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<title>Changelog</title>
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<para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Updated to:

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>autoconf-2.53</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>automake-1.6</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bin86-0.16.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bison-1.34</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bzip2-1.0.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.27</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gawk-3.1.0</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gettext-0.11.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>grep-2.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>less-374</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.8</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.4.18</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.48</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.14</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>texinfo-4.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06-Shadow: Move
<filename>libmisc.*a</filename> to
<filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> too.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 14th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
bison-1.34, gettext-0.11.1, grep-2.5, lfs-bootscripts-1.8,
shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
binutils-2.12</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
clock is setup.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used
now).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk: Added
-Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 bug fix for glibc-2.1.x
systems.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before
installing, remove <filename>/usr/bin/bz*</filename>. The bzip2
installation doens't deal with existing files properly when making hard
links, so we remove the files first.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure keyboard:
Added section to configure keyboard keymap file by creating the <filename
class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
symlink.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Make bootable: Added
a <userinput>cp</userinput> command that finds all the kernel images from
<filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> automatically and copies them to
<filename class="directory">$LFS/boot</filename>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Moved the
<filename>man.conf</filename> from <filename
class="directory">/usr/share/misc</filename> to <filename
class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07: Added a page about
the sysklogd script and explain that the default script includes the
<emphasis>-m 0</emphasis> option to
<userinput>syslogd</userinput>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the Mawk package and
replaced with the Gawk package. This was done because mawk is no longer
being developed, while gawk is. Mawk has some POSIX compliance bugs that
are fixed in Gawk.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to the following
packages: autoconf-2.53, automake-1.6, bin86-0.16.2, bison-1.33,
bzip2-1.0.2, e2fsprogs-1.27, gawk-3.1.0, gettext-0.11, less-374, lilo-22.2,
linux-2.4.18, man-pages-1.48, modutils-2.4.14, reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b,
shadow-4.0.2, texinfo-4.1, util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>3.2 - March 7th, 2002</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Updated to:

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>March 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Creating
directories: Removed the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
and <filename class="directory">/usr/local/var</filename> directories. They
aren't recommended by the <emphasis>FHS</emphasis>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Make: Added
commands to remove the setgid kmem bit from
<filename>/usr/bin/make</filename>. This isn't needed on Linux systems to
deal with the system load and it causes some other problems too that are
fixed by removing the setgid bit.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Added
the command again that moves $LFS/usr/bin/chroot to
$LFS/usr/sbin</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard] Updated dependencies for all
packages.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 15th, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 01: Added a new mirror
to the list located in The Netherlands (www.nl and
ftp.nl).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 11th, 2002 [markh] Chapter 05: Sh-utils:
Removed extra &amp;&amp; from end of install
instructions.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils:
Removed <emphasis>su</emphasis> from the <emphasis>mv</emphasis> command
as this isn't installed in chapter 5.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>3.2-RC1 - February 10th, 2002</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Updated to:

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>bison-1.31</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>file-3.37</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.4.17</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.47</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>psmisc-20.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.84</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11n</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</para></listitem></itemizedlist>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added a sed
command to change gzexe's hardcoded /usr/bin/gzip path and change it to
/bin/gzip.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 + 6: Moved
additional programs to the ($LFS)/bin directory that are used by the
bootscripts. No programs used by bootscripts (except daemons themselves)
should be in the /usr directory in case /usr isn't available until far
along in the boot process (when it's an NFS share for
example).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 6th, 2002 [markh]: Appendix A - All
descriptions now synced and updated.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Changing owner:
Added <quote>cd /</quote> so the leading slash can be removed from all the
directories in the chown commands. It's more pleasant to type out this
way.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Removed the
compress symlink. Gzip can uncompress .Z files but it can't compress into
that format.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
lfs-bootscripts-1.3</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Glibc: Instead of
sed'ing the <filename>config.make</filename> file, create the
<filename>glibc-build/configparms</filename> file containing
<quote>cross-compiling = no</quote>.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5: Changed
the commands to copy the header files to support versions of cp older
than 4.1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Added
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" to the configure command for patch.
This fixes compilation on PPC and m68k platforms and doesn't hurt on
x86.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Mounting proc:
Rephrased the text a bit (it implied you can only mount the proc fs more
than once, which isn't true anymore these days).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 5: Enhanced the make
mrproper explanation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5+6: Removed
the --libexecdir flag from fileutils' configure options.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 6: Added a
symlink from vipw to vigr after installing shadow.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Changed
binutils and e2fsprogs installation instructions to use separate
directories ala gcc and glibc.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bootscripts: Added
a chown root.root after the cp.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Texinfo: the info
programs works on the /usr/share/info directory not
/usr/doc/info.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Procps: Fixed typo
the path to the app-defaults directory (it's
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and not
usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configure
software: Simplified the commands to create the utmp, btmp, lastlog and
wtmp files.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter1: Moved
Acknowledgements to be displayed as the first page in chapter
1.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Created a separate
page to list the HTTP and FTP mirrors.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 4 - Creating
partition: increased the suggested partition size from 750 MB to 1
GB.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Combined
the <quote>mv libshadow.a /usr/lib</quote> and
<quote>mv libshadow.la /usr/lib</quote> commands into
<quote>mv libshadow.*a /usr/lib</quote></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
lfs-bootscripts-1.2</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Removed the
datadir option from bisons configure flags, because recent bisons use the
correct directory by default.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added the section
Create /etc/mtab symlink.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the file -C command
from the file installation. This package runs this command at the very end
of the installation so we don't need to do this anymore.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 4+5+6: The static
environment is now built as an unprivileged user, removing the risk of
overwriting files of the host distribution.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 22nd, 2002 [markh]: Back out linuxthreads
man-page installation instructions as they don't work (they need perl
which we don't have installed at that point).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to glibc-2.2.5.  At
the same time, fixed the glibc installation so that the linuxthreads man
pages are installed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to bison-1.31,
file-3.37, kernel-2.4.17, psmisc-20.2 and
sysvinit-2.84.</para></listitem> 

