. upstream patches up to 206.</para>
  125. </listitem>
  126. <listitem>
  127. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304. Fixes
  128. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1969">#1969</ulink></para>
  129. </listitem>
  130. <listitem>
  131. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30. Fixes
  132. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1967">#1967</ulink></para>
  133. </listitem>
  134. <listitem>
  135. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20. Fixes
  136. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1968">#1968</ulink></para>
  137. </listitem>
  138. </itemizedlist>
  139. </listitem>
  140. <listitem>
  141. <para>2007-03-1</para>
  142. <itemizedlist>
  143. <listitem>
  144. <para>[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and
  145. notices to appear before affected commands.</para>
  146. </listitem>
  147. </itemizedlist>
  148. </listitem>
  149. <listitem>
  150. <para>2007-02-25</para>
  151. <itemizedlist>
  152. <listitem>
  153. <para>[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages
  154. builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.</para>
  155. </listitem>
  156. </itemizedlist>
  157. </listitem>
  158. <listitem>
  159. <para>2007-02-24</para>
  160. <itemizedlist>
  161. <listitem>
  162. <para>[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2.
  163. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.</para>
  164. </listitem>
  165. <listitem>
  166. <para>[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers
  167. installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions.
  168. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1965">#1965</ulink></para>
  169. </listitem>
  170. <listitem>
  171. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1. Fixes
  172. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1964">#1964</ulink></para>
  173. </listitem>
  174. <listitem>
  175. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc. Fixes
  176. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1930">#1930</ulink></para>
  177. </listitem>
  178. <listitem>
  179. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2. Fixes
  180. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1960">#1960</ulink></para>
  181. </listitem>
  182. <listitem>
  183. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB. Fixes
  184. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1961">#1961</ulink></para>
  185. </listitem>
  186. <listitem>
  187. <para>[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for
  188. <command>cpan</command> and <command>prove</command> from the
  189. Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.</para>
  190. </listitem>
  191. </itemizedlist>
  192. </listitem>
  193. <listitem>
  194. <para>2007-02-23</para>
  195. <itemizedlist>
  196. <listitem>
  197. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf
  198. to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  199. </listitem>
  200. <listitem>
  201. <para>[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some
  202. commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and
  203. Autoconf pages.</para>
  204. </listitem>
  205. <listitem>
  206. <para>[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev
  207. documentation install command since it is already created by
  208. udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  209. </listitem>
  210. <listitem>
  211. <para>[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing
  212. any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  213. </listitem>
  214. <listitem>
  215. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit
  216. the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only
  217. generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris
  218. Staub.</para>
  219. </listitem>
  220. </itemizedlist>
  221. </listitem>
  222. <listitem>
  223. <para>2007-02-20</para>
  224. <itemizedlist>
  225. <listitem>
  226. <para>[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching
  227. the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of
  228. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>.</para>
  229. </listitem>
  230. </itemizedlist>
  231. </listitem>
  232. <listitem>
  233. <para>2007-02-18</para>
  234. <itemizedlist>
  235. <listitem>
  236. <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
  237. in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
  238. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
  239. note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
  240. </listitem>
  241. </itemizedlist>
  242. </listitem>
  243. <listitem>
  244. <para>2007-02-17</para>
  245. <itemizedlist>
  246. <listitem>
  247. <para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
  248. NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
  249. script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
  250. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  251. </listitem>
  252. <listitem>
  253. <para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
  254. to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes
  255. part of <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  256. </listitem>
  257. <listitem>
  258. <para>[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.</para>
  259. </listitem>
  260. </itemizedlist>
  261. </listitem>
  262. <listitem>
  263. <para>2007-02-09</para>
  264. <itemizedlist>
  265. <listitem>
  266. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>readlink</command> to
  267. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> because
  268. <function>sysreadlink</function> in Udev's shell functions may call
  269. it before <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> has been
  270. mounted. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1913">#1913</ulink></para>
  271. </listitem>
  272. <listitem>
