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8<sect1 id="ch-intro-changelog" xreflabel="Master Changelog">
9 <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?>
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 12, 2006</para>
41 <itemizedlist>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
44 to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
45 </listitem>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
54 to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
55 </listitem>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.</para>
58 </listitem>
59 </itemizedlist>
60 </listitem>
61
62 <listitem>
63 <para>January 11, 2006</para>
64 <itemizedlist>
65 <listitem>
66 <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
67 a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
68 the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
69 </listitem>
70 </itemizedlist>
71 </listitem>
72
73 <listitem>
74 <para>January 8, 2006</para>
75 <itemizedlist>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
78 process and test suite information.</para>
79 </listitem>
80 </itemizedlist>
81 </listitem>
82
83 <listitem>
84 <para>January 3, 2006</para>
85 <itemizedlist>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
88 </listitem>
89 </itemizedlist>
90 </listitem>
91
92 <listitem>
93 <para>December 30, 2005</para>
94 <itemizedlist>
95 <listitem>
96 <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
97 "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
98 removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
99 </listitem>
100 <listitem>
101 <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
102 </listitem>
103 </itemizedlist>
104 </listitem>
105
106 <listitem>
107 <para>December 29, 2005</para>
108 <itemizedlist>
109 <listitem>
110 <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
111 </listitem>
112 </itemizedlist>
113 </listitem>
114
115 <listitem>
116 <para>December 28, 2005</para>
117 <itemizedlist>
118 <listitem>
119 <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
120 are in chroot.</para>
121 </listitem>
122 <listitem>
123 <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
124 </listitem>
125 <listitem>
126 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
127 </listitem>
128 </itemizedlist>
129 </listitem>
130
131 <listitem>
132 <para>December 23, 2005</para>
133 <itemizedlist>
134 <listitem>
135 <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
136 </listitem>
137 </itemizedlist>
138 </listitem>
139
140 <listitem>
141 <para>December 22, 2005</para>
142 <itemizedlist>
143 <listitem>
144 <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
145 following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
146 including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
147 as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
148 </listitem>
149 <listitem>
150 <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
151 following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
152 faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
153 Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
154 readline.</para>
155 </listitem>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
158 a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
159 </listitem>
160 <listitem>
161 <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
162 </listitem>
163 </itemizedlist>
164 </listitem>
165
166 <listitem>
167 <para>December 20, 2005</para>
168 <itemizedlist>
169 <listitem>
170 <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
171 </listitem>
172 </itemizedlist>
173 </listitem>
174
175 <listitem>
176 <para>December 19, 2005</para>
177 <itemizedlist>
178 <listitem>
179 <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
180 </listitem>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
183 an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
184 </listitem>
185 </itemizedlist>
186 </listitem>
187
188 <listitem>
189 <para>December 18, 2005</para>
190 <itemizedlist>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
193 perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
194 and boot sections.</para>
195 </listitem>
196 <listitem>
197 <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
198 it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
199 a multilib capable build.</para>
200 </listitem>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
203 </listitem>
204 <listitem>
205 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
206 </listitem>
207 </itemizedlist>
208 </listitem>
209
210 <listitem>
211 <para>December 17, 2005</para>
212 <itemizedlist>
213 <listitem>
214 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
215 </listitem>
216 </itemizedlist>
217 </listitem>
218
219 <listitem>
220 <para>December 16, 2005</para>
221 <itemizedlist>
222 <listitem>
223 <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
224 </listitem>
225 <listitem>
226 <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
227 in perl.</para>
228 </listitem>
229 </itemizedlist>
230 </listitem>
231
232 <listitem>
233 <para>December 15, 2005</para>
234 <itemizedlist>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
237 </listitem>
238 <listitem>
239 <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
240 </listitem>
241 </itemizedlist>
242 </listitem>
243
244 <listitem>
245 <para>December 14, 2005</para>
246 <itemizedlist>
247 <listitem>
248 <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
249 further build issues.</para>
250 </listitem>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
253 </listitem>
254 <listitem>
