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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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  19. <listitem>
  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>
  29. </listitem>
  30. -->
  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>2007-04-16</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.9. Fixes
  36. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1982">#1982</ulink>.</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. </itemizedlist>
  39. </listitem>
  40. <listitem>
  41. <para>2007-04-03</para>
  42. <itemizedlist>
  43. <listitem>
  44. <para>[jhuntwork] - Install su from coreutils in chapter 5 as su-tools.
  45. Use su-tools to run test suites from coreutils and bash as user nobody.
  46. Fixes #1877.</para>
  47. </listitem>
  48. </itemizedlist>
  49. </listitem>
  50. <listitem>
  51. <para>2007-04-01</para>
  52. <itemizedlist>
  53. <listitem>
  54. <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.20.4. Updated linux-headers instructions
  55. in chapter 5 to match instructions in chapter 6. The INSTALL_HDR_PATH is no longer
  56. forcibly removed.</para>
  57. </listitem>
  58. </itemizedlist>
  59. </listitem>
  60. <listitem>
  61. <para>2007-03-27</para>
  62. <itemizedlist>
  63. <listitem>
  64. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed a typo in the readjusting section.
  65. Reported by Steve Crosby.</para>
  66. </listitem>
  67. </itemizedlist>
  68. </listitem>
  69. <listitem>
  70. <para>2007-03-24</para>
  71. <itemizedlist>
  72. <listitem>
  73. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the
  74. latest 011-015 patches from upstream.</para>
  75. </listitem>
  76. <listitem>
  77. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Readline fixes patch to include the
  78. latest 002 patch from upstream.</para>
  79. </listitem>
  80. </itemizedlist>
  81. </listitem>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>2007-03-23</para>
  84. <itemizedlist>
  85. <listitem>
  86. <para>[dnicholson] - Don't install the kernel headers in
  87. <filename class="directory">/usr/include/scsi</filename> as the ones
  88. provided by Glibc are preferred.</para>
  89. </listitem>
  90. <listitem>
  91. <para>[dnicholson] - Force <command>ldd</command> to use
  92. <command>/bin/bash</command> since it contains Bash-specific
  93. syntax.</para>
  94. </listitem>
  95. <listitem>
  96. <para>[dnicholson] - When readjusting the GCC specs file, ensure
  97. that GCC will search for the system headers in /usr/include. An
  98. addition to the toolchain sanity checks has been made to test
  99. this. This fix originates from DIY Linux.</para>
  100. </listitem>
  101. <listitem>
  102. <para>[dnicholson] - Included the branch update patch for the
  103. temporary Glibc in Chapter 5 to help minimize differences with the
  104. final Glibc.</para>
  105. </listitem>
  106. </itemizedlist>
  107. </listitem>
  108. <listitem>
  109. <para>2007-03-21</para>
  110. <itemizedlist>
  111. <listitem>
  112. <para>[manuel] - Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5.</para>
  113. </listitem>
  114. </itemizedlist>
  115. </listitem>
  116. <listitem>
  117. <para>2007-03-19</para>
  118. <itemizedlist>
  119. <listitem>
  120. <para>[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new users and
  121. do not create mail spool files for them. Add a
  122. <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem> group so that if
  123. Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new users, it can
  124. do so without issuing a warning.</para>
  125. </listitem>
  126. <listitem>
  127. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1. Fixes
  128. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1850">#1850</ulink></para>
  129. </listitem>
  130. <listitem>
  131. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.3. Fixes
  132. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1971">#1971</ulink></para>
  133. </listitem>
  134. <listitem>
  135. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313. Fixes
  136. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1974">#1974</ulink></para>
  137. </listitem>
  138. <listitem>
  139. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest
  140. patch from upstream. Fixes
  141. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1973">#1973</ulink></para>
  142. </listitem>
  143. </itemizedlist>
  144. </listitem>
  145. <listitem>
  146. <para>2007-03-14</para>
  147. <itemizedlist>
  148. <listitem>
  149. <para>[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout
  150. Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since
  151. the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed
  152. in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates
  153. from DIY Linux.</para>
  154. </listitem>
  155. </itemizedlist>
  156. </listitem>
  157. <listitem>
  158. <para>2007-03-04</para>
  159. <itemizedlist>
  160. <listitem>
  161. <para>[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes
  162. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1954">#1954</ulink></para>
  163. </listitem>
  164. <listitem>
  165. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all
  166. upstream patches up to 206.</para>
  167. </listitem>
  168. <listitem>
  169. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304. Fixes
  170. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1969">#1969</ulink></para>
  171. </listitem>
  172. <listitem>
  173. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30. Fixes
  174. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1967">#1967</ulink></para>
  175. </listitem>
  176. <listitem>
  177. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20. Fixes
  178. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1968">#1968</ulink></para>
  179. </listitem>
  180. </itemizedlist>
  181. </listitem>
  182. <listitem>
  183. <para>2007-03-1</para>
  184. <itemizedlist>
  185. <listitem>
  186. <para>[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and
  187. notices to appear before affected commands.</para>
  188. </listitem>
  189. </itemizedlist>
  190. </listitem>
  191. <listitem>
  192. <para>2007-02-25</para>
  193. <itemizedlist>
  194. <listitem>
  195. <para>[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages
  196. builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.</para>
  197. </listitem>
  198. </itemizedlist>
  199. </listitem>
  200. <listitem>
  201. <para>2007-02-24</para>
  202. <itemizedlist>
  203. <listitem>
  204. <para>[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2.
