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  1. <sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
  2. <title>Changelog</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html" dir="chapter01"?>
  4. <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
  5. <itemizedlist>
  6. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  7. <itemizedlist>
  8. <listitem><para>automake-1.6.1</para></listitem>
  9. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
  10. <listitem><para>binutils-2.12.1</para></listitem>
  11. <listitem><para>bison-1.35</para></listitem>
  12. <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8.1</para></listitem>
  13. <listitem><para>file-3.38</para></listitem>
  14. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1</para></listitem>
  15. <listitem><para>gcc-3.1</para></listitem>
  16. <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.2</para></listitem>
  17. <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
  18. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.16</para></listitem>
  19. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
  20. <listitem><para>psmisc-21</para></listitem>
  21. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.2</para></listitem>
  22. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11r</para></listitem>
  23. </itemizedlist>
  24. </para></listitem>
  25. <listitem><para>Added:
  26. <itemizedlist>
  27. <listitem><para>ed-0.2.patch</para></listitem>
  28. <listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
  29. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1.patch</para></listitem>
  30. <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5.patch</para></listitem>
  31. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2.patch</para></listitem>
  32. <listitem><para>perl-5.6.1.patch</para></listitem>
  33. <listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
  34. </itemizedlist>
  35. </para></listitem>
  36. <listitem><para>Removed:
  37. <itemizedlist>
  38. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4a.patch</para></listitem>
  39. <listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0.patch</para></listitem>
  40. </itemizedlist>
  41. </para></listitem>
  42. <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Net-tools,
  43. Perl, Texinfo: Updated package contents. GCC: Removed i686-specific
  44. programs. M4: Added "last checked against" for uniformity.</para></listitem>
  45. <listitem><para>June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gettext:
  46. Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  47. <listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Binutils,
  48. Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  49. <listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - GCC:
  50. Updated description of c++filt.</para></listitem>
  51. <listitem><para>June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - The End:
  52. Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-&version; to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version
  53. number inside this file.</para></listitem>
  54. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
  55. Modified the build instructions and command explanations to
  56. only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed
  57. until after the second GCC build.</para></listitem>
  58. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow:
  59. Made some grammatic changes.</para></listitem>
  60. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Gawk:
  61. Created a list of package contents and descriptions.</para></listitem>
  62. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils:
  63. Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch, per
  64. Christophe Devine's request.</para></listitem>
  65. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - All
  66. software: Updated the estimated required disk space.</para></listitem>
  67. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - GCC:
  68. Updated the package contents.</para></listitem>
  69. <listitem><para>June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Creating
  70. Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p
  71. option to mkdir which will create the usr directory
  72. anyways.</para></listitem>
  73. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] - Chapter 06 -
  74. Reiserfsprogs: added a description for unpack.</para></listitem>
  75. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] - Chapter 02 -
  76. How to ask for help: mentioned the FAQ.</para></listitem>
  77. <listitem><para>June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up
  78. explanations following the /static change.</para></listitem>
  79. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Preface - Who would
  80. not want to read this book: applied a revised version of
  81. Scot's grammar patch.</para></listitem>
  82. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 09 - Rebooting
  83. the system: named the hint author.</para></listitem>
  84. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Vim:
  85. updated the hint URL.</para></listitem>
  86. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - LILO:
  87. named the hint authors.</para></listitem>
  88. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Bootscripts:
  89. named the hint author.</para></listitem>
  90. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 - Gawk:
  91. mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06. The
  92. patch caused some confusion.</para></listitem>
  93. <listitem><para>June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited
  94. to include reporting typos.</para></listitem>
  95. <listitem><para>May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the
  96. CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1
  97. systems.</para></listitem>
  98. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Update to
  99. binutils-2.12.1.</para></listitem>
  100. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed
  101. section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer
  102. have the commands referred to there.</para></listitem>
  103. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the
  104. various sed fixes with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  105. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the
  106. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  107. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced
  108. the sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  109. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the
  110. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  111. <listitem><para>May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership:
  112. removed the explicit command to chown <filename
  113. class="directory">/lost+found</filename>. This is done by the first command
  114. now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  115. <listitem><para>May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  116. ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used
  117. one).</para></listitem>
  118. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1,
  119. bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2,
  120. modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix
  121. patches for ncurses, perl and vim.</para></listitem>
  122. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed
  123. the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to
  124. chapter 06-binutils.</para></listitem>
  125. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk &amp; Findutils:
  126. simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We
  127. can live with a
  128. <filename class="directory">$LFS/static/libexecdir</filename> being created.
