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