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  7. <sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
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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
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  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>
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  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>April 14, 2006</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[manuel] - Changed typography convections. From now,
  36. eplaceable text is encamsulated inside &lt; $gt:, optional text
  37. inside [ ], and libraries extensions inside { }. Thanks to
  38. Bruce Dubbs for submint the patch.</para>
  39. </listitem>
  40. </itemizedlist>
  41. </listitem>
  42. <listitem>
  43. <para>April 13, 2006</para>
  44. <itemizedlist>
  45. <listitem>
  46. <para>[archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and
  47. removed the command to move logger to /bin.</para>
  48. </listitem>
  49. <listitem>
  50. <para>[archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1.</para>
  51. </listitem>
  52. <listitem>
  53. <para>[archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for
  54. Shadow.</para>
  55. </listitem>
  56. <listitem>
  57. <para>[archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk.</para>
  58. </listitem>
  59. </itemizedlist>
  60. </listitem>
  61. <listitem>
  62. <para>April 12, 2006</para>
  63. <itemizedlist>
  64. <listitem>
  65. <para>[jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses.
  66. Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663.</para>
  67. </listitem>
  68. <listitem>
  69. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page.
  70. Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's
  71. convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and
  72. Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694.</para>
  73. </listitem>
  74. <listitem>
  75. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim
  76. in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites
  77. the symlink we used to create.</para>
  78. </listitem>
  79. </itemizedlist>
  80. </listitem>
  81. <listitem>
  82. <para>April 11, 2006</para>
  83. <itemizedlist>
  84. <listitem>
  85. <para>[jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758)</para>
  86. </listitem>
  87. </itemizedlist>
  88. </listitem>
  89. <listitem>
  90. <para>April 8, 2006</para>
  91. <itemizedlist>
  92. <listitem>
  93. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early
  94. in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other
  95. programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson,
  96. slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with
  97. 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'.</para>
  98. </listitem>
  99. </itemizedlist>
  100. </listitem>
  101. <listitem>
  102. <para>April 6, 2006</para>
  103. <itemizedlist>
  104. <listitem>
  105. <para>[manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download
  106. links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml.</para>
  107. </listitem>
  108. <listitem>
  109. <para>[jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk.</para>
  110. </listitem>
  111. </itemizedlist>
  112. </listitem>
  113. <listitem>
  114. <para>April 2, 2006</para>
  115. <itemizedlist>
  116. <listitem>
  117. <para>[archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5
  118. and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the
  119. mounting of kernel filesystems before pkgmgt page and rewrote the page
  120. to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel filesystems while
  121. outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering chroot and remounting
  122. kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list of dirs created in
  123. chroot and added it before chroot.</para>
  124. </listitem>
  125. </itemizedlist>
  126. </listitem>
  127. <listitem>
  128. <para>March 30, 2006</para>
  129. <itemizedlist>
  130. <listitem>
  131. <para>[ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in
  132. Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it.</para>
  133. </listitem>
  134. <listitem>
  135. <para>[ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323,
  136. and Udev-088.</para>
  137. </listitem>
  138. </itemizedlist>
  139. </listitem>
  140. <listitem>
  141. <para>March 29, 2006</para>
  142. <itemizedlist>
  143. <listitem>
  144. <para>[ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script
  145. to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for
  146. the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750.</para>
  147. </listitem>
  148. </itemizedlist>
  149. </listitem>
  150. <listitem>
  151. <para>March 22, 2006</para>
  152. <itemizedlist>
  153. <listitem>
  154. <para>[archaic] - Updated to
  155. lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321.</para>
  156. </listitem>
  157. </itemizedlist>
  158. </listitem>
  159. <listitem>
  160. <para>March 21, 2006</para>
  161. <itemizedlist>
  162. <listitem>
  163. <para>[archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to
  164. hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to
  165. udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports.
  166. </para>
  167. </listitem>
  168. </itemizedlist>
  169. </listitem>
  170. <listitem>
  171. <para>March 18, 2006</para>
  172. <itemizedlist>
  173. <listitem>
  174. <para>[matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it
  175. is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the
  176. patch. Fixes ticket #1734.</para>
  177. </listitem>
  178. <listitem>
  179. <para>[matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated
  180. tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket
  181. #1713.</para>
  182. </listitem>
  183. <listitem>
  184. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33.</para>
  185. </listitem>
  186. <listitem>
  187. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004.</para>
  188. </listitem>
  189. <listitem>
  190. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014.</para>
  191. </listitem>
  192. <listitem>
  193. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2.</para>
  194. </listitem>
  195. <listitem>
  196. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17.</para>
  197. </listitem>
  198. <listitem>
  199. <para>[matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression
  200. patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being
  201. installed. Fixes #1690.</para>
  202. </listitem>
  203. </itemizedlist>
  204. </listitem>
  205. <listitem>
  206. <para>March 11, 2006</para>
  207. <itemizedlist>
  208. <listitem>
  209. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3.</para>
  210. </listitem>
  211. </itemizedlist>
  212. </listitem>
  213. <listitem>
  214. <para>March 8, 2006</para>
  215. <itemizedlist>
  216. <listitem>
  217. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25.</para>
  218. </listitem>
  219. <listitem>
  220. <para>[matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it
  221. does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander
  222. Patrakov.</para>
  223. </listitem>
  224. <listitem>
  225. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6.</para>
  226. </listitem>
  227. <listitem>
  228. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087.</para>
  229. </listitem>
  230. <listitem>
  231. <para>[matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be
  232. present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices.</para>
  233. </listitem>
  234. </itemizedlist>
  235. </listitem>
  236. <listitem>
  237. <para>March 7, 2006</para>
