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8<sect1 id="ch-intro-changelog" xreflabel="Master Changelog">
9 <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>
10
11 <title>Master Changelog</title>
12
13 <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated
14 &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better
15 version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the
16 mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;"/>.</para>
17
18 <para>Below is a list of detailed changes made since the previous release of
19 the book.</para>
20
21 <itemizedlist>
22 <title>Changelog Entries:</title>
23
24<!-- Changelog template
25
26 <listitem>
27 <para>Date</para>
28 <itemizedlist>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para>
31 </listitem>
32 <listitem>
33 <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para>
34 </listitem>
35 </itemizedlist>
36 </listitem>
37-->
38
39 <listitem>
40 <para>January 19, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[Chris] - Removed patch from shadow instructions.</para>
44 </listitem>
45 </itemizedlist>
46 </listitem>
47
48 <listitem>
49 <para>January 13, 2006</para>
50 <itemizedlist>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>[ken] - Moved grep ahead of libtool to avoid /tools being hardcoded
53 into the libtool script for EGREP.</para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>[ken] - Alter bison to build repeatably, from LFS.</para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>[ken] - Alter gccbug to use mktemp, from LFS.</para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>[ken] - Move creation of /etc/hosts within Perl instructions,
63 for repeatability, from LFS.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>[Chris] - Moved bootloader setup to right after "Changing Ownership" in Chapter 7, and changed several package installation instructions in that chapter.</para>
67 </listitem>
68
69 </itemizedlist>
70 </listitem>
71
72 <listitem>
73 <para>January 12, 2006</para>
74 <itemizedlist>
75 <listitem>
76 <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
77 to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
78 </listitem>
79 <listitem>
80 <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
84 </listitem>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
87 to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
88 </listitem>
89 <listitem>
90 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.</para>
91 </listitem>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>[jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So
94 I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted
95 on Pure 64 builds.</para>
96 </listitem>
97 </itemizedlist>
98 </listitem>
99
100 <listitem>
101 <para>January 11, 2006</para>
102 <itemizedlist>
103 <listitem>
104 <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
105 a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
106 the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
107 </listitem>
108 </itemizedlist>
109 </listitem>
110
111 <listitem>
112 <para>January 8, 2006</para>
113 <itemizedlist>
114 <listitem>
115 <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
116 process and test suite information.</para>
117 </listitem>
118 </itemizedlist>
119 </listitem>
120
121 <listitem>
122 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
123 <itemizedlist>
124 <listitem>
125 <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
126 </listitem>
127 </itemizedlist>
128 </listitem>
129
130 <listitem>
131 <para>December 30, 2005</para>
132 <itemizedlist>
133 <listitem>
134 <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
135 "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
136 removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
137 </listitem>
138 <listitem>
139 <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
140 </listitem>
141 </itemizedlist>
142 </listitem>
143
144 <listitem>
145 <para>December 29, 2005</para>
146 <itemizedlist>
147 <listitem>
148 <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
149 </listitem>
150 </itemizedlist>
151 </listitem>
152
153 <listitem>
154 <para>December 28, 2005</para>
155 <itemizedlist>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
158 are in chroot.</para>
159 </listitem>
160 <listitem>
161 <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
162 </listitem>
163 <listitem>
164 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
165 </listitem>
166 </itemizedlist>
167 </listitem>
168
169 <listitem>
170 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
171 <itemizedlist>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
174 </listitem>
175 </itemizedlist>
176 </listitem>
177
178 <listitem>
179 <para>December 22, 2005</para>
180 <itemizedlist>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
183 following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
184 including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
185 as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
186 </listitem>
187 <listitem>
188 <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
189 following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
190 faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
191 Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
192 readline.</para>
193 </listitem>
194 <listitem>
195 <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
196 a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
197 </listitem>
198 <listitem>
199 <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
200 </listitem>
201 </itemizedlist>
202 </listitem>
203
204 <listitem>
205 <para>December 20, 2005</para>
206 <itemizedlist>
207 <listitem>
208 <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
209 </listitem>
210 </itemizedlist>
211 </listitem>
212
213 <listitem>
214 <para>December 19, 2005</para>
215 <itemizedlist>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
218 </listitem>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
221 an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
222 </listitem>
223 </itemizedlist>
224 </listitem>
225
226 <listitem>
227 <para>December 18, 2005</para>
228 <itemizedlist>
229 <listitem>
230 <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
231 perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
232 and boot sections.</para>
233 </listitem>
234 <listitem>