255 <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
256 </listitem>
257 </itemizedlist>
258 </listitem>
259
260 <listitem>
261 <para>December 13, 2005</para>
262 <itemizedlist>
263 <listitem>
264 <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
265 Thanks to David Fix.</para>
266 </listitem>
267 </itemizedlist>
268 </listitem>
269
270 <listitem>
271 <para>December 12, 2005</para>
272 <itemizedlist>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
275 </listitem>
276 </itemizedlist>
277 </listitem>
278
279 <listitem>
280 <para>December 11, 2005</para>
281 <itemizedlist>
282 <listitem>
283 <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
284 </listitem>
285 </itemizedlist>
286 </listitem>
287
288 <listitem>
289 <para>December 9, 2005</para>
290 <itemizedlist>
291 <listitem>
292 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
293 </listitem>
294 <listitem>
295 <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
296 </listitem>
297 <listitem>
298 <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
299 They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
300 </listitem>
301 </itemizedlist>
302 </listitem>
303
304 <listitem>
305 <para>December 8, 2005</para>
306 <itemizedlist>
307 <listitem>
308 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
309 </listitem>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
312 </listitem>
313 <listitem>
314 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
315 </listitem>
316 </itemizedlist>
317 </listitem>
318
319 <listitem>
320 <para>December 7, 2005</para>
321 <itemizedlist>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
324 </listitem>
325 <listitem>
326 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
327 </listitem>
328 <listitem>
329 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
330 </listitem>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
333 </listitem>
334 </itemizedlist>
335 </listitem>
336
337 <listitem>
338 <para>December 6, 2005</para>
339 <itemizedlist>
340 <listitem>
341 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
342 </listitem>
343 <listitem>
344 <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
345 </listitem>
346 <listitem>
347 <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
348 </listitem>
349 <listitem>
350 <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
351 correct the date in changelog.</para>
352 </listitem>
353 <listitem>
354 <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
355 for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
356 wrong.</para>
357 </listitem>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
360 </listitem>
361 </itemizedlist>
362 </listitem>
363
364 <listitem>
365 <para>December 5, 2005</para>
366 <itemizedlist>
367 <listitem>
368 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
369 instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
370 </listitem>
371 <listitem>
372 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
373 </listitem>
374 <listitem>
375 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
376 user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
377 by other devs</para>
378 </listitem>
379 <listitem>
380 <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
381 testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
382 </listitem>
383 </itemizedlist>
384 </listitem>
385
386 <listitem>
387 <para>December 3, 2005</para>
388 <itemizedlist>
389 <listitem>
390 <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
391 coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
392 from LFS.</para>
393 </listitem>
394 </itemizedlist>
395 </listitem>
396
397 <listitem>
398 <para>December 2, 2005</para>
399 <itemizedlist>
400 <listitem>
401 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
402 </listitem>
403 </itemizedlist>
404 </listitem>
405
406 <listitem>
407 <para>December 1, 2005</para>
408 <itemizedlist>
409 <listitem>
410 <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
411 </listitem>
412 <listitem>
413 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
414 </listitem>
415 <listitem>
416 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
417 </listitem>
418 <listitem>
419 <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
420 </listitem>
421 </itemizedlist>
422 </listitem>
423
424 <listitem>
425 <para>November 30, 2005</para>
426 <itemizedlist>
427 <listitem>
428 <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
429 </listitem>
430 <listitem>
431 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
432 </listitem>
433 </itemizedlist>
434 </listitem>
435
436 <listitem>
437 <para>November 29, 2005</para>
438 <itemizedlist>
439 <listitem>
440 <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
441 </listitem>
442 <listitem>
443 <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
444 </listitem>
445 </itemizedlist>
446 </listitem>
447
448 <listitem>
449 <para>November 28, 2005</para>
450 <itemizedlist>
451 <listitem>
452 <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
453 </listitem>
454 <listitem>
455 <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
456 </listitem>
457 <listitem>
458 <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
459 </listitem>
460 </itemizedlist>
461 </listitem>
462
463 <listitem>
464 <para>November 27, 2005</para>
465 <itemizedlist>
466 <listitem>
467 <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
468 </listitem>
469 <listitem>
470 <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
471 </listitem>
472 </itemizedlist>
473 </listitem>
474
475 <listitem>
476 <para>November 25, 2005</para>
477 <itemizedlist>
478 <listitem>
