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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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