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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>2007-04-01</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.20.4. Updated linux-headers instructions
  36. in chapter 5 to match instructions in chapter 6. The INSTALL_HDR_PATH is no longer
  37. forcibly removed.</para>
  38. </listitem>
  39. </itemizedlist>
  40. </listitem>
  41. <listitem>
  42. <para>2007-03-27</para>
  43. <itemizedlist>
  44. <listitem>
  45. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed a typo in the readjusting section.
  46. Reported by Steve Crosby.</para>
  47. </listitem>
  48. </itemizedlist>
  49. </listitem>
  50. <listitem>
  51. <para>2007-03-24</para>
  52. <itemizedlist>
  53. <listitem>
  54. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the
  55. latest 011-015 patches from upstream.</para>
  56. </listitem>
  57. <listitem>
  58. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Readline fixes patch to include the
  59. latest 002 patch from upstream.</para>
  60. </listitem>
  61. </itemizedlist>
  62. </listitem>
  63. <listitem>
  64. <para>2007-03-23</para>
  65. <itemizedlist>
  66. <listitem>
  67. <para>[dnicholson] - Don't install the kernel headers in
  68. <filename class="directory">/usr/include/scsi</filename> as the ones
  69. provided by Glibc are preferred.</para>
  70. </listitem>
  71. <listitem>
  72. <para>[dnicholson] - Force <command>ldd</command> to use
  73. <command>/bin/bash</command> since it contains Bash-specific
  74. syntax.</para>
  75. </listitem>
  76. <listitem>
  77. <para>[dnicholson] - When readjusting the GCC specs file, ensure
  78. that GCC will search for the system headers in /usr/include. An
  79. addition to the toolchain sanity checks has been made to test
  80. this. This fix originates from DIY Linux.</para>
  81. </listitem>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>[dnicholson] - Included the branch update patch for the
  84. temporary Glibc in Chapter 5 to help minimize differences with the
  85. final Glibc.</para>
  86. </listitem>
  87. </itemizedlist>
  88. </listitem>
  89. <listitem>
  90. <para>2007-03-21</para>
  91. <itemizedlist>
  92. <listitem>
  93. <para>[manuel] - Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5.</para>
  94. </listitem>
  95. </itemizedlist>
  96. </listitem>
  97. <listitem>
  98. <para>2007-03-19</para>
  99. <itemizedlist>
  100. <listitem>
  101. <para>[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new users and
  102. do not create mail spool files for them. Add a
  103. <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem> group so that if
  104. Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new users, it can
  105. do so without issuing a warning.</para>
  106. </listitem>
  107. <listitem>
  108. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1. Fixes
  109. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1850">#1850</ulink></para>
  110. </listitem>
  111. <listitem>
  112. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.3. Fixes
  113. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1971">#1971</ulink></para>
  114. </listitem>
  115. <listitem>
  116. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313. Fixes
  117. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1974">#1974</ulink></para>
  118. </listitem>
  119. <listitem>
  120. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest
  121. patch from upstream. Fixes
  122. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1973">#1973</ulink></para>
  123. </listitem>
  124. </itemizedlist>
  125. </listitem>
  126. <listitem>
  127. <para>2007-03-14</para>
  128. <itemizedlist>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout
  131. Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since
  132. the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed
  133. in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates
  134. from DIY Linux.</para>
  135. </listitem>
  136. </itemizedlist>
  137. </listitem>
  138. <listitem>
  139. <para>2007-03-04</para>
  140. <itemizedlist>
  141. <listitem>
  142. <para>[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes
  143. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1954">#1954</ulink></para>
  144. </listitem>
  145. <listitem>
  146. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all
  147. upstream patches up to 206.</para>
  148. </listitem>
  149. <listitem>
  150. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304. Fixes
  151. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1969">#1969</ulink></para>
  152. </listitem>
  153. <listitem>
  154. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30. Fixes
  155. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1967">#1967</ulink></para>
  156. </listitem>
  157. <listitem>
  158. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20. Fixes
  159. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1968">#1968</ulink></para>
  160. </listitem>
  161. </itemizedlist>
  162. </listitem>
  163. <listitem>
  164. <para>2007-03-1</para>
  165. <itemizedlist>
  166. <listitem>
  167. <para>[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and
  168. notices to appear before affected commands.</para>
  169. </listitem>
  170. </itemizedlist>
  171. </listitem>
  172. <listitem>
  173. <para>2007-02-25</para>
  174. <itemizedlist>
  175. <listitem>
  176. <para>[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages
  177. builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.</para>
  178. </listitem>
  179. </itemizedlist>
  180. </listitem>
  181. <listitem>
  182. <para>2007-02-24</para>
  183. <itemizedlist>
  184. <listitem>
  185. <para>[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2.
