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  1. <sect1 id="ch01-changelog">
  2. <title>Changelog</title>
  3. <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html" dir="chapter01"?>
  4. <para>&version; - &releasedate;</para>
  5. <itemizedlist>
  6. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  7. <itemizedlist>
  8. <listitem><para>automake-1.6.1</para></listitem>
  9. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.3</para></listitem>
  10. <listitem><para>binutils-2.12.1</para></listitem>
  11. <listitem><para>bison-1.35</para></listitem>
  12. <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8.1</para></listitem>
  13. <listitem><para>file-3.38</para></listitem>
  14. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1</para></listitem>
  15. <listitem><para>gcc-3.1</para></listitem>
  16. <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.2</para></listitem>
  17. <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
  18. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.16</para></listitem>
  19. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2-2.patch</para></listitem>
  20. <listitem><para>psmisc-21</para></listitem>
  21. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.2</para></listitem>
  22. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11r</para></listitem>
  23. </itemizedlist>
  24. </para></listitem>
  25. <listitem><para>Added:
  26. <itemizedlist>
  27. <listitem><para>ed-0.2.patch</para></listitem>
  28. <listitem><para>fileutils-4.1.patch</para></listitem>
  29. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.1.patch</para></listitem>
  30. <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5.patch</para></listitem>
  31. <listitem><para>ncurses-5.2.patch</para></listitem>
  32. <listitem><para>perl-5.6.1.patch</para></listitem>
  33. <listitem><para>vim-6.1.patch</para></listitem>
  34. </itemizedlist>
  35. </para></listitem>
  36. <listitem><para>Removed:
  37. <itemizedlist>
  38. <listitem><para>gzip-1.2.4a.patch</para></listitem>
  39. <listitem><para>sh-utils-2.0.patch</para></listitem>
  40. </itemizedlist>
  41. </para></listitem>
  42. <listitem><para>June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Net-tools,
  43. Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake: Updated package contents. GCC: Removed
  44. i686-specific programs. M4: Added "last checked against" for
  45. uniformity.</para></listitem>
  46. <listitem><para>June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Gettext:
  47. Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  48. <listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Binutils,
  49. Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents.</para></listitem>
  50. <listitem><para>June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - GCC:
  51. Updated description of c++filt.</para></listitem>
  52. <listitem><para>June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 - The End:
  53. Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-&version; to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version
  54. number inside this file.</para></listitem>
  55. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - GCC:
  56. Modified the build instructions and command explanations to
  57. only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed
  58. until after the second GCC build.</para></listitem>
  59. <listitem><para>June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 - Shadow:
  60. Made some grammatic changes.</para></listitem>
  61. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - Gawk:
  62. Created a list of package contents and descriptions.</para></listitem>
  63. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils:
  64. Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch, per
  65. Christophe Devine's request.</para></listitem>
  66. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - All
  67. software: Updated the estimated required disk space.</para></listitem>
  68. <listitem><para>June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 &amp; 06 - GCC:
  69. Updated the package contents.</para></listitem>
  70. <listitem><para>June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Creating
  71. Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p
  72. option to mkdir which will create the usr directory
  73. anyways.</para></listitem>
  74. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] - Chapter 06 -
  75. Reiserfsprogs: added a description for unpack.</para></listitem>
  76. <listitem><para>June 7th, 2002 [timothy] - Chapter 02 -
  77. How to ask for help: mentioned the FAQ.</para></listitem>
  78. <listitem><para>June 6th, 2002 [markh] - Chapter 05 - Tidy up
  79. explanations following the /static change.</para></listitem>
  80. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Preface - Who would
  81. not want to read this book: applied a revised version of
  82. Scot's grammar patch.</para></listitem>
  83. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 09 - Rebooting
  84. the system: named the hint author.</para></listitem>
  85. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Vim:
  86. updated the hint URL.</para></listitem>
  87. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - LILO:
  88. named the hint authors.</para></listitem>
  89. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 - Bootscripts:
  90. named the hint author.</para></listitem>
  91. <listitem><para>June 5th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 - Gawk:
  92. mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06. The
  93. patch caused some confusion.</para></listitem>
  94. <listitem><para>June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 - FAQ: edited
  95. to include reporting typos.</para></listitem>
  96. <listitem><para>May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 - Findutils: Added the
  97. CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1
  98. systems.</para></listitem>
  99. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 - Update to
  100. binutils-2.12.1.</para></listitem>
  101. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bash: Removed
  102. section about "last two commands executing anyways" because we no longer
  103. have the commands referred to there.</para></listitem>
  104. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Glibc: Replaced the
  105. various sed fixes with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  106. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Gawk: Replaced the
  107. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  108. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Fileutils: Replaced
  109. the sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  110. <listitem><para>May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Ed: Replaced the
  111. sed fix with a regular patch.</para></listitem>
  112. <listitem><para>May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Changing ownership:
  113. removed the explicit command to chown <filename
  114. class="directory">/lost+found</filename>. This is done by the first command
  115. now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  116. <listitem><para>May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  117. ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used
  118. one).</para></listitem>
  119. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1,
  120. bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2,
  121. modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix
  122. patches for ncurses, perl and vim.</para></listitem>
  123. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Binutils: Removed
  124. the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to
  125. chapter 06-binutils.</para></listitem>
  126. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk &amp; Findutils:
  127. simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We
  128. can live with a
  129. <filename class="directory">$LFS/static/libexecdir</filename> being created.
