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