  238. <itemizedlist>
  239. <listitem>
  240. <para>[matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and
  241. upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of
  242. device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para>
  243. </listitem>
  244. <listitem>
  245. <para>[archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an
  246. LFS-style patch.</para>
  247. </listitem>
  248. </itemizedlist>
  249. </listitem>
  250. <listitem>
  251. <para>March 3, 2006</para>
  252. <itemizedlist>
  253. <listitem>
  254. <para>[gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks
  255. to Dan Nicholson for the patch.</para>
  256. </listitem>
  257. </itemizedlist>
  258. </listitem>
  259. <listitem>
  260. <para>March 1, 2006</para>
  261. <itemizedlist>
  262. <listitem>
  263. <para>[archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the
  264. symlinks.</para>
  265. </listitem>
  266. <listitem>
  267. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that
  268. help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
  269. </listitem>
  270. </itemizedlist>
  271. </listitem>
  272. <listitem>
  273. <para>February 27, 2006</para>
  274. <itemizedlist>
  275. <listitem>
  276. <para>[archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash
  277. upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations.</para>
  278. </listitem>
  279. </itemizedlist>
  280. </listitem>
  281. <listitem>
  282. <para>February 20, 2006</para>
  283. <itemizedlist>
  284. <listitem>
  285. <para>[matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS
  286. keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the &quot;$&quot; from being
  287. expanded by the shell.</para>
  288. </listitem>
  289. <listitem>
  290. <para>[matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream.</para>
  291. </listitem>
  292. <listitem>
  293. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24.</para>
  294. </listitem>
  295. </itemizedlist>
  296. </listitem>
  297. <listitem>
  298. <para>February 19, 2006</para>
  299. <itemizedlist>
  300. <listitem>
  301. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying
  302. to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695.</para>
  303. </listitem>
  304. <listitem>
  305. <para>[matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for
  306. every subsystem, not just USB.</para>
  307. </listitem>
  308. <listitem>
  309. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4.</para>
  310. </listitem>
  311. <listitem>
  312. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085.</para>
  313. </listitem>
  314. <listitem>
  315. <para>[matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using
  316. --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer
  317. for the report and the fix.</para>
  318. </listitem>
  319. <listitem>
  320. <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline.</para>
  321. </listitem>
  322. <listitem>
  323. <para>[matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash.</para>
  324. </listitem>
  325. <listitem>
  326. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5.</para>
  327. </listitem>
  328. <listitem>
  329. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23.</para>
  330. </listitem>
  331. <listitem>
  332. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94.</para>
  333. </listitem>
  334. <listitem>
  335. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20.</para>
  336. </listitem>
  337. <listitem>
  338. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded
  339. vulnerability and DB module patches.</para>
  340. </listitem>
  341. <listitem>
  342. <para>[matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in
  343. Linux-Libc-Headers and DB.</para>
  344. </listitem>
  345. <listitem>
  346. <para>[matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's
  347. instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add
  348. &quot;pts&quot; and &quot;shm&quot; directories to
  349. <filename class="directory">/lib/udev/devices</filename> so that they
  350. can be mounted successfully at boot time.</para>
  351. </listitem>
  352. </itemizedlist>
  353. </listitem>
  354. <listitem>
  355. <para>February 10, 2006</para>
  356. <itemizedlist>
  357. <listitem>
  358. <para>[manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags
  359. changes.</para>
  360. </listitem>
  361. </itemizedlist>
  362. </listitem>
  363. <listitem>
  364. <para>February 8, 2006</para>
  365. <itemizedlist>
  366. <listitem>
  367. <para>[matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to
  368. reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and
  369. module loading.</para>
  370. </listitem>
  371. </itemizedlist>
  372. </listitem>
  373. <listitem>
  374. <para>February 3, 2006</para>
  375. <itemizedlist>
  376. <listitem>
  377. <para>[matthew] - Create the
  378. <filename class="directory">/lib/firmware</filename> directory that
  379. can be used by Udev's <command>firmware_helper</command> utility.
  380. </para>
  381. </listitem>
  382. <listitem>
  383. <para>[matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries.</para>
  384. </listitem>
  385. <listitem>
  386. <para>[manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed
  387. hotplug from list of packages to download.</para>
  388. </listitem>
  389. <listitem>
  390. <para>[ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to
  391. download.</para>
  392. </listitem>
  393. <listitem>
  394. <para>[ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball.</para>
  395. </listitem>
  396. </itemizedlist>
  397. </listitem>
  398. <listitem>
  399. <para>February 2, 2006</para>
  400. <itemizedlist>
  401. <listitem>
  402. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to
  403. enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the
  404. rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev
  405. bootscript to work with this version of udev.</para>
  406. </listitem>
  407. <listitem>
  408. <para>[matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript
  409. Udev will now handle device creation and module loading.</para>
  410. </listitem>
  411. <listitem>
  412. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2.</para>
  413. </listitem>
  414. </itemizedlist>
  415. </listitem>
  416. <listitem>
  417. <para>January 30, 2006</para>
  418. <itemizedlist>
  419. <listitem>
  420. <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang
  421. on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead
  422. of the MACHTYPE var.</para>
  423. </listitem>
  424. <listitem>
  425. <para>[jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris
  426. Staub.</para>
  427. </listitem>
  428. <listitem>
  429. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils
  430. pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
  431. </listitem>
  432. </itemizedlist>
  433. </listitem>
  434. <listitem>
  435. <para>January 29, 2006</para>
  436. <itemizedlist>
  437. <listitem>
  438. <para>[jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec.</para>
  439. </listitem>
  440. <listitem>
  441. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when
  442. readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson.</para>
  443. </listitem>
  444. </itemizedlist>
  445. </listitem>
  446. <listitem>
  447. <para>January 26, 2006</para>
  448. <itemizedlist>
  449. <listitem>
  450. <para>[jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to
  451. allow test-installation.pl to run.</para>
  452. </listitem>
  453. <listitem>
  454. <para>[jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new
  455. for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended
  456. sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer.
