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  6. <sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog">
  7. <title>Changelog</title>
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  9. <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  10. &releasedate;. If this book is more than two months old, a newer and better
  11. version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  12. mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;"/>.</para>
  13. <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book,
  14. first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
  15. <itemizedlist>
  16. <listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para>
  17. <itemizedlist>
  18. <listitem><para>automake-1.8.5</para></listitem>
  19. <listitem><para>binutils-2.15.91.0.1</para></listitem>
  20. <listitem><para>bison-1.875a</para></listitem>
  21. <listitem><para>flex-2.5.31</para></listitem>
  22. <listitem><para>gcc-3.4.1</para></listitem>
  23. <listitem><para>glibc-2.3.4-20040701</para></listitem>
  24. <listitem><para>groff-1.19.1</para></listitem>
  25. <listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01</para></listitem>
  26. <listitem><para>lfs-bootscripts-2.1.2</para></listitem>
  27. <listitem><para>linux-2.6.7</para></listitem>
  28. <listitem><para>m4-1.4.1</para></listitem>
  29. <listitem><para>man-pages-1.67</para></listitem>
  30. <listitem><para>psmisc-21.5</para></listitem>
  31. <listitem><para>sed-4.1.1</para></listitem>
  32. <listitem><para>tar-1.14</para></listitem>
  33. <listitem><para>vim-6.3</para></listitem>
  34. </itemizedlist>
  35. </listitem>
  36. <listitem><para>Added:</para>
  37. <itemizedlist>
  38. <listitem><para>coreutils-5.2.1-suppress_hostname_uptime_kill_su-1.patch</para></listitem>
  39. <listitem><para>flex-2.5.31-debian_fixes-2.patch</para></listitem>
  40. <listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01</para></listitem>
  41. <listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01-bogus_deps-1.patch</para></listitem>
  42. <listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01-device-2.patch</para></listitem>
  43. <listitem><para>hotplug-2004_04_01-isapnp-2.patch</para></listitem>
  44. <listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
  45. <listitem><para>linux-libc-headers-2.6.7.0</para></listitem>
  46. <listitem><para>module-init-tools-3.0</para></listitem>
  47. <listitem><para>net-tools-1.60-gcc34-3.patch</para></listitem>
  48. <listitem><para>readline-4.3</para></listitem>
  49. <listitem><para>readline-4.3-gnu_fixes-1.patch</para></listitem>
  50. <listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
  51. <listitem><para>sysklogd-1.4.1-signal-1.patch</para></listitem>
  52. <listitem><para>sysvinit-2.85-proclen-1.patch</para></listitem>
  53. <listitem><para>udev-028</para></listitem>
  54. <listitem><para>udev-config-1.permissions</para></listitem>
  55. <listitem><para>udev-config-1.rules</para></listitem>
  56. <listitem><para>util-linux-2.12a-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem>
  57. <listitem><para>vim-6.3 language files</para></listitem>
  58. </itemizedlist>
  59. </listitem>
  60. <listitem><para>Removed:</para>
  61. <itemizedlist>
  62. <listitem><para>bison-1.875-attribute.patch</para></listitem>
  63. <listitem><para>coreutils-5.2.1-hostname-1.patch</para></listitem>
  64. <listitem><para>ed-0.2</para></listitem>
  65. <listitem><para>gcc-2.95.3</para></listitem>
  66. <listitem><para>kbd-1.12-more-programs-1.patch</para></listitem>
  67. <listitem><para>modutils-2.4.25</para></listitem>
  68. <listitem><para>net-tools-1.60-miitool-gcc33-1.patch</para></listitem>
  69. <listitem><para>procinfo-18</para></listitem>
  70. </itemizedlist>
  71. </listitem>
  72. <listitem><para>July 6, 2004 [matt]: Upgraded to sed-4.1.1.</para></listitem>
  73. <listitem><para>July 5, 2004 [alexander]: Updated GCC testresults
  74. link.</para></listitem>
  75. <listitem><para>July 3, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040701.</para>
  76. </listitem>
  77. <listitem><para>July 2, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GCC 3.4.1.</para></listitem>
  78. <listitem><para>July 2, 2004 [winkie]: Updated the Udev permissions
  79. configuration to include the nvidia kernel modules.</para></listitem>
  80. <listitem><para>June 29, 2004 [alexander]: Explained the benefits of setting
  81. LC_ALL properly.</para></listitem>
  82. <listitem><para>June 28, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Udev 028, and dropped the
  83. Udev permissions patch.</para></listitem>
  84. <listitem><para>June 28, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.2.