  130. The whole <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> directory is
  131. temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks
  132. like.</para></listitem>
  133. <listitem><para>May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Creating Directories:
  134. removed the <userinput>cd /</userinput> command and changed the two
  135. <userinput>chmod</userinput> commands to use absolute paths
  136. instead.</para></listitem>
  137. <listitem><para>May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 - Some minor
  138. corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't
  139. wanted.</para></listitem>
  140. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the
  141. keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added
  142. findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5
  143. into <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename> and re-ordered the
  144. installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path
  145. (files from <filename class="directory">$LFS/static</filename>).</para></listitem>
  146. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  147. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  148. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Bin86: Added some
  149. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  150. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Flex: Added some
  151. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  152. <listitem><para>May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  153. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  154. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - E2fsprogs: Added some
  155. descriptions.</para></listitem>
  156. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  157. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  158. <listitem><para>May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown
  159. X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info
  160. chown).</para></listitem>
  161. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mirror sites: Added
  162. http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net</para></listitem>
  163. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Added some
  164. more descriptions.</para></listitem>
  165. <listitem><para>May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 - Bzip2. Changed the
  166. instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter
  167. 05 gzip instructions.</para></listitem>
  168. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML
  169. fixups; mainly altering &lt;ulink&gt; tags to remove erroneous &amp;#13;
  170. in the HTML output.</para></listitem>
  171. <listitem><para>May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Glibc: Filled in the
  172. missing descriptions.</para></listitem>
  173. <listitem><para>May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Shadow: Fixed the
  174. symlink location of <filename class="symlink">vigr</filename> to
  175. <filename class="directory">/usr/sbin</filename></para></listitem>
  176. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Procps: Changed the
  177. two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be
  178. mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).</para></listitem>
  179. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the
  180. <userinput>cd dir && ln -sf</userinput> commands to one single command
  181. (such as <userinput>ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/sh</userinput> Same goes for
  182. <userinput>cd dir && mv/cp</userinput> constructions which are now replaced
  183. with constructions like
  184. <userinput>mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin</userinput></para></listitem>
  185. <listitem><para>May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the "Removing old NSS
  186. library files" section.</para></listitem>
  187. <listitem><para>May 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds -
  188. gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the
  189. <userinput>export VAR=VALUE...unset VAR</userinput> constructions and
  190. changed them to <userinput>VAR=VALUE ./configure</userinput>
  191. constructions.</para></listitem>
  192. <listitem><para>April 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 06 Findutils: added
  193. libexecdir=/usr/bin to the make command to fix a wrong libexecdir path in
  194. updatedb.</para></listitem>
  195. <listitem><para>April 25th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 Glibc: added a note
  196. that if you want to manually install some locales, instead of all of them,
  197. then you first need to create the
  198. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/locale</filename> directory.</para></listitem>
  199. <listitem><para>April 21st,2002 [gerard & markh]: Upgraded to
  200. MAKEDEV-1.5</para></listitem>
  201. <listitem><para>April 12th, 2002 [markh]: Added entities/ directory to
  202. cvs and split up index.xml.</para></listitem>
  203. <listitem><para>April 10th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Updated to the following
  204. packages: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q
  205. </para></listitem>
  206. <listitem><para>April 9th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Added --disable-perl-regexp