  457. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well.</para>
  458. </listitem>
  459. <listitem>
  460. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management
  461. section.</para>
  462. </listitem>
  463. </itemizedlist>
  464. </listitem>
  465. <listitem>
  466. <para>January 25, 2006</para>
  467. <itemizedlist>
  468. <listitem>
  469. <para>[jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6
  470. patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point.</para>
  471. </listitem>
  472. <listitem>
  473. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test
  474. the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report
  475. and Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
  476. </listitem>
  477. <listitem>
  478. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter
  479. 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and
  480. so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5.
  481. Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of
  482. chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov,
  483. Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this
  484. issue.</para>
  485. </listitem>
  486. <listitem>
  487. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix
  488. <command>sort -n</command> and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve
  489. coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to
  490. Alexander Patrakov.</para>
  491. </listitem>
  492. <listitem>
  493. <para>[matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to
  494. the BLFS project for the text.</para>
  495. </listitem>
  496. </itemizedlist>
  497. </listitem>
  498. <listitem>
  499. <para>January 24, 2006</para>
  500. <itemizedlist>
  501. <listitem>
  502. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11.</para>
  503. </listitem>
  504. </itemizedlist>
  505. </listitem>
  506. <listitem>
  507. <para>January 23, 2006</para>
  508. <itemizedlist>
  509. <listitem>
  510. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21.</para>
  511. </listitem>
  512. <listitem>
  513. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
  514. </listitem>
  515. <listitem>
  516. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
  517. </listitem>
  518. <listitem>
  519. <para>[matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks
  520. to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683.</para>
  521. </listitem>
  522. <listitem>
  523. <para>[matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to
  524. compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander
  525. Patrakov for the patch.</para>
  526. </listitem>
  527. </itemizedlist>
  528. </listitem>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>January 20, 2006</para>
  531. <itemizedlist>
  532. <listitem>
  533. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security
  534. vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing
  535. it out.</para>
  536. </listitem>
  537. </itemizedlist>
  538. </listitem>
  539. <listitem>
  540. <para>January 17, 2006</para>
  541. <itemizedlist>
  542. <listitem>
  543. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks
  544. to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
  545. </listitem>
  546. </itemizedlist>
  547. </listitem>
  548. <listitem>
  549. <para>January 10, 2006</para>
  550. <itemizedlist>
  551. <listitem>
  552. <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code
  553. difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks
  554. to Greg Schafer.</para>
  555. </listitem>
  556. <listitem>
  557. <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct
  558. gccbug.</para>
  559. </listitem>
  560. </itemizedlist>
  561. </listitem>
  562. <listitem>
  563. <para>January 7, 2006</para>
  564. <itemizedlist>
  565. <listitem>
  566. <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an
  567. /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the
  568. 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban
  569. for explaining this.</para>
  570. </listitem>
  571. <listitem>
  572. <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter
  573. will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para>
  574. </listitem>
  575. <listitem>
  576. <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will
  577. use mktemp.</para>
  578. </listitem>
  579. <listitem>
  580. <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the
  581. '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to
  582. Randy McMurchy.</para>
  583. </listitem>
  584. </itemizedlist>
  585. </listitem>
  586. <listitem>
  587. <para>January 5, 2006</para>
  588. <itemizedlist>
  589. <listitem>
  590. <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually
  591. have one. Thanks Randy.</para>
  592. </listitem>
  593. <listitem>
  594. <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to
  595. Alexander Patrakov.</para>
  596. </listitem>
  597. </itemizedlist>
  598. </listitem>
  599. <listitem>
  600. <para>January 3, 2006</para>
  601. <itemizedlist>
  602. <listitem>
  603. <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc
  604. configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para>
  605. </listitem>
  606. <listitem>
  607. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para>
  608. </listitem>
  609. <listitem>
  610. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para>
  611. </listitem>
  612. <listitem>
  613. <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in
  614. chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para>
  615. </listitem>
  616. </itemizedlist>
  617. </listitem>
  618. <listitem>
  619. <para>December 31, 2005</para>
  620. <itemizedlist>
  621. <listitem>
  622. <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot,
  623. to be repeatable.</para>
  624. </listitem>
  625. </itemizedlist>
  626. </listitem>
  627. <listitem>
  628. <para>December 23, 2005</para>
  629. <itemizedlist>
  630. <listitem>
  631. <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para>
  632. </listitem>
  633. </itemizedlist>
  634. </listitem>
  635. <listitem>
  636. <para>December 21, 2005</para>
  637. <itemizedlist>
  638. <listitem>
  639. <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc.
