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8<sect1 id="ch-intro-changelog" xreflabel="Master Changelog">
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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 23, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[Chris] - Removed unnecessary --with-ncurses switches
44from temp-system bash and inetutils.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 </itemizedlist>
47 </listitem>
48
49 <listitem>
50 <para>January 19, 2006</para>
51 <itemizedlist>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>[Chris] - Removed patch from shadow instructions.</para>
54 </listitem>
55 <listitem>
56 <para>[Chris] - Added perl sprintf vulnerability patch.</para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.21.</para>
60 </listitem>
61 </itemizedlist>
62 </listitem>
63
64 <listitem>
65 <para>January 13, 2006</para>
66 <itemizedlist>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>[ken] - Moved grep ahead of libtool to avoid /tools being hardcoded
69 into the libtool script for EGREP.</para>
70 </listitem>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>[ken] - Alter bison to build repeatably, from LFS.</para>
73 </listitem>
74 <listitem>
75 <para>[ken] - Alter gccbug to use mktemp, from LFS.</para>
76 </listitem>
77 <listitem>
78 <para>[ken] - Move creation of /etc/hosts within Perl instructions,
79 for repeatability, from LFS.</para>
80 </listitem>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>[Chris] - Moved bootloader setup to right after "Changing Ownership" in Chapter 7, and changed several package installation instructions in that chapter.</para>
83 </listitem>
84
85 </itemizedlist>
86 </listitem>
87
88 <listitem>
89 <para>January 12, 2006</para>
90 <itemizedlist>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
93 to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
94 </listitem>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
97 </listitem>
98 <listitem>
99 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
100 </listitem>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
103 to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
104 </listitem>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.</para>
107 </listitem>
108 <listitem>
109 <para>[jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So
110 I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted
111 on Pure 64 builds.</para>
112 </listitem>
113 </itemizedlist>
114 </listitem>
115
116 <listitem>
117 <para>January 11, 2006</para>
118 <itemizedlist>
119 <listitem>
120 <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
121 a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
122 the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
123 </listitem>
124 </itemizedlist>
125 </listitem>
126
127 <listitem>
128 <para>January 8, 2006</para>
129 <itemizedlist>
130 <listitem>
131 <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
132 process and test suite information.</para>
133 </listitem>
134 </itemizedlist>
135 </listitem>
136
137 <listitem>
138 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
139 <itemizedlist>
140 <listitem>
141 <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
142 </listitem>
143 </itemizedlist>
144 </listitem>
145
146 <listitem>
147 <para>December 30, 2005</para>
148 <itemizedlist>
149 <listitem>
150 <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
151 "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
152 removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
153 </listitem>
154 <listitem>
155 <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
156 </listitem>
157 </itemizedlist>
158 </listitem>
159
160 <listitem>
161 <para>December 29, 2005</para>
162 <itemizedlist>
163 <listitem>
164 <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
165 </listitem>
166 </itemizedlist>
167 </listitem>
168
169 <listitem>
170 <para>December 28, 2005</para>
171 <itemizedlist>
172 <listitem>
173 <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
174 are in chroot.</para>
175 </listitem>
176 <listitem>
177 <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
178 </listitem>
179 <listitem>
180 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
181 </listitem>
182 </itemizedlist>
183 </listitem>
184
185 <listitem>
186 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
187 <itemizedlist>
188 <listitem>
189 <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
190 </listitem>
191 </itemizedlist>
192 </listitem>
193
194 <listitem>
195 <para>December 22, 2005</para>
196 <itemizedlist>
197 <listitem>
198 <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
199 following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
200 including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
201 as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
202 </listitem>
203 <listitem>
204 <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
205 following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
206 faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
207 Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
208 readline.</para>
209 </listitem>
210 <listitem>
211 <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
212 a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
213 </listitem>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
216 </listitem>
217 </itemizedlist>
218 </listitem>
219
220 <listitem>
221 <para>December 20, 2005</para>
222 <itemizedlist>
223 <listitem>
224 <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
225 </listitem>
226 </itemizedlist>
227 </listitem>
228
229 <listitem>
230 <para>December 19, 2005</para>
231 <itemizedlist>
232 <listitem>
233 <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
234 </listitem>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
237 an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
238 </listitem>
239 </itemizedlist>
240 </listitem>
241
242 <listitem>
243 <para>December 18, 2005</para>
244 <itemizedlist>
245 <listitem>
246 <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
247 perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
248 and boot sections.</para>
249 </listitem>
250 <listitem>
251 <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
252 it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
253 a multilib capable build.</para>
254 </listitem>
255 <listitem>
