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