  273. <para>[matthew] - Remove some <command>chmod</command> and
  274. <command>chown</command> commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as
  275. they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes
  276. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1953">#1953</ulink></para>
  277. </listitem>
  278. <listitem>
  279. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes
  280. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1949">#1949</ulink></para>
  281. </listitem>
  282. <listitem>
  283. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes
  284. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1951">#1951</ulink></para>
  285. </listitem>
  286. </itemizedlist>
  287. </listitem>
  288. <listitem>
  289. <para>2007-02-07</para>
  290. <itemizedlist>
  291. <listitem>
  292. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes
  293. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1950">#1950</ulink>.</para>
  294. </listitem>
  295. </itemizedlist>
  296. </listitem>
  297. <listitem>
  298. <para>2007-02-03</para>
  299. <itemizedlist>
  300. <listitem>
  301. <para>[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both
  302. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1948">#1948</ulink> and the
  303. udev_retry script.</para>
  304. </listitem>
  305. </itemizedlist>
  306. </listitem>
  307. <listitem>
  308. <para>2007-01-31</para>
  309. <itemizedlist>
  310. <listitem>
  311. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn
  312. and udev-config tarballs. Fixes
  313. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1932">#1932</ulink>.</para>
  314. </listitem>
  315. <listitem>
  316. <para>[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not
  317. required after upgrading to Readline-5.2. Fixes
  318. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1942">#1942</ulink>. Thanks to Alexander
  319. Patrakov for the report and fix.</para>
  320. </listitem>
  321. <listitem>
  322. <para>[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to
  323. fix a multibyte-related issue. Fixes
  324. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1945">#1945</ulink></para>
  325. </listitem>
  326. <listitem>
  327. <para>[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer
  328. in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch</para>
  329. </listitem>
  330. <listitem>
  331. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes
  332. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1941">#1941</ulink></para>
  333. </listitem>
  334. <listitem>
  335. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16.1. Fixes
  336. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1926">#1926</ulink> and
  337. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1944">#1944</ulink></para>
  338. </listitem>
  339. <listitem>
  340. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes
  341. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1940">#1940</ulink></para>
  342. </listitem>
  343. <listitem>
  344. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes
  345. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1928">#1928</ulink></para>
  346. </listitem>
  347. <listitem>
  348. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes
  349. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1936">#1936</ulink></para>
  350. </listitem>
  351. <listitem>
  352. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes
  353. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1924">#1924</ulink></para>
  354. </listitem>
  355. <listitem>
  356. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes
  357. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1925">#1925</ulink></para>
  358. </listitem>
  359. <listitem>
  360. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29. Fixes
  361. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1923">#1923</ulink>.</para>
  362. </listitem>
  363. <listitem>
  364. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19. Fixes
  365. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1946">#1946</ulink>.</para>
  366. </listitem>
  367. <listitem>
  368. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7. Fixes
  369. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1934">#1934</ulink>.</para>
  370. </listitem>
  371. <listitem>
  372. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes
  373. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
  374. </listitem>
  375. </itemizedlist>
  376. </listitem>
  377. <listitem>
  378. <para>2007-01-13</para>
  379. <itemizedlist>
  380. <listitem>
  381. <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
  382. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
  383. </listitem>
  384. <listitem>
  385. <para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
  386. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
  387. </listitem>
  388. </itemizedlist>
  389. </listitem>
  390. <listitem>
  391. <para>2006-12-09</para>
  392. <itemizedlist>
  393. <listitem>
  394. <para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
  395. in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
  396. thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  397. </listitem>
  398. </itemizedlist>
  399. </listitem>
  400. <listitem>
  401. <para>2006-12-01</para>
  402. <itemizedlist>
  403. <listitem>
  404. <para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
  405. built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
  406. <filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
  407. <filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
  408. the report and fix.</para>
  409. </listitem>
  410. </itemizedlist>
  411. </listitem>
  412. <listitem>
  413. <para>2006-11-25</para>
  414. <itemizedlist>
  415. <listitem>
  416. <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
  417. Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
  418. before starting chapter 6.
