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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>2007-04-16</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.7. Fixes
  36. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1986">#1986</ulink>.</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. <listitem>
  39. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.12. Fixes
  40. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1989">#1989</ulink>.</para>
  41. </listitem>
  42. <listitem>
  43. <para>[matthew] - Remove File's reg_startend patch. It is not
  44. necessary on Glibc-based systems. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the
  45. report.</para>
  46. </listitem>
  47. <listitem>
  48. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.9. Fixes
  49. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1982">#1982</ulink>.</para>
  50. </listitem>
  51. </itemizedlist>
  52. </listitem>
  53. <listitem>
  54. <para>2007-04-03</para>
  55. <itemizedlist>
  56. <listitem>
  57. <para>[jhuntwork] - Install su from coreutils in chapter 5 as su-tools.
  58. Use su-tools to run test suites from coreutils and bash as user nobody.
  59. Fixes #1877.</para>
  60. </listitem>
  61. </itemizedlist>
  62. </listitem>
  63. <listitem>
  64. <para>2007-04-01</para>
  65. <itemizedlist>
  66. <listitem>
  67. <para>[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.20.4. Updated linux-headers instructions
  68. in chapter 5 to match instructions in chapter 6. The INSTALL_HDR_PATH is no longer
  69. forcibly removed.</para>
  70. </listitem>
  71. </itemizedlist>
  72. </listitem>
  73. <listitem>
  74. <para>2007-03-27</para>
  75. <itemizedlist>
  76. <listitem>
  77. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed a typo in the readjusting section.
  78. Reported by Steve Crosby.</para>
  79. </listitem>
  80. </itemizedlist>
  81. </listitem>
  82. <listitem>
  83. <para>2007-03-24</para>
  84. <itemizedlist>
  85. <listitem>
  86. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the
  87. latest 011-015 patches from upstream.</para>
  88. </listitem>
  89. <listitem>
  90. <para>[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Readline fixes patch to include the
  91. latest 002 patch from upstream.</para>
  92. </listitem>
  93. </itemizedlist>
  94. </listitem>
  95. <listitem>
  96. <para>2007-03-23</para>
  97. <itemizedlist>
  98. <listitem>
  99. <para>[dnicholson] - Don't install the kernel headers in
  100. <filename class="directory">/usr/include/scsi</filename> as the ones
  101. provided by Glibc are preferred.</para>
  102. </listitem>
  103. <listitem>
  104. <para>[dnicholson] - Force <command>ldd</command> to use
  105. <command>/bin/bash</command> since it contains Bash-specific
  106. syntax.</para>
  107. </listitem>
  108. <listitem>
  109. <para>[dnicholson] - When readjusting the GCC specs file, ensure
  110. that GCC will search for the system headers in /usr/include. An
  111. addition to the toolchain sanity checks has been made to test
  112. this. This fix originates from DIY Linux.</para>
  113. </listitem>
  114. <listitem>
  115. <para>[dnicholson] - Included the branch update patch for the
  116. temporary Glibc in Chapter 5 to help minimize differences with the
  117. final Glibc.</para>
  118. </listitem>
  119. </itemizedlist>
  120. </listitem>
  121. <listitem>
  122. <para>2007-03-21</para>
  123. <itemizedlist>
  124. <listitem>
  125. <para>[manuel] - Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5.</para>
  126. </listitem>
  127. </itemizedlist>
  128. </listitem>
  129. <listitem>
  130. <para>2007-03-19</para>
  131. <itemizedlist>
  132. <listitem>
  133. <para>[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new users and
  134. do not create mail spool files for them. Add a
  135. <systemitem class="groupname">mail</systemitem> group so that if
  136. Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new users, it can
  137. do so without issuing a warning.</para>
  138. </listitem>
  139. <listitem>
  140. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1. Fixes
  141. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1850">#1850</ulink></para>
  142. </listitem>
  143. <listitem>
  144. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.3. Fixes
  145. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1971">#1971</ulink></para>
  146. </listitem>
  147. <listitem>
  148. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313. Fixes
  149. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1974">#1974</ulink></para>
  150. </listitem>
  151. <listitem>
  152. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest
  153. patch from upstream. Fixes
  154. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1973">#1973</ulink></para>
  155. </listitem>
  156. </itemizedlist>
  157. </listitem>
  158. <listitem>
  159. <para>2007-03-14</para>
  160. <itemizedlist>
  161. <listitem>
  162. <para>[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout
  163. Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since
  164. the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed
  165. in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates
  166. from DIY Linux.</para>
  167. </listitem>
  168. </itemizedlist>
  169. </listitem>
  170. <listitem>
  171. <para>2007-03-04</para>
  172. <itemizedlist>
  173. <listitem>
  174. <para>[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes
  175. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1954">#1954</ulink></para>
  176. </listitem>
  177. <listitem>
  178. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all