  640. Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para>
  641. </listitem>
  642. </itemizedlist>
  643. </listitem>
  644. <listitem>
  645. <para>December 17, 2005</para>
  646. <itemizedlist>
  647. <listitem>
  648. <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix
  649. configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para>
  650. </listitem>
  651. <listitem>
  652. <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes
  653. bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to
  654. Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para>
  655. </listitem>
  656. <listitem>
  657. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para>
  658. </listitem>
  659. <listitem>
  660. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para>
  661. </listitem>
  662. </itemizedlist>
  663. </listitem>
  664. <listitem>
  665. <para>December 16, 2005</para>
  666. <itemizedlist>
  667. <listitem>
  668. <para>[jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's
  669. testsuite uses 'ps'.</para>
  670. </listitem>
  671. </itemizedlist>
  672. </listitem>
  673. <listitem>
  674. <para>December 13, 2005</para>
  675. <itemizedlist>
  676. <listitem>
  677. <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include,
  678. allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is
  679. Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes
  680. bug 1670).</para>
  681. </listitem>
  682. </itemizedlist>
  683. </listitem>
  684. <listitem>
  685. <para>December 12, 2005</para>
  686. <itemizedlist>
  687. <listitem>
  688. <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues
  689. with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce
  690. Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para>
  691. </listitem>
  692. </itemizedlist>
  693. </listitem>
  694. <listitem>
  695. <para>December 11, 2005</para>
  696. <itemizedlist>
  697. <listitem>
  698. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para>
  699. </listitem>
  700. <listitem>
  701. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para>
  702. </listitem>
  703. <listitem>
  704. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0
  705. and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para>
  706. </listitem>
  707. <listitem>
  708. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with
  709. the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately,
  710. Greg Schafer for the fix.</para>
  711. </listitem>
  712. <listitem>
  713. <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking
  714. in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para>
  715. </listitem>
  716. </itemizedlist>
  717. </listitem>
  718. <listitem>
  719. <para>December 9, 2005</para>
  720. <itemizedlist>
  721. <listitem>
  722. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para>
  723. </listitem>
  724. <listitem>
  725. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2
  726. </para>
  727. </listitem>
  728. <listitem>
  729. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para>
  730. </listitem>
  731. </itemizedlist>
  732. </listitem>
  733. <listitem>
  734. <para>December 7, 2005</para>
  735. <itemizedlist>
  736. <listitem>
  737. <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all
  738. packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report
  739. and analysis of affected packages.</para>
  740. </listitem>
  741. </itemizedlist>
  742. </listitem>
  743. <listitem>
  744. <para>November 26, 2005</para>
  745. <itemizedlist>
  746. <listitem>
  747. <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX
  748. threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the
  749. man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para>
  750. </listitem>
  751. <listitem>
  752. <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check
  753. a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para>
  754. </listitem>
  755. <listitem>
  756. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para>
  757. </listitem>
  758. <listitem>
  759. <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages
  760. for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy
  761. McMurchy for the report).</para>
  762. </listitem>
  763. <listitem>
  764. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para>
  765. </listitem>
  766. <listitem>
  767. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para>
  768. </listitem>
  769. <listitem>
  770. <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the
  771. unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para>
  772. </listitem>
  773. </itemizedlist>
  774. </listitem>
  775. <listitem>
  776. <para>November 24, 2005</para>
  777. <itemizedlist>
  778. <listitem>
  779. <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para>
  780. </listitem>
  781. </itemizedlist>
  782. </listitem>
  783. <listitem>
  784. <para>November 23, 2005</para>
  785. <itemizedlist>
  786. <listitem>
  787. <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML
  788. documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para>
  789. </listitem>
  790. </itemizedlist>
  791. </listitem>
  792. <listitem>
  793. <para>November 18, 2005</para>
  794. <itemizedlist>
  795. <listitem>
  796. <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
  797. package.</para>
  798. </listitem>
  799. </itemizedlist>
  800. </listitem>
  801. <listitem>
  802. <para>November 17, 2005</para>
  803. <itemizedlist>
  804. <listitem>
  805. <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para>
  806. </listitem>
  807. </itemizedlist>
  808. </listitem>
  809. <listitem>
  810. <para>November 16, 2005</para>
  811. <itemizedlist>
  812. <listitem>
  813. <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in
  814. chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para>
  815. </listitem>
  816. </itemizedlist>
  817. </listitem>
  818. <listitem>
  819. <para>November 15, 2005</para>
  820. <itemizedlist>
  821. <listitem>
  822. <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option
  823. to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para>
  824. </listitem>
  825. </itemizedlist>
  826. </listitem>
  827. <listitem>
  828. <para>November 14, 2005</para>
  829. <itemizedlist>
  830. <listitem>
  831. <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from
  832. gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents
  833. gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host.
  834. Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para>
  835. </listitem>
  836. </itemizedlist>
  837. </listitem>
  838. <listitem>
  839. <para>November 12, 2005</para>
  840. <itemizedlist>
  841. <listitem>
  842. <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
  843. is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642).
