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