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