  179. upstream patches up to 206.</para>
  180. </listitem>
  181. <listitem>
  182. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304. Fixes
  183. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1969">#1969</ulink></para>
  184. </listitem>
  185. <listitem>
  186. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30. Fixes
  187. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1967">#1967</ulink></para>
  188. </listitem>
  189. <listitem>
  190. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20. Fixes
  191. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1968">#1968</ulink></para>
  192. </listitem>
  193. </itemizedlist>
  194. </listitem>
  195. <listitem>
  196. <para>2007-03-1</para>
  197. <itemizedlist>
  198. <listitem>
  199. <para>[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and
  200. notices to appear before affected commands.</para>
  201. </listitem>
  202. </itemizedlist>
  203. </listitem>
  204. <listitem>
  205. <para>2007-02-25</para>
  206. <itemizedlist>
  207. <listitem>
  208. <para>[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages
  209. builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.</para>
  210. </listitem>
  211. </itemizedlist>
  212. </listitem>
  213. <listitem>
  214. <para>2007-02-24</para>
  215. <itemizedlist>
  216. <listitem>
  217. <para>[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2.
  218. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.</para>
  219. </listitem>
  220. <listitem>
  221. <para>[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers
  222. installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions.
  223. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1965">#1965</ulink></para>
  224. </listitem>
  225. <listitem>
  226. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1. Fixes
  227. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1964">#1964</ulink></para>
  228. </listitem>
  229. <listitem>
  230. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc. Fixes
  231. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1930">#1930</ulink></para>
  232. </listitem>
  233. <listitem>
  234. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2. Fixes
  235. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1960">#1960</ulink></para>
  236. </listitem>
  237. <listitem>
  238. <para>[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB. Fixes
  239. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1961">#1961</ulink></para>
  240. </listitem>
  241. <listitem>
  242. <para>[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for
  243. <command>cpan</command> and <command>prove</command> from the
  244. Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.</para>
  245. </listitem>
  246. </itemizedlist>
  247. </listitem>
  248. <listitem>
  249. <para>2007-02-23</para>
  250. <itemizedlist>
  251. <listitem>
  252. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf
  253. to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  254. </listitem>
  255. <listitem>
  256. <para>[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some
  257. commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and
  258. Autoconf pages.</para>
  259. </listitem>
  260. <listitem>
  261. <para>[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev
  262. documentation install command since it is already created by
  263. udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  264. </listitem>
  265. <listitem>
  266. <para>[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing
  267. any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.</para>
  268. </listitem>
  269. <listitem>
  270. <para>[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit
  271. the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only
  272. generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris
  273. Staub.</para>
  274. </listitem>
  275. </itemizedlist>
  276. </listitem>
  277. <listitem>
  278. <para>2007-02-20</para>
  279. <itemizedlist>
  280. <listitem>
  281. <para>[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching
  282. the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of
  283. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>.</para>
  284. </listitem>
  285. </itemizedlist>
  286. </listitem>
  287. <listitem>
  288. <para>2007-02-18</para>
  289. <itemizedlist>
  290. <listitem>
  291. <para>[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules
  292. in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of
  293. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1963">#1963</ulink>. Also re-add the
  294. note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.</para>
  295. </listitem>
  296. </itemizedlist>
  297. </listitem>
  298. <listitem>
  299. <para>2007-02-17</para>
  300. <itemizedlist>
  301. <listitem>
  302. <para>[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for
  303. NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network
  304. script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of
  305. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  306. </listitem>
  307. <listitem>
  308. <para>[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly
  309. to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes
  310. part of <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1912">#1912</ulink>.</para>
  311. </listitem>
  312. <listitem>
  313. <para>[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.</para>
  314. </listitem>
  315. </itemizedlist>
  316. </listitem>
  317. <listitem>
  318. <para>2007-02-09</para>
