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