  129. The whole <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory is
  130. temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks
  131. like.</para></listitem>
  132. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories:
  133. removed the <userinput>cd /</userinput> command and changed the two
  134. <userinput>chmod</userinput> commands to use absolute paths
  135. instead.</para></listitem>
  136. <listitem><para>May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor
  137. corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't
  138. wanted.</para></listitem>
  139. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the
  140. keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added
  141. findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5
  142. into <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> and re-ordered the
  143. installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path
  144. (files from <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename>).</para></listitem>
  145. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  146. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  147. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some
  148. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  149. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some
  150. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  151. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  152. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  153. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  154. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  155. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  156. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  157. <listitem><para>May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown
  158. X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info
  159. chown).</para></listitem>
  160. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added
  161. http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net</para></listitem>
  162. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  163. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  164. <listitem><para>May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the
  165. instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter
  166. 05 gzip instructions.</para></listitem>
  167. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML
  168. fixups; mainly altering &lt;ulink&gt; tags to remove erroneous &amp;#13;
  169. in the HTML output.</para></listitem>
  170. <listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the
  171. missing descriptions.</para></listitem>
  172. <listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the
  173. symlink location of <filename class="symlink">vigr</filename> to
  174. <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename></para></listitem>
  175. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the
  176. two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be
  177. mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).</para></listitem>
  178. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the
  179. <userinput>cd dir && ln -sf</userinput> commands to one single command
  180. (such as <userinput>ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh</userinput> Same goes for
  181. <userinput>cd dir && mv/cp</userinput> constructions which are now replaced
  182. with constructions like
  183. <userinput>mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin</userinput></para></listitem>
  184. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS
  185. library files" section.</para></listitem>
  186. <listitem><para>May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds -
  187. gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the
  188. <userinput>export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR</userinput> constructions and
  189. changed them to <userinput>VAR=VALUE ./configure</userinput>
  190. constructions.</para></listitem>
  191. <listitem><para>April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added
  192. libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in
  193. updatedb.</para></listitem>
  194. <listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
  195. that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
  196. then you first need to create the
  197. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
  198. <listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to
  199. MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
  200. <listitem><para>April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to
  201. cvs and split up index.xml.</para></listitem>
  202. <listitem><para>April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following
  203. packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q
  204. </para></listitem>
  205. <listitem><para>April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp
  206. to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static
  207. pcre library.</para></listitem>
  208. <listitem><para>April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the
  209. http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement
  210. ftp://ftp.de).</para></listitem>
  211. </itemizedlist>
  212. <para>3.3 - April 7th, 2002</para>
  213. <itemizedlist>
  214. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  215. <itemizedlist>
  216. <listitem><para>autoconf-2.53</para></listitem>
  217. <listitem><para>automake-1.6</para></listitem>
  218. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.2</para></listitem>
  219. <listitem><para>binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
  220. <listitem><para>bison-1.34</para></listitem>
  221. <listitem><para>bzip2-1.0.2</para></listitem>
  222. <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8</para></listitem>
  223. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.27</para></listitem>
  224. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.0</para></listitem>
  225. <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.1</para></listitem>
  226. <listitem><para>grep-2.5</para></listitem>
  227. <listitem><para>less-374</para></listitem>
  228. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
  229. <listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
  230. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.18</para></listitem>
  231. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.48</para></listitem>
