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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 <listitem>
46 <para>[Chris] - Added perl sprintf vulnerability patch.</para>
47 </listitem>
48 </itemizedlist>
49 </listitem>
50
51 <listitem>
52 <para>January 13, 2006</para>
53 <itemizedlist>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>[ken] - Moved grep ahead of libtool to avoid /tools being hardcoded
56 into the libtool script for EGREP.</para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>[ken] - Alter bison to build repeatably, from LFS.</para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>[ken] - Alter gccbug to use mktemp, from LFS.</para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>[ken] - Move creation of /etc/hosts within Perl instructions,
66 for repeatability, from LFS.</para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>[Chris] - Moved bootloader setup to right after "Changing Ownership" in Chapter 7, and changed several package installation instructions in that chapter.</para>
70 </listitem>
71
72 </itemizedlist>
73 </listitem>
74
75 <listitem>
76 <para>January 12, 2006</para>
77 <itemizedlist>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
80 to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
81 </listitem>
82 <listitem>
83 <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
84 </listitem>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
87 </listitem>
88 <listitem>
89 <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
90 to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
91 </listitem>
92 <listitem>
93 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.</para>
94 </listitem>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>[jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So
97 I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted
98 on Pure 64 builds.</para>
99 </listitem>
100 </itemizedlist>
101 </listitem>
102
103 <listitem>
104 <para>January 11, 2006</para>
105 <itemizedlist>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
108 a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
109 the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
110 </listitem>
111 </itemizedlist>
112 </listitem>
113
114 <listitem>
115 <para>January 8, 2006</para>
116 <itemizedlist>
117 <listitem>
118 <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
119 process and test suite information.</para>
120 </listitem>
121 </itemizedlist>
122 </listitem>
123
124 <listitem>
125 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
126 <itemizedlist>
127 <listitem>
128 <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
129 </listitem>
130 </itemizedlist>
131 </listitem>
132
133 <listitem>
134 <para>December 30, 2005</para>
135 <itemizedlist>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
138 "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
139 removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
140 </listitem>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
143 </listitem>
144 </itemizedlist>
145 </listitem>
146
147 <listitem>
148 <para>December 29, 2005</para>
149 <itemizedlist>
150 <listitem>
151 <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
152 </listitem>
153 </itemizedlist>
154 </listitem>
155
156 <listitem>
157 <para>December 28, 2005</para>
158 <itemizedlist>
159 <listitem>
160 <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
161 are in chroot.</para>
162 </listitem>
163 <listitem>
164 <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
165 </listitem>
166 <listitem>
167 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
168 </listitem>
169 </itemizedlist>
170 </listitem>
171
172 <listitem>
173 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
174 <itemizedlist>
175 <listitem>
176 <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
177 </listitem>
178 </itemizedlist>
179 </listitem>
180
181 <listitem>
182 <para>December 22, 2005</para>
183 <itemizedlist>
184 <listitem>
185 <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
186 following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
187 including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
188 as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
189 </listitem>
190 <listitem>
191 <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
192 following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
193 faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
194 Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
195 readline.</para>
196 </listitem>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
199 a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
200 </listitem>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
203 </listitem>
204 </itemizedlist>
205 </listitem>
206
207 <listitem>
208 <para>December 20, 2005</para>
209 <itemizedlist>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
212 </listitem>
213 </itemizedlist>
214 </listitem>
215
216 <listitem>
217 <para>December 19, 2005</para>
218 <itemizedlist>
219 <listitem>
220 <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
221 </listitem>
222 <listitem>
223 <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
224 an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
225 </listitem>
226 </itemizedlist>
227 </listitem>
228
229 <listitem>
230 <para>December 18, 2005</para>
231 <itemizedlist>
232 <listitem>
233 <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
234 perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
235 and boot sections.</para>
236 </listitem>
237 <listitem>
238 <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
239 it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
240 a multilib capable build.</para>
241 </listitem>
242 <listitem>
243 <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
244 </listitem>
245 <listitem>
246 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
247 </listitem>
248 </itemizedlist>
249 </listitem>
250
251 <listitem>
252 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
253 <itemizedlist>
254 <listitem>
255 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
256 </listitem>
257 </itemizedlist>
258 </listitem>
259
260 <listitem>
