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