  319. <itemizedlist>
  320. <listitem>
  321. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>readlink</command> to
  322. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> because
  323. <function>sysreadlink</function> in Udev's shell functions may call
  324. it before <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> has been
  325. mounted. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1913">#1913</ulink></para>
  326. </listitem>
  327. <listitem>
  328. <para>[matthew] - Remove some <command>chmod</command> and
  329. <command>chown</command> commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as
  330. they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes
  331. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1953">#1953</ulink></para>
  332. </listitem>
  333. <listitem>
  334. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes
  335. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1949">#1949</ulink></para>
  336. </listitem>
  337. <listitem>
  338. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes
  339. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1951">#1951</ulink></para>
  340. </listitem>
  341. </itemizedlist>
  342. </listitem>
  343. <listitem>
  344. <para>2007-02-07</para>
  345. <itemizedlist>
  346. <listitem>
  347. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes
  348. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1950">#1950</ulink>.</para>
  349. </listitem>
  350. </itemizedlist>
  351. </listitem>
  352. <listitem>
  353. <para>2007-02-03</para>
  354. <itemizedlist>
  355. <listitem>
  356. <para>[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both
  357. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1948">#1948</ulink> and the
  358. udev_retry script.</para>
  359. </listitem>
  360. </itemizedlist>
  361. </listitem>
  362. <listitem>
  363. <para>2007-01-31</para>
  364. <itemizedlist>
  365. <listitem>
  366. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn
  367. and udev-config tarballs. Fixes
  368. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1932">#1932</ulink>.</para>
  369. </listitem>
  370. <listitem>
  371. <para>[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not
  372. required after upgrading to Readline-5.2. Fixes
  373. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1942">#1942</ulink>. Thanks to Alexander
  374. Patrakov for the report and fix.</para>
  375. </listitem>
  376. <listitem>
  377. <para>[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to
  378. fix a multibyte-related issue. Fixes
  379. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1945">#1945</ulink></para>
  380. </listitem>
  381. <listitem>
  382. <para>[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer
  383. in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch</para>
  384. </listitem>
  385. <listitem>
  386. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes
  387. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1941">#1941</ulink></para>
  388. </listitem>
  389. <listitem>
  390. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16.1. Fixes
  391. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1926">#1926</ulink> and
  392. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1944">#1944</ulink></para>
  393. </listitem>
  394. <listitem>
  395. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes
  396. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1940">#1940</ulink></para>
  397. </listitem>
  398. <listitem>
  399. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes
  400. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1928">#1928</ulink></para>
  401. </listitem>
  402. <listitem>
  403. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes
  404. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1936">#1936</ulink></para>
  405. </listitem>
  406. <listitem>
  407. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes
  408. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1924">#1924</ulink></para>
  409. </listitem>
  410. <listitem>
  411. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes
  412. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1925">#1925</ulink></para>
  413. </listitem>
  414. <listitem>
  415. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29. Fixes
  416. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1923">#1923</ulink>.</para>
  417. </listitem>
  418. <listitem>
  419. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19. Fixes
  420. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1946">#1946</ulink>.</para>
  421. </listitem>
  422. <listitem>
  423. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7. Fixes
  424. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1934">#1934</ulink>.</para>
  425. </listitem>
  426. <listitem>
  427. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes
  428. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
  429. </listitem>
  430. </itemizedlist>
  431. </listitem>
  432. <listitem>
  433. <para>2007-01-13</para>
  434. <itemizedlist>
  435. <listitem>
  436. <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
  437. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
  438. </listitem>
  439. <listitem>
  440. <para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
  441. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
  442. </listitem>
  443. </itemizedlist>
  444. </listitem>
  445. <listitem>
  446. <para>2006-12-09</para>
  447. <itemizedlist>
  448. <listitem>
  449. <para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
  450. in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