  205. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.</para>
  206. </listitem>
  207. <listitem>
  208. <para>[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers
  209. installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions.
  210. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1965">#1965</ulink></para>
  211. </listitem>
  212. <listitem>
  213. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1. Fixes
  214. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1964">#1964</ulink></para>
  215. </listitem>
  216. <listitem>
  217. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc. Fixes
  218. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1930">#1930</ulink></para>
  219. </listitem>
  220. <listitem>
  221. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2. Fixes
  222. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1960">#1960</ulink></para>
  223. </listitem>
  224. <listitem>
  225. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB. Fixes
  226. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1961">#1961</ulink></para>
  227. </listitem>
  228. <listitem>
  229. <para>[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for
  230. <command>cpan</command> and <command>prove</command> from the
  231. Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.</para>
  232. </listitem>
  233. </itemizedlist>
  234. </listitem>
  235. <listitem>
  236. <para>2007-02-23</para>
  237. <itemizedlist>
  238. <listitem>
  239. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf
  240. to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  241. </listitem>
  242. <listitem>
  243. <para>[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some
  244. commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and
  245. Autoconf pages.</para>
  246. </listitem>
  247. <listitem>
  248. <para>[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev
  249. documentation install command since it is already created by
  250. udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  251. </listitem>
  252. <listitem>
  253. <para>[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing
  254. any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  255. </listitem>
  256. <listitem>
  257. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit
  258. the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only
  259. generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris
  260. Staub.</para>
  261. </listitem>
  262. </itemizedlist>
  263. </listitem>
  264. <listitem>
  265. <para>2007-02-20</para>
  266. <itemizedlist>
  267. <listitem>
  268. <para>[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching
  269. the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of
  270. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>.</para>
  271. </listitem>
  272. </itemizedlist>
  273. </listitem>
  274. <listitem>
  275. <para>2007-02-18</para>
  276. <itemizedlist>
  277. <listitem>
  278. <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
  279. in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
  280. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
  281. note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
  282. </listitem>
  283. </itemizedlist>
  284. </listitem>
  285. <listitem>
  286. <para>2007-02-17</para>
  287. <itemizedlist>
  288. <listitem>
  289. <para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
  290. NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
  291. script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
  292. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  293. </listitem>
  294. <listitem>
  295. <para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
  296. to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes
  297. part of <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  298. </listitem>
  299. <listitem>
  300. <para>[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.</para>
  301. </listitem>
  302. </itemizedlist>
  303. </listitem>
  304. <listitem>
  305. <para>2007-02-09</para>
  306. <itemizedlist>
  307. <listitem>
  308. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>readlink</command> to
  309. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> because
  310. <function>sysreadlink</function> in Udev's shell functions may call
  311. it before <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> has been
  312. mounted. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1913">#1913</ulink></para>
  313. </listitem>
  314. <listitem>
  315. <para>[matthew] - Remove some <command>chmod</command> and
  316. <command>chown</command> commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as
  317. they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes
  318. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1953">#1953</ulink></para>
  319. </listitem>
  320. <listitem>
  321. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes
  322. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1949">#1949</ulink></para>
  323. </listitem>
  324. <listitem>
  325. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes
  326. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1951">#1951</ulink></para>
  327. </listitem>
  328. </itemizedlist>