<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to util-linux-2.11n
and removed ADD_RAW=yes as it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to man-pages-1.47
and removed the man-pages patch.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A: Added bootscripts
files (dependencies, download location, descriptions)</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added bootscripts
installation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 7: Removed most of the
scripts, only left the part of a few where we setup up config files in
/etc/sysconfig.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configuring
Sysvinit: Changed the inittab contents to match the new
bootscripts.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header
files installation in chapter 5 so it's a bit more portable.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Reformatted the dependency
lists.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Happy New Year
LFS!</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [markh]: First Changelog of New Year!
Update copyright notice to cover 2002 ;-)  OK - I'm
sad...</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Reworded why
ed is optional to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Reworded
the TEXMF explanation to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 4: Replaced the "One
partition hint" reference with lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt hint
reference.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [markh]: Finish Appendix merge.  All
of the old appendices A, B and D are now in one (large) Appendix
A.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 14th, 2001 [markh]: Merged appendices A and
B.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix B: Changed dbhtml
tag so that the flex page is now created as flex.html instead of
flex</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix D: Moved
metalab.unc.edu and ftp.ibiblio.org references to the proper URL
ibiblio.org.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 12th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Moved
the kbd patch to the default installation instructions; upgraded to
kbd-1.06-2.patch to fix installation of some programs; added the
descriptions for these programs; removed the loadkeys -d warning that
was a leftover from the time where loadkeys -d wasn't fixed yet.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 11th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add the "why we
cd $LFS before chroot" explanation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add kbd patch
for loadkeys -d behaviour (patch by Matthias Benkmann; originally posted
to the lfs-dev list).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Re-create
symlinks in bash, fileutils and gcc instructions to make the Chapter 6
instructions independent of those in chapter 5.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: Cleaned
up the sed commands to use the backup file that was created earlier instead
of writing to an intermediate 'tmp~' file.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: 'make'
command for diffutils installation changed to 'make PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr.'
This bug was reported by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Change the
configure command from <emphasis>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr</emphasis> to
<emphasis>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</emphasis>. This is more consistent
with the installation instructions for the other packages, and the result
is identical to the old way.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 2: Added the Which
Platform? section.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>3.1 - December 3rd, 2001</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Added:

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>Updated to:

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.4</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>bash-2.05a</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.25</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>gettext-0.10.40</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>libtool-1.4.2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>lilo-22.1</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>linux-2.4.16</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-1.5j</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>man-pages-1.43</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>modutils-2.4.12</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>sysvinit-2.83</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>util-linux-2.11m</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>vim-6.0</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Updated to
man-1.5j.  Removed the sed which we had to use with the old version as
the new one detects awk properly.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5: Added static
library explanation originally posted on lfs-apps (when it still
existed) by Plasmatic.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
kernel-2.4.16 and modutils-2.4.12.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6:  Added FHS
compliance notes to the findutils installation.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 19th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
bash-2.05a, lilo-22.1, MAKEDEV-1.4, man-pages-1.43 and
util-linux-2.11m.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>November 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Created new lex
script instead of link to flex following comment on lfs-dev.  (This is
similar to what we do with bison and yacc).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: General: Large XML Tidy-up.
Shouldn't affect the book text or layout.  If it does, something has
gone wrong!</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added 
reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j and updated to lilo-22.0.2.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 24th, 2001 [markh]: General: Fixed a bundle of
spelling errors which were reported.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Kernel: Added
explanation as to why we copy the kernel headers rather than symlink
them.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added
uncompress to the gunzip description as it was
missing.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
Removed the USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin entry as it's no longer needed with
util-linux-2.11l.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 9th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Kbd: Removed the
--datadir option, kbd's default is set properly already.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Mentioned
the <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt">http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt</ulink>
lfs-hint</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Vim: Changed the
installation instructions to fix a bug in vim-6.0's
<filename>syntax/sh.vim</filename> file, and added the CPPFLAGS variable 
to specify the global vimrc file as
<filename>/etc/vimrc</filename></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Updated to
libtool-1.4.2, lilo-22.0, man-pages-1.40, modutils-2.4.10, sysvinit-2.83,
util-linux-2.11l and vim-6.0</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>October 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 9 - The End: Added the
reference to the LFS Counter at
<ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi">
http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi</ulink></para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - News server:
Added reference to the news server</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Changed 
--with-root-prefix=/ to --with-root-prefix="" in e2fsprogs install 
instructions. The reason for the change is that a value of / will cause
symlinks and installation paths to use things like //lib instead of 
just /lib. This isn't bad perse, it just doesn't look
nice.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to 
e2fsprogs-1.25, gettext-0.10.40, linux-2.4.10, modutils-2.4.9 and 
util-linux-2.11i.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

<para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>Updated to:

<itemizedlist>

<listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
mailing list information to reflect the new ml
structure.  The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
--enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads
when
not specified, it's clearer this way what's being
enabled.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
/bin).</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
/usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
/usr/bin.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>

<listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
missing &amp;&amp; to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>

</itemizedlist>

</sect1>