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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      </itemizedlist>
53    </listitem>
54       
55    <listitem>
56      <para>January 12, 2006</para>
57      <itemizedlist>
58        <listitem>
59          <para>[Chris] - Moved directory and symlink creation pages
60          to the beginning of Chapter 7.</para>
61        </listitem>
62        <listitem>
63          <para>[jim] - Updated to Psmisc 22.1.</para>
64        </listitem>
65        <listitem>
66          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.20.</para>
67        </listitem>
68        <listitem>
69          <para>[jim] - Updated Coreutils build instructions to copy more files
70           to /bin. These are changes for bootscripts and the new udev rules.</para>
71        </listitem>
72        <listitem>
73          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.6.</para>
74        </listitem>
75        <listitem>
76          <para>[jim] - Numerous complaints about temp-system Perl failing to build. So
77          I moved temp perl to first package in final-system build. The failures we noted
78          on Pure 64 builds.</para>
79        </listitem>
80      </itemizedlist>
81    </listitem>
82
83    <listitem>
84      <para>January 11, 2006</para>
85      <itemizedlist>
86        <listitem>
87          <para>[jim] - Rewrote wrote zlib final instructions to include
88           a patch the will allow build of static and shared libraries at
89           the same time. Thanx for the recommendation Tushar Teredesai.</para>
90        </listitem>
91      </itemizedlist>
92    </listitem>
93
94    <listitem>
95      <para>January 8, 2006</para>
96      <itemizedlist>
97        <listitem>
98          <para>[Chris] - Rewrote much of the description of the build
99          process and test suite information.</para>
100        </listitem>
101      </itemizedlist>
102    </listitem>
103
104    <listitem>
105      <para>January 3, 2006</para>
106      <itemizedlist>
107        <listitem>
108          <para>[jim] - Updated to Shadow 4.0.14.</para>
109        </listitem>
110      </itemizedlist>
111    </listitem>
112
113    <listitem>
114      <para>December 30, 2005</para>
115      <itemizedlist>
116        <listitem>
117          <para>[Chris] - Updated package dependencies, removed explanation of
118          "target alias" and "cross-compiling" from final-system binutils, and
119          removed note about GRUB's testsuite failure.</para>
120        </listitem>
121        <listitem>
122          <para>[ken] - Fix where tree gets installed.</para>
123        </listitem>
124      </itemizedlist>
125    </listitem>
126
127    <listitem>
128      <para>December 29, 2005</para>
129      <itemizedlist>
130        <listitem>
131          <para>[jim] - Added CC="gcc" to temp-system perl build.</para>
132        </listitem>
133      </itemizedlist>
134    </listitem>
135
136    <listitem>
137      <para>December 28, 2005</para>
138      <itemizedlist>
139        <listitem>
140          <para>[ken] - Remove --with-x=no from expect - either we booted, or we
141          are in chroot.</para>
142        </listitem>
143        <listitem>
144          <para>[ken] - Fix a failure to build glibc-headers.</para>
145        </listitem>
146        <listitem>
147          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.5.</para>
148        </listitem>
149      </itemizedlist>
150    </listitem>
151
152    <listitem>
153      <para>December 23, 2005</para>
154      <itemizedlist>
155        <listitem>
156          <para>[jim] - Updated Shadow patch to fix linking to outside libraries.</para>
157        </listitem>
158      </itemizedlist>
159    </listitem>
160
161    <listitem>
162      <para>December 22, 2005</para>
163      <itemizedlist>
164        <listitem>
165          <para>[jim] - Bash Maintainer Released Bash-001 patch. This patch