  844. Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous
  845. issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para>
  846. </listitem>
  847. <listitem>
  848. <para>[jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build.</para>
  849. </listitem>
  850. <listitem>
  851. <para>[jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks
  852. Chris Staub.</para>
  853. </listitem>
  854. </itemizedlist>
  855. </listitem>
  856. <listitem>
  857. <para>November 11, 2005</para>
  858. <itemizedlist>
  859. <listitem>
  860. <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
  861. as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para>
  862. </listitem>
  863. </itemizedlist>
  864. </listitem>
  865. <listitem>
  866. <para>November 10, 2005</para>
  867. <itemizedlist>
  868. <listitem>
  869. <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to
  870. Chris Staub (bug 684).</para>
  871. </listitem>
  872. </itemizedlist>
  873. </listitem>
  874. <listitem>
  875. <para>November 7, 2005</para>
  876. <itemizedlist>
  877. <listitem>
  878. <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
  879. of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para>
  880. </listitem>
  881. <listitem>
  882. <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of
  883. GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir
  884. option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename
  885. convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para>
  886. </listitem>
  887. </itemizedlist>
  888. </listitem>
  889. <listitem>
  890. <para>November 6, 2005</para>
  891. <itemizedlist>
  892. <listitem>
  893. <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the
  894. toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para>
  895. </listitem>
  896. <listitem>
  897. <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to
  898. /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc
  899. (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy
  900. Huntwork for the fix.</para>
  901. </listitem>
  902. <listitem>
  903. <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host
  904. system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the
  905. report and the fix.</para>
  906. </listitem>
  907. <listitem>
  908. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
  909. </listitem>
  910. <listitem>
  911. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para>
  912. </listitem>
  913. <listitem>
  914. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para>
  915. </listitem>
  916. </itemizedlist>
  917. </listitem>
  918. <listitem>
  919. <para>November 5, 2005</para>
  920. <itemizedlist>
  921. <listitem>
  922. <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5
  923. to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken
  924. toolchain (bug 1581).</para>
  925. </listitem>
  926. </itemizedlist>
  927. </listitem>
  928. <listitem>
  929. <para>November 3, 2005</para>
  930. <itemizedlist>
  931. <listitem>
  932. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para>
  933. </listitem>
  934. <listitem>
  935. <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools'
  936. testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai
  937. and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para>
  938. </listitem>
  939. </itemizedlist>
  940. </listitem>
  941. <listitem>
  942. <para>October 31, 2005</para>
  943. <itemizedlist>
  944. <listitem>
  945. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para>
  946. </listitem>
  947. <listitem>
  948. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para>
  949. </listitem>
  950. <listitem>
  951. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para>
  952. </listitem>
  953. <listitem>
  954. <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter
  955. the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in
  956. the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635).
  957. Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card"
  958. and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside
  959. of LFS.</para>
  960. </listitem>
  961. </itemizedlist>
  962. </listitem>
  963. <listitem>
  964. <para>October 29, 2005</para>
  965. <itemizedlist>
  966. <listitem>
  967. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para>
  968. </listitem>
  969. <listitem>
  970. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para>
  971. </listitem>
  972. <listitem>
  973. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing
  974. the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer
  975. required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from
  976. Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para>
  977. </listitem>
  978. </itemizedlist>
  979. </listitem>
  980. <listitem>
  981. <para>October 22, 2005</para>
  982. <itemizedlist>
  983. <listitem>
  984. <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para>
  985. </listitem>
  986. </itemizedlist>
  987. </listitem>
  988. <listitem>
  989. <para>October 21, 2005</para>
  990. <itemizedlist>
  991. <listitem>
  992. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para>
  993. </listitem>
  994. <listitem>
  995. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para>
  996. </listitem>
  997. <listitem>
  998. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para>
  999. </listitem>
  1000. </itemizedlist>
  1001. </listitem>
  1002. <listitem>
  1003. <para>October 15, 2005</para>
  1004. <itemizedlist>
  1005. <listitem>
  1006. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para>
  1007. </listitem>
  1008. <listitem>
  1009. <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file
  1010. (fixes bug 1639).</para>
  1011. </listitem>
  1012. <listitem>
  1013. <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules
  1014. file</para>
  1015. </listitem>
  1016. </itemizedlist>
  1017. </listitem>
  1018. <listitem>
  1019. <para>October 9, 2005</para>
  1020. <itemizedlist>
  1021. <listitem>
  1022. <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source
  1023. directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638.
  1024. Thanks to Chris Staub.</para>
  1025. </listitem>
  1026. </itemizedlist>
  1027. </listitem>
  1028. <listitem>
  1029. <para>October 8, 2005</para>
  1030. <itemizedlist>
  1031. <listitem>
  1032. <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in
  1033. Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para>
  1034. </listitem>
  1035. <listitem>
  1036. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para>
  1037. </listitem>
  1038. </itemizedlist>
  1039. </listitem>
  1040. <listitem>
  1041. <para>October 7, 2005</para>
  1042. <itemizedlist>
  1043. <listitem>
  1044. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para>
  1045. </listitem>
  1046. </itemizedlist>
  1047. </listitem>
  1048. <listitem>
  1049. <para>October 4, 2005</para>
  1050. <itemizedlist>
  1051. <listitem>
  1052. <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command>
  1053. script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar
  1054. and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para>
  1055. </listitem>
  1056. </itemizedlist>
  1057. </listitem>
  1058. <listitem>
  1059. <para>September 29, 2005</para>
  1060. <itemizedlist>
  1061. <listitem>
  1062. <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes
  1063. bug 1629).</para>
  1064. </listitem>
  1065. <listitem>
  1066. <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it
  1067. (fixes bug 1612).</para>
  1068. </listitem>
  1069. </itemizedlist>