  329. </listitem>
  330. <listitem>
  331. <para>2007-02-07</para>
  332. <itemizedlist>
  333. <listitem>
  334. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes
  335. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1950">#1950</ulink>.</para>
  336. </listitem>
  337. </itemizedlist>
  338. </listitem>
  339. <listitem>
  340. <para>2007-02-03</para>
  341. <itemizedlist>
  342. <listitem>
  343. <para>[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both
  344. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1948">#1948</ulink> and the
  345. udev_retry script.</para>
  346. </listitem>
  347. </itemizedlist>
  348. </listitem>
  349. <listitem>
  350. <para>2007-01-31</para>
  351. <itemizedlist>
  352. <listitem>
  353. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn
  354. and udev-config tarballs. Fixes
  355. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1932">#1932</ulink>.</para>
  356. </listitem>
  357. <listitem>
  358. <para>[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not
  359. required after upgrading to Readline-5.2. Fixes
  360. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1942">#1942</ulink>. Thanks to Alexander
  361. Patrakov for the report and fix.</para>
  362. </listitem>
  363. <listitem>
  364. <para>[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to
  365. fix a multibyte-related issue. Fixes
  366. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1945">#1945</ulink></para>
  367. </listitem>
  368. <listitem>
  369. <para>[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer
  370. in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch</para>
  371. </listitem>
  372. <listitem>
  373. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes
  374. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1941">#1941</ulink></para>
  375. </listitem>
  376. <listitem>
  377. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16.1. Fixes
  378. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1926">#1926</ulink> and
  379. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1944">#1944</ulink></para>
  380. </listitem>
  381. <listitem>
  382. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes
  383. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1940">#1940</ulink></para>
  384. </listitem>
  385. <listitem>
  386. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes
  387. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1928">#1928</ulink></para>
  388. </listitem>
  389. <listitem>
  390. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes
  391. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1936">#1936</ulink></para>
  392. </listitem>
  393. <listitem>
  394. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes
  395. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1924">#1924</ulink></para>
  396. </listitem>
  397. <listitem>
  398. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes
  399. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1925">#1925</ulink></para>
  400. </listitem>
  401. <listitem>
  402. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29. Fixes
  403. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1923">#1923</ulink>.</para>
  404. </listitem>
  405. <listitem>
  406. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19. Fixes
  407. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1946">#1946</ulink>.</para>
  408. </listitem>
  409. <listitem>
  410. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7. Fixes
  411. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1934">#1934</ulink>.</para>
  412. </listitem>
  413. <listitem>
  414. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes
  415. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
  416. </listitem>
  417. </itemizedlist>
  418. </listitem>
  419. <listitem>
  420. <para>2007-01-13</para>
  421. <itemizedlist>
  422. <listitem>
  423. <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
  424. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
  425. </listitem>
  426. <listitem>
  427. <para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
  428. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
  429. </listitem>
  430. </itemizedlist>
  431. </listitem>
  432. <listitem>
  433. <para>2006-12-09</para>
  434. <itemizedlist>
  435. <listitem>
  436. <para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
  437. in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
  438. thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  439. </listitem>
  440. </itemizedlist>
  441. </listitem>
  442. <listitem>
  443. <para>2006-12-01</para>
  444. <itemizedlist>
  445. <listitem>
  446. <para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
  447. built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
  448. <filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
  449. <filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
  450. the report and fix.</para>
  451. </listitem>
  452. </itemizedlist>
  453. </listitem>
  454. <listitem>
  455. <para>2006-11-25</para>
  456. <itemizedlist>
  457. <listitem>
  458. <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
  459. Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
  460. before starting chapter 6.