  186. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.</para>
  187. </listitem>
  188. <listitem>
  189. <para>[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers
  190. installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions.
  191. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1965">#1965</ulink></para>
  192. </listitem>
  193. <listitem>
  194. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1. Fixes
  195. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1964">#1964</ulink></para>
  196. </listitem>
  197. <listitem>
  198. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc. Fixes
  199. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1930">#1930</ulink></para>
  200. </listitem>
  201. <listitem>
  202. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2. Fixes
  203. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1960">#1960</ulink></para>
  204. </listitem>
  205. <listitem>
  206. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB. Fixes
  207. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1961">#1961</ulink></para>
  208. </listitem>
  209. <listitem>
  210. <para>[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for
  211. <command>cpan</command> and <command>prove</command> from the
  212. Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.</para>
  213. </listitem>
  214. </itemizedlist>
  215. </listitem>
  216. <listitem>
  217. <para>2007-02-23</para>
  218. <itemizedlist>
  219. <listitem>
  220. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf
  221. to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  222. </listitem>
  223. <listitem>
  224. <para>[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some
  225. commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and
  226. Autoconf pages.</para>
  227. </listitem>
  228. <listitem>
  229. <para>[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev
  230. documentation install command since it is already created by
  231. udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  232. </listitem>
  233. <listitem>
  234. <para>[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing
  235. any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  236. </listitem>
  237. <listitem>
  238. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit
  239. the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only
  240. generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris
  241. Staub.</para>
  242. </listitem>
  243. </itemizedlist>
  244. </listitem>
  245. <listitem>
  246. <para>2007-02-20</para>
  247. <itemizedlist>
  248. <listitem>
  249. <para>[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching
  250. the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of
  251. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>.</para>
  252. </listitem>
  253. </itemizedlist>
  254. </listitem>
  255. <listitem>
  256. <para>2007-02-18</para>
  257. <itemizedlist>
  258. <listitem>
  259. <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
  260. in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
  261. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
  262. note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
  263. </listitem>
  264. </itemizedlist>
  265. </listitem>
  266. <listitem>
  267. <para>2007-02-17</para>
  268. <itemizedlist>
  269. <listitem>
  270. <para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
  271. NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
  272. script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
  273. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  274. </listitem>
  275. <listitem>
  276. <para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
  277. to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes
  278. part of <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  279. </listitem>
  280. <listitem>
  281. <para>[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.</para>
  282. </listitem>
  283. </itemizedlist>
  284. </listitem>
  285. <listitem>
  286. <para>2007-02-09</para>
  287. <itemizedlist>
  288. <listitem>
  289. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>readlink</command> to
  290. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> because
  291. <function>sysreadlink</function> in Udev's shell functions may call
  292. it before <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> has been
  293. mounted. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1913">#1913</ulink></para>
  294. </listitem>
  295. <listitem>
  296. <para>[matthew] - Remove some <command>chmod</command> and
  297. <command>chown</command> commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as
  298. they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes
  299. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1953">#1953</ulink></para>
  300. </listitem>
  301. <listitem>
  302. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes
  303. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1949">#1949</ulink></para>
  304. </listitem>
  305. <listitem>
  306. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes
  307. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1951">#1951</ulink></para>
  308. </listitem>
  309. </itemizedlist>
  310. </listitem>
  311. <listitem>
  312. <para>2007-02-07</para>
  313. <itemizedlist>
  314. <listitem>
  315. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes
  316. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1950">#1950</ulink>.</para>
  317. </listitem>
  318. </itemizedlist>
  319. </listitem>
  320. <listitem>
  321. <para>2007-02-03</para>
  322. <itemizedlist>
  323. <listitem>
  324. <para>[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both
  325. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1948">#1948</ulink> and the
  326. udev_retry script.</para>
  327. </listitem>
  328. </itemizedlist>
  329. </listitem>
  330. <listitem>
  331. <para>2007-01-31</para>
  332. <itemizedlist>
  333. <listitem>
  334. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn
  335. and udev-config tarballs. Fixes
  336. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1932">#1932</ulink>.</para>
  337. </listitem>
  338. <listitem>
  339. <para>[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not
  340. required after upgrading to Readline-5.2. Fixes
  341. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1942">#1942</ulink>. Thanks to Alexander
  342. Patrakov for the report and fix.</para>
  343. </listitem>
  344. <listitem>
  345. <para>[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to
  346. fix a multibyte-related issue. Fixes