  232. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.15</para></listitem>
  233. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
  234. <listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
  235. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.1</para></listitem>
  236. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
  237. <listitem><para>vim-6.1</para></listitem>
  238. </itemizedlist>
  239. </para></listitem>
  240. <listitem><para>April 7th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new mirror site located
  241. in Freising, Germany</para></listitem>
  242. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Added this
  243. page explaining that you can remove the loadkeys symlink from <filename
  244. class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d</filename> if you compiled a keymap
  245. directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>
  246. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configuring
  247. Keyboard: explained you can also compile the keymap directly into the
  248. kernel which has additional benefits.</para></listitem>
  249. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  250. lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
  251. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - GCC: Added
  252. commands to remove the <filename class="directory">/usr/*-gnu</filename>
  253. directory.</para></listitem>
  254. <listitem><para>April 4th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Diffutils: Added
  255. --disable-nls</para></listitem>
  256. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: Added the
  257. missing package descriptions.</para></listitem>
  258. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Mounting $LFS/proc:
  259. Added <userinput>chown root.root $LFS/proc</userinput>. The recursive chown
  260. operation in chapter 6 doesn't touch proc, so this'll remain owned by user
  261. <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>. It's not a big deal, just not a very clean thing
  262. to do.</para></listitem>
  263. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Added a few
  264. symlinks that are used by programs like <userinput>xman</userinput> and
  265. others.</para></listitem>
  266. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Mounting partitions:
  267. Added some notes how to deal with multiple partitions ($LFS, $LFS/usr and
  268. so on).</para></listitem>
  269. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - E2fsprogs: Added
  270. <userinput>install-info</userinput> command to finish off the info page
  271. installation.</para></listitem>
  272. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Reversed the
  273. <userinput>make</userinput> and <userinput>make -f
  274. Makefile-libbz2_so</userinput>. This is needed so all object files are
  275. compiled with the PIC option (Position Independent Code).</para></listitem>
  276. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Linux: Shortened the
  277. installation instructions by cutting out the <userinput>make
  278. config</userinput> and <userinput>make dep</userinput>
  279. stages.</para></listitem>
  280. <listitem><para>April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 -
  281. Gawk: Added a warning to never run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on
  282. the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to <userinput>rm -rf
  283. /usr/bin/*</userinput> because we override the <filename
  284. class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition to <filename
  285. class="directory">/usr/bin</filename></para></listitem>
  286. <listitem><para>March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to
  287. diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting
  288. for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script.
  289. Removed sed to fix problem with shell syntax highlighting in vim as that
  290. is fixed in the new version.</para></listitem>
  291. <listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
  292. Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
  293. <listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
  294. library description.</para></listitem>
  295. <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before we
  296. move <filename>/usr/bin/bzless</filename> and
  297. <filename>/usr/bin/bzmore</filename> to the <filename
  298. class="directory">/bin</filename> directory, we first remove the
  299. <filename>/bin/bzless</filename> and <filename>/bin/bzmore</filename>
  300. files. On some systems overwriting the existing files doesn't work due to
  301. hardlinks being used.</para></listitem>
  302. <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Sysklogd: Updated
  303. the download location to <ulink url="http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/"/></para></listitem>
  304. <listitem><para>March 20th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure Dynamic
  305. Loader: Removed the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
  306. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> directories from the
  307. <filename>ld.so.conf</filename> file. They were
  308. unnecessary.</para></listitem>
  309. <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06+Appendix A: Removed
  310. the chroot dependencies. It's not a package so it's a bit out of
  311. place.</para></listitem>
  312. <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Gawk: Added
  313. commands to sed the <filename>awklib/Makefile.in</filename> file to change
  314. the <emphasis>datadir</emphasis> and <emphasis>libexecdir</emphasis>
  315. definitions</para></listitem>
  316. <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mailing lists:
  317. Added lfs-chat description</para></listitem>
  318. <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06-Shadow: Move
  319. <filename>libmisc.*a</filename> to
  320. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> too.</para></listitem>
  321. <listitem><para>March 14th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  322. bison-1.34, gettext-0.11.1, grep-2.5, lfs-bootscripts-1.8,
  323. shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
  324. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  325. binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
  326. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
  327. here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
  328. which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
