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