  451. thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  452. </listitem>
  453. </itemizedlist>
  454. </listitem>
  455. <listitem>
  456. <para>2006-12-01</para>
  457. <itemizedlist>
  458. <listitem>
  459. <para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
  460. built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
  461. <filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
  462. <filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
  463. the report and fix.</para>
  464. </listitem>
  465. </itemizedlist>
  466. </listitem>
  467. <listitem>
  468. <para>2006-11-25</para>
  469. <itemizedlist>
  470. <listitem>
  471. <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
  472. Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
  473. before starting chapter 6.
  474. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
  475. </listitem>
  476. <listitem>
  477. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
  478. <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
  479. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
  480. Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
  481. moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
  482. </listitem>
  483. <listitem>
  484. <para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
  485. <command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
  486. configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
  487. the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
  488. </listitem>
  489. <listitem>
  490. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
  491. by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
  492. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
  493. </listitem>
  494. <listitem>
  495. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
  496. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
  497. </listitem>
  498. <listitem>
  499. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
  500. This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks
  501. to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
  502. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
  503. </listitem>
  504. <listitem>
  505. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
  506. Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
  507. changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
  508. <ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
  509. this thread.</ulink></para>
  510. </listitem>
  511. <listitem>
  512. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
  513. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
  514. </listitem>
  515. <listitem>
  516. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
  517. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
  518. </listitem>
  519. <listitem>
  520. <para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
  521. overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
  522. to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
  523. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
  524. </listitem>
  525. <listitem>
  526. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
  527. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
  528. </listitem>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
  531. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
  532. </listitem>
  533. <listitem>
  534. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
  535. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
  536. </listitem>
  537. <listitem>
  538. <para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
  539. required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
  540. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
  541. </listitem>
  542. <listitem>
  543. <para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
  544. the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
  545. </listitem>
  546. <listitem>
  547. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
  548. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
  549. </listitem>
  550. </itemizedlist>
  551. </listitem>
  552. <listitem>
  553. <para>2006-11-24</para>
  554. <itemizedlist>
  555. <listitem>
  556. <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
  557. Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
  558. </listitem>
  559. </itemizedlist>
  560. </listitem>
  561. <listitem>
  562. <para>2006-11-10</para>
  563. <itemizedlist>
  564. <listitem>
  565. <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
  566. and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
  567. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
  568. </listitem>
  569. </itemizedlist>
  570. </listitem>
  571. <listitem>
  572. <para>2006-11-05</para>
  573. <itemizedlist>
  574. <listitem>
  575. <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
  576. bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
  577. </listitem>
  578. </itemizedlist>
  579. </listitem>
  580. <listitem>
  581. <para>2006-11-03</para>
  582. <itemizedlist>
  583. <listitem>
  584. <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
  585. <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
  586. the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
  587. warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
  588. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
  589. </listitem>
  590. </itemizedlist>
  591. </listitem>
  592. <listitem>
  593. <para>2006-10-29</para>
  594. <itemizedlist>
  595. <listitem>
  596. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