  329. changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
  330. clock is set up.</para></listitem>
  331. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
  332. the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
  333. The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used
  334. now).</para></listitem>
  335. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk: Added
  336. -Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 bug fix for glibc-2.1.x
  337. systems.</para></listitem>
  338. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before
  339. installing, remove <filename>/usr/bin/bz*</filename>. The bzip2
  340. installation doesn't deal with existing files properly when making hard
  341. links, so we remove the files first.</para></listitem>
  342. <listitem><para>March 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure keyboard:
  343. Added section to configure keyboard keymap file by creating the <filename
  344. class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
  345. symlink.</para></listitem>
  346. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Make bootable: Added
  347. a <userinput>cp</userinput> command that finds all the kernel images from
  348. <filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> automatically and copies them to
  349. <filename class="directory">$LFS/boot</filename>.</para></listitem>
  350. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Moved the
  351. <filename>man.conf</filename> from <filename
  352. class="directory">/usr/share/misc</filename> to <filename
  353. class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para></listitem>
  354. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07: Added a page about
  355. the sysklogd script and explain that the default script includes the
  356. <emphasis>-m 0</emphasis> option to
  357. <userinput>syslogd</userinput>.</para></listitem>
  358. <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the Mawk package and
  359. replaced with the Gawk package. This was done because mawk is no longer
  360. being developed, while gawk is. Mawk has some POSIX compliance bugs that
  361. are fixed in Gawk.</para></listitem>
  362. <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to the following
  363. packages: autoconf-2.53, automake-1.6, bin86-0.16.2, bison-1.33,
  364. bzip2-1.0.2, e2fsprogs-1.27, gawk-3.1.0, gettext-0.11, less-374, lilo-22.2,
  365. linux-2.4.18, man-pages-1.48, modutils-2.4.14, reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b,
  366. shadow-4.0.2, texinfo-4.1, util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
  367. </itemizedlist>
  368. <para>3.2 - March 7th, 2002</para>
  369. <itemizedlist>
  370. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  371. <itemizedlist>
  372. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
  373. </itemizedlist>
  374. </para></listitem>
  375. <listitem><para>March 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Creating
  376. directories: Removed the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
  377. and <filename class="directory">/usr/local/var</filename> directories. They
  378. aren't recommended by the <emphasis>FHS</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
  379. <listitem><para>February 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Make: Added
  380. commands to remove the setgid kmem bit from
  381. <filename>/usr/bin/make</filename>. This isn't needed on Linux systems to
  382. deal with the system load and it causes some other problems too that are
  383. fixed by removing the setgid bit.</para></listitem>
  384. <listitem><para>February 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  385. lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
  386. <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Added
  387. the command again that moves $LFS/usr/bin/chroot to
  388. $LFS/usr/sbin</para></listitem>
  389. <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard] Updated dependencies for all
  390. packages.</para></listitem>
  391. <listitem><para>February 15th, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 01: Added a new mirror
  392. to the list located in The Netherlands (www.nl and
  393. ftp.nl).</para></listitem>
  394. <listitem><para>February 11th, 2002 [markh] Chapter 05: Sh-utils:
  395. Removed extra &amp;&amp; from end of install
  396. instructions.</para></listitem>
  397. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils:
  398. Removed <emphasis>su</emphasis> from the <emphasis>mv</emphasis> command
  399. as this isn't installed in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  400. </itemizedlist>
  401. <para>3.2-RC1 - February 10th, 2002</para>
  402. <itemizedlist>
  403. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  404. <itemizedlist>
  405. <listitem><para>bison-1.31</para></listitem>
  406. <listitem><para>file-3.37</para></listitem>
  407. <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5</para></listitem>
  408. <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
  409. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
  410. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.17</para></listitem>
  411. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.47</para></listitem>
  412. <listitem><para>psmisc-20.2</para></listitem>
  413. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.84</para></listitem>
  414. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11n</para></listitem>
  415. </itemizedlist>
  416. </para></listitem></itemizedlist>
  417. <itemizedlist>
  418. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added a sed
  419. command to change gzexe's hardcoded /usr/bin/gzip path and change it to
  420. /bin/gzip.</para></listitem>
  421. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 + 6: Moved
  422. additional programs to the ($LFS)/bin directory that are used by the
  423. bootscripts. No programs used by bootscripts (except daemons themselves)
  424. should be in the /usr directory in case /usr isn't available until far
  425. along in the boot process (when it's an NFS share for
  426. example).</para></listitem>
  427. <listitem><para>February 6th, 2002 [markh]: Appendix A - All
  428. descriptions now synced and updated.</para></listitem>
  429. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Changing owner:
  430. Added <quote>cd /</quote> so the leading slash can be removed from all the
  431. directories in the chown commands. It's more pleasant to type out this
  432. way.</para></listitem>