  85. </para></listitem>
  86. <listitem><para>June 27, 2004 [matt]: Moved glibc test result discussion to
  87. chapter 6 (where it is actually recommended to be run). Also made it clearer
  88. that the tests in chapter 5 are optional, as opposed to
  89. <emphasis>not recommended</emphasis></para></listitem>
  90. <listitem><para>June 26, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GCC 3.4.1-20040625.</para>
  91. </listitem>
  92. <listitem><para>June 26, 2004 [matt]: Added descriptions for udev package
  93. contents (Alexander Patrakov)</para></listitem>
  94. <listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.7.0
  95. and updated the Net-tools GCC 3.4 patch.</para></listitem>
  96. <listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [alexander]: Wordings changed on the hotplug
  97. page</para></listitem>
  98. <listitem><para>June 24, 2004 [alexander]: Removed hotplug isapnp patch for a
  99. while until bugs are fixed</para></listitem>
  100. <listitem><para>June 23, 2004 [matt]: Removed the note regarding the use of
  101. GRUB's --no-mem-option</para></listitem>
  102. <listitem><para>June 23, 2004 [matt]: Removed dpasswd from shadow's list of
  103. installed files.</para></listitem>
  104. <listitem><para>June 23, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.2-pre2.
  105. </para></listitem>
  106. <listitem><para>June 21, 2004 [winkie]: Added the Udev permissions patch to fix
  107. a regression from version 023 (really nasty bug, too).</para></listitem>
  108. <listitem><para>June 20, 2004 [matt]: chapter07 - console. Add a note regarding
  109. the screen font not being set automatically when the console script isn't run.
  110. (Alexander Patrakov)</para></listitem>
  111. <listitem><para>June 20, 2004 [matt]: chapter03 - packages. Point people at the
  112. FTP mirrors and GnuPG.</para></listitem>
  113. <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [winkie]: Modified Flex installation to only touch
  114. the flex.1 manual page, since that's the only one that exists.</para></listitem>
  115. <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter05 - hostreqs. Provide clearer
  116. information regarding determining whether the host kernel is suitable for
  117. passing glibcs testsuite</para></listitem>
  118. <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - creatingdirs. Use
  119. `install -d` instead of `mkdir` (fixes bug #821)</para></listitem>
  120. <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter04 - addinguser. Make the lfs user
  121. a member of the lfs group, in case hosts add a new user to a non-existent gid by
  122. default (which causes the glibc testsuite to fail). Fixes bug #856.</para>
  123. </listitem>
  124. <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter07 - console &amp; chapter 08 -
  125. kernel. Improved wording and re-introduced the option for compiling the keymap
  126. directly into the kernel.</para></listitem>
  127. <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [matt]: chapter06 - e2fsprogs, brought
  128. instructions inline with upstream recommendations.</para></listitem>
  129. <listitem><para>June 19, 2004 [manuel]: Applied the Index entries for Hotplug
  130. and Linux-Libc-Headers. Tags corrections.</para></listitem>
  131. <listitem><para>June 18, 2004 [winkie]: Instead of using the udev binary, use
  132. the udev daemon instead.</para></listitem>
  133. <listitem><para>June 17, 2004 [matt]: Added the sed permissions patch.</para>
  134. </listitem>
  135. <listitem><para>June 17, 2004 [matt]: Clarify that a gcc-3.x compiled 2.6.x
  136. kernel is required on the host.</para></listitem>
  137. <listitem><para>June 16, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux 2.6.7 and dropped the
  138. FPU patch.</para></listitem>
  139. <listitem><para>June 16, 2004 [alexander]: Removed the fileencodings line due to
  140. a bug which causes Vim to default to UTF-8.</para></listitem>
  141. <listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Corrected installation of Readline.
  142. </para></listitem>
  143. <listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Recreate Udev's entry in /etc/hotplug.d,
  144. since it's not correct for our purposes by default.</para></listitem>
  145. <listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped the Udev patch in favor copying
  146. the configuration file(s) to /etc/udev after installation.</para></listitem>
  147. <listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Sed 4.1.</para></listitem>
  148. <listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Udev 027.</para></listitem>
  149. <listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.2-pre1.
