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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>
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  22. <listitem>
  23. <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
  24. </listitem>
  25. <listitem>
  26. <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
  27. </listitem>
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  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>2007-03-24</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the
  36. latest 011-015 patches from upstream.</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. <listitem>
  39. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Readline fixes patch to include the
  40. latest 002 patch from upstream.</para>
  41. </listitem>
  42. </itemizedlist>
  43. </listitem>
  44. <listitem>
  45. <para>2007-03-23</para>
  46. <itemizedlist>
  47. <listitem>
  48. <para>[dnicholson] - Don't install the kernel headers in
  49. <filename class="directory">/usr/include/scsi</filename> as the ones
  50. provided by Glibc are preferred.</para>
  51. </listitem>
  52. <listitem>
  53. <para>[dnicholson] - Force <command>ldd</command> to use
  54. <command>/bin/bash</command> since it contains Bash-specific
  55. syntax.</para>
  56. </listitem>
  57. <listitem>
  58. <para>[dnicholson] - When readjusting the GCC specs file, ensure
  59. that GCC will search for the system headers in /usr/include. An
  60. addition to the toolchain sanity checks has been made to test
  61. this. This fix originates from DIY Linux.</para>
  62. </listitem>
  63. <listitem>
  64. <para>[dnicholson] - Included the branch update patch for the
  65. temporary Glibc in Chapter 5 to help minimize differences with the
  66. final Glibc.</para>
  67. </listitem>
  68. </itemizedlist>
  69. </listitem>
  70. <listitem>
  71. <para>2007-03-21</para>
  72. <itemizedlist>
  73. <listitem>
  74. <para>[manuel] - Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5.</para>
  75. </listitem>
  76. </itemizedlist>
  77. </listitem>
  78. <listitem>
  79. <para>2007-03-19</para>
  80. <itemizedlist>
  81. <listitem>
  82. <para>[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new users and
  83. do not create mail spool files for them. Add a
  84. <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem> group so that if
  85. Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new users, it can
  86. do so without issuing a warning.</para>
  87. </listitem>
  88. <listitem>
  89. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1. Fixes
  90. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1850">#1850</ulink></para>
  91. </listitem>
  92. <listitem>
  93. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.3. Fixes
  94. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1971">#1971</ulink></para>
  95. </listitem>
  96. <listitem>
  97. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313. Fixes
  98. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1974">#1974</ulink></para>
  99. </listitem>
  100. <listitem>
  101. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest
  102. patch from upstream. Fixes
  103. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1973">#1973</ulink></para>
  104. </listitem>
  105. </itemizedlist>
  106. </listitem>
  107. <listitem>
  108. <para>2007-03-14</para>
  109. <itemizedlist>
  110. <listitem>
  111. <para>[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout
  112. Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since
  113. the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed
  114. in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates
  115. from DIY Linux.</para>
  116. </listitem>
  117. </itemizedlist>
  118. </listitem>
  119. <listitem>
  120. <para>2007-03-04</para>
  121. <itemizedlist>
  122. <listitem>
  123. <para>[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes
  124. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1954">#1954</ulink></para>
  125. </listitem>
  126. <listitem>
  127. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all
  128. upstream patches up to 206.</para>
  129. </listitem>
  130. <listitem>
  131. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304. Fixes
  132. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1969">#1969</ulink></para>
  133. </listitem>
  134. <listitem>
  135. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30. Fixes
  136. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1967">#1967</ulink></para>
  137. </listitem>
  138. <listitem>
  139. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20. Fixes
  140. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1968">#1968</ulink></para>
  141. </listitem>
  142. </itemizedlist>
  143. </listitem>
  144. <listitem>
  145. <para>2007-03-1</para>
  146. <itemizedlist>
  147. <listitem>
  148. <para>[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and
  149. notices to appear before affected commands.</para>
  150. </listitem>
  151. </itemizedlist>
  152. </listitem>
  153. <listitem>
  154. <para>2007-02-25</para>
  155. <itemizedlist>
  156. <listitem>
  157. <para>[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages
  158. builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.</para>
  159. </listitem>
  160. </itemizedlist>
  161. </listitem>
  162. <listitem>
  163. <para>2007-02-24</para>
  164. <itemizedlist>
  165. <listitem>
  166. <para>[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2.