  207. to the grep configure flags to avoid linking against a non-existing static
  208. pcre library.</para></listitem>
  209. <listitem><para>April 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Added the
  210. http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org mirror (to complement
  211. ftp://ftp.de).</para></listitem>
  212. </itemizedlist>
  213. <para>3.3 - April 7th, 2002</para>
  214. <itemizedlist>
  215. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  216. <itemizedlist>
  217. <listitem><para>autoconf-2.53</para></listitem>
  218. <listitem><para>automake-1.6</para></listitem>
  219. <listitem><para>bin86-0.16.2</para></listitem>
  220. <listitem><para>binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
  221. <listitem><para>bison-1.34</para></listitem>
  222. <listitem><para>bzip2-1.0.2</para></listitem>
  223. <listitem><para>diffutils-2.8</para></listitem>
  224. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.27</para></listitem>
  225. <listitem><para>gawk-3.1.0</para></listitem>
  226. <listitem><para>gettext-0.11.1</para></listitem>
  227. <listitem><para>grep-2.5</para></listitem>
  228. <listitem><para>less-374</para></listitem>
  229. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
  230. <listitem><para>lilo-22.2</para></listitem>
  231. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.18</para></listitem>
  232. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.48</para></listitem>
  233. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.15</para></listitem>
  234. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b</para></listitem>
  235. <listitem><para>shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
  236. <listitem><para>texinfo-4.1</para></listitem>
  237. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
  238. <listitem><para>vim-6.1</para></listitem>
  239. </itemizedlist>
  240. </para></listitem>
  241. <listitem><para>April 7th, 2002 [gerard]: Added a new mirror site located
  242. in Freising, Germany</para></listitem>
  243. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Added this
  244. page explaining that you can remove the loadkeys symlink from <filename
  245. class="directory">/etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d</filename> if you compiled a keymap
  246. directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>
  247. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configuring
  248. Keyboard: explained you can also compile the keymap directly into the
  249. kernel which has additional benefits.</para></listitem>
  250. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  251. lfs-bootscripts-1.9</para></listitem>
  252. <listitem><para>April 5th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - GCC: Added
  253. commands to remove the <filename class="directory">/usr/*-gnu</filename>
  254. directory.</para></listitem>
  255. <listitem><para>April 4th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Diffutils: Added
  256. --disable-nls</para></listitem>
  257. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Gettext: Added the
  258. missing package descriptions.</para></listitem>
  259. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Mounting $LFS/proc:
  260. Added <userinput>chown root.root $LFS/proc</userinput>. The recursive chown
  261. operation in chapter 6 doesn't touch proc, so this'll remain owned by user
  262. <emphasis>lfs</emphasis>. It's not a big deal, just not a very clean thing
  263. to do.</para></listitem>
  264. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Groff: Added a few
  265. symlinks that are used by programs like <userinput>xman</userinput> and
  266. others.</para></listitem>
  267. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 04 - Mounting partitions:
  268. Added some notes how to deal with multiple partitions ($LFS, $LFS/usr and
  269. so on).</para></listitem>
  270. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - E2fsprogs: Added
  271. <userinput>install-info</userinput> command to finish off the info page
  272. installation.</para></listitem>
  273. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Reversed the
  274. <userinput>make</userinput> and <userinput>make -f
  275. Makefile-libbz2_so</userinput>. This is needed so all object files are
  276. compiled with the PIC option (Position Independent Code).</para></listitem>
  277. <listitem><para>April 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Linux: Shortened the
  278. installation instructions by cutting out the <userinput>make
  279. config</userinput> and <userinput>make dep</userinput>
  280. stages.</para></listitem>
  281. <listitem><para>April 1st, 2002 [gerard]: This is not a joke: Chapter 5+6 -
  282. Gawk: Added a warning to never run <userinput>make uninstall</userinput> on
  283. the package. It will be pretty much equivalent to <userinput>rm -rf
  284. /usr/bin/*</userinput> because we override the <filename
  285. class="directory">libexec</filename> directory definition to <filename
  286. class="directory">/usr/bin</filename></para></listitem>
  287. <listitem><para>March 29th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 and 06 - Updated to
  288. diffutils-2.8, modutils-2.4.15 and vim-6.1. Removed PR_PROGRAM setting
  289. for diffutils as /usr/bin/pr is now detected by the configure script.