  597. Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  598. </listitem>
  599. <listitem>
  600. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
  601. &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
  602. 076.</para>
  603. </listitem>
  604. </itemizedlist>
  605. </listitem>
  606. <listitem>
  607. <para>2006-10-28</para>
  608. <itemizedlist>
  609. <listitem>
  610. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
  611. </listitem>
  612. <listitem>
  613. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
  614. unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
  615. &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
  616. </listitem>
  617. <listitem>
  618. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
  619. unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  620. </listitem>
  621. <listitem>
  622. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
  623. </listitem>
  624. <listitem>
  625. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
  626. </listitem>
  627. <listitem>
  628. <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
  629. type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
  630. causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
  631. preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
  632. Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
  633. </listitem>
  634. <listitem>
  635. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
  636. </listitem>
  637. <listitem>
  638. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
  639. unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  640. </listitem>
  641. <listitem>
  642. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
  643. </listitem>
  644. <listitem>
  645. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
  646. </listitem>
  647. <listitem>
  648. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
  649. the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  650. </listitem>
  651. <listitem>
  652. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
  653. </listitem>
  654. <listitem>
  655. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
  656. &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
  657. bug when parsing comments.</para>
  658. </listitem>
  659. <listitem>
  660. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
  661. </listitem>
  662. </itemizedlist>
  663. </listitem>
  664. <listitem>
  665. <para>2006-10-23</para>
  666. <itemizedlist>
  667. <listitem>
  668. <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
  669. locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
  670. </listitem>
  671. </itemizedlist>
  672. </listitem>
  673. <listitem>
  674. <para>2006-10-21</para>
  675. <itemizedlist>
  676. <listitem>
  677. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
  678. </listitem>
  679. <listitem>
  680. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
  681. doc files.</para>
  682. </listitem>
  683. <listitem>
  684. <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
  685. </listitem>
  686. </itemizedlist>
  687. </listitem>
  688. <listitem>
  689. <para>2006-10-15</para>
  690. <itemizedlist>
  691. <listitem>
  692. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
  693. the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
  694. Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
  695. </listitem>
  696. <listitem>
  697. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
  698. </listitem>
  699. <listitem>
  700. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
  701. </listitem>
  702. </itemizedlist>
  703. </listitem>
  704. <listitem>
  705. <para>2006-10-05</para>
  706. <itemizedlist>
  707. <listitem>
  708. <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
  709. </listitem>
  710. <listitem>
  711. <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
  712. also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
  713. of the rules.</para>
  714. </listitem>
  715. </itemizedlist>
  716. </listitem>
  717. <listitem>
  718. <para>2006-10-02</para>
  719. <itemizedlist>
  720. <listitem>
  721. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
  722. </listitem>
  723. <listitem>
  724. <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
  725. latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
  726. </para>
  727. </listitem>
  728. <listitem>
  729. <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
  730. &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
  731. kernel sources.</para>
  732. </listitem>
  733. <listitem>
  734. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
  735. </listitem>
  736. <listitem>
  737. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
  738. </listitem>
  739. <listitem>
  740. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
  741. </listitem>
  742. <listitem>
  743. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
  744. </listitem>
  745. <listitem>
  746. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
  747. </listitem>
  748. <listitem>
  749. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
  750. </listitem>
  751. </itemizedlist>
  752. </listitem>
  753. <listitem>
  754. <para>2006-09-23</para>
  755. <itemizedlist>
  756. <listitem>
  757. <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
  758. should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
  759. heads-up.</para>
  760. </listitem>
  761. </itemizedlist>
  762. </listitem>
  763. <listitem>
  764. <para>2006-09-22</para>
  765. <itemizedlist>
  766. <listitem>
  767. <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