256 <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
257 </listitem>
258 <listitem>
259 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
260 </listitem>
261 </itemizedlist>
262 </listitem>
263
264 <listitem>
265 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
266 <itemizedlist>
267 <listitem>
268 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
269 </listitem>
270 </itemizedlist>
271 </listitem>
272
273 <listitem>
274 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
275 <itemizedlist>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
278 </listitem>
279 <listitem>
280 <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
281 in perl.</para>
282 </listitem>
283 </itemizedlist>
284 </listitem>
285
286 <listitem>
287 <para>December 15, 2005</para>
288 <itemizedlist>
289 <listitem>
290 <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
291 </listitem>
292 <listitem>
293 <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
294 </listitem>
295 </itemizedlist>
296 </listitem>
297
298 <listitem>
299 <para>December 14, 2005</para>
300 <itemizedlist>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
303 further build issues.</para>
304 </listitem>
305 <listitem>
306 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
307 </listitem>
308 <listitem>
309 <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
310 </listitem>
311 </itemizedlist>
312 </listitem>
313
314 <listitem>
315 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
316 <itemizedlist>
317 <listitem>
318 <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
319 Thanks to David Fix.</para>
320 </listitem>
321 </itemizedlist>
322 </listitem>
323
324 <listitem>
325 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
326 <itemizedlist>
327 <listitem>
328 <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
329 </listitem>
330 </itemizedlist>
331 </listitem>
332
333 <listitem>
334 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
335 <itemizedlist>
336 <listitem>
337 <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
338 </listitem>
339 </itemizedlist>
340 </listitem>
341
342 <listitem>
343 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
344 <itemizedlist>
345 <listitem>
346 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
347 </listitem>
348 <listitem>
349 <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
350 </listitem>
351 <listitem>
352 <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
353 They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
354 </listitem>
355 </itemizedlist>
356 </listitem>
357
358 <listitem>
359 <para>December 8, 2005</para>
360 <itemizedlist>
361 <listitem>
362 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
363 </listitem>
364 <listitem>
365 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
366 </listitem>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
369 </listitem>
370 </itemizedlist>
371 </listitem>
372
373 <listitem>
374 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
375 <itemizedlist>
376 <listitem>
377 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
378 </listitem>
379 <listitem>
380 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
381 </listitem>
382 <listitem>
383 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
384 </listitem>
385 <listitem>
386 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
387 </listitem>
388 </itemizedlist>
389 </listitem>
390
391 <listitem>
392 <para>December 6, 2005</para>
393 <itemizedlist>
394 <listitem>
395 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
396 </listitem>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
399 </listitem>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
402 </listitem>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
405 correct the date in changelog.</para>
406 </listitem>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
409 for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
410 wrong.</para>
411 </listitem>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
414 </listitem>
415 </itemizedlist>
416 </listitem>
417
418 <listitem>
419 <para>December 5, 2005</para>
420 <itemizedlist>
421 <listitem>
422 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
423 instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
424 </listitem>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
427 </listitem>
428 <listitem>
429 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
430 user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
431 by other devs</para>
432 </listitem>
433 <listitem>
434 <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
435 testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
436 </listitem>
437 </itemizedlist>
438 </listitem>
439
440 <listitem>
441 <para>December 3, 2005</para>
442 <itemizedlist>
443 <listitem>
444 <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
445 coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
446 from LFS.</para>
447 </listitem>
448 </itemizedlist>
449 </listitem>
450
451 <listitem>
452 <para>December 2, 2005</para>
453 <itemizedlist>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
456 </listitem>
457 </itemizedlist>
458 </listitem>
459
460 <listitem>
461 <para>December 1, 2005</para>
462 <itemizedlist>
463 <listitem>
464 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
465 </listitem>
466 <listitem>
467 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
468 </listitem>
469 <listitem>
470 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
471 </listitem>
472 <listitem>
473 <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
474 </listitem>
475 </itemizedlist>
476 </listitem>
477
478 <listitem>
479 <para>November 30, 2005</para>
480 <itemizedlist>
481 <listitem>
482 <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
483 </listitem>
484 <listitem>
485 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
486 </listitem>
487 </itemizedlist>
488 </listitem>
489
490 <listitem>
491 <para>November 29, 2005</para>
492 <itemizedlist>
493 <listitem>
494 <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
495 </listitem>
496 <listitem>
497 <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
498 </listitem>
499 </itemizedlist>
500 </listitem>
501
502 <listitem>
503 <para>November 28, 2005</para>
504 <itemizedlist>
505 <listitem>
506 <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
507 </listitem>