  433. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
  434. lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
  435. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Removed the
  436. compress symlink. Gzip can uncompress .Z files but it can't compress into
  437. that format.</para></listitem>
  438. <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
  439. lfs-bootscripts-1.3</para></listitem>
  440. <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Glibc: Instead of
  441. sed'ing the <filename>config.make</filename> file, create the
  442. <filename>glibc-build/configparms</filename> file containing
  443. <quote>cross-compiling = no</quote>.</para></listitem>
  444. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5: Changed
  445. the commands to copy the header files to support versions of cp older
  446. than 4.1.</para></listitem>
  447. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Added
  448. CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" to the configure command for patch.
  449. This fixes compilation on PPC and m68k platforms and doesn't hurt on
  450. x86.</para></listitem>
  451. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Mounting proc:
  452. Rephrased the text a bit (it implied you can only mount the proc fs more
  453. than once, which isn't true anymore these days).</para></listitem>
  454. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 5: Enhanced the make
  455. mrproper explanation.</para></listitem>
  456. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5+6: Removed
  457. the --libexecdir flag from fileutils' configure options.</para></listitem>
  458. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 6: Added a
  459. symlink from vipw to vigr after installing shadow.</para></listitem>
  460. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Changed
  461. binutils and e2fsprogs installation instructions to use separate
  462. directories ala gcc and glibc.</para></listitem>
  463. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bootscripts: Added
  464. a chown root.root after the cp.</para></listitem>
  465. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Texinfo: the info
  466. programs works on the /usr/share/info directory not
  467. /usr/doc/info.</para></listitem>
  468. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Procps: Fixed typo
  469. the path to the app-defaults directory (it's
  470. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and not
  471. usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults).</para></listitem>
  472. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configure
  473. software: Simplified the commands to create the utmp, btmp, lastlog and
  474. wtmp files.</para></listitem>
  475. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter1: Moved
  476. Acknowledgements to be displayed as the first page in chapter
  477. 1.</para></listitem>
  478. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Created a separate
  479. page to list the HTTP and FTP mirrors.</para></listitem>
  480. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 4 - Creating
  481. partition: increased the suggested partition size from 750 MB to 1
  482. GB.</para></listitem>
  483. <listitem><para>January 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Combined
  484. the <quote>mv libshadow.a /usr/lib</quote> and
  485. <quote>mv libshadow.la /usr/lib</quote> commands into
  486. <quote>mv libshadow.*a /usr/lib</quote></para></listitem>
  487. <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  488. lfs-bootscripts-1.2</para></listitem>
  489. <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Removed the
  490. datadir option from bisons configure flags, because recent bisons use the
  491. correct directory by default.</para></listitem>
  492. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added the section
  493. Create /etc/mtab symlink.</para></listitem>
  494. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the file -C command
  495. from the file installation. This package runs this command at the very end
  496. of the installation so we don't need to do this anymore.</para></listitem>
  497. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 4+5+6: The static
  498. environment is now built as an unprivileged user, removing the risk of
  499. overwriting files of the host distribution.</para></listitem>
  500. <listitem><para>January 22nd, 2002 [markh]: Back out linuxthreads
  501. man-page installation instructions as they don't work (they need perl
  502. which we don't have installed at that point).</para></listitem>
  503. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to glibc-2.2.5. At
  504. the same time, fixed the glibc installation so that the linuxthreads man
  505. pages are installed.</para></listitem>
  506. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to bison-1.31,
  507. file-3.37, kernel-2.4.17, psmisc-20.2 and
  508. sysvinit-2.84.</para></listitem>
  509. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to util-linux-2.11n
  510. and removed ADD_RAW=yes as it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>
  511. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to man-pages-1.47
  512. and removed the man-pages patch.</para></listitem>
  513. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A: Added bootscripts
  514. files (dependencies, download location, descriptions)</para></listitem>
  515. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added bootscripts
  516. installation.</para></listitem>
  517. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 7: Removed most of the
  518. scripts, only left the part of a few where we set up config files in
  519. /etc/sysconfig.</para></listitem>
  520. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configuring
  521. Sysvinit: Changed the inittab contents to match the new
  522. bootscripts.</para></listitem>
  523. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
  524. the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>
  525. <listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header
  526. files installation in chapter 5 so it's a bit more portable.</para></listitem>
  527. <listitem><para>January 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Reformatted the dependency
  528. lists.</para></listitem>
  529. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Happy New Year
  530. LFS!</para></listitem>
  531. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [markh]: First Changelog of New Year!