  150. </para></listitem>
  151. <listitem><para>June 15, 2004 [winkie]: Patched the kernel sources so that it
  152. defaults to <filename>/bin/true</filename> as the hotplug manager.</para></listitem>
  153. <listitem><para>June 14, 2004 [matt]: Removed GNU/Linux in line with common
  154. usage regarding the recurring GNU/Linux vs. Linux debate (Larry Lawrence).
  155. </para></listitem>
  156. <listitem><para>June 14, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GRUB 0.95. Removed the
  157. <quote>--no-mem-option</quote> argument from GRUB's
  158. <filename>menu.lst</filename>, since it is now the default.</para></listitem>
  159. <listitem><para>June 13, 2004 [alexander]: Security: added
  160. linux-2.6.6-fpu-1.patch</para></listitem>
  161. <listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Hotplug - corrected the
  162. name of the bogus deps patch</para></listitem>
  163. <listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: British people speak English but
  164. need loadkeys and setfont (reported by Dave Mascall on IRC). Corrected the
  165. text on the console page to account for this</para></listitem>
  166. <listitem><para>June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the <quote>background</quote> option to
  167. /etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an <quote>if</quote>
  168. statement because it applies to some, not all, terminals</para></listitem>
  169. <listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped hackish GRUB instructions in
  170. favor of a patch from upstream.</para></listitem>
  171. <listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Force Readline to link against Ncurses.
  172. </para></listitem>
  173. <listitem><para>June 11, 2004 [alexander]: Added sysvinit-2.85-proclen-1.patch
  174. </para></listitem>
  175. <listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Reverted the bogus change of package
  176. order. Removed the <quote>background</quote> line from /etc/vimrc because it matches the
  177. default on Linux console</para></listitem>
  178. <listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Added a command to autodetect the
  179. character set of files being edited to /etc/vimrc
  180. </para></listitem>
  181. <listitem><para>June 10, 2004 [alexander]: Added vim language files. Moved
  182. vim after gettext in order for them to work
  183. </para></listitem>
  184. <listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to M4-1.4.1, after 9 years!
  185. </para></listitem>
  186. <listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Linux-Libc-Headers 2.6.6.0.
  187. </para></listitem>
  188. <listitem><para>June 9, 2004 [winkie]: Updated locations of the Glibc &amp; GCC
  189. tarballs.</para></listitem>
  190. <listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Udev 026.</para></listitem>
  191. <listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped Net-tools patch for kernel
  192. headers in favor of a simple sed.</para></listitem>
  193. <listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Normalized <quote>sed</quote> usage
  194. throughout the book.</para></listitem>
  195. <listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Use the
  196. <quote>gcc --print-file specs</quote> command to determine the location of the
  197. <quote>specs</quote> file.</para></listitem>
  198. <listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Updated patch names to match those used
  199. by the patches project.</para></listitem>
  200. <listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Globally changed <quote>DejaGnu</quote>
  201. to <quote>DejaGNU</quote>.</para></listitem>
  202. <listitem><para>June 7, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Vim 6.3.</para></listitem>
  203. <listitem><para>June 2, 2004 [matt]: Prologue - acknowledgments, Added Thomas
  204. Reitelbach as the German translator</para></listitem>
  205. <listitem><para>June 2nd, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to GCC 3.4.1-20040601. This
  206. release fixes bugs with reference to both GCC 3.4.0 and GCC 3.4.1-20040517. Also
  207. upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040529 which includes lots of fixes for non-x86
  208. architectures.</para></listitem>
  209. <listitem><para>June 1st, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Binutils 2.15.91.0.1. This
  210. release provides the <quote>-z relro</quote> option.</para></listitem>
  211. <listitem><para>June 1st, 2004 [winkie]: Inconsequential wrapping fixes.</para>
  212. </listitem>
  213. <listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: Mentioned the hotplug+udev+modules
  214. problem. Removed the effectively dead link to the Kernel
  215. HOWTO.</para></listitem>
  216. <listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: Corrected usbfs line in
  217. /etc/fstab.</para></listitem>
  218. <listitem><para>May 29, 2004 [alexander]: New LFS bootscripts already come
  219. with the /etc/sysconfig/console file. Corrected the text.</para></listitem>
  220. <listitem><para>May 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Upgraded psmisc to
  221. 21.5.</para></listitem>
  222. <listitem><para>May 25, 2004 [jeremy]: Corrected download location for the
  223. lfs-bootscripts package</para></listitem>
  224. <listitem><para>May 24, 2004 [jeremy]: Upgraded to libc-headers 2.6.5.2</para>
  225. </listitem>
  226. <listitem><para>May 23, 2004 [jeremy]: Chapter 6 - Vim - added an option to the
  227. vimrc config file</para></listitem>
  228. <listitem><para>May 23th, 2004 [alexander]: Don't list the initscript in the
  229. contents of the Hotplug package. The reason is that we use winkie's
  230. replacement script from LFS-Bootscripts.</para></listitem>
  231. <listitem><para>May 23th, 2004 [alexander]: Fixed XML validation
  232. error.</para></listitem>
  233. <listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Moved group <quote>usb</quote> to GID
  234. 14, instead of 15.</para></listitem>
  235. <listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped Hotplug's
  236. <quote>cosmetic</quote> patch in favor of the script from LFS-Bootscripts and
  237. some general textual/rendering cleanups.</para></listitem>
  238. <listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [winkie]: Point to the correct GCC patches.