  290. Removed sed to fix problem with shell syntax highlighting in vim as that
  291. is fixed in the new version.</para></listitem>
  292. <listitem><para>March 26th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 02 - Asking for help:
  293. Added reference to ESR's smart-questions document.</para></listitem>
  294. <listitem><para>March 25th, 2002 [markh]: Binutils - Added libopcodes
  295. library description.</para></listitem>
  296. <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before we
  297. move <filename>/usr/bin/bzless</filename> and
  298. <filename>/usr/bin/bzmore</filename> to the <filename
  299. class="directory">/bin</filename> directory, we first remove the
  300. <filename>/bin/bzless</filename> and <filename>/bin/bzmore</filename>
  301. files. On some systems overwriting the existing files doesn't work due to
  302. hardlinks being used.</para></listitem>
  303. <listitem><para>March 21st, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Sysklogd: Updated
  304. the download location to <ulink url="http://www.infodrom.org/projects/sysklogd/"/></para></listitem>
  305. <listitem><para>March 20th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure Dynamic
  306. Loader: Removed the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> and
  307. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> directories from the
  308. <filename>ld.so.conf</filename> file. They were
  309. unnecessary.</para></listitem>
  310. <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06+Appendix A: Removed
  311. the chroot dependencies. It's not a package so it's a bit out of
  312. place.</para></listitem>
  313. <listitem><para>March 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 - Gawk: Added
  314. commands to sed the <filename>awklib/Makefile.in</filename> file to change
  315. the <emphasis>datadir</emphasis> and <emphasis>libexecdir</emphasis>
  316. definitions</para></listitem>
  317. <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 - Mailing lists:
  318. Added lfs-chat description</para></listitem>
  319. <listitem><para>March 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06-Shadow: Move
  320. <filename>libmisc.*a</filename> to
  321. <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> too.</para></listitem>
  322. <listitem><para>March 14th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  323. bison-1.34, gettext-0.11.1, grep-2.5, lfs-bootscripts-1.8,
  324. shadow-4.0.3</para></listitem>
  325. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  326. binutils-2.12</para></listitem>
  327. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Setclock: The text
  328. here hinted towards the fact that you could skip configuring this step
  329. which isn't true unless the entire script would be removed. So the text was
  330. changed a bit to just have them create the file no matter how the hardware
  331. clock is set up.</para></listitem>
  332. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07 - Loadkeys: Removed
  333. the need to configure a <filename>/etc/sysconfig/keyboard</filename> file.
  334. The kbd patch makes this obsolete (loadkeys -d is used
  335. now).</para></listitem>
  336. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Gawk: Added
  337. -Dre_max_failures=re_max_failures2 bug fix for glibc-2.1.x
  338. systems.</para></listitem>
  339. <listitem><para>March 11th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Before
  340. installing, remove <filename>/usr/bin/bz*</filename>. The bzip2
  341. installation doesn't deal with existing files properly when making hard
  342. links, so we remove the files first.</para></listitem>
  343. <listitem><para>March 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Configure keyboard:
  344. Added section to configure keyboard keymap file by creating the <filename
  345. class="symlink">/usr/share/kbd/keymaps/defkeymap.map.gz</filename>
  346. symlink.</para></listitem>
  347. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 08 - Make bootable: Added
  348. a <userinput>cp</userinput> command that finds all the kernel images from
  349. <filename>/etc/lilo.conf</filename> automatically and copies them to
  350. <filename class="directory">$LFS/boot</filename>.</para></listitem>
  351. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Man: Moved the
  352. <filename>man.conf</filename> from <filename
  353. class="directory">/usr/share/misc</filename> to <filename
  354. class="directory">/etc</filename>.</para></listitem>
  355. <listitem><para>March 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 07: Added a page about
  356. the sysklogd script and explain that the default script includes the
  357. <emphasis>-m 0</emphasis> option to
  358. <userinput>syslogd</userinput>.</para></listitem>
  359. <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the Mawk package and
  360. replaced with the Gawk package. This was done because mawk is no longer
