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  9. <title>Changelog</title>
  10. <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
  11. &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
  12. version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
  13. mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para>
  14. <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the
  15. book.</para>
  16. <itemizedlist>
  17. <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
  18. <!-- Changelog template
  19. <listitem>
  20. <para>Date</para>
  21. <itemizedlist>
  22. <listitem>
  23. <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
  24. </listitem>
  25. <listitem>
  26. <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
  27. </listitem>
  28. </itemizedlist>
  29. </listitem>
  30. -->
  31. <listitem>
  32. <para>2007-01-31</para>
  33. <itemizedlist>
  34. <listitem>
  35. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes
  36. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1943">#1943</ulink>.</para>
  37. </listitem>
  38. </itemizedlist>
  39. </listitem>
  40. <listitem>
  41. <para>2007-01-13</para>
  42. <itemizedlist>
  43. <listitem>
  44. <para>[alexander] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.43. Fixes
  45. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1927">#1927</ulink>.</para>
  46. </listitem>
  47. <listitem>
  48. <para>[alexander] - Don't remove Vim tutorials.
  49. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1937">#1937</ulink>.</para>
  50. </listitem>
  51. </itemizedlist>
  52. </listitem>
  53. <listitem>
  54. <para>2006-12-09</para>
  55. <itemizedlist>
  56. <listitem>
  57. <para>[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for &quot;nobody&quot; user
  58. in chapter 6. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1931">#1931</ulink>;
  59. thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  60. </listitem>
  61. </itemizedlist>
  62. </listitem>
  63. <listitem>
  64. <para>2006-12-01</para>
  65. <itemizedlist>
  66. <listitem>
  67. <para>[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs to be
  68. built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
  69. <filename>/bin/rm</filename> needs to be changed to point to
  70. <filename>/tools/bin/rm</filename> instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for
  71. the report and fix.</para>
  72. </listitem>
  73. </itemizedlist>
  74. </listitem>
  75. <listitem>
  76. <para>2006-11-25</para>
  77. <itemizedlist>
  78. <listitem>
  79. <para>[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5.
  80. Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place
  81. before starting chapter 6.
  82. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1879">#1879</ulink></para>
  83. </listitem>
  84. <listitem>
  85. <para>[matthew] - Move <command>mv</command> from
  86. <filename class="directory">/usr/bin</filename> to
  87. <filename class="directory">/bin</filename> again. The upgrade to
  88. Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of files to be
  89. moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.</para>
  90. </listitem>
  91. <listitem>
  92. <para>[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing
  93. <command>ifconfig</command> as LFS uses <command>ip</command> to
  94. configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and
  95. the fix. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1914">#1914</ulink></para>
  96. </listitem>
  97. <listitem>
  98. <para>[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools
  99. by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty.
  100. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1892">#1892</ulink></para>
  101. </listitem>
  102. <listitem>
  103. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes
  104. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1922">#1922</ulink></para>
  105. </listitem>
  106. <listitem>
  107. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch.
  108. This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks
  109. to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes
  110. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1915">#1915</ulink></para>
  111. </listitem>
  112. <listitem>
  113. <para>[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5
  114. Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of
  115. changes in Linux-2.6.19. See
  116. <ulink url="&lfs-root;/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-November/058550.html">
  117. this thread.</ulink></para>
  118. </listitem>
  119. <listitem>
  120. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes
  121. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1920">1920</ulink></para>
  122. </listitem>
  123. <listitem>
  124. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes
  125. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1911">#1911</ulink></para>
  126. </listitem>
  127. <listitem>
  128. <para>[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about
  129. overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as
  130. to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package.
  131. Fixes <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1917">#1917</ulink></para>
  132. </listitem>
  133. <listitem>
  134. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes
  135. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1916">#1916</ulink></para>
  136. </listitem>
  137. <listitem>
  138. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes
  139. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1910">#1910</ulink></para>
  140. </listitem>
  141. <listitem>
  142. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes
  143. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1919">#1919</ulink></para>
  144. </listitem>
  145. <listitem>
  146. <para>[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is
  147. required by &bash-fixes-patch; in chapter 5 (Fixes
  148. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1863">#1863</ulink>).</para>
  149. </listitem>
  150. <listitem>
  151. <para>[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by
  152. the upstream maintainers of Bash.</para>
  153. </listitem>
  154. <listitem>
  155. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes
  156. <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;1918">#1918</ulink>.</para>
  157. </listitem>
  158. </itemizedlist>
  159. </listitem>
  160. <listitem>
  161. <para>2006-11-24</para>
  162. <itemizedlist>
  163. <listitem>
  164. <para>[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of
  165. Linux Headers in Chapter 5.</para>
  166. </listitem>
  167. </itemizedlist>
  168. </listitem>
  169. <listitem>
  170. <para>2006-11-10</para>
  171. <itemizedlist>
  172. <listitem>
  173. <para>[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks
  174. and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule.
