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