  768. 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
  769. on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
  770. </listitem>
  771. </itemizedlist>
  772. </listitem>
  773. <listitem>
  774. <para>2006-09-20</para>
  775. <itemizedlist>
  776. <listitem>
  777. <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
  778. </listitem>
  779. <listitem>
  780. <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
  781. than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
  782. </listitem>
  783. </itemizedlist>
  784. </listitem>
  785. <listitem>
  786. <para>2006-09-18</para>
  787. <itemizedlist>
  788. <listitem>
  789. <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
  790. in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
  791. Glibc-2.4.</para>
  792. </listitem>
  793. </itemizedlist>
  794. </listitem>
  795. <listitem>
  796. <para>2006-09-17</para>
  797. <itemizedlist>
  798. <listitem>
  799. <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
  800. patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
  801. syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
  802. for textual suggestions.</para>
  803. </listitem>
  804. </itemizedlist>
  805. </listitem>
  806. <listitem>
  807. <para>2006-09-09</para>
  808. <itemizedlist>
  809. <listitem>
  810. <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
  811. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  812. </listitem>
  813. <listitem>
  814. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
  815. </listitem>
  816. <listitem>
  817. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
  818. </listitem>
  819. </itemizedlist>
  820. </listitem>
  821. <listitem>
  822. <para>2006-09-06</para>
  823. <itemizedlist>
  824. <listitem>
  825. <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
  826. be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
  827. </listitem>
  828. </itemizedlist>
  829. </listitem>
  830. <listitem>
  831. <para>2006-08-31</para>
  832. <itemizedlist>
  833. <listitem>
  834. <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
  835. /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.</para>
  836. </listitem>
  837. </itemizedlist>
  838. </listitem>
  839. <listitem>
  840. <para>2006-08-24</para>
  841. <itemizedlist>
  842. <listitem>
  843. <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
  844. Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
  845. </listitem>
  846. </itemizedlist>
  847. </listitem>
  848. <listitem>
  849. <para>2006-08-17</para>
  850. <itemizedlist>
  851. <listitem>
  852. <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
  853. file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
  854. </listitem>
  855. <listitem>
  856. <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
  857. Peter Ennis.</para>
  858. </listitem>
  859. <listitem>
  860. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
  861. </listitem>
  862. <listitem>
  863. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
  864. </listitem>
  865. <listitem>
  866. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
  867. </listitem>
  868. <listitem>
  869. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
  870. </listitem>
  871. <listitem>
  872. <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
  873. upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
  874. </para>
  875. </listitem>
  876. <listitem>
  877. <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
  878. of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
  879. </listitem>
  880. </itemizedlist>
  881. </listitem>
  882. <listitem>
  883. <para>2006-08-08</para>
  884. <itemizedlist>
  885. <listitem>
  886. <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
  887. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
  888. </listitem>
  889. </itemizedlist>
  890. </listitem>
  891. <listitem>
  892. <para>2006-08-05</para>
  893. <itemizedlist>
  894. <listitem>
  895. <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
  896. versions.
  897. </para>
  898. </listitem>
  899. </itemizedlist>
  900. </listitem>
  901. <listitem>
  902. <para>2006-08-03</para>
  903. <itemizedlist>
  904. <listitem>
  905. <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
  906. </listitem>
  907. </itemizedlist>
  908. </listitem>
  909. <listitem>
  910. <para>2006-07-31</para>
  911. <itemizedlist>
  912. <listitem>
  913. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
  914. </listitem>
  915. <listitem>
  916. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
  917. </listitem>
  918. <listitem>
  919. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
  920. </listitem>
  921. <listitem>
  922. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
  923. </listitem>
  924. <listitem>
  925. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
  926. </listitem>
  927. <listitem>
  928. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
  929. </listitem>
  930. <listitem>
  931. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
  932. </listitem>
  933. <listitem>
  934. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
  935. </listitem>
  936. <listitem>
  937. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
  938. </listitem>
  939. <listitem>
  940. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
  941. </listitem>
  942. <listitem>
  943. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
  944. </listitem>
  945. </itemizedlist>
  946. </listitem>
  947. </itemizedlist>
  948. <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>
  949. </sect1>