  461. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
  462. </listitem>
  463. <listitem>
  464. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
  465. <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
  466. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
  467. Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
  468. moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
  469. </listitem>
  470. <listitem>
  471. <para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
  472. <command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
  473. configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
  474. the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
  475. </listitem>
  476. <listitem>
  477. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
  478. by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
  479. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
  480. </listitem>
  481. <listitem>
  482. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
  483. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
  484. </listitem>
  485. <listitem>
  486. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
  487. This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks
  488. to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
  489. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
  490. </listitem>
  491. <listitem>
  492. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
  493. Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
  494. changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
  495. <ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
  496. this thread.</ulink></para>
  497. </listitem>
  498. <listitem>
  499. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
  500. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
  501. </listitem>
  502. <listitem>
  503. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
  504. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
  505. </listitem>
  506. <listitem>
  507. <para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
  508. overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
  509. to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
  510. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
  511. </listitem>
  512. <listitem>
  513. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
  514. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
  515. </listitem>
  516. <listitem>
  517. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
  518. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
  519. </listitem>
  520. <listitem>
  521. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
  522. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
  523. </listitem>
  524. <listitem>
  525. <para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
  526. required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
  527. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
  528. </listitem>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
  531. the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
  532. </listitem>
  533. <listitem>
  534. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
  535. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
  536. </listitem>
  537. </itemizedlist>
  538. </listitem>
  539. <listitem>
  540. <para>2006-11-24</para>
  541. <itemizedlist>
  542. <listitem>
  543. <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
  544. Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
  545. </listitem>
  546. </itemizedlist>
  547. </listitem>
  548. <listitem>
  549. <para>2006-11-10</para>
  550. <itemizedlist>
  551. <listitem>
  552. <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
  553. and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
  554. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
  555. </listitem>
  556. </itemizedlist>
  557. </listitem>
  558. <listitem>
  559. <para>2006-11-05</para>
  560. <itemizedlist>
  561. <listitem>
  562. <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
  563. bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
  564. </listitem>
  565. </itemizedlist>
  566. </listitem>
  567. <listitem>
  568. <para>2006-11-03</para>
  569. <itemizedlist>
  570. <listitem>
  571. <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
  572. <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
  573. the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
  574. warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
  575. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
  576. </listitem>
  577. </itemizedlist>
  578. </listitem>
  579. <listitem>
  580. <para>2006-10-29</para>
  581. <itemizedlist>
  582. <listitem>
  583. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
  584. Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  585. </listitem>
  586. <listitem>
  587. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
  588. &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
  589. 076.</para>
  590. </listitem>
  591. </itemizedlist>
  592. </listitem>
  593. <listitem>
  594. <para>2006-10-28</para>
  595. <itemizedlist>
  596. <listitem>
  597. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
  598. </listitem>
  599. <listitem>
  600. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
  601. unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
  602. &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
  603. </listitem>
  604. <listitem>
  605. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
  606. unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  607. </listitem>
  608. <listitem>
  609. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
  610. </listitem>
  611. <listitem>
  612. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
  613. </listitem>
  614. <listitem>
  615. <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
  616. type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
  617. causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
  618. preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
  619. Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
  620. </listitem>
  621. <listitem>
  622. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
  623. </listitem>
  624. <listitem>
  625. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
  626. unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  627. </listitem>
  628. <listitem>
  629. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
  630. </listitem>
  631. <listitem>
  632. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
  633. </listitem>
  634. <listitem>
  635. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
  636. the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  637. </listitem>
  638. <listitem>
  639. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
  640. </listitem>
  641. <listitem>
  642. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
  643. &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
  644. bug when parsing comments.</para>
  645. </listitem>
  646. <listitem>
  647. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
  648. </listitem>
  649. </itemizedlist>
  650. </listitem>
  651. <listitem>
  652. <para>2006-10-23</para>
  653. <itemizedlist>
  654. <listitem>
  655. <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
  656. locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
  657. </listitem>
  658. </itemizedlist>
  659. </listitem>
  660. <listitem>
  661. <para>2006-10-21</para>
  662. <itemizedlist>
  663. <listitem>
  664. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
  665. </listitem>
  666. <listitem>
  667. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
  668. doc files.</para>
  669. </listitem>
  670. <listitem>
  671. <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
  672. </listitem>
  673. </itemizedlist>
  674. </listitem>
  675. <listitem>
  676. <para>2006-10-15</para>
  677. <itemizedlist>
  678. <listitem>