  239. </para></listitem>
  240. <listitem><para>May 20th, 2004 [alexander]: Added Hotplug 2004_04_01.
  241. </para></listitem>
  242. <listitem><para>May 19th, 2004 [winkie]: Change permissions of /dev/random to
  243. 0444 instead of 0666.</para></listitem>
  244. <listitem><para>May 19th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Binutils 2.15 &amp; GCC
  245. 3.4.1-20040517.</para></listitem>
  246. <listitem><para>May 18th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.1.
  247. </para></listitem>
  248. <listitem><para>May 16th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Automake-1.8.5.</para></listitem>
  249. <listitem><para>May 15th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts 2.1.1-pre2.
  250. </para></listitem>
  251. <listitem><para>May 14th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Groff 1.19.1.</para></listitem>
  252. <listitem><para>May 14th, 2004 [alexander]: Several textual changes on Vim
  253. page.</para></listitem>
  254. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Apply patch to assure Coreutils doesn't
  255. install any binaries that we don't need/want.</para></listitem>
  256. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Don't pass <quote>-default</quote> to
  257. Man's configure, since it's not needed anymore.</para></listitem>
  258. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Shorten the <quote>sed</quote> used
  259. on Gzip's <filename>gzexe.in</filename> file.</para></listitem>
  260. <listitem><para>May 12th, 2004 [winkie]: Fixed Coreutils testsuite execution.
  261. </para></listitem>
  262. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2004 [winkie]: Don't build the PCH header for
  263. libstdc++ in Chapter 5 -- it's just a waste of space.</para></listitem>
  264. <listitem><para>May 11th, 2004 [winkie]: Upgraded to Glibc 2.3.4-20040510 and
  265. Tar 1.14.</para></listitem>
  266. <listitem><para>May 10th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 8 - Upgraded to Linux 2.6.6.
  267. </para></listitem>
  268. <listitem><para>May 7th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - When configuring Vim, pass
  269. the <quote>--enable-multibyte</quote> option.</para></listitem>
  270. <listitem><para>May 6th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Add Readline installation
  271. and use it when building Bash.</para></listitem>
  272. <listitem><para>May 6th, 2004 [winkie]: Added Alexander Patrakov's I18n patch.
  273. </para></listitem>
  274. <listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Create and use the
  275. <quote>utmp</quote> group.</para></listitem>
  276. <listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 7 - Upgraded to LFS-Bootscripts
  277. 2.1.0 and modify the book to work with it.</para></listitem>
  278. <listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Install the
  279. <quote>passwd</quote> binary in /bin instead of /usr/bin.</para></listitem>
  280. <listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 6 - Switch the uname patch we
  281. use, so that we get correct results.</para></listitem>
  282. <listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 8 - Use the full LFS version for
  283. the GRUB title.</para></listitem>
  284. <listitem><para>May 4th, 2004 [winkie]: Chapter 5 &amp; 6 - Use new patch
  285. naming <quote>standard</quote>.</para></listitem>
  286. <listitem><para>May 3rd, 2004 [winkie]: Merged BE-LFS content - thanks to Ron
  287. and Jason Scott for the help they gave to BE-LFS before integration.</para></listitem>
  288. </itemizedlist>
  289. <para>Release of version 5.1.1 on June 6th, 2004.</para>
  290. </sect1>