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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 <listitem>
47 <para>[Chris] - Moved zlib from temp-system to boot as it's
48not needed if you chroot.</para>
49 </listitem>
50 </itemizedlist>
51 </listitem>
52
53 <listitem>
54 <para>January 19, 2006</para>
55 <itemizedlist>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>[Chris] - Removed patch from shadow instructions.</para>
58 </listitem>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>[Chris] - Added perl sprintf vulnerability patch.</para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.21.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 </itemizedlist>
66 </listitem>
67
68 <listitem>
69 <para>January 13, 2006</para>
70 <itemizedlist>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>[ken] - Moved grep ahead of libtool to avoid /tools being hardcoded
73 into the libtool script for EGREP.</para>
74 </listitem>
75 <listitem>
76 <para>[ken] - Alter bison to build repeatably, from LFS.</para>
77 </listitem>
78 <listitem>
79 <para>[ken] - Alter gccbug to use mktemp, from LFS.</para>
80 </listitem>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>[ken] - Move creation of /etc/hosts within Perl instructions,
83 for repeatability, from LFS.</para>
84 </listitem>
85 <listitem>
86 <para>[Chris] - Moved bootloader setup to right after "Changing Ownership" in Chapter 7, and changed several package installation instructions in that chapter.</para>
87 </listitem>
88
89 </itemizedlist>
90 </listitem>
91
92 <listitem>
93 <para>January 12, 2006</para>
94 <itemizedlist>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
97 to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
98 </listitem>
99 <listitem>
100 <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
101 </listitem>
102 <listitem>
103 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
104 </listitem>
105 <listitem>
106 <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
107 to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
108 </listitem>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.</para>
111 </listitem>
112 <listitem>
113 <para>[jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So
114 I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted
115 on Pure 64 builds.</para>
116 </listitem>
117 </itemizedlist>
118 </listitem>
119
120 <listitem>
121 <para>January 11, 2006</para>
122 <itemizedlist>
123 <listitem>
124 <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
125 a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
126 the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
127 </listitem>
128 </itemizedlist>
129 </listitem>
130
131 <listitem>
132 <para>January 8, 2006</para>
133 <itemizedlist>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
136 process and test suite information.</para>
137 </listitem>
138 </itemizedlist>
139 </listitem>
140
141 <listitem>
142 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
143 <itemizedlist>
144 <listitem>
145 <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
146 </listitem>
147 </itemizedlist>
148 </listitem>
149
150 <listitem>
151 <para>December 30, 2005</para>
152 <itemizedlist>
153 <listitem>
154 <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
155 "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
156 removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
157 </listitem>
158 <listitem>
159 <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
160 </listitem>
161 </itemizedlist>
162 </listitem>
163
164 <listitem>
165 <para>December 29, 2005</para>
166 <itemizedlist>
167 <listitem>
168 <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
169 </listitem>
170 </itemizedlist>
171 </listitem>
172
173 <listitem>
174 <para>December 28, 2005</para>
175 <itemizedlist>
176 <listitem>
177 <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
178 are in chroot.</para>
179 </listitem>
180 <listitem>
181 <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
182 </listitem>
183 <listitem>
184 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
185 </listitem>
186 </itemizedlist>
187 </listitem>
188
189 <listitem>
190 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
191 <itemizedlist>
192 <listitem>
193 <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
194 </listitem>
195 </itemizedlist>
196 </listitem>
197
198 <listitem>
199 <para>December 22, 2005</para>
200 <itemizedlist>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
203 following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
204 including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
205 as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
206 </listitem>
207 <listitem>
208 <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
209 following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
210 faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
211 Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
212 readline.</para>
213 </listitem>
214 <listitem>
215 <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
216 a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
217 </listitem>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
220 </listitem>
221 </itemizedlist>
222 </listitem>
223
224 <listitem>
225 <para>December 20, 2005</para>
226 <itemizedlist>
227 <listitem>
228 <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
229 </listitem>
230 </itemizedlist>
231 </listitem>
232
233 <listitem>
234 <para>December 19, 2005</para>
235 <itemizedlist>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
238 </listitem>
239 <listitem>
240 <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
241 an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
242 </listitem>
243 </itemizedlist>
244 </listitem>
245
246 <listitem>
247 <para>December 18, 2005</para>
248 <itemizedlist>
249 <listitem>
250 <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
251 perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
252 and boot sections.</para>
253 </listitem>
254 <listitem>
255 <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
256 it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
257 a multilib capable build.</para>
258 </listitem>
259 <listitem>
260 <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
261 </listitem>
262 <listitem>
263 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
