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