  361. being developed, while gawk is. Mawk has some POSIX compliance bugs that
  362. are fixed in Gawk.</para></listitem>
  363. <listitem><para>March 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to the following
  364. packages: autoconf-2.53, automake-1.6, bin86-0.16.2, bison-1.33,
  365. bzip2-1.0.2, e2fsprogs-1.27, gawk-3.1.0, gettext-0.11, less-374, lilo-22.2,
  366. linux-2.4.18, man-pages-1.48, modutils-2.4.14, reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b,
  367. shadow-4.0.2, texinfo-4.1, util-linux-2.11o</para></listitem>
  368. </itemizedlist>
  369. <para>3.2 - March 7th, 2002</para>
  370. <itemizedlist>
  371. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  372. <itemizedlist>
  373. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
  374. </itemizedlist>
  375. </para></listitem>
  376. <listitem><para>March 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Creating
  377. directories: Removed the <filename class="directory">/usr/var</filename>
  378. and <filename class="directory">/usr/local/var</filename> directories. They
  379. aren't recommended by the <emphasis>FHS</emphasis>.</para></listitem>
  380. <listitem><para>February 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Make: Added
  381. commands to remove the setgid kmem bit from
  382. <filename>/usr/bin/make</filename>. This isn't needed on Linux systems to
  383. deal with the system load and it causes some other problems too that are
  384. fixed by removing the setgid bit.</para></listitem>
  385. <listitem><para>February 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  386. lfs-bootscripts-1.6</para></listitem>
  387. <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils: Added
  388. the command again that moves $LFS/usr/bin/chroot to
  389. $LFS/usr/sbin</para></listitem>
  390. <listitem><para>February 17th, 2002 [gerard] Updated dependencies for all
  391. packages.</para></listitem>
  392. <listitem><para>February 15th, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 01: Added a new mirror
  393. to the list located in The Netherlands (www.nl and
  394. ftp.nl).</para></listitem>
  395. <listitem><para>February 11th, 2002 [markh] Chapter 05: Sh-utils:
  396. Removed extra &amp;&amp; from end of install
  397. instructions.</para></listitem>
  398. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 - Sh-utils:
  399. Removed <emphasis>su</emphasis> from the <emphasis>mv</emphasis> command
  400. as this isn't installed in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  401. </itemizedlist>
  402. <para>3.2-RC1 - February 10th, 2002</para>
  403. <itemizedlist>
  404. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  405. <itemizedlist>
  406. <listitem><para>bison-1.31</para></listitem>
  407. <listitem><para>file-3.37</para></listitem>
  408. <listitem><para>glibc-2.2.5</para></listitem>
  409. <listitem><para>kbd-1.06-2.patch</para></listitem>
  410. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
  411. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.17</para></listitem>
  412. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.47</para></listitem>
  413. <listitem><para>psmisc-20.2</para></listitem>
  414. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.84</para></listitem>
  415. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11n</para></listitem>
  416. </itemizedlist>
  417. </para></listitem></itemizedlist>
  418. <itemizedlist>
  419. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added a sed
  420. command to change gzexe's hardcoded /usr/bin/gzip path and change it to
  421. /bin/gzip.</para></listitem>
  422. <listitem><para>February 10th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 + 6: Moved
  423. additional programs to the ($LFS)/bin directory that are used by the
  424. bootscripts. No programs used by bootscripts (except daemons themselves)
  425. should be in the /usr directory in case /usr isn't available until far
  426. along in the boot process (when it's an NFS share for
  427. example).</para></listitem>
  428. <listitem><para>February 6th, 2002 [markh]: Appendix A - All
  429. descriptions now synced and updated.</para></listitem>
  430. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Changing owner:
  431. Added <quote>cd /</quote> so the leading slash can be removed from all the
  432. directories in the chown commands. It's more pleasant to type out this
  433. way.</para></listitem>
  434. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
  435. lfs-bootscripts-1.5</para></listitem>
  436. <listitem><para>February 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Gzip: Removed the
  437. compress symlink. Gzip can uncompress .Z files but it can't compress into
  438. that format.</para></listitem>
  439. <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Updated to
  440. lfs-bootscripts-1.3</para></listitem>
  441. <listitem><para>February 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Glibc: Instead of