264 </listitem>
265 </itemizedlist>
266 </listitem>
267
268 <listitem>
269 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
270 <itemizedlist>
271 <listitem>
272 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
273 </listitem>
274 </itemizedlist>
275 </listitem>
276
277 <listitem>
278 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
279 <itemizedlist>
280 <listitem>
281 <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
282 </listitem>
283 <listitem>
284 <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
285 in perl.</para>
286 </listitem>
287 </itemizedlist>
288 </listitem>
289
290 <listitem>
291 <para>December 15, 2005</para>
292 <itemizedlist>
293 <listitem>
294 <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
295 </listitem>
296 <listitem>
297 <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
298 </listitem>
299 </itemizedlist>
300 </listitem>
301
302 <listitem>
303 <para>December 14, 2005</para>
304 <itemizedlist>
305 <listitem>
306 <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
307 further build issues.</para>
308 </listitem>
309 <listitem>
310 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
311 </listitem>
312 <listitem>
313 <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
314 </listitem>
315 </itemizedlist>
316 </listitem>
317
318 <listitem>
319 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
320 <itemizedlist>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
323 Thanks to David Fix.</para>
324 </listitem>
325 </itemizedlist>
326 </listitem>
327
328 <listitem>
329 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
330 <itemizedlist>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
333 </listitem>
334 </itemizedlist>
335 </listitem>
336
337 <listitem>
338 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
339 <itemizedlist>
340 <listitem>
341 <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
342 </listitem>
343 </itemizedlist>
344 </listitem>
345
346 <listitem>
347 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
348 <itemizedlist>
349 <listitem>
350 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
351 </listitem>
352 <listitem>
353 <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
354 </listitem>
355 <listitem>
356 <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
357 They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
358 </listitem>
359 </itemizedlist>
360 </listitem>
361
362 <listitem>
363 <para>December 8, 2005</para>
364 <itemizedlist>
365 <listitem>
366 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
367 </listitem>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
370 </listitem>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
373 </listitem>
374 </itemizedlist>
375 </listitem>
376
377 <listitem>
378 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
379 <itemizedlist>
380 <listitem>
381 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
382 </listitem>
383 <listitem>
384 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
385 </listitem>
386 <listitem>
387 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
388 </listitem>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
391 </listitem>
392 </itemizedlist>
393 </listitem>
394
395 <listitem>
396 <para>December 6, 2005</para>
397 <itemizedlist>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
400 </listitem>
401 <listitem>
402 <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
403 </listitem>
404 <listitem>
405 <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
406 </listitem>
407 <listitem>
408 <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
409 correct the date in changelog.</para>
410 </listitem>
411 <listitem>
412 <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
413 for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
414 wrong.</para>
415 </listitem>
416 <listitem>
417 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
418 </listitem>
419 </itemizedlist>
420 </listitem>
421
422 <listitem>
423 <para>December 5, 2005</para>
424 <itemizedlist>
425 <listitem>
426 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
427 instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
428 </listitem>
429 <listitem>
430 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
431 </listitem>
432 <listitem>
433 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
434 user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
435 by other devs</para>
436 </listitem>
437 <listitem>
438 <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
439 testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
440 </listitem>
441 </itemizedlist>
442 </listitem>
443
444 <listitem>
445 <para>December 3, 2005</para>
446 <itemizedlist>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
449 coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
450 from LFS.</para>
451 </listitem>
452 </itemizedlist>
453 </listitem>
454
455 <listitem>
456 <para>December 2, 2005</para>
457 <itemizedlist>
458 <listitem>
459 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
460 </listitem>
461 </itemizedlist>
462 </listitem>
463
464 <listitem>
465 <para>December 1, 2005</para>
466 <itemizedlist>
467 <listitem>
468 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
469 </listitem>
470 <listitem>
471 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
472 </listitem>
473 <listitem>
474 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
475 </listitem>
476 <listitem>
477 <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
478 </listitem>
479 </itemizedlist>
480 </listitem>
481
482 <listitem>
483 <para>November 30, 2005</para>
484 <itemizedlist>
485 <listitem>
486 <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
487 </listitem>
488 <listitem>
489 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
490 </listitem>
491 </itemizedlist>
492 </listitem>
493
494 <listitem>
495 <para>November 29, 2005</para>
496 <itemizedlist>
497 <listitem>
498 <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
499 </listitem>
500 <listitem>
501 <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
502 </listitem>
503 </itemizedlist>
504 </listitem>
505
506 <listitem>
507 <para>November 28, 2005</para>
508 <itemizedlist>
509 <listitem>
510 <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
511 </listitem>
512 <listitem>
513 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