  1070. </listitem>
  1071. <listitem>
  1072. <para>September 26, 2005</para>
  1073. <itemizedlist>
  1074. <listitem>
  1075. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para>
  1076. </listitem>
  1077. </itemizedlist>
  1078. </listitem>
  1079. <listitem>
  1080. <para>September 24, 2005</para>
  1081. <itemizedlist>
  1082. <listitem>
  1083. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para>
  1084. </listitem>
  1085. <listitem>
  1086. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para>
  1087. </listitem>
  1088. <listitem>
  1089. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para>
  1090. </listitem>
  1091. </itemizedlist>
  1092. </listitem>
  1093. <listitem>
  1094. <para>September 20, 2005</para>
  1095. <itemizedlist>
  1096. <listitem>
  1097. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para>
  1098. </listitem>
  1099. </itemizedlist>
  1100. </listitem>
  1101. <listitem>
  1102. <para>September 17, 2005</para>
  1103. <itemizedlist>
  1104. <listitem>
  1105. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary
  1106. &quot;udevdir=/dev&quot; parameter.</para>
  1107. </listitem>
  1108. <listitem>
  1109. <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX
  1110. and bash compatibility and to recognise &quot;\xhh&quot; syntax
  1111. as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para>
  1112. </listitem>
  1113. </itemizedlist>
  1114. </listitem>
  1115. <listitem>
  1116. <para>September 15, 2005</para>
  1117. <itemizedlist>
  1118. <listitem>
  1119. <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount
  1120. vulnerability.</para>
  1121. </listitem>
  1122. </itemizedlist>
  1123. </listitem>
  1124. <listitem>
  1125. <para>September 8, 2005</para>
  1126. <itemizedlist>
  1127. <listitem>
  1128. <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para>
  1129. </listitem>
  1130. </itemizedlist>
  1131. </listitem>
  1132. <listitem>
  1133. <para>September 6, 2005</para>
  1134. <itemizedlist>
  1135. <listitem>
  1136. <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para>
  1137. </listitem>
  1138. </itemizedlist>
  1139. </listitem>
  1140. <listitem>
  1141. <para>September 5, 2005</para>
  1142. <itemizedlist>
  1143. <listitem>
  1144. <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para>
  1145. </listitem>
  1146. </itemizedlist>
  1147. </listitem>
  1148. <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para>
  1149. <itemizedlist>
  1150. <listitem>
  1151. <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting
  1152. when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2,
  1153. ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para>
  1154. </listitem>
  1155. <listitem>
  1156. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para>
  1157. </listitem>
  1158. <listitem>
  1159. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para>
  1160. </listitem>
  1161. </itemizedlist>
  1162. </listitem>
  1163. <listitem>
  1164. <para>September 2, 2005</para>
  1165. <itemizedlist>
  1166. <listitem>
  1167. <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from
  1168. <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>,
  1169. so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix
  1170. to actually work.</para>
  1171. </listitem>
  1172. <listitem>
  1173. <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking
  1174. <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para>
  1175. </listitem>
  1176. </itemizedlist>
  1177. </listitem>
  1178. <listitem>
  1179. <para>August 30th, 2005</para>
  1180. <itemizedlist>
  1181. <listitem>
  1182. <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O
  1183. instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para>
  1184. </listitem>
  1185. <listitem>
  1186. <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix
  1187. for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para>
  1188. </listitem>
  1189. <listitem>
  1190. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para>
  1191. </listitem>
  1192. <listitem>
  1193. <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from
  1194. gcc-pass2.</para>
  1195. </listitem>
  1196. </itemizedlist>
  1197. </listitem>
  1198. <listitem>
  1199. <para>August 28th, 2005</para>
  1200. <itemizedlist>
  1201. <listitem>
  1202. <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6
  1203. builds for consistency</para>
  1204. </listitem>
  1205. </itemizedlist>
  1206. </listitem>
  1207. <listitem>
  1208. <para>August 23rd, 2005</para>
  1209. <itemizedlist>
  1210. <listitem>
  1211. <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race
  1212. condition when deleting files. Remove the &amp;&amp; construct in
  1213. chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing
  1214. fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para>
  1215. </listitem>
  1216. <listitem>
  1217. <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring
  1218. rules (fixes bug 1622)</para>
  1219. </listitem>
  1220. <listitem>
  1221. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para>
  1222. </listitem>
  1223. </itemizedlist>
  1224. </listitem>
  1225. <listitem>
  1226. <para>August 20th, 2005</para>
  1227. <itemizedlist>
  1228. <listitem>
  1229. <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as
  1230. they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para>
  1231. </listitem>
  1232. </itemizedlist>
  1233. </listitem>
  1234. <listitem>
  1235. <para>August 19th, 2005</para>
  1236. <itemizedlist>
  1237. <listitem>
  1238. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para>
  1239. </listitem>
  1240. <listitem>
  1241. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para>
  1242. </listitem>
  1243. <listitem>
  1244. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para>
  1245. </listitem>
  1246. </itemizedlist>
  1247. </listitem>
  1248. <listitem>
  1249. <para>August 18th, 2005</para>
  1250. <itemizedlist>
  1251. <listitem>
  1252. <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default
  1253. specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't
  1254. assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para>
  1255. </listitem>
  1256. <listitem>
  1257. <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of
  1258. filenames.</para>
  1259. </listitem>
  1260. </itemizedlist>
  1261. </listitem>
  1262. <listitem>
  1263. <para>August 16th, 2005</para>
  1264. <itemizedlist>
  1265. <listitem>
  1266. <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4
  1267. instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para>
  1268. </listitem>
  1269. <listitem>
  1270. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para>
  1271. </listitem>
  1272. </itemizedlist>
  1273. </listitem>
  1274. <listitem>
  1275. <para>August 15th, 2005</para>
  1276. <itemizedlist>
  1277. <listitem>
  1278. <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect
  1279. from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para>
  1280. </listitem>
  1281. </itemizedlist>
  1282. </listitem>
  1283. <listitem>
  1284. <para>August 14th, 2005</para>
  1285. <itemizedlist>
  1286. <listitem>
  1287. <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as
  1288. advised by Greg Schafer.</para>
  1289. </listitem>
  1290. <listitem>
  1291. <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC
  1292. (fixes bug 1615).</para>
  1293. </listitem>
  1294. <listitem>
  1295. <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes
  1296. bug 1603).</para>
  1297. </listitem>
  1298. <listitem>
  1299. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para>