  167. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.</para>
  168. </listitem>
  169. <listitem>
  170. <para>[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers
  171. installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions.
  172. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1965">#1965</ulink></para>
  173. </listitem>
  174. <listitem>
  175. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1. Fixes
  176. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1964">#1964</ulink></para>
  177. </listitem>
  178. <listitem>
  179. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc. Fixes
  180. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1930">#1930</ulink></para>
  181. </listitem>
  182. <listitem>
  183. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2. Fixes
  184. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1960">#1960</ulink></para>
  185. </listitem>
  186. <listitem>
  187. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB. Fixes
  188. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1961">#1961</ulink></para>
  189. </listitem>
  190. <listitem>
  191. <para>[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for
  192. <command>cpan</command> and <command>prove</command> from the
  193. Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.</para>
  194. </listitem>
  195. </itemizedlist>
  196. </listitem>
  197. <listitem>
  198. <para>2007-02-23</para>
  199. <itemizedlist>
  200. <listitem>
  201. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf
  202. to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  203. </listitem>
  204. <listitem>
  205. <para>[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some
  206. commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and
  207. Autoconf pages.</para>
  208. </listitem>
  209. <listitem>
  210. <para>[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev
  211. documentation install command since it is already created by
  212. udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  213. </listitem>
  214. <listitem>
  215. <para>[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing
  216. any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  217. </listitem>
  218. <listitem>
  219. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit
  220. the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only
  221. generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris
  222. Staub.</para>
  223. </listitem>
  224. </itemizedlist>
  225. </listitem>
  226. <listitem>
  227. <para>2007-02-20</para>
  228. <itemizedlist>
  229. <listitem>
  230. <para>[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching
  231. the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of
  232. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>.</para>
  233. </listitem>
  234. </itemizedlist>
  235. </listitem>
  236. <listitem>
  237. <para>2007-02-18</para>
  238. <itemizedlist>
  239. <listitem>
  240. <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
  241. in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
  242. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
  243. note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
  244. </listitem>
  245. </itemizedlist>
  246. </listitem>
  247. <listitem>
  248. <para>2007-02-17</para>
  249. <itemizedlist>
  250. <listitem>
  251. <para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
  252. NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
  253. script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
  254. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  255. </listitem>
  256. <listitem>
  257. <para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
  258. to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes
  259. part of <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  260. </listitem>
  261. <listitem>
  262. <para>[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.</para>
  263. </listitem>
  264. </itemizedlist>
  265. </listitem>
  266. <listitem>
  267. <para>2007-02-09</para>
  268. <itemizedlist>
  269. <listitem>
  270. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>readlink</command> to
  271. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> because
  272. <function>sysreadlink</function> in Udev's shell functions may call
  273. it before <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> has been
  274. mounted. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1913">#1913</ulink></para>
  275. </listitem>
  276. <listitem>
  277. <para>[matthew] - Remove some <command>chmod</command> and
  278. <command>chown</command> commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as
  279. they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes
  280. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1953">#1953</ulink></para>
  281. </listitem>
  282. <listitem>
  283. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes
  284. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1949">#1949</ulink></para>
  285. </listitem>
  286. <listitem>
  287. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes
  288. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1951">#1951</ulink></para>
  289. </listitem>
  290. </itemizedlist>
  291. </listitem>
  292. <listitem>
  293. <para>2007-02-07</para>
  294. <itemizedlist>
  295. <listitem>
  296. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes
  297. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1950">#1950</ulink>.</para>
  298. </listitem>
  299. </itemizedlist>
  300. </listitem>
  301. <listitem>
  302. <para>2007-02-03</para>
  303. <itemizedlist>
  304. <listitem>
  305. <para>[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both
  306. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1948">#1948</ulink> and the
  307. udev_retry script.</para>
  308. </listitem>
  309. </itemizedlist>
  310. </listitem>
  311. <listitem>
  312. <para>2007-01-31</para>
  313. <itemizedlist>
  314. <listitem>
  315. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn
  316. and udev-config tarballs. Fixes
  317. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1932">#1932</ulink>.</para>
  318. </listitem>
  319. <listitem>
  320. <para>[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not
  321. required after upgrading to Readline-5.2. Fixes
  322. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1942">#1942</ulink>. Thanks to Alexander
  323. Patrakov for the report and fix.</para>
  324. </listitem>
  325. <listitem>
  326. <para>[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to
  327. fix a multibyte-related issue. Fixes