261 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
262 <itemizedlist>
263 <listitem>
264 <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
265 </listitem>
266 <listitem>
267 <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
268 in perl.</para>
269 </listitem>
270 </itemizedlist>
271 </listitem>
272
273 <listitem>
274 <para>December 15, 2005</para>
275 <itemizedlist>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
278 </listitem>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
281 </listitem>
282 </itemizedlist>
283 </listitem>
284
285 <listitem>
286 <para>December 14, 2005</para>
287 <itemizedlist>
288 <listitem>
289 <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
290 further build issues.</para>
291 </listitem>
292 <listitem>
293 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
294 </listitem>
295 <listitem>
296 <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
297 </listitem>
298 </itemizedlist>
299 </listitem>
300
301 <listitem>
302 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
303 <itemizedlist>
304 <listitem>
305 <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
306 Thanks to David Fix.</para>
307 </listitem>
308 </itemizedlist>
309 </listitem>
310
311 <listitem>
312 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
313 <itemizedlist>
314 <listitem>
315 <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
316 </listitem>
317 </itemizedlist>
318 </listitem>
319
320 <listitem>
321 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
322 <itemizedlist>
323 <listitem>
324 <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
325 </listitem>
326 </itemizedlist>
327 </listitem>
328
329 <listitem>
330 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
331 <itemizedlist>
332 <listitem>
333 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
334 </listitem>
335 <listitem>
336 <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
337 </listitem>
338 <listitem>
339 <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
340 They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
341 </listitem>
342 </itemizedlist>
343 </listitem>
344
345 <listitem>
346 <para>December 8, 2005</para>
347 <itemizedlist>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
350 </listitem>
351 <listitem>
352 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
353 </listitem>
354 <listitem>
355 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
356 </listitem>
357 </itemizedlist>
358 </listitem>
359
360 <listitem>
361 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
362 <itemizedlist>
363 <listitem>
364 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
365 </listitem>
366 <listitem>
367 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
368 </listitem>
369 <listitem>
370 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
371 </listitem>
372 <listitem>
373 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
374 </listitem>
375 </itemizedlist>
376 </listitem>
377
378 <listitem>
379 <para>December 6, 2005</para>
380 <itemizedlist>
381 <listitem>
382 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
383 </listitem>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
386 </listitem>
387 <listitem>
388 <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
389 </listitem>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
392 correct the date in changelog.</para>
393 </listitem>
394 <listitem>
395 <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
396 for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
397 wrong.</para>
398 </listitem>
399 <listitem>
400 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
401 </listitem>
402 </itemizedlist>
403 </listitem>
404
405 <listitem>
406 <para>December 5, 2005</para>
407 <itemizedlist>
408 <listitem>
409 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
410 instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
411 </listitem>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
414 </listitem>
415 <listitem>
416 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
417 user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
418 by other devs</para>
419 </listitem>
420 <listitem>
421 <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
422 testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
423 </listitem>
424 </itemizedlist>
425 </listitem>
426
427 <listitem>
428 <para>December 3, 2005</para>
429 <itemizedlist>
430 <listitem>
431 <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
432 coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
433 from LFS.</para>
434 </listitem>
435 </itemizedlist>
436 </listitem>
437
438 <listitem>
439 <para>December 2, 2005</para>
440 <itemizedlist>
441 <listitem>
442 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
443 </listitem>
444 </itemizedlist>
445 </listitem>
446
447 <listitem>
448 <para>December 1, 2005</para>
449 <itemizedlist>
450 <listitem>
451 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
452 </listitem>
453 <listitem>
454 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
455 </listitem>
456 <listitem>
457 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
458 </listitem>
459 <listitem>
460 <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
461 </listitem>
462 </itemizedlist>
463 </listitem>
464
465 <listitem>
466 <para>November 30, 2005</para>
467 <itemizedlist>
468 <listitem>
469 <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
470 </listitem>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
473 </listitem>
474 </itemizedlist>
475 </listitem>
476
477 <listitem>
478 <para>November 29, 2005</para>
479 <itemizedlist>
480 <listitem>
481 <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
482 </listitem>
483 <listitem>
484 <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
485 </listitem>
486 </itemizedlist>
487 </listitem>
488
489 <listitem>
490 <para>November 28, 2005</para>
491 <itemizedlist>
492 <listitem>
493 <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
494 </listitem>
495 <listitem>
496 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
497 </listitem>
498 <listitem>
499 <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
500 </listitem>
501 </itemizedlist>
502 </listitem>
503
