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