  328. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1945">#1945</ulink></para>
  329. </listitem>
  330. <listitem>
  331. <para>[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer
  332. in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch</para>
  333. </listitem>
  334. <listitem>
  335. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes
  336. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1941">#1941</ulink></para>
  337. </listitem>
  338. <listitem>
  339. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16.1. Fixes
  340. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1926">#1926</ulink> and
  341. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1944">#1944</ulink></para>
  342. </listitem>
  343. <listitem>
  344. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes
  345. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1940">#1940</ulink></para>
  346. </listitem>
  347. <listitem>
  348. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes
  349. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1928">#1928</ulink></para>
  350. </listitem>
  351. <listitem>
  352. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes
  353. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1936">#1936</ulink></para>
  354. </listitem>
  355. <listitem>
  356. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes
  357. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1924">#1924</ulink></para>
  358. </listitem>
  359. <listitem>
  360. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes
  361. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1925">#1925</ulink></para>
  362. </listitem>
  363. <listitem>
  364. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29. Fixes
  365. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1923">#1923</ulink>.</para>
  366. </listitem>
  367. <listitem>
  368. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19. Fixes
  369. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1946">#1946</ulink>.</para>
  370. </listitem>
  371. <listitem>
  372. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7. Fixes
  373. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1934">#1934</ulink>.</para>
  374. </listitem>
  375. <listitem>
  376. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes
  377. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
  378. </listitem>
  379. </itemizedlist>
  380. </listitem>
  381. <listitem>
  382. <para>2007-01-13</para>
  383. <itemizedlist>
  384. <listitem>
  385. <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
  386. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
  387. </listitem>
  388. <listitem>
  389. <para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
  390. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
  391. </listitem>
  392. </itemizedlist>
  393. </listitem>
  394. <listitem>
  395. <para>2006-12-09</para>
  396. <itemizedlist>
  397. <listitem>
  398. <para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
  399. in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
  400. thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  401. </listitem>
  402. </itemizedlist>
  403. </listitem>
  404. <listitem>
  405. <para>2006-12-01</para>
  406. <itemizedlist>
  407. <listitem>
  408. <para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
  409. built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
  410. <filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
  411. <filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
  412. the report and fix.</para>
  413. </listitem>
  414. </itemizedlist>
  415. </listitem>
  416. <listitem>
  417. <para>2006-11-25</para>
  418. <itemizedlist>
  419. <listitem>
  420. <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
  421. Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
  422. before starting chapter 6.
  423. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
  424. </listitem>
  425. <listitem>
  426. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
  427. <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
  428. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
  429. Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
  430. moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
  431. </listitem>
  432. <listitem>
  433. <para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
  434. <command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
  435. configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
  436. the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
  437. </listitem>
  438. <listitem>
  439. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
  440. by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
  441. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
  442. </listitem>
  443. <listitem>
  444. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
  445. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
  446. </listitem>
  447. <listitem>
  448. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
  449. This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks
  450. to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
  451. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
  452. </listitem>
  453. <listitem>
  454. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
  455. Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
  456. changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
  457. <ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
  458. this thread.</ulink></para>
  459. </listitem>
  460. <listitem>
  461. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
  462. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
  463. </listitem>
  464. <listitem>
  465. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
  466. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
  467. </listitem>
  468. <listitem>
  469. <para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
  470. overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
  471. to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
  472. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
  473. </listitem>
  474. <listitem>
  475. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
  476. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
  477. </listitem>
  478. <listitem>
  479. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
  480. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
  481. </listitem>
  482. <listitem>
  483. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
  484. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
  485. </listitem>
  486. <listitem>