  442. sed'ing the <filename>config.make</filename> file, create the
  443. <filename>glibc-build/configparms</filename> file containing
  444. <quote>cross-compiling = no</quote>.</para></listitem>
  445. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5: Changed
  446. the commands to copy the header files to support versions of cp older
  447. than 4.1.</para></listitem>
  448. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Added
  449. CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -D_GNU_SOURCE" to the configure command for patch.
  450. This fixes compilation on PPC and m68k platforms and doesn't hurt on
  451. x86.</para></listitem>
  452. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 5 - Mounting proc:
  453. Rephrased the text a bit (it implied you can only mount the proc fs more
  454. than once, which isn't true anymore these days).</para></listitem>
  455. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 5: Enhanced the make
  456. mrproper explanation.</para></listitem>
  457. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 5+6: Removed
  458. the --libexecdir flag from fileutils' configure options.</para></listitem>
  459. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapters 6: Added a
  460. symlink from vipw to vigr after installing shadow.</para></listitem>
  461. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapters 5+6: Changed
  462. binutils and e2fsprogs installation instructions to use separate
  463. directories ala gcc and glibc.</para></listitem>
  464. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Bootscripts: Added
  465. a chown root.root after the cp.</para></listitem>
  466. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A - Texinfo: the info
  467. programs works on the /usr/share/info directory not
  468. /usr/doc/info.</para></listitem>
  469. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Procps: Fixed typo
  470. the path to the app-defaults directory (it's
  471. /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults and not
  472. usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults).</para></listitem>
  473. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configure
  474. software: Simplified the commands to create the utmp, btmp, lastlog and
  475. wtmp files.</para></listitem>
  476. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter1: Moved
  477. Acknowledgements to be displayed as the first page in chapter
  478. 1.</para></listitem>
  479. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 1: Created a separate
  480. page to list the HTTP and FTP mirrors.</para></listitem>
  481. <listitem><para>January 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 4 - Creating
  482. partition: increased the suggested partition size from 750 MB to 1
  483. GB.</para></listitem>
  484. <listitem><para>January 29th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Combined
  485. the <quote>mv libshadow.a /usr/lib</quote> and
  486. <quote>mv libshadow.la /usr/lib</quote> commands into
  487. <quote>mv libshadow.*a /usr/lib</quote></para></listitem>
  488. <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to
  489. lfs-bootscripts-1.2</para></listitem>
  490. <listitem><para>January 26th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Removed the
  491. datadir option from bisons configure flags, because recent bisons use the
  492. correct directory by default.</para></listitem>
  493. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added the section
  494. Create /etc/mtab symlink.</para></listitem>
  495. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Removed the file -C command
  496. from the file installation. This package runs this command at the very end
  497. of the installation so we don't need to do this anymore.</para></listitem>
  498. <listitem><para>January 23rd, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 4+5+6: The static
  499. environment is now built as an unprivileged user, removing the risk of
  500. overwriting files of the host distribution.</para></listitem>
  501. <listitem><para>January 22nd, 2002 [markh]: Back out linuxthreads
  502. man-page installation instructions as they don't work (they need perl
  503. which we don't have installed at that point).</para></listitem>
  504. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to glibc-2.2.5. At
  505. the same time, fixed the glibc installation so that the linuxthreads man
  506. pages are installed.</para></listitem>
  507. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to bison-1.31,
  508. file-3.37, kernel-2.4.17, psmisc-20.2 and
  509. sysvinit-2.84.</para></listitem>
  510. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to util-linux-2.11n
  511. and removed ADD_RAW=yes as it's no longer needed.</para></listitem>
  512. <listitem><para>January 21st, 2002 [markh]: Updated to man-pages-1.47
  513. and removed the man-pages patch.</para></listitem>
  514. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A: Added bootscripts
  515. files (dependencies, download location, descriptions)</para></listitem>
  516. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Added bootscripts
  517. installation.</para></listitem>
  518. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 7: Removed most of the
  519. scripts, only left the part of a few where we set up config files in
  520. /etc/sysconfig.</para></listitem>
  521. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Configuring
  522. Sysvinit: Changed the inittab contents to match the new
  523. bootscripts.</para></listitem>
  524. <listitem><para>January 15th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6 - file: changed
  525. the installation instruction so the sed isn't necessary anymore.</para></listitem>
  526. <listitem><para>January 14th, 2002 [marcheerdink]: Changed the kernel header
  527. files installation in chapter 5 so it's a bit more portable.</para></listitem>
  528. <listitem><para>January 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Reformatted the dependency
  529. lists.</para></listitem>
  530. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [gerard]: Happy New Year
  531. LFS!</para></listitem>
  532. <listitem><para>January 1st, 2002 [markh]: First Changelog of New Year!