  419. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
  420. </listitem>
  421. <listitem>
  422. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
  423. <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
  424. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
  425. Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
  426. moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
  427. </listitem>
  428. <listitem>
  429. <para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
  430. <command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
  431. configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
  432. the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
  433. </listitem>
  434. <listitem>
  435. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
  436. by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
  437. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
  438. </listitem>
  439. <listitem>
  440. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
  441. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
  442. </listitem>
  443. <listitem>
  444. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
  445. This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks
  446. to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
  447. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
  448. </listitem>
  449. <listitem>
  450. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
  451. Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
  452. changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
  453. <ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
  454. this thread.</ulink></para>
  455. </listitem>
  456. <listitem>
  457. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
  458. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
  459. </listitem>
  460. <listitem>
  461. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
  462. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
  463. </listitem>
  464. <listitem>
  465. <para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
  466. overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
  467. to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
  468. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
  469. </listitem>
  470. <listitem>
  471. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
  472. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
  473. </listitem>
  474. <listitem>
  475. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
  476. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
  477. </listitem>
  478. <listitem>
  479. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
  480. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
  481. </listitem>
  482. <listitem>
  483. <para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
  484. required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
  485. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
  486. </listitem>
  487. <listitem>
  488. <para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
  489. the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
  490. </listitem>
  491. <listitem>
  492. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
  493. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
  494. </listitem>
  495. </itemizedlist>
  496. </listitem>
  497. <listitem>
  498. <para>2006-11-24</para>
  499. <itemizedlist>
  500. <listitem>
  501. <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
  502. Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
  503. </listitem>
  504. </itemizedlist>
  505. </listitem>
  506. <listitem>
  507. <para>2006-11-10</para>
  508. <itemizedlist>
  509. <listitem>
  510. <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
  511. and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
  512. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
  513. </listitem>
  514. </itemizedlist>
  515. </listitem>
  516. <listitem>
  517. <para>2006-11-05</para>
  518. <itemizedlist>
  519. <listitem>
  520. <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
  521. bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
  522. </listitem>
  523. </itemizedlist>
  524. </listitem>
  525. <listitem>
  526. <para>2006-11-03</para>
  527. <itemizedlist>
  528. <listitem>
  529. <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
  530. <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
  531. the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
  532. warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
  533. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
  534. </listitem>
  535. </itemizedlist>
  536. </listitem>
  537. <listitem>
  538. <para>2006-10-29</para>
  539. <itemizedlist>
  540. <listitem>
  541. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
  542. Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  543. </listitem>
  544. <listitem>
  545. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
  546. &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
  547. 076.</para>
  548. </listitem>
  549. </itemizedlist>
  550. </listitem>
  551. <listitem>
  552. <para>2006-10-28</para>
  553. <itemizedlist>
  554. <listitem>
  555. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
  556. </listitem>
  557. <listitem>
  558. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
  559. unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
  560. &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
  561. </listitem>
  562. <listitem>
  563. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
  564. unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  565. </listitem>
  566. <listitem>
  567. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
  568. </listitem>
  569. <listitem>
  570. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
  571. </listitem>
  572. <listitem>
  573. <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
  574. type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
  575. causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
  576. preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
  577. Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
  578. </listitem>
  579. <listitem>
  580. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
  581. </listitem>
  582. <listitem>
  583. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
  584. unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  585. </listitem>
  586. <listitem>
  587. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
  588. </listitem>
  589. <listitem>
  590. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
  591. </listitem>
  592. <listitem>
  593. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
  594. the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  595. </listitem>
  596. <listitem>
  597. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
  598. </listitem>
  599. <listitem>
  600. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
  601. &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
  602. bug when parsing comments.</para>
  603. </listitem>
  604. <listitem>
  605. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
  606. </listitem>
  607. </itemizedlist>
  608. </listitem>
  609. <listitem>
  610. <para>2006-10-23</para>
  611. <itemizedlist>
  612. <listitem>
  613. <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
  614. locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
  615. </listitem>
  616. </itemizedlist>
  617. </listitem>
  618. <listitem>
  619. <para>2006-10-21</para>
  620. <itemizedlist>
  621. <listitem>
  622. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
  623. </listitem>
  624. <listitem>
  625. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
  626. doc files.</para>
  627. </listitem>
  628. <listitem>
  629. <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
  630. </listitem>
  631. </itemizedlist>
  632. </listitem>
  633. <listitem>
  634. <para>2006-10-15</para>
  635. <itemizedlist>
  636. <listitem>