508 <listitem>
509 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
510 </listitem>
511 <listitem>
512 <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
513 </listitem>
514 </itemizedlist>
515 </listitem>
516
517 <listitem>
518 <para>November 27, 2005</para>
519 <itemizedlist>
520 <listitem>
521 <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
522 </listitem>
523 <listitem>
524 <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
525 </listitem>
526 </itemizedlist>
527 </listitem>
528
529 <listitem>
530 <para>November 25, 2005</para>
531 <itemizedlist>
532 <listitem>
533 <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
534 </listitem>
535 </itemizedlist>
536 </listitem>
537
538 <listitem>
539 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
540 <itemizedlist>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
543 </listitem>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
546 that it no longer exists</para>
547 </listitem>
548 </itemizedlist>
549 </listitem>
550
551 <listitem>
552 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
553 <itemizedlist>
554 <listitem>
555 <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
556 /tools/include.</para>
557 </listitem>
558 </itemizedlist>
559 </listitem>
560
561 <listitem>
562 <para>November 21, 2005</para>
563 <itemizedlist>
564 <listitem>
565 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
566 </listitem>
567 <listitem>
568 <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
569 </listitem>
570 </itemizedlist>
571 </listitem>
572
573 <listitem>
574 <para>November 20, 2005</para>
575 <itemizedlist>
576 <listitem>
577 <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
578 </listitem>
579 </itemizedlist>
580 </listitem>
581
582 <listitem>
583 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
584 <itemizedlist>
585 <listitem>
586 <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
587 package.</para>
588 </listitem>
589 </itemizedlist>
590 </listitem>
591
592 <listitem>
593 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
594 <itemizedlist>
595 <listitem>
596 <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
597 </listitem>
598 <listitem>
599 <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
600 Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
601 </listitem>
602 <listitem>
603 <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
604 </listitem>
605 </itemizedlist>
606 </listitem>
607
608 <listitem>
609 <para>November 13, 2005</para>
610 <itemizedlist>
611 <listitem>
612 <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
613 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
614 LFS-SVN.</para>
615 </listitem>
616 <listitem>
617 <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
618 as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
619 </listitem>
620 <listitem>
621 <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
622 </listitem>
623 <listitem>
624 <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
625 </listitem>
626 </itemizedlist>
627 </listitem>
628
629 <listitem>
630 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
631 <itemizedlist>
632 <listitem>
633 <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
634 testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
635 </listitem>
636 <listitem>
637 <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
638 </listitem>
639 <listitem>
640 <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
641 </listitem>
642 </itemizedlist>
643 </listitem>
644
645 <listitem>
646 <para>November 9, 2005</para>
647 <itemizedlist>
648 <listitem>
649 <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
650 system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
651 </listitem>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
654 of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
655 </listitem>
656 <listitem>
657 <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
658 </listitem>
659 <listitem>
660 <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
661 </listitem>
662 </itemizedlist>
663 </listitem>
664
665 <listitem>
666 <para>November 8, 2005</para>
667 <itemizedlist>
668 <listitem>
669 <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
670 </listitem>
671 </itemizedlist>
672 </listitem>
673
674 <listitem>
675 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
676 <itemizedlist>
677 <listitem>
678 <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
679 toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
680 </listitem>
681 <listitem>
682 <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
683 class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
684 of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
685 Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
686 </listitem>
687 <listitem>
688 <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
689 Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
690 </listitem>
691 <listitem>
692 <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
693 cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
694 </listitem>
695 </itemizedlist>
696 </listitem>
697
698 <listitem>
699 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
700 <itemizedlist>
701 <listitem>
702 <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
703 </listitem>
704 <listitem>
705 <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
706 </listitem>
707 <listitem>
708 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
709 </listitem>
710 </itemizedlist>
711 </listitem>
712
713 <listitem>
714 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
715 <itemizedlist>
716 <listitem>
717 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
718 </listitem>
719 </itemizedlist>
720 </listitem>
721
722 <listitem>
723 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
724 <itemizedlist>
725 <listitem>
726 <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
727 Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
728 </listitem>
729 </itemizedlist>
730 </listitem>
731
732 <listitem>
733 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
734 <itemizedlist>
735 <listitem>
736 <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
737 </listitem>
738 </itemizedlist>
739 </listitem>
740
741 </itemizedlist>
742
743 <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
744
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