235 <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
236 it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
237 a multilib capable build.</para>
238 </listitem>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
241 </listitem>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
244 </listitem>
245 </itemizedlist>
246 </listitem>
247
248 <listitem>
249 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
250 <itemizedlist>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
253 </listitem>
254 </itemizedlist>
255 </listitem>
256
257 <listitem>
258 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
259 <itemizedlist>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
262 </listitem>
263 <listitem>
264 <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
265 in perl.</para>
266 </listitem>
267 </itemizedlist>
268 </listitem>
269
270 <listitem>
271 <para>December 15, 2005</para>
272 <itemizedlist>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
275 </listitem>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
278 </listitem>
279 </itemizedlist>
280 </listitem>
281
282 <listitem>
283 <para>December 14, 2005</para>
284 <itemizedlist>
285 <listitem>
286 <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
287 further build issues.</para>
288 </listitem>
289 <listitem>
290 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
291 </listitem>
292 <listitem>
293 <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
294 </listitem>
295 </itemizedlist>
296 </listitem>
297
298 <listitem>
299 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
300 <itemizedlist>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
303 Thanks to David Fix.</para>
304 </listitem>
305 </itemizedlist>
306 </listitem>
307
308 <listitem>
309 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
310 <itemizedlist>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
313 </listitem>
314 </itemizedlist>
315 </listitem>
316
317 <listitem>
318 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
319 <itemizedlist>
320 <listitem>
321 <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
322 </listitem>
323 </itemizedlist>
324 </listitem>
325
326 <listitem>
327 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
328 <itemizedlist>
329 <listitem>
330 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
331 </listitem>
332 <listitem>
333 <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
334 </listitem>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
337 They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
338 </listitem>
339 </itemizedlist>
340 </listitem>
341
342 <listitem>
343 <para>December 8, 2005</para>
344 <itemizedlist>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
347 </listitem>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
350 </listitem>
351 <listitem>
352 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
353 </listitem>
354 </itemizedlist>
355 </listitem>
356
357 <listitem>
358 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
359 <itemizedlist>
360 <listitem>
361 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
362 </listitem>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
365 </listitem>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
368 </listitem>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
371 </listitem>
372 </itemizedlist>
373 </listitem>
374
375 <listitem>
376 <para>December 6, 2005</para>
377 <itemizedlist>
378 <listitem>
379 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
380 </listitem>
381 <listitem>
382 <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
383 </listitem>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
386 </listitem>
387 <listitem>
388 <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
389 correct the date in changelog.</para>
390 </listitem>
391 <listitem>
392 <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
393 for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
394 wrong.</para>
395 </listitem>
396 <listitem>
397 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
398 </listitem>
399 </itemizedlist>
400 </listitem>
401
402 <listitem>
403 <para>December 5, 2005</para>
404 <itemizedlist>
405 <listitem>
406 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
407 instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
408 </listitem>
409 <listitem>
410 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
411 </listitem>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
414 user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
415 by other devs</para>
416 </listitem>
417 <listitem>
418 <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
419 testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
420 </listitem>
421 </itemizedlist>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>December 3, 2005</para>
426 <itemizedlist>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
429 coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
430 from LFS.</para>
431 </listitem>
432 </itemizedlist>
433 </listitem>
434
435 <listitem>
436 <para>December 2, 2005</para>
437 <itemizedlist>
438 <listitem>
439 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
440 </listitem>
441 </itemizedlist>
442 </listitem>
443
444 <listitem>
445 <para>December 1, 2005</para>
446 <itemizedlist>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
449 </listitem>
450 <listitem>
451 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
452 </listitem>
453 <listitem>
454 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
455 </listitem>
456 <listitem>
457 <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
458 </listitem>
459 </itemizedlist>
460 </listitem>
461
462 <listitem>
463 <para>November 30, 2005</para>
464 <itemizedlist>
465 <listitem>
466 <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
467 </listitem>
468 <listitem>
469 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
470 </listitem>
471 </itemizedlist>
472 </listitem>
473
474 <listitem>
475 <para>November 29, 2005</para>
476 <itemizedlist>
477 <listitem>
478 <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
479 </listitem>
480 <listitem>
481 <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
482 </listitem>
483 </itemizedlist>
484 </listitem>
485
486 <listitem>
487 <para>November 28, 2005</para>
488 <itemizedlist>
489 <listitem>
490 <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