479 <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
480 </listitem>
481 </itemizedlist>
482 </listitem>
483
484 <listitem>
485 <para>November 24, 2005</para>
486 <itemizedlist>
487 <listitem>
488 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
489 </listitem>
490 <listitem>
491 <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
492 that it no longer exists</para>
493 </listitem>
494 </itemizedlist>
495 </listitem>
496
497 <listitem>
498 <para>November 23, 2005</para>
499 <itemizedlist>
500 <listitem>
501 <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
502 /tools/include.</para>
503 </listitem>
504 </itemizedlist>
505 </listitem>
506
507 <listitem>
508 <para>November 21, 2005</para>
509 <itemizedlist>
510 <listitem>
511 <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
512 </listitem>
513 <listitem>
514 <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
515 </listitem>
516 </itemizedlist>
517 </listitem>
518
519 <listitem>
520 <para>November 20, 2005</para>
521 <itemizedlist>
522 <listitem>
523 <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
524 </listitem>
525 </itemizedlist>
526 </listitem>
527
528 <listitem>
529 <para>November 18, 2005</para>
530 <itemizedlist>
531 <listitem>
532 <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
533 package.</para>
534 </listitem>
535 </itemizedlist>
536 </listitem>
537
538 <listitem>
539 <para>November 17, 2005</para>
540 <itemizedlist>
541 <listitem>
542 <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
543 </listitem>
544 <listitem>
545 <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
546 Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
547 </listitem>
548 <listitem>
549 <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
550 </listitem>
551 </itemizedlist>
552 </listitem>
553
554 <listitem>
555 <para>November 13, 2005</para>
556 <itemizedlist>
557 <listitem>
558 <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
559 is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
560 LFS-SVN.</para>
561 </listitem>
562 <listitem>
563 <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
564 as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
565 </listitem>
566 <listitem>
567 <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
568 </listitem>
569 <listitem>
570 <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
571 </listitem>
572 </itemizedlist>
573 </listitem>
574
575 <listitem>
576 <para>November 10, 2005</para>
577 <itemizedlist>
578 <listitem>
579 <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
580 testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
581 </listitem>
582 <listitem>
583 <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
584 </listitem>
585 <listitem>
586 <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
587 </listitem>
588 </itemizedlist>
589 </listitem>
590
591 <listitem>
592 <para>November 9, 2005</para>
593 <itemizedlist>
594 <listitem>
595 <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
596 system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
597 </listitem>
598 <listitem>
599 <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
600 of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
601 </listitem>
602 <listitem>
603 <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
604 </listitem>
605 <listitem>
606 <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
607 </listitem>
608 </itemizedlist>
609 </listitem>
610
611 <listitem>
612 <para>November 8, 2005</para>
613 <itemizedlist>
614 <listitem>
615 <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
616 </listitem>
617 </itemizedlist>
618 </listitem>
619
620 <listitem>
621 <para>November 7, 2005</para>
622 <itemizedlist>
623 <listitem>
624 <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
625 toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
626 </listitem>
627 <listitem>
628 <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
629 class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
630 of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
631 Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
632 </listitem>
633 <listitem>
634 <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
635 Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
636 </listitem>
637 <listitem>
638 <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
639 cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
640 </listitem>
641 </itemizedlist>
642 </listitem>
643
644 <listitem>
645 <para>November 6, 2005</para>
646 <itemizedlist>
647 <listitem>
648 <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
649 </listitem>
650 <listitem>
651 <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
652 </listitem>
653 <listitem>
654 <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
655 </listitem>
656 </itemizedlist>
657 </listitem>
658
659 <listitem>
660 <para>November 5, 2005</para>
661 <itemizedlist>
662 <listitem>
663 <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
664 </listitem>
665 </itemizedlist>
666 </listitem>
667
668 <listitem>
669 <para>November 3, 2005</para>
670 <itemizedlist>
671 <listitem>
672 <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
673 Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
674 </listitem>
675 </itemizedlist>
676 </listitem>
677
678 <listitem>
679 <para>October 31, 2005</para>
680 <itemizedlist>
681 <listitem>
682 <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
683 </listitem>
684 </itemizedlist>
685 </listitem>
686
687 </itemizedlist>
688
689 <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
690
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