  487. <para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
  488. required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
  489. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
  490. </listitem>
  491. <listitem>
  492. <para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
  493. the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
  494. </listitem>
  495. <listitem>
  496. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
  497. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
  498. </listitem>
  499. </itemizedlist>
  500. </listitem>
  501. <listitem>
  502. <para>2006-11-24</para>
  503. <itemizedlist>
  504. <listitem>
  505. <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
  506. Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
  507. </listitem>
  508. </itemizedlist>
  509. </listitem>
  510. <listitem>
  511. <para>2006-11-10</para>
  512. <itemizedlist>
  513. <listitem>
  514. <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
  515. and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
  516. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
  517. </listitem>
  518. </itemizedlist>
  519. </listitem>
  520. <listitem>
  521. <para>2006-11-05</para>
  522. <itemizedlist>
  523. <listitem>
  524. <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
  525. bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
  526. </listitem>
  527. </itemizedlist>
  528. </listitem>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>2006-11-03</para>
  531. <itemizedlist>
  532. <listitem>
  533. <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
  534. <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
  535. the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
  536. warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
  537. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
  538. </listitem>
  539. </itemizedlist>
  540. </listitem>
  541. <listitem>
  542. <para>2006-10-29</para>
  543. <itemizedlist>
  544. <listitem>
  545. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
  546. Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  547. </listitem>
  548. <listitem>
  549. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
  550. &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
  551. 076.</para>
  552. </listitem>
  553. </itemizedlist>
  554. </listitem>
  555. <listitem>
  556. <para>2006-10-28</para>
  557. <itemizedlist>
  558. <listitem>
  559. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
  560. </listitem>
  561. <listitem>
  562. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
  563. unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
  564. &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
  565. </listitem>
  566. <listitem>
  567. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
  568. unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  569. </listitem>
  570. <listitem>
  571. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
  572. </listitem>
  573. <listitem>
  574. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
  575. </listitem>
  576. <listitem>
  577. <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
  578. type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
  579. causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
  580. preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
  581. Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
  582. </listitem>
  583. <listitem>
  584. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
  585. </listitem>
  586. <listitem>
  587. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
  588. unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  589. </listitem>
  590. <listitem>
  591. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
  592. </listitem>
  593. <listitem>
  594. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
  595. </listitem>
  596. <listitem>
  597. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
  598. the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  599. </listitem>
  600. <listitem>
  601. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
  602. </listitem>
  603. <listitem>
  604. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
  605. &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
  606. bug when parsing comments.</para>
  607. </listitem>
  608. <listitem>
  609. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
  610. </listitem>
  611. </itemizedlist>
  612. </listitem>
  613. <listitem>
  614. <para>2006-10-23</para>
  615. <itemizedlist>
  616. <listitem>
  617. <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
  618. locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
  619. </listitem>
  620. </itemizedlist>
  621. </listitem>
  622. <listitem>
  623. <para>2006-10-21</para>
  624. <itemizedlist>
  625. <listitem>
  626. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
  627. </listitem>
  628. <listitem>
  629. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
  630. doc files.</para>
  631. </listitem>
  632. <listitem>
  633. <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
  634. </listitem>
  635. </itemizedlist>
  636. </listitem>
  637. <listitem>
  638. <para>2006-10-15</para>
  639. <itemizedlist>
  640. <listitem>
  641. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
  642. the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
  643. Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
  644. </listitem>
  645. <listitem>
  646. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
  647. </listitem>
  648. <listitem>
  649. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
  650. </listitem>
  651. </itemizedlist>
  652. </listitem>
  653. <listitem>
  654. <para>2006-10-05</para>
  655. <itemizedlist>
  656. <listitem>
  657. <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
  658. </listitem>
  659. <listitem>
  660. <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
  661. also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
  662. of the rules.</para>
  663. </listitem>
  664. </itemizedlist>
  665. </listitem>
  666. <listitem>
  667. <para>2006-10-02</para>
  668. <itemizedlist>
  669. <listitem>
  670. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
  671. </listitem>
  672. <listitem>
  673. <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
  674. latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
  675. </para>
  676. </listitem>
  677. <listitem>
  678. <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
  679. &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
  680. kernel sources.</para>
  681. </listitem>
  682. <listitem>