514 </listitem>
515 <listitem>
516 <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
517 </listitem>
518 </itemizedlist>
519 </listitem>
520
521 <listitem>
522 <para>November 27, 2005</para>
523 <itemizedlist>
524 <listitem>
525 <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
526 </listitem>
527 <listitem>
528 <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
529 </listitem>
530 </itemizedlist>
531 </listitem>
532
533 <listitem>
534 <para>November 25, 2005</para>
535 <itemizedlist>
536 <listitem>
537 <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
538 </listitem>
539 </itemizedlist>
540 </listitem>
541
542 <listitem>
543 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
544 <itemizedlist>
545 <listitem>
546 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
547 </listitem>
548 <listitem>
549 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
550 that it no longer exists</para>
551 </listitem>
552 </itemizedlist>
553 </listitem>
554
555 <listitem>
556 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
557 <itemizedlist>
558 <listitem>
559 <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
560 /tools/include.</para>
561 </listitem>
562 </itemizedlist>
563 </listitem>
564
565 <listitem>
566 <para>November 21, 2005</para>
567 <itemizedlist>
568 <listitem>
569 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
570 </listitem>
571 <listitem>
572 <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
573 </listitem>
574 </itemizedlist>
575 </listitem>
576
577 <listitem>
578 <para>November 20, 2005</para>
579 <itemizedlist>
580 <listitem>
581 <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
582 </listitem>
583 </itemizedlist>
584 </listitem>
585
586 <listitem>
587 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
588 <itemizedlist>
589 <listitem>
590 <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
591 package.</para>
592 </listitem>
593 </itemizedlist>
594 </listitem>
595
596 <listitem>
597 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
598 <itemizedlist>
599 <listitem>
600 <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
601 </listitem>
602 <listitem>
603 <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
604 Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
605 </listitem>
606 <listitem>
607 <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
608 </listitem>
609 </itemizedlist>
610 </listitem>
611
612 <listitem>
613 <para>November 13, 2005</para>
614 <itemizedlist>
615 <listitem>
616 <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
617 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
618 LFS-SVN.</para>
619 </listitem>
620 <listitem>
621 <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
622 as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
623 </listitem>
624 <listitem>
625 <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
626 </listitem>
627 <listitem>
628 <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
629 </listitem>
630 </itemizedlist>
631 </listitem>
632
633 <listitem>
634 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
635 <itemizedlist>
636 <listitem>
637 <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
638 testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
639 </listitem>
640 <listitem>
641 <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
642 </listitem>
643 <listitem>
644 <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
645 </listitem>
646 </itemizedlist>
647 </listitem>
648
649 <listitem>
650 <para>November 9, 2005</para>
651 <itemizedlist>
652 <listitem>
653 <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
654 system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
655 </listitem>
656 <listitem>
657 <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
658 of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
659 </listitem>
660 <listitem>
661 <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
662 </listitem>
663 <listitem>
664 <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
665 </listitem>
666 </itemizedlist>
667 </listitem>
668
669 <listitem>
670 <para>November 8, 2005</para>
671 <itemizedlist>
672 <listitem>
673 <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
674 </listitem>
675 </itemizedlist>
676 </listitem>
677
678 <listitem>
679 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
680 <itemizedlist>
681 <listitem>
682 <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
683 toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
684 </listitem>
685 <listitem>
686 <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
687 class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
688 of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
689 Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
690 </listitem>
691 <listitem>
692 <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
693 Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
694 </listitem>
695 <listitem>
696 <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
697 cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
698 </listitem>
699 </itemizedlist>
700 </listitem>
701
702 <listitem>
703 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
704 <itemizedlist>
705 <listitem>
706 <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
707 </listitem>
708 <listitem>
709 <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
710 </listitem>
711 <listitem>
712 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
713 </listitem>
714 </itemizedlist>
715 </listitem>
716
717 <listitem>
718 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
719 <itemizedlist>
720 <listitem>
721 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
722 </listitem>
723 </itemizedlist>
724 </listitem>
725
726 <listitem>
727 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
728 <itemizedlist>
729 <listitem>
730 <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
731 Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
732 </listitem>
733 </itemizedlist>
734 </listitem>
735
736 <listitem>
737 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
738 <itemizedlist>
739 <listitem>
740 <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
741 </listitem>
742 </itemizedlist>
743 </listitem>
744
745 </itemizedlist>
746
747 <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
748
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