  532. Update copyright notice to cover 2002 ;-) OK - I'm
  533. sad...</para></listitem>
  534. <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Reworded why
  535. ed is optional to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
  536. <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Reworded
  537. the TEXMF explanation to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
  538. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 4: Replaced the "One
  539. partition hint" reference with lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt hint
  540. reference.</para></listitem>
  541. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [markh]: Finish Appendix merge. All
  542. of the old appendices A, B and D are now in one (large) Appendix
  543. A.</para></listitem>
  544. <listitem><para>December 14th, 2001 [markh]: Merged appendices A and
  545. B.</para></listitem>
  546. <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix B: Changed dbhtml
  547. tag so that the flex page is now created as flex.html instead of
  548. flex</para></listitem>
  549. <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix D: Moved
  550. metalab.unc.edu and ftp.ibiblio.org references to the proper URL
  551. ibiblio.org.</para></listitem>
  552. <listitem><para>December 12th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Moved
  553. the kbd patch to the default installation instructions; upgraded to
  554. kbd-1.06-2.patch to fix installation of some programs; added the
  555. descriptions for these programs; removed the loadkeys -d warning that
  556. was a leftover from the time where loadkeys -d wasn't fixed yet.</para></listitem>
  557. <listitem><para>December 11th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add the "why we
  558. cd $LFS before chroot" explanation.</para></listitem>
  559. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add kbd patch
  560. for loadkeys -d behaviour (patch by Matthias Benkmann; originally posted
  561. to the lfs-dev list).</para></listitem>
  562. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Re-create
  563. symlinks in bash, fileutils and gcc instructions to make the Chapter 6
  564. instructions independent of those in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  565. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: Cleaned
  566. up the sed commands to use the backup file that was created earlier instead
  567. of writing to an intermediate 'tmp~' file.</para></listitem>
  568. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: 'make'
  569. command for diffutils installation changed to 'make PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr.'