  679. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
  680. the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
  681. Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
  682. </listitem>
  683. <listitem>
  684. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
  685. </listitem>
  686. <listitem>
  687. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
  688. </listitem>
  689. </itemizedlist>
  690. </listitem>
  691. <listitem>
  692. <para>2006-10-05</para>
  693. <itemizedlist>
  694. <listitem>
  695. <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
  696. </listitem>
  697. <listitem>
  698. <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
  699. also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
  700. of the rules.</para>
  701. </listitem>
  702. </itemizedlist>
  703. </listitem>
  704. <listitem>
  705. <para>2006-10-02</para>
  706. <itemizedlist>
  707. <listitem>
  708. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
  709. </listitem>
  710. <listitem>
  711. <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
  712. latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
  713. </para>
  714. </listitem>
  715. <listitem>
  716. <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
  717. &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
  718. kernel sources.</para>
  719. </listitem>
  720. <listitem>
  721. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
  722. </listitem>
  723. <listitem>
  724. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
  725. </listitem>
  726. <listitem>
  727. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
  728. </listitem>
  729. <listitem>
  730. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
  731. </listitem>
  732. <listitem>
  733. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
  734. </listitem>
  735. <listitem>
  736. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
  737. </listitem>
  738. </itemizedlist>
  739. </listitem>
  740. <listitem>
  741. <para>2006-09-23</para>
  742. <itemizedlist>
  743. <listitem>
  744. <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
  745. should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
  746. heads-up.</para>
  747. </listitem>
  748. </itemizedlist>
  749. </listitem>
  750. <listitem>
  751. <para>2006-09-22</para>
  752. <itemizedlist>
  753. <listitem>
  754. <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
  755. 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
  756. on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
  757. </listitem>
  758. </itemizedlist>
  759. </listitem>
  760. <listitem>
  761. <para>2006-09-20</para>
  762. <itemizedlist>
  763. <listitem>
  764. <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
  765. </listitem>
  766. <listitem>
  767. <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
  768. than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
  769. </listitem>
  770. </itemizedlist>
  771. </listitem>
  772. <listitem>
  773. <para>2006-09-18</para>
  774. <itemizedlist>
  775. <listitem>
  776. <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
  777. in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
  778. Glibc-2.4.</para>
  779. </listitem>
  780. </itemizedlist>
  781. </listitem>
  782. <listitem>
  783. <para>2006-09-17</para>
  784. <itemizedlist>
  785. <listitem>
  786. <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
  787. patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
  788. syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
  789. for textual suggestions.</para>
  790. </listitem>
  791. </itemizedlist>
  792. </listitem>
  793. <listitem>
  794. <para>2006-09-09</para>
  795. <itemizedlist>
  796. <listitem>
  797. <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
  798. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  799. </listitem>
  800. <listitem>
  801. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
  802. </listitem>
  803. <listitem>
  804. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
  805. </listitem>
  806. </itemizedlist>
  807. </listitem>
  808. <listitem>
  809. <para>2006-09-06</para>
  810. <itemizedlist>
  811. <listitem>
  812. <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
  813. be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
  814. </listitem>
  815. </itemizedlist>
  816. </listitem>
  817. <listitem>
  818. <para>2006-08-31</para>
  819. <itemizedlist>
  820. <listitem>
  821. <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
  822. /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.</para>
  823. </listitem>
  824. </itemizedlist>
  825. </listitem>
  826. <listitem>
  827. <para>2006-08-24</para>
  828. <itemizedlist>
  829. <listitem>
  830. <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
  831. Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
  832. </listitem>
  833. </itemizedlist>
  834. </listitem>
  835. <listitem>
  836. <para>2006-08-17</para>
  837. <itemizedlist>
  838. <listitem>
  839. <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
  840. file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
  841. </listitem>
  842. <listitem>
  843. <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
  844. Peter Ennis.</para>
  845. </listitem>
  846. <listitem>
  847. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
  848. </listitem>
  849. <listitem>
  850. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
  851. </listitem>
  852. <listitem>
  853. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
  854. </listitem>
  855. <listitem>
  856. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
  857. </listitem>
  858. <listitem>
  859. <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
  860. upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
  861. </para>
  862. </listitem>
  863. <listitem>
  864. <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
  865. of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
  866. </listitem>
  867. </itemizedlist>
  868. </listitem>
  869. <listitem>
  870. <para>2006-08-08</para>
  871. <itemizedlist>
  872. <listitem>
  873. <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
  874. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
  875. </listitem>
  876. </itemizedlist>
  877. </listitem>
  878. <listitem>
  879. <para>2006-08-05</para>
  880. <itemizedlist>
  881. <listitem>
  882. <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
  883. versions.
  884. </para>
  885. </listitem>
  886. </itemizedlist>
  887. </listitem>
  888. <listitem>
  889. <para>2006-08-03</para>
  890. <itemizedlist>
  891. <listitem>
  892. <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
  893. </listitem>
  894. </itemizedlist>
  895. </listitem>
  896. <listitem>
  897. <para>2006-07-31</para>
  898. <itemizedlist>
  899. <listitem>
  900. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
  901. </listitem>
  902. <listitem>
  903. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
  904. </listitem>
  905. <listitem>
  906. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
  907. </listitem>
  908. <listitem>
  909. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
  910. </listitem>
  911. <listitem>
  912. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
  913. </listitem>
  914. <listitem>
  915. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
  916. </listitem>
  917. <listitem>
  918. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
  919. </listitem>
  920. <listitem>
  921. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
  922. </listitem>
  923. <listitem>
  924. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
  925. </listitem>
  926. <listitem>
  927. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
  928. </listitem>
  929. <listitem>
  930. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
  931. </listitem>
  932. </itemizedlist>
  933. </listitem>
  934. </itemizedlist>
  935. <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>
  936. </sect1>