  533. Update copyright notice to cover 2002 ;-) OK - I'm
  534. sad...</para></listitem>
  535. <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Ed: Reworded why
  536. ed is optional to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
  537. <listitem><para>December 16th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Texinfo: Reworded
  538. the TEXMF explanation to eliminate some confusion.</para></listitem>
  539. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 4: Replaced the "One
  540. partition hint" reference with lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt hint
  541. reference.</para></listitem>
  542. <listitem><para>December 15th, 2001 [markh]: Finish Appendix merge. All
  543. of the old appendices A, B and D are now in one (large) Appendix
  544. A.</para></listitem>
  545. <listitem><para>December 14th, 2001 [markh]: Merged appendices A and
  546. B.</para></listitem>
  547. <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix B: Changed dbhtml
  548. tag so that the flex page is now created as flex.html instead of
  549. flex</para></listitem>
  550. <listitem><para>December 13th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix D: Moved
  551. metalab.unc.edu and ftp.ibiblio.org references to the proper URL
  552. ibiblio.org.</para></listitem>
  553. <listitem><para>December 12th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 6: Moved
  554. the kbd patch to the default installation instructions; upgraded to
  555. kbd-1.06-2.patch to fix installation of some programs; added the
  556. descriptions for these programs; removed the loadkeys -d warning that
  557. was a leftover from the time where loadkeys -d wasn't fixed yet.</para></listitem>
  558. <listitem><para>December 11th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add the "why we
  559. cd $LFS before chroot" explanation.</para></listitem>
  560. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Add kbd patch
  561. for loadkeys -d behaviour (patch by Matthias Benkmann; originally posted
  562. to the lfs-dev list).</para></listitem>
  563. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Re-create
  564. symlinks in bash, fileutils and gcc instructions to make the Chapter 6
  565. instructions independent of those in chapter 5.</para></listitem>
  566. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: Cleaned
  567. up the sed commands to use the backup file that was created earlier instead
  568. of writing to an intermediate 'tmp~' file.</para></listitem>
  569. <listitem><para>December 10th, 2001 [marcheerdink]: Chapter 5+6: 'make'
  570. command for diffutils installation changed to 'make PR_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/pr.'
  571. This bug was reported by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem>
  572. <listitem><para>December 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Change the
  573. configure command from <emphasis>./Configure -Dprefix=/usr</emphasis> to
  574. <emphasis>./configure.gnu --prefix=/usr</emphasis>. This is more consistent
  575. with the installation instructions for the other packages, and the result
  576. is identical to the old way.</para></listitem>
  577. <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 2: Added the Which
  578. Platform? section.</para></listitem>
  579. </itemizedlist>
  580. <para>3.1 - December 3rd, 2001</para>
  581. <itemizedlist>
  582. <listitem><para>Added:
  583. <itemizedlist>
  584. <listitem><para>reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j</para></listitem>
  585. </itemizedlist>
  586. </para></listitem>
  587. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  588. <itemizedlist>
  589. <listitem><para>MAKEDEV-1.4</para></listitem>
  590. <listitem><para>bash-2.05a</para></listitem>
  591. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.25</para></listitem>
  592. <listitem><para>gettext-0.10.40</para></listitem>
  593. <listitem><para>libtool-1.4.2</para></listitem>
  594. <listitem><para>lilo-22.1</para></listitem>
  595. <listitem><para>linux-2.4.16</para></listitem>
  596. <listitem><para>man-1.5j</para></listitem>
  597. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.43</para></listitem>
  598. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.12</para></listitem>
  599. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.83</para></listitem>
  600. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.11m</para></listitem>
  601. <listitem><para>vim-6.0</para></listitem>
  602. </itemizedlist>
  603. </para></listitem>
  604. <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Updated to
  605. man-1.5j. Removed the sed which we had to use with the old version as
  606. the new one detects awk properly.</para></listitem>
  607. <listitem><para>November 30th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5: Added static
  608. library explanation originally posted on lfs-apps (when it still
  609. existed) by Plasmatic.</para></listitem>
  610. <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  611. kernel-2.4.16 and modutils-2.4.12.</para></listitem>
  612. <listitem><para>November 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added FHS
  613. compliance notes to the findutils installation.</para></listitem>
  614. <listitem><para>November 19th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  615. bash-2.05a, lilo-22.1, MAKEDEV-1.4, man-pages-1.43 and
  616. util-linux-2.11m.</para></listitem>
  617. <listitem><para>November 5th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Created new lex
  618. script instead of link to flex following comment on lfs-dev. (This is
  619. similar to what we do with bison and yacc).</para></listitem>
  620. <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: General: Large XML Tidy-up.