491 </listitem>
492 <listitem>
493 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
494 </listitem>
495 <listitem>
496 <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
497 </listitem>
498 </itemizedlist>
499 </listitem>
500
501 <listitem>
502 <para>November 27, 2005</para>
503 <itemizedlist>
504 <listitem>
505 <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
506 </listitem>
507 <listitem>
508 <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
509 </listitem>
510 </itemizedlist>
511 </listitem>
512
513 <listitem>
514 <para>November 25, 2005</para>
515 <itemizedlist>
516 <listitem>
517 <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
518 </listitem>
519 </itemizedlist>
520 </listitem>
521
522 <listitem>
523 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
524 <itemizedlist>
525 <listitem>
526 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
527 </listitem>
528 <listitem>
529 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
530 that it no longer exists</para>
531 </listitem>
532 </itemizedlist>
533 </listitem>
534
535 <listitem>
536 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
537 <itemizedlist>
538 <listitem>
539 <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
540 /tools/include.</para>
541 </listitem>
542 </itemizedlist>
543 </listitem>
544
545 <listitem>
546 <para>November 21, 2005</para>
547 <itemizedlist>
548 <listitem>
549 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
550 </listitem>
551 <listitem>
552 <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
553 </listitem>
554 </itemizedlist>
555 </listitem>
556
557 <listitem>
558 <para>November 20, 2005</para>
559 <itemizedlist>
560 <listitem>
561 <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
562 </listitem>
563 </itemizedlist>
564 </listitem>
565
566 <listitem>
567 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
568 <itemizedlist>
569 <listitem>
570 <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
571 package.</para>
572 </listitem>
573 </itemizedlist>
574 </listitem>
575
576 <listitem>
577 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
578 <itemizedlist>
579 <listitem>
580 <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
581 </listitem>
582 <listitem>
583 <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
584 Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
585 </listitem>
586 <listitem>
587 <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
588 </listitem>
589 </itemizedlist>
590 </listitem>
591
592 <listitem>
593 <para>November 13, 2005</para>
594 <itemizedlist>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
597 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
598 LFS-SVN.</para>
599 </listitem>
600 <listitem>
601 <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
602 as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
603 </listitem>
604 <listitem>
605 <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
606 </listitem>
607 <listitem>
608 <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
609 </listitem>
610 </itemizedlist>
611 </listitem>
612
613 <listitem>
614 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
615 <itemizedlist>
616 <listitem>
617 <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
618 testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
619 </listitem>
620 <listitem>
621 <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
622 </listitem>
623 <listitem>
624 <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
625 </listitem>
626 </itemizedlist>
627 </listitem>
628
629 <listitem>
630 <para>November 9, 2005</para>
631 <itemizedlist>
632 <listitem>
633 <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
634 system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
635 </listitem>
636 <listitem>
637 <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
638 of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
639 </listitem>
640 <listitem>
641 <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
642 </listitem>
643 <listitem>
644 <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
645 </listitem>
646 </itemizedlist>
647 </listitem>
648
649 <listitem>
650 <para>November 8, 2005</para>
651 <itemizedlist>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
654 </listitem>
655 </itemizedlist>
656 </listitem>
657
658 <listitem>
659 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
660 <itemizedlist>
661 <listitem>
662 <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
663 toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
664 </listitem>
665 <listitem>
666 <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
667 class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
668 of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
669 Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
670 </listitem>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
673 Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
674 </listitem>
675 <listitem>
676 <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
677 cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
678 </listitem>
679 </itemizedlist>
680 </listitem>
681
682 <listitem>
683 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
684 <itemizedlist>
685 <listitem>
686 <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
687 </listitem>
688 <listitem>
689 <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
690 </listitem>
691 <listitem>
692 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
693 </listitem>
694 </itemizedlist>
695 </listitem>
696
697 <listitem>
698 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
699 <itemizedlist>
700 <listitem>
701 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
702 </listitem>
703 </itemizedlist>
704 </listitem>
705
706 <listitem>
707 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
708 <itemizedlist>
709 <listitem>
710 <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
711 Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
712 </listitem>
713 </itemizedlist>
714 </listitem>
715
716 <listitem>
717 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
718 <itemizedlist>
719 <listitem>
720 <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
721 </listitem>
722 </itemizedlist>
723 </listitem>
724
725 </itemizedlist>
726
727 <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
728
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