  175. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.</para>
  176. </listitem>
  177. </itemizedlist>
  178. </listitem>
  179. <listitem>
  180. <para>2006-11-05</para>
  181. <itemizedlist>
  182. <listitem>
  183. <para>[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if
  184. bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.</para>
  185. </listitem>
  186. </itemizedlist>
  187. </listitem>
  188. <listitem>
  189. <para>2006-11-03</para>
  190. <itemizedlist>
  191. <listitem>
  192. <para>[matthew] - Use version entities from
  193. <filename>packages.ent</filename> rather than hardcoded values in
  194. the note in <filename>chapter03/packages.xml</filename>. Remove the
  195. warning about potential incompatibilities with the bootscripts.
  196. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.</para>
  197. </listitem>
  198. </itemizedlist>
  199. </listitem>
  200. <listitem>
  201. <para>2006-10-29</para>
  202. <itemizedlist>
  203. <listitem>
  204. <para>[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and
  205. Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  206. </listitem>
  207. <listitem>
  208. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the
  209. &quot;spellfile&quot; fix as it was applied upstream as patch
  210. 076.</para>
  211. </listitem>
  212. </itemizedlist>
  213. </listitem>
  214. <listitem>
  215. <para>2006-10-28</para>
  216. <itemizedlist>
  217. <listitem>
  218. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.</para>
  219. </listitem>
  220. <listitem>
  221. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now
  222. unnecessary &quot;gcc4&quot;, &quot;security&quot;, and
  223. &quot;sparse&quot; patches.</para>
  224. </listitem>
  225. <listitem>
  226. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now
  227. unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  228. </listitem>
  229. <listitem>
  230. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.</para>
  231. </listitem>
  232. <listitem>
  233. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.</para>
  234. </listitem>
  235. <listitem>
  236. <para>[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the <type>sigset_t</type>
  237. type is not detected by the <command>configure</command> script, which
  238. causes <function>sigsetmask</function> to be used instead of the
  239. preferred <function>sigprocmask</function> function. Thanks to Robert
  240. Connolly for the report and patch.</para>
  241. </listitem>
  242. <listitem>
  243. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.</para>
  244. </listitem>
  245. <listitem>
  246. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now
  247. unnecessary &quot;GCC 4 fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  248. </listitem>
  249. <listitem>
  250. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.</para>
  251. </listitem>
  252. <listitem>
  253. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.</para>
  254. </listitem>
  255. <listitem>
  256. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping
  257. the now unnecessary &quot;fixes&quot; patch.</para>
  258. </listitem>
  259. <listitem>
  260. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.</para>
  261. </listitem>
  262. <listitem>
  263. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current
  264. &quot;fixes&quot; patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a
  265. bug when parsing comments.</para>
  266. </listitem>
  267. <listitem>
  268. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.</para>
  269. </listitem>
  270. </itemizedlist>
  271. </listitem>
  272. <listitem>
  273. <para>2006-10-23</para>
  274. <itemizedlist>
  275. <listitem>
  276. <para>[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus
  277. locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.</para>
  278. </listitem>
  279. </itemizedlist>
  280. </listitem>
  281. <listitem>
  282. <para>2006-10-21</para>
  283. <itemizedlist>
  284. <listitem>
  285. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.</para>
  286. </listitem>
  287. <listitem>
  288. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its
  289. doc files.</para>
  290. </listitem>
  291. <listitem>
  292. <para>[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.</para>
  293. </listitem>
  294. </itemizedlist>
  295. </listitem>
  296. <listitem>
  297. <para>2006-10-15</para>
  298. <itemizedlist>
  299. <listitem>
  300. <para>[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference
  301. the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs
  302. Baier for reporting the issue.</para>
  303. </listitem>
  304. <listitem>
  305. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.</para>
  306. </listitem>
  307. <listitem>
  308. <para>[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.</para>
  309. </listitem>
  310. </itemizedlist>
  311. </listitem>
  312. <listitem>
  313. <para>2006-10-05</para>
  314. <itemizedlist>
  315. <listitem>
  316. <para>[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.</para>
  317. </listitem>
  318. <listitem>
  319. <para>[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version
  320. also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most
  321. of the rules.</para>
  322. </listitem>
  323. </itemizedlist>
  324. </listitem>
  325. <listitem>
  326. <para>2006-10-02</para>
  327. <itemizedlist>
  328. <listitem>
  329. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.</para>
  330. </listitem>
  331. <listitem>
  332. <para>[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the
  333. latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
  334. </para>
  335. </listitem>
  336. <listitem>
  337. <para>[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the
  338. &quot;make headers_install&quot; target now available in the upstream
  339. kernel sources.</para>
  340. </listitem>
  341. <listitem>
  342. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.</para>
  343. </listitem>
  344. <listitem>
  345. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.</para>
  346. </listitem>
  347. <listitem>
  348. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.</para>
  349. </listitem>
  350. <listitem>
  351. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.</para>
  352. </listitem>
  353. <listitem>
  354. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.</para>
  355. </listitem>
  356. <listitem>
  357. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.</para>