  1300. </listitem>
  1301. <listitem>
  1302. <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to
  1303. ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the
  1304. bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para>
  1305. </listitem>
  1306. <listitem>
  1307. <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing
  1308. test (bug 1611).</para>
  1309. </listitem>
  1310. </itemizedlist>
  1311. </listitem>
  1312. <listitem>
  1313. <para>August 12th, 2005</para>
  1314. <itemizedlist>
  1315. <listitem>
  1316. <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS
  1317. system (fixes bug 1614).</para>
  1318. </listitem>
  1319. <listitem>
  1320. <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files
  1321. (fixes bug 1601).</para>
  1322. </listitem>
  1323. <listitem>
  1324. <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations
  1325. to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para>
  1326. </listitem>
  1327. <listitem>
  1328. <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start
  1329. of chapter 6.</para>
  1330. </listitem>
  1331. <listitem>
  1332. <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed
  1333. library (Bug 1608)</para>
  1334. </listitem>
  1335. </itemizedlist>
  1336. </listitem>
  1337. <listitem>
  1338. <para>August 7th, 2005</para>
  1339. <itemizedlist>
  1340. <listitem>
  1341. <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib
  1342. from BLFS first.</para>
  1343. </listitem>
  1344. </itemizedlist>
  1345. </listitem>
  1346. <listitem>
  1347. <para>August 6th, 2005</para>
  1348. <itemizedlist>
  1349. <listitem>
  1350. <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para>
  1351. </listitem>
  1352. <listitem>
  1353. <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest
  1354. modeline vulnerability.</para>
  1355. </listitem>
  1356. </itemizedlist>
  1357. </listitem>
  1358. <listitem>
  1359. <para>July 30th, 2005</para>
  1360. <itemizedlist>
  1361. <listitem>
  1362. <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation
  1363. (Randy McMurchy).</para>
  1364. </listitem>
  1365. <listitem>
  1366. <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml
  1367. as it's no longer used in the book</para>
  1368. </listitem>
  1369. </itemizedlist>
  1370. </listitem>
  1371. <listitem>
  1372. <para>July 29th, 2005</para>
  1373. <itemizedlist>
  1374. <listitem>
  1375. <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para>
  1376. </listitem>
  1377. </itemizedlist>
  1378. </listitem>
  1379. <listitem>
  1380. <para>July 28th, 2005</para>
  1381. <itemizedlist>
  1382. <listitem>
  1383. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para>
  1384. </listitem>
  1385. <listitem>
  1386. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para>
  1387. </listitem>
  1388. <listitem>
  1389. <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB.
  1390. The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para>
  1391. </listitem>
  1392. <listitem>
  1393. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para>
  1394. </listitem>
  1395. </itemizedlist>
  1396. </listitem>
  1397. <listitem>
  1398. <para>July 27th, 2005</para>
  1399. <itemizedlist>
  1400. <listitem>
  1401. <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't
  1402. compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para>
  1403. </listitem>
  1404. </itemizedlist>
  1405. </listitem>
  1406. <listitem>
  1407. <para>July 26th, 2005</para>
  1408. <itemizedlist>
  1409. <listitem>
  1410. <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs
  1411. installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils
  1412. instead (Randy McMurchy).</para>
  1413. </listitem>
  1414. <listitem>
  1415. <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds
  1416. license and copyright information to the previous version.</para>
  1417. </listitem>
  1418. </itemizedlist>
  1419. </listitem>
  1420. <listitem>
  1421. <para>July 23rd, 2005</para>
  1422. <itemizedlist>
  1423. <listitem>
  1424. <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book,
  1425. so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in
  1426. that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page
  1427. document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis>
  1428. acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para>
  1429. </listitem>
  1430. <listitem>
  1431. <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para>
  1432. </listitem>
  1433. <listitem>
  1434. <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para>
  1435. </listitem>
  1436. </itemizedlist>
  1437. </listitem>
  1438. <listitem>
  1439. <para>July 22nd, 2005</para>
  1440. <itemizedlist>
  1441. <listitem>
  1442. <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to
  1443. obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para>
  1444. </listitem>
  1445. </itemizedlist>
  1446. </listitem>
  1447. <listitem>
  1448. <para>July 21st, 2005</para>
  1449. <itemizedlist>
  1450. <listitem>
  1451. <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para>
  1452. </listitem>
  1453. <listitem>
  1454. <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer
  1455. needed.</para>
  1456. </listitem>
  1457. </itemizedlist>
  1458. </listitem>
  1459. <listitem>
  1460. <para>July 19th, 2005</para>
  1461. <itemizedlist>
  1462. <listitem>
  1463. <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as
  1464. it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para>
  1465. </listitem>
  1466. </itemizedlist>
  1467. </listitem>
  1468. <listitem>
  1469. <para>July 18th, 2005</para>
  1470. <itemizedlist>
  1471. <listitem>
  1472. <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process
  1473. and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description
  1474. of the specs patch.</para>
  1475. </listitem>
  1476. <listitem>
  1477. <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes
  1478. process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para>
  1479. </listitem>
  1480. </itemizedlist>
  1481. </listitem>
  1482. <listitem>
  1483. <para>July 17th, 2005</para>
  1484. <itemizedlist>
  1485. <listitem>
  1486. <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent
  1487. multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para>
  1488. </listitem>
  1489. <listitem>
  1490. <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may
  1491. need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal
  1492. of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para>
  1493. </listitem>
  1494. </itemizedlist>
  1495. </listitem>
  1496. <listitem>
  1497. <para>July 16th, 2005</para>
  1498. <itemizedlist>
  1499. <listitem>
  1500. <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the
  1501. fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para>
  1502. </listitem>
  1503. <listitem>
  1504. <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for
  1505. gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para>
  1506. </listitem>
  1507. <listitem>
  1508. <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters
  1509. 5 and 6.</para>
  1510. </listitem>
  1511. </itemizedlist>
  1512. </listitem>
  1513. <listitem>
  1514. <para>July 15th, 2005</para>
  1515. <itemizedlist>
  1516. <listitem>
  1517. <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para>
  1518. </listitem>
  1519. <listitem>
  1520. <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para>
  1521. </listitem>
  1522. <listitem>
  1523. <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default.