  570. This bug was reported by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>
  571. <listitem><para>December 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Change the
  572. configure command from <emphasis>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr</emphasis> to
  573. <emphasis>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</emphasis>. This is more consistent
  574. with the installation instructions for the other packages, and the result
  575. is identical to the old way.</para></listitem>
  576. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 2: Added the Which
  577. Platform? section.</para></listitem>
  578. </itemizedlist>
  579. <para>3.1 - December 3rd, 2001</para>
  580. <itemizedlist>
  581. <listitem><para>Added:
  582. <itemizedlist>
  583. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j</para></listitem>
  584. </itemizedlist>
  585. </para></listitem>
  586. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  587. <itemizedlist>
  588. <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.4</para></listitem>
  589. <listitem><para>bash-2.05a</para></listitem>
  590. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.25</para></listitem>
  591. <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.40</para></listitem>
  592. <listitem><para>libtool-1.4.2</para></listitem>
  593. <listitem><para>lilo-22.1</para></listitem>
  594. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.16</para></listitem>
  595. <listitem><para>man-1.5j</para></listitem>
  596. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.43</para></listitem>
  597. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.12</para></listitem>
  598. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.83</para></listitem>
  599. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11m</para></listitem>
  600. <listitem><para>vim-6.0</para></listitem>
  601. </itemizedlist>
  602. </para></listitem>
  603. <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Updated to
  604. man-1.5j. Removed the sed which we had to use with the old version as
  605. the new one detects awk properly.</para></listitem>
  606. <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5: Added static
  607. library explanation originally posted on lfs-apps (when it still
  608. existed) by Plasmatic.</para></listitem>
  609. <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  610. kernel-2.4.16 and modutils-2.4.12.</para></listitem>
  611. <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added FHS
  612. compliance notes to the findutils installation.</para></listitem>
  613. <listitem><para>November 19th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  614. bash-2.05a, lilo-22.1, MAKEDEV-1.4, man-pages-1.43 and
  615. util-linux-2.11m.</para></listitem>
  616. <listitem><para>November 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Created new lex
  617. script instead of link to flex following comment on lfs-dev. (This is
  618. similar to what we do with bison and yacc).</para></listitem>
  619. <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: General: Large XML Tidy-up.
  620. Shouldn't affect the book text or layout. If it does, something has
  621. gone wrong!</para></listitem>
  622. <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added
  623. reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j and updated to lilo-22.0.2.</para></listitem>
  624. <listitem><para>October 24th, 2001 [markh]: General: Fixed a bundle of
  625. spelling errors which were reported.</para></listitem>
  626. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Kernel: Added
  627. explanation as to why we copy the kernel headers rather than symlink
  628. them.</para></listitem>
  629. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added
  630. uncompress to the gunzip description as it was
  631. missing.</para></listitem>
  632. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
  633. Removed the USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin entry as it's no longer needed with
  634. util-linux-2.11l.</para></listitem>
  635. <listitem><para>October 9th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Kbd: Removed the
  636. --datadir option, kbd's default is set properly already.</para></listitem>
  637. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Mentioned
  638. the <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt"/>
  639. lfs-hint</para></listitem>
  640. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Vim: Changed the
  641. installation instructions to fix a bug in vim-6.0's
  642. <filename>syntax/sh.vim</filename> file, and added the CPPFLAGS variable
  643. to specify the global vimrc file as
  644. <filename>/etc/vimrc</filename></para></listitem>
  645. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Updated to
  646. libtool-1.4.2, lilo-22.0, man-pages-1.40, modutils-2.4.10, sysvinit-2.83,
  647. util-linux-2.11l and vim-6.0</para></listitem>
  648. <listitem><para>October 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 9 - The End: Added the
  649. reference to the LFS Counter at
  650. <ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi"/></para></listitem>
  651. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - News server:
  652. Added reference to the news server</para></listitem>
  653. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Changed
  654. --with-root-prefix=/ to --with-root-prefix="" in e2fsprogs install
  655. instructions. The reason for the change is that a value of / will cause
  656. symlinks and installation paths to use things like //lib instead of
  657. just /lib. This isn't bad perse, it just doesn't look
  658. nice.</para></listitem>
  659. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  660. e2fsprogs-1.25, gettext-0.10.40, linux-2.4.10, modutils-2.4.9 and
  661. util-linux-2.11i.</para></listitem>
  662. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
  663. descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>
  664. </itemizedlist>
  665. <para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>
  666. <itemizedlist>
  667. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  668. <itemizedlist>
  669. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>
  670. </itemizedlist>
  671. </para></listitem>
  672. <listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
  673. mailing list information to reflect the new ml
  674. structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
  675. to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>
  676. <listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
  677. Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
  678. --enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads
  679. when
  680. not specified, it's clearer this way what's being
  681. enabled.</para></listitem>
  682. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
  683. Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
  684. isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
  685. configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
  686. rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
  687. /bin).</para></listitem>
  688. <listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
  689. Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
  690. /usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
  691. /usr/bin.</para></listitem>
  692. <listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
  693. Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>
  694. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
  695. missing &amp;&amp; to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
  696. instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
  697. running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>
  698. </itemizedlist>
  699. </sect1>