  358. </listitem>
  359. </itemizedlist>
  360. </listitem>
  361. <listitem>
  362. <para>2006-09-23</para>
  363. <itemizedlist>
  364. <listitem>
  365. <para>[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/
  366. should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the
  367. heads-up.</para>
  368. </listitem>
  369. </itemizedlist>
  370. </listitem>
  371. <listitem>
  372. <para>2006-09-22</para>
  373. <itemizedlist>
  374. <listitem>
  375. <para>[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and
  376. 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely
  377. on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.</para>
  378. </listitem>
  379. </itemizedlist>
  380. </listitem>
  381. <listitem>
  382. <para>2006-09-20</para>
  383. <itemizedlist>
  384. <listitem>
  385. <para>[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.</para>
  386. </listitem>
  387. <listitem>
  388. <para>[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux
  389. than in the book to reflect current versions.</para>
  390. </listitem>
  391. </itemizedlist>
  392. </listitem>
  393. <listitem>
  394. <para>2006-09-18</para>
  395. <itemizedlist>
  396. <listitem>
  397. <para>[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++
  398. in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by
  399. Glibc-2.4.</para>
  400. </listitem>
  401. </itemizedlist>
  402. </listitem>
  403. <listitem>
  404. <para>2006-09-17</para>
  405. <itemizedlist>
  406. <listitem>
  407. <para>[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix
  408. patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify
  409. syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban
  410. for textual suggestions.</para>
  411. </listitem>
  412. </itemizedlist>
  413. </listitem>
  414. <listitem>
  415. <para>2006-09-09</para>
  416. <itemizedlist>
  417. <listitem>
  418. <para>[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail.
  419. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.</para>
  420. </listitem>
  421. <listitem>
  422. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.</para>
  423. </listitem>
  424. <listitem>
  425. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.</para>
  426. </listitem>
  427. </itemizedlist>
  428. </listitem>
  429. <listitem>
  430. <para>2006-09-06</para>
  431. <itemizedlist>
  432. <listitem>
  433. <para>[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully
  434. be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).</para>
  435. </listitem>
  436. </itemizedlist>
  437. </listitem>
  438. <listitem>
  439. <para>2006-08-31</para>
  440. <itemizedlist>
  441. <listitem>
  442. <para>[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example
  443. /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.</para>
  444. </listitem>
  445. </itemizedlist>
  446. </listitem>
  447. <listitem>
  448. <para>2006-08-24</para>
  449. <itemizedlist>
  450. <listitem>
  451. <para>[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in
  452. Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.</para>
  453. </listitem>
  454. </itemizedlist>
  455. </listitem>
  456. <listitem>
  457. <para>2006-08-17</para>
  458. <itemizedlist>
  459. <listitem>
  460. <para>[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs
  461. file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.</para>
  462. </listitem>
  463. <listitem>
  464. <para>[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to
  465. Peter Ennis.</para>
  466. </listitem>
  467. <listitem>
  468. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.</para>
  469. </listitem>
  470. <listitem>
  471. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.</para>
  472. </listitem>
  473. <listitem>
  474. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.</para>
  475. </listitem>
  476. <listitem>
  477. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.</para>
  478. </listitem>
  479. <listitem>
  480. <para>[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after
  481. upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
  482. </para>
  483. </listitem>
  484. <listitem>
  485. <para>[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two
  486. of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.</para>
  487. </listitem>
  488. </itemizedlist>
  489. </listitem>
  490. <listitem>
  491. <para>2006-08-08</para>
  492. <itemizedlist>
  493. <listitem>
  494. <para>[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page.
  495. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.</para>
  496. </listitem>
  497. </itemizedlist>
  498. </listitem>
  499. <listitem>
  500. <para>2006-08-05</para>
  501. <itemizedlist>
  502. <listitem>
  503. <para>[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous
  504. versions.
  505. </para>
  506. </listitem>
  507. </itemizedlist>
  508. </listitem>
  509. <listitem>
  510. <para>2006-08-03</para>
  511. <itemizedlist>
  512. <listitem>
  513. <para>[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.</para>
  514. </listitem>
  515. </itemizedlist>
  516. </listitem>
  517. <listitem>
  518. <para>2006-07-31</para>
  519. <itemizedlist>
  520. <listitem>
  521. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.</para>
  522. </listitem>
  523. <listitem>
  524. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.</para>
  525. </listitem>
  526. <listitem>
  527. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.</para>
  528. </listitem>
  529. <listitem>
  530. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.</para>
  531. </listitem>
  532. <listitem>
  533. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.</para>
  534. </listitem>
  535. <listitem>
  536. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.</para>
  537. </listitem>
  538. <listitem>
  539. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.</para>
  540. </listitem>
  541. <listitem>
  542. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.</para>
  543. </listitem>
  544. <listitem>
  545. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.</para>
  546. </listitem>
  547. <listitem>
  548. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.</para>
  549. </listitem>
  550. <listitem>
  551. <para>[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.</para>
  552. </listitem>
  553. </itemizedlist>
  554. </listitem>
  555. </itemizedlist>
  556. <para>LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.</para>
  557. </sect1>