  683. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
  684. </listitem>
  685. <listitem>
  686. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
  687. </listitem>
  688. <listitem>
  689. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
  690. </listitem>
  691. <listitem>
  692. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
  693. </listitem>
  694. <listitem>
  695. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
  696. </listitem>
  697. <listitem>
  698. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
  699. </listitem>
  700. </itemizedlist>
  701. </listitem>
  702. <listitem>
  703. <para>2006-09-23</para>
  704. <itemizedlist>
  705. <listitem>
  706. <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
  707. should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
  708. heads-up.</para>
  709. </listitem>
  710. </itemizedlist>
  711. </listitem>
  712. <listitem>
  713. <para>2006-09-22</para>
  714. <itemizedlist>
  715. <listitem>
  716. <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
  717. 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
  718. on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
  719. </listitem>
  720. </itemizedlist>
  721. </listitem>
  722. <listitem>
  723. <para>2006-09-20</para>
  724. <itemizedlist>
  725. <listitem>
  726. <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
  727. </listitem>
  728. <listitem>
  729. <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
  730. than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
  731. </listitem>
  732. </itemizedlist>
  733. </listitem>
  734. <listitem>
  735. <para>2006-09-18</para>
  736. <itemizedlist>
  737. <listitem>
  738. <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
  739. in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
  740. Glibc-2.4.</para>
  741. </listitem>
  742. </itemizedlist>
  743. </listitem>
  744. <listitem>
  745. <para>2006-09-17</para>
  746. <itemizedlist>
  747. <listitem>
  748. <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
  749. patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
  750. syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
  751. for textual suggestions.</para>
  752. </listitem>
  753. </itemizedlist>
  754. </listitem>
  755. <listitem>
  756. <para>2006-09-09</para>
  757. <itemizedlist>
  758. <listitem>
  759. <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
  760. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  761. </listitem>
  762. <listitem>
  763. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
  764. </listitem>
  765. <listitem>
  766. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
  767. </listitem>
  768. </itemizedlist>
  769. </listitem>
  770. <listitem>
  771. <para>2006-09-06</para>
  772. <itemizedlist>
  773. <listitem>
  774. <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
  775. be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
  776. </listitem>
  777. </itemizedlist>
  778. </listitem>
  779. <listitem>
  780. <para>2006-08-31</para>
  781. <itemizedlist>
  782. <listitem>
  783. <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
  784. /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.</para>
  785. </listitem>
  786. </itemizedlist>
  787. </listitem>
  788. <listitem>
  789. <para>2006-08-24</para>
  790. <itemizedlist>
  791. <listitem>
  792. <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
  793. Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
  794. </listitem>
  795. </itemizedlist>
  796. </listitem>
  797. <listitem>
  798. <para>2006-08-17</para>
  799. <itemizedlist>
  800. <listitem>
  801. <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
  802. file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
  803. </listitem>
  804. <listitem>
  805. <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
  806. Peter Ennis.</para>
  807. </listitem>
  808. <listitem>
  809. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
  810. </listitem>
  811. <listitem>
  812. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
  813. </listitem>
  814. <listitem>
  815. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
  816. </listitem>
  817. <listitem>
  818. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
  819. </listitem>
  820. <listitem>
  821. <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
  822. upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
  823. </para>
  824. </listitem>
  825. <listitem>
  826. <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
  827. of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
  828. </listitem>
  829. </itemizedlist>
  830. </listitem>
  831. <listitem>
  832. <para>2006-08-08</para>
  833. <itemizedlist>
  834. <listitem>
  835. <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
  836. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
  837. </listitem>
  838. </itemizedlist>
  839. </listitem>
  840. <listitem>
  841. <para>2006-08-05</para>
  842. <itemizedlist>
  843. <listitem>
  844. <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
  845. versions.
  846. </para>
  847. </listitem>
  848. </itemizedlist>
  849. </listitem>
  850. <listitem>
  851. <para>2006-08-03</para>
  852. <itemizedlist>
  853. <listitem>
  854. <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
  855. </listitem>
  856. </itemizedlist>
  857. </listitem>
  858. <listitem>
  859. <para>2006-07-31</para>
  860. <itemizedlist>
  861. <listitem>
  862. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
  863. </listitem>
  864. <listitem>
  865. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
  866. </listitem>
  867. <listitem>
  868. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
  869. </listitem>
  870. <listitem>
  871. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
  872. </listitem>
  873. <listitem>
  874. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
  875. </listitem>
  876. <listitem>
  877. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
  878. </listitem>
  879. <listitem>
  880. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
  881. </listitem>
  882. <listitem>
  883. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
  884. </listitem>
  885. <listitem>
  886. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
  887. </listitem>
  888. <listitem>
  889. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
  890. </listitem>
  891. <listitem>
  892. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
  893. </listitem>
  894. </itemizedlist>
  895. </listitem>
  896. </itemizedlist>
  897. <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>
  898. </sect1>