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