504 <listitem>
505 <para>November 27, 2005</para>
506 <itemizedlist>
507 <listitem>
508 <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
509 </listitem>
510 <listitem>
511 <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
512 </listitem>
513 </itemizedlist>
514 </listitem>
515
516 <listitem>
517 <para>November 25, 2005</para>
518 <itemizedlist>
519 <listitem>
520 <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
521 </listitem>
522 </itemizedlist>
523 </listitem>
524
525 <listitem>
526 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
527 <itemizedlist>
528 <listitem>
529 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
530 </listitem>
531 <listitem>
532 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
533 that it no longer exists</para>
534 </listitem>
535 </itemizedlist>
536 </listitem>
537
538 <listitem>
539 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
540 <itemizedlist>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
543 /tools/include.</para>
544 </listitem>
545 </itemizedlist>
546 </listitem>
547
548 <listitem>
549 <para>November 21, 2005</para>
550 <itemizedlist>
551 <listitem>
552 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
553 </listitem>
554 <listitem>
555 <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
556 </listitem>
557 </itemizedlist>
558 </listitem>
559
560 <listitem>
561 <para>November 20, 2005</para>
562 <itemizedlist>
563 <listitem>
564 <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
565 </listitem>
566 </itemizedlist>
567 </listitem>
568
569 <listitem>
570 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
571 <itemizedlist>
572 <listitem>
573 <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
574 package.</para>
575 </listitem>
576 </itemizedlist>
577 </listitem>
578
579 <listitem>
580 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
581 <itemizedlist>
582 <listitem>
583 <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
584 </listitem>
585 <listitem>
586 <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
587 Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
588 </listitem>
589 <listitem>
590 <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
591 </listitem>
592 </itemizedlist>
593 </listitem>
594
595 <listitem>
596 <para>November 13, 2005</para>
597 <itemizedlist>
598 <listitem>
599 <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
600 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
601 LFS-SVN.</para>
602 </listitem>
603 <listitem>
604 <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
605 as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
606 </listitem>
607 <listitem>
608 <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
609 </listitem>
610 <listitem>
611 <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
612 </listitem>
613 </itemizedlist>
614 </listitem>
615
616 <listitem>
617 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
618 <itemizedlist>
619 <listitem>
620 <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
621 testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
622 </listitem>
623 <listitem>
624 <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
625 </listitem>
626 <listitem>
627 <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
628 </listitem>
629 </itemizedlist>
630 </listitem>
631
632 <listitem>
633 <para>November 9, 2005</para>
634 <itemizedlist>
635 <listitem>
636 <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
637 system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
638 </listitem>
639 <listitem>
640 <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
641 of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
642 </listitem>
643 <listitem>
644 <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
645 </listitem>
646 <listitem>
647 <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
648 </listitem>
649 </itemizedlist>
650 </listitem>
651
652 <listitem>
653 <para>November 8, 2005</para>
654 <itemizedlist>
655 <listitem>
656 <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
657 </listitem>
658 </itemizedlist>
659 </listitem>
660
661 <listitem>
662 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
663 <itemizedlist>
664 <listitem>
665 <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
666 toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
667 </listitem>
668 <listitem>
669 <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
670 class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
671 of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
672 Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
673 </listitem>
674 <listitem>
675 <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
676 Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
677 </listitem>
678 <listitem>
679 <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
680 cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
681 </listitem>
682 </itemizedlist>
683 </listitem>
684
685 <listitem>
686 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
687 <itemizedlist>
688 <listitem>
689 <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
690 </listitem>
691 <listitem>
692 <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
693 </listitem>
694 <listitem>
695 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
696 </listitem>
697 </itemizedlist>
698 </listitem>
699
700 <listitem>
701 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
702 <itemizedlist>
703 <listitem>
704 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
705 </listitem>
706 </itemizedlist>
707 </listitem>
708
709 <listitem>
710 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
711 <itemizedlist>
712 <listitem>
713 <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
714 Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
715 </listitem>
716 </itemizedlist>
717 </listitem>
718
719 <listitem>
720 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
721 <itemizedlist>
722 <listitem>
723 <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
724 </listitem>
725 </itemizedlist>
726 </listitem>
727
728 </itemizedlist>
729
730 <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
731
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