  1524. Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file
  1525. where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para>
  1526. </listitem>
  1527. <listitem>
  1528. <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with
  1529. gcc-4.0.1</para>
  1530. </listitem>
  1531. <listitem>
  1532. <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para>
  1533. </listitem>
  1534. <listitem>
  1535. <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para>
  1536. </listitem>
  1537. </itemizedlist>
  1538. </listitem>
  1539. <listitem>
  1540. <para>July 13th, 2005</para>
  1541. <itemizedlist>
  1542. <listitem>
  1543. <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para>
  1544. </listitem>
  1545. </itemizedlist>
  1546. </listitem>
  1547. <listitem>
  1548. <para>July 8th, 2005</para>
  1549. <itemizedlist>
  1550. <listitem>
  1551. <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para>
  1552. </listitem>
  1553. <listitem>
  1554. <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para>
  1555. </listitem>
  1556. <listitem>
  1557. <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para>
  1558. </listitem>
  1559. <listitem>
  1560. <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para>
  1561. </listitem>
  1562. <listitem>
  1563. <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para>
  1564. </listitem>
  1565. </itemizedlist>
  1566. </listitem>
  1567. <listitem>
  1568. <para>July 6th, 2005</para>
  1569. <itemizedlist>
  1570. <listitem>
  1571. <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again
  1572. as it is not needed.</para>
  1573. </listitem>
  1574. <listitem>
  1575. <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para>
  1576. </listitem>
  1577. <listitem>
  1578. <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para>
  1579. </listitem>
  1580. </itemizedlist>
  1581. </listitem>
  1582. <listitem>
  1583. <para>July 5th, 2005</para>
  1584. <itemizedlist>
  1585. <listitem>
  1586. <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para>
  1587. </listitem>
  1588. <listitem>
  1589. <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para>
  1590. </listitem>
  1591. <listitem>
  1592. <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para>
  1593. </listitem>
  1594. <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para>
  1595. </listitem>
  1596. </itemizedlist>
  1597. </listitem>
  1598. <listitem>
  1599. <para>June 12th, 2005</para>
  1600. <itemizedlist>
  1601. <listitem>
  1602. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para>
  1603. </listitem>
  1604. <listitem>
  1605. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para>
  1606. </listitem>
  1607. <listitem>
  1608. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para>
  1609. </listitem>
  1610. <listitem>
  1611. <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para>
  1612. </listitem>
  1613. </itemizedlist>
  1614. </listitem>
  1615. <listitem>
  1616. <para>May 24th, 2005</para>
  1617. <itemizedlist>
  1618. <listitem>
  1619. <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para>
  1620. </listitem>
  1621. </itemizedlist>
  1622. </listitem>
  1623. <listitem>
  1624. <para>May 23nd, 2005</para>
  1625. <itemizedlist>
  1626. <listitem>
  1627. <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para>
  1628. </listitem>
  1629. </itemizedlist>
  1630. </listitem>
  1631. <listitem>
  1632. <para>May 22nd, 2005</para>
  1633. <itemizedlist>
  1634. <listitem>
  1635. <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para>
  1636. </listitem>
  1637. <listitem>
  1638. <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para>
  1639. </listitem>
  1640. <listitem>
  1641. <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para>
  1642. </listitem>
  1643. <listitem>
  1644. <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para>
  1645. </listitem>
  1646. </itemizedlist>
  1647. </listitem>
  1648. <listitem>
  1649. <para>May 15th, 2005</para>
  1650. <itemizedlist>
  1651. <listitem>
  1652. <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para>
  1653. </listitem>
  1654. <listitem>
  1655. <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para>
  1656. </listitem>
  1657. <listitem>
  1658. <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para>
  1659. </listitem>
  1660. </itemizedlist>
  1661. </listitem>
  1662. <listitem>
  1663. <para>April 14, 2005</para>
  1664. <itemizedlist>
  1665. <listitem>
  1666. <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para>
  1667. </listitem>
  1668. </itemizedlist>
  1669. </listitem>
  1670. <listitem>
  1671. <para>April 13, 2005</para>
  1672. <itemizedlist>
  1673. <listitem>
  1674. <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para>
  1675. </listitem>
  1676. <listitem>
  1677. <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para>
  1678. </listitem>
  1679. </itemizedlist>
  1680. </listitem>
  1681. <listitem>
  1682. <para>April 12, 2005</para>
  1683. <itemizedlist>
  1684. <listitem>
  1685. <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para>
  1686. </listitem>
  1687. </itemizedlist>
  1688. </listitem>
  1689. <listitem>
  1690. <para>April 11, 2005</para>
  1691. <itemizedlist>
  1692. <listitem>
  1693. <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para>
  1694. </listitem>
  1695. </itemizedlist>
  1696. </listitem>
  1697. <listitem>
  1698. <para>April 6, 2005</para>
  1699. <itemizedlist>
  1700. <listitem>
  1701. <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para>
  1702. </listitem>
  1703. </itemizedlist>
  1704. </listitem>
  1705. </itemizedlist>
  1706. <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages
  1707. and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para>
  1708. </sect1>