  637. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
  638. the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
  639. Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
  640. </listitem>
  641. <listitem>
  642. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
  643. </listitem>
  644. <listitem>
  645. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
  646. </listitem>
  647. </itemizedlist>
  648. </listitem>
  649. <listitem>
  650. <para>2006-10-05</para>
  651. <itemizedlist>
  652. <listitem>
  653. <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
  654. </listitem>
  655. <listitem>
  656. <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
  657. also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
  658. of the rules.</para>
  659. </listitem>
  660. </itemizedlist>
  661. </listitem>
  662. <listitem>
  663. <para>2006-10-02</para>
  664. <itemizedlist>
  665. <listitem>
  666. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
  667. </listitem>
  668. <listitem>
  669. <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
  670. latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
  671. </para>
  672. </listitem>
  673. <listitem>
  674. <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
  675. &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
  676. kernel sources.</para>
  677. </listitem>
  678. <listitem>
  679. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
  680. </listitem>
  681. <listitem>
  682. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
  683. </listitem>
  684. <listitem>
  685. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
  686. </listitem>
  687. <listitem>
  688. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
  689. </listitem>
  690. <listitem>
  691. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
  692. </listitem>
  693. <listitem>
  694. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
  695. </listitem>
  696. </itemizedlist>
  697. </listitem>
  698. <listitem>
  699. <para>2006-09-23</para>
  700. <itemizedlist>
  701. <listitem>
  702. <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
  703. should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
  704. heads-up.</para>
  705. </listitem>
  706. </itemizedlist>
  707. </listitem>
  708. <listitem>
  709. <para>2006-09-22</para>
  710. <itemizedlist>
  711. <listitem>
  712. <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
  713. 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
  714. on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
  715. </listitem>
  716. </itemizedlist>
  717. </listitem>
  718. <listitem>
  719. <para>2006-09-20</para>
  720. <itemizedlist>
  721. <listitem>
  722. <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
  723. </listitem>
  724. <listitem>
  725. <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
  726. than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
  727. </listitem>
  728. </itemizedlist>
  729. </listitem>
  730. <listitem>
  731. <para>2006-09-18</para>
  732. <itemizedlist>
  733. <listitem>
  734. <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
  735. in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
  736. Glibc-2.4.</para>
  737. </listitem>
  738. </itemizedlist>
  739. </listitem>
  740. <listitem>
  741. <para>2006-09-17</para>
  742. <itemizedlist>
  743. <listitem>
  744. <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
  745. patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
  746. syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
  747. for textual suggestions.</para>
  748. </listitem>
  749. </itemizedlist>
  750. </listitem>
  751. <listitem>
  752. <para>2006-09-09</para>
  753. <itemizedlist>
  754. <listitem>
  755. <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
  756. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  757. </listitem>
  758. <listitem>
  759. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
  760. </listitem>
  761. <listitem>
  762. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
  763. </listitem>
  764. </itemizedlist>
  765. </listitem>
  766. <listitem>
  767. <para>2006-09-06</para>
  768. <itemizedlist>
  769. <listitem>
  770. <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
  771. be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
  772. </listitem>
  773. </itemizedlist>
  774. </listitem>
  775. <listitem>
  776. <para>2006-08-31</para>
  777. <itemizedlist>
  778. <listitem>
  779. <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
  780. /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.</para>
  781. </listitem>
  782. </itemizedlist>
  783. </listitem>
  784. <listitem>
  785. <para>2006-08-24</para>
  786. <itemizedlist>
  787. <listitem>
  788. <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
  789. Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
  790. </listitem>
  791. </itemizedlist>
  792. </listitem>
  793. <listitem>
  794. <para>2006-08-17</para>
  795. <itemizedlist>
  796. <listitem>
  797. <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
  798. file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
  799. </listitem>
  800. <listitem>
  801. <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
  802. Peter Ennis.</para>
  803. </listitem>
  804. <listitem>
  805. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
  806. </listitem>
  807. <listitem>
  808. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
  809. </listitem>
  810. <listitem>
  811. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
  812. </listitem>
  813. <listitem>
  814. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
  815. </listitem>
  816. <listitem>
  817. <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
  818. upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
  819. </para>
  820. </listitem>
  821. <listitem>
  822. <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
  823. of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
  824. </listitem>
  825. </itemizedlist>
  826. </listitem>
  827. <listitem>
  828. <para>2006-08-08</para>
  829. <itemizedlist>
  830. <listitem>
  831. <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
  832. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
  833. </listitem>
  834. </itemizedlist>
  835. </listitem>
  836. <listitem>
  837. <para>2006-08-05</para>
  838. <itemizedlist>
  839. <listitem>
  840. <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
  841. versions.
  842. </para>
  843. </listitem>
  844. </itemizedlist>
  845. </listitem>
  846. <listitem>
  847. <para>2006-08-03</para>
  848. <itemizedlist>
  849. <listitem>
  850. <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
  851. </listitem>
  852. </itemizedlist>
  853. </listitem>
  854. <listitem>
  855. <para>2006-07-31</para>
  856. <itemizedlist>
  857. <listitem>
  858. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
  859. </listitem>
  860. <listitem>
  861. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
  862. </listitem>
  863. <listitem>
  864. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
  865. </listitem>
  866. <listitem>
  867. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
  868. </listitem>
  869. <listitem>
  870. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
  871. </listitem>
  872. <listitem>
  873. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
  874. </listitem>
  875. <listitem>
  876. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
  877. </listitem>
  878. <listitem>
  879. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
  880. </listitem>
  881. <listitem>
  882. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
  883. </listitem>
  884. <listitem>
  885. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
  886. </listitem>
  887. <listitem>
  888. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
  889. </listitem>
  890. </itemizedlist>
  891. </listitem>
  892. </itemizedlist>
  893. <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>
  894. </sect1>