  621. Shouldn't affect the book text or layout. If it does, something has
  622. gone wrong!</para></listitem>
  623. <listitem><para>October 27th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6: Added
  624. reiserfsprogs-3.x.0j and updated to lilo-22.0.2.</para></listitem>
  625. <listitem><para>October 24th, 2001 [markh]: General: Fixed a bundle of
  626. spelling errors which were reported.</para></listitem>
  627. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5 - Kernel: Added
  628. explanation as to why we copy the kernel headers rather than symlink
  629. them.</para></listitem>
  630. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A - Gzip: Added
  631. uncompress to the gunzip description as it was
  632. missing.</para></listitem>
  633. <listitem><para>October 12th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
  634. Removed the USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin entry as it's no longer needed with
  635. util-linux-2.11l.</para></listitem>
  636. <listitem><para>October 9th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Kbd: Removed the
  637. --datadir option, kbd's default is set properly already.</para></listitem>
  638. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Shadow: Mentioned
  639. the <ulink url="http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/shadowpasswd_plus.txt"/>
  640. lfs-hint</para></listitem>
  641. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Vim: Changed the
  642. installation instructions to fix a bug in vim-6.0's
  643. <filename>syntax/sh.vim</filename> file, and added the CPPFLAGS variable
  644. to specify the global vimrc file as
  645. <filename>/etc/vimrc</filename></para></listitem>
  646. <listitem><para>October 7th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6: Updated to
  647. libtool-1.4.2, lilo-22.0, man-pages-1.40, modutils-2.4.10, sysvinit-2.83,
  648. util-linux-2.11l and vim-6.0</para></listitem>
  649. <listitem><para>October 2nd, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 9 - The End: Added the
  650. reference to the LFS Counter at
  651. <ulink url="http://linuxfromscratch.org/cgi-bin/lfscounter.cgi"/></para></listitem>
  652. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 1 - News server:
  653. Added reference to the news server</para></listitem>
  654. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs: Changed
  655. --with-root-prefix=/ to --with-root-prefix="" in e2fsprogs install
  656. instructions. The reason for the change is that a value of / will cause
  657. symlinks and installation paths to use things like //lib instead of
  658. just /lib. This isn't bad perse, it just doesn't look
  659. nice.</para></listitem>
  660. <listitem><para>September 26th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 5+6: Updated to
  661. e2fsprogs-1.25, gettext-0.10.40, linux-2.4.10, modutils-2.4.9 and
  662. util-linux-2.11i.</para></listitem>
  663. <listitem><para>September 22nd, 2001 [markh]: Appendix A: Re-ordered the
  664. descriptions into alphabetical order.</para></listitem>
  665. </itemizedlist>
  666. <para>3.0 - September 21st, 2001</para>
  667. <itemizedlist>
  668. <listitem><para>Updated to:
  669. <itemizedlist>
  670. <listitem><para>e2fsprogs-1.24</para></listitem>
  671. </itemizedlist>
  672. </para></listitem>
  673. <listitem><para>September 21st, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 1+7: Changed the
  674. mailing list information to reflect the new ml
  675. structure. The Ch7 change is that the rc and rcS scripts now ask people
  676. to report problems to lfs-dev instead of lfs-discuss.</para></listitem>
  677. <listitem><para>September 18th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 5+6 - GCC:
  678. Added --enable-threads=posix to chapter 5, and changed --enable-threads to
  679. --enable-threads=posix in chapter 6. Although the default is posix threads
  680. when
  681. not specified, it's clearer this way what's being
  682. enabled.</para></listitem>
  683. <listitem><para>September 17th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Psmisc:
  684. Added notes how to deal with psmisc's pidof symlink (in case sysvinit
  685. isn't installed) and man page. Also, added --exec-prefix=/ to psmisc's
  686. configure script in order for the programs to be installed in /bin
  687. rather than /usr/bin (bootscripts may use them, so they must be in
  688. /bin).</para></listitem>
  689. <listitem><para>September 16th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - Util-linux:
  690. Added USRGAMES_DIR=/usr/bin to the make install routine so that
  691. /usr/games isn't created for banner and it is installed in
  692. /usr/bin.</para></listitem>
  693. <listitem><para>September 14th, 2001 [markh]: Chapter 6 - E2fsprogs:
  694. Updated to version 1.24.</para></listitem>
  695. <listitem><para>September 11th, 2001 [gerard]: Chapter 6 - Man: Added
  696. missing &amp;&amp; to 'done' and chmod the configure script to mode 755
  697. instead of 700 (more of a default mode so people don't _have_ to be
  698. running as the owner of that file).</para></listitem>
  699. </itemizedlist>
  700. </sect1>