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