  347. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1945">#1945</ulink></para>
  348. </listitem>
  349. <listitem>
  350. <para>[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer
  351. in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch</para>
  352. </listitem>
  353. <listitem>
  354. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes
  355. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1941">#1941</ulink></para>
  356. </listitem>
  357. <listitem>
  358. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16.1. Fixes
  359. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1926">#1926</ulink> and
  360. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1944">#1944</ulink></para>
  361. </listitem>
  362. <listitem>
  363. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes
  364. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1940">#1940</ulink></para>
  365. </listitem>
  366. <listitem>
  367. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes
  368. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1928">#1928</ulink></para>
  369. </listitem>
  370. <listitem>
  371. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes
  372. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1936">#1936</ulink></para>
  373. </listitem>
  374. <listitem>
  375. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes
  376. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1924">#1924</ulink></para>
  377. </listitem>
  378. <listitem>
  379. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes
  380. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1925">#1925</ulink></para>
  381. </listitem>
  382. <listitem>
  383. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29. Fixes
  384. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1923">#1923</ulink>.</para>
  385. </listitem>
  386. <listitem>
  387. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19. Fixes
  388. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1946">#1946</ulink>.</para>
  389. </listitem>
  390. <listitem>
  391. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7. Fixes
  392. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1934">#1934</ulink>.</para>
  393. </listitem>
  394. <listitem>
  395. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes
  396. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
  397. </listitem>
  398. </itemizedlist>
  399. </listitem>
  400. <listitem>
  401. <para>2007-01-13</para>
  402. <itemizedlist>
  403. <listitem>
  404. <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
  405. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
  406. </listitem>
  407. <listitem>
  408. <para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
  409. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
  410. </listitem>
  411. </itemizedlist>
  412. </listitem>
  413. <listitem>
  414. <para>2006-12-09</para>
  415. <itemizedlist>
  416. <listitem>
  417. <para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
  418. in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
  419. thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  420. </listitem>
  421. </itemizedlist>
  422. </listitem>
  423. <listitem>
  424. <para>2006-12-01</para>
  425. <itemizedlist>
  426. <listitem>
  427. <para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
  428. built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
  429. <filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
  430. <filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
  431. the report and fix.</para>
  432. </listitem>
  433. </itemizedlist>
  434. </listitem>
  435. <listitem>
  436. <para>2006-11-25</para>
  437. <itemizedlist>
  438. <listitem>
  439. <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
  440. Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
  441. before starting chapter 6.
  442. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
  443. </listitem>
  444. <listitem>
  445. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
  446. <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
  447. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
  448. Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
  449. moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
  450. </listitem>
  451. <listitem>
  452. <para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
  453. <command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
  454. configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
  455. the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
  456. </listitem>
  457. <listitem>
  458. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
  459. by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
  460. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
  461. </listitem>
  462. <listitem>
  463. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
  464. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
  465. </listitem>
  466. <listitem>
  467. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
  468. This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks
  469. to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
  470. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
  471. </listitem>
  472. <listitem>
  473. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
  474. Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
  475. changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
  476. <ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
  477. this thread.</ulink></para>
  478. </listitem>
  479. <listitem>
  480. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
  481. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
  482. </listitem>
  483. <listitem>
  484. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
  485. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
  486. </listitem>
  487. <listitem>
  488. <para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
  489. overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
  490. to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
  491. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
  492. </listitem>
  493. <listitem>
  494. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
  495. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
  496. </listitem>
  497. <listitem>
  498. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
  499. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
  500. </listitem>
  501. <listitem>
  502. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
  503. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
  504. </listitem>
  505. <listitem>
  506. <para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
  507. required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
  508. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
  509. </listitem>
  510. <listitem>
  511. <para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
  512. the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
  513. </listitem>
  514. <listitem>
  515. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
  516. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
  517. </listitem>
  518. </itemizedlist>
  519. </listitem>
  520. <listitem>
  521. <para>2006-11-24</para>
  522. <itemizedlist>
  523. <listitem>
  524. <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
  525. Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
  526. </listitem>
  527. </itemizedlist>
  528. </listitem>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>2006-11-10</para>
  531. <itemizedlist>
  532. <listitem>
  533. <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
  534. and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
  535. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
  536. </listitem>
  537. </itemizedlist>
  538. </listitem>
  539. <listitem>
  540. <para>2006-11-05</para>
  541. <itemizedlist>
  542. <listitem>
  543. <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
  544. bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
  545. </listitem>
  546. </itemizedlist>
  547. </listitem>
  548. <listitem>
  549. <para>2006-11-03</para>
  550. <itemizedlist>
  551. <listitem>
  552. <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
  553. <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
  554. the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
  555. warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
  556. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
  557. </listitem>
  558. </itemizedlist>
  559. </listitem>
  560. <listitem>
  561. <para>2006-10-29</para>
  562. <itemizedlist>
  563. <listitem>
  564. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
  565. Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  566. </listitem>
  567. <listitem>
  568. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
  569. &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
  570. 076.</para>
  571. </listitem>
  572. </itemizedlist>
  573. </listitem>
  574. <listitem>
  575. <para>2006-10-28</para>
  576. <itemizedlist>
  577. <listitem>
  578. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
  579. </listitem>
  580. <listitem>
  581. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
  582. unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
  583. &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
  584. </listitem>
  585. <listitem>
  586. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
  587. unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  588. </listitem>
  589. <listitem>
  590. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
  591. </listitem>
  592. <listitem>
  593. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
  594. </listitem>
  595. <listitem>
  596. <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
  597. type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
  598. causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
  599. preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
  600. Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
  601. </listitem>
  602. <listitem>
  603. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
  604. </listitem>
  605. <listitem>
  606. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
  607. unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  608. </listitem>
  609. <listitem>
  610. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
  611. </listitem>
  612. <listitem>
  613. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
  614. </listitem>
  615. <listitem>
  616. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
  617. the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  618. </listitem>
  619. <listitem>
  620. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
  621. </listitem>
  622. <listitem>
  623. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
  624. &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
  625. bug when parsing comments.</para>
  626. </listitem>
  627. <listitem>
  628. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
  629. </listitem>
  630. </itemizedlist>
  631. </listitem>
  632. <listitem>
  633. <para>2006-10-23</para>
  634. <itemizedlist>
  635. <listitem>
  636. <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
  637. locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
  638. </listitem>
  639. </itemizedlist>
  640. </listitem>
  641. <listitem>
  642. <para>2006-10-21</para>
  643. <itemizedlist>
  644. <listitem>
  645. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
  646. </listitem>
  647. <listitem>
  648. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
  649. doc files.</para>
  650. </listitem>
  651. <listitem>
  652. <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
  653. </listitem>
  654. </itemizedlist>
  655. </listitem>
  656. <listitem>
  657. <para>2006-10-15</para>
  658. <itemizedlist>
  659. <listitem>
  660. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
  661. the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
  662. Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
  663. </listitem>
  664. <listitem>
  665. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
  666. </listitem>
  667. <listitem>
  668. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
  669. </listitem>
  670. </itemizedlist>
  671. </listitem>
  672. <listitem>
  673. <para>2006-10-05</para>
  674. <itemizedlist>
  675. <listitem>
  676. <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
  677. </listitem>
  678. <listitem>
  679. <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
  680. also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
  681. of the rules.</para>
  682. </listitem>
  683. </itemizedlist>
  684. </listitem>
  685. <listitem>
  686. <para>2006-10-02</para>
  687. <itemizedlist>
  688. <listitem>
  689. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
  690. </listitem>
  691. <listitem>
  692. <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
  693. latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
  694. </para>
  695. </listitem>
  696. <listitem>
  697. <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
  698. &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
  699. kernel sources.</para>
  700. </listitem>
  701. <listitem>
  702. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
  703. </listitem>
  704. <listitem>
  705. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
  706. </listitem>
  707. <listitem>
  708. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
  709. </listitem>
  710. <listitem>
  711. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
  712. </listitem>
  713. <listitem>
  714. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
  715. </listitem>
  716. <listitem>
  717. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
  718. </listitem>
  719. </itemizedlist>
  720. </listitem>
  721. <listitem>
  722. <para>2006-09-23</para>
  723. <itemizedlist>
  724. <listitem>
  725. <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
  726. should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
  727. heads-up.</para>
  728. </listitem>
  729. </itemizedlist>
  730. </listitem>
  731. <listitem>
  732. <para>2006-09-22</para>
  733. <itemizedlist>
  734. <listitem>
  735. <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
  736. 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
  737. on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
  738. </listitem>
  739. </itemizedlist>
  740. </listitem>
  741. <listitem>
  742. <para>2006-09-20</para>
  743. <itemizedlist>
  744. <listitem>
  745. <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
  746. </listitem>
  747. <listitem>
  748. <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
  749. than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
  750. </listitem>
  751. </itemizedlist>
  752. </listitem>
  753. <listitem>
  754. <para>2006-09-18</para>
  755. <itemizedlist>
  756. <listitem>
  757. <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
  758. in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
  759. Glibc-2.4.</para>
  760. </listitem>
  761. </itemizedlist>
  762. </listitem>
  763. <listitem>
  764. <para>2006-09-17</para>
  765. <itemizedlist>
  766. <listitem>
  767. <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
  768. patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
  769. syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
  770. for textual suggestions.</para>
  771. </listitem>
  772. </itemizedlist>
  773. </listitem>
  774. <listitem>
  775. <para>2006-09-09</para>
  776. <itemizedlist>
  777. <listitem>
  778. <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
  779. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  780. </listitem>
  781. <listitem>
  782. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
  783. </listitem>
  784. <listitem>
  785. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
  786. </listitem>
  787. </itemizedlist>
  788. </listitem>
  789. <listitem>
  790. <para>2006-09-06</para>
  791. <itemizedlist>
  792. <listitem>
  793. <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
  794. be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
  795. </listitem>
  796. </itemizedlist>
  797. </listitem>
  798. <listitem>
  799. <para>2006-08-31</para>
  800. <itemizedlist>
  801. <listitem>
  802. <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
  803. /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.</para>
  804. </listitem>
  805. </itemizedlist>
  806. </listitem>
  807. <listitem>
  808. <para>2006-08-24</para>
  809. <itemizedlist>
  810. <listitem>
  811. <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
  812. Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
  813. </listitem>
  814. </itemizedlist>
  815. </listitem>
  816. <listitem>
  817. <para>2006-08-17</para>
  818. <itemizedlist>
  819. <listitem>
  820. <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
  821. file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
  822. </listitem>
  823. <listitem>
  824. <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
  825. Peter Ennis.</para>
  826. </listitem>
  827. <listitem>
  828. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
  829. </listitem>
  830. <listitem>
  831. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
  832. </listitem>
  833. <listitem>
  834. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
  835. </listitem>
  836. <listitem>
  837. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
  838. </listitem>
  839. <listitem>
  840. <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
  841. upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
  842. </para>
  843. </listitem>
  844. <listitem>
  845. <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
  846. of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
  847. </listitem>
  848. </itemizedlist>
  849. </listitem>
  850. <listitem>
  851. <para>2006-08-08</para>
  852. <itemizedlist>
  853. <listitem>
  854. <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
  855. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
  856. </listitem>
  857. </itemizedlist>
  858. </listitem>
  859. <listitem>
  860. <para>2006-08-05</para>
  861. <itemizedlist>
  862. <listitem>
  863. <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
  864. versions.
  865. </para>
  866. </listitem>
  867. </itemizedlist>
  868. </listitem>
  869. <listitem>
  870. <para>2006-08-03</para>
  871. <itemizedlist>
  872. <listitem>
  873. <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
  874. </listitem>
  875. </itemizedlist>
  876. </listitem>
  877. <listitem>
  878. <para>2006-07-31</para>
  879. <itemizedlist>
  880. <listitem>
  881. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
  882. </listitem>
  883. <listitem>
  884. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
  885. </listitem>
  886. <listitem>
  887. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
  888. </listitem>
  889. <listitem>
  890. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
  891. </listitem>
  892. <listitem>
  893. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
  894. </listitem>
  895. <listitem>
  896. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
  897. </listitem>
  898. <listitem>
  899. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
  900. </listitem>
  901. <listitem>
  902. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
  903. </listitem>
  904. <listitem>
  905. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
  906. </listitem>
  907. <listitem>
  908. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
  909. </listitem>
  910. <listitem>
  911. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
  912. </listitem>
  913. </itemizedlist>
  914. </listitem>
  915. </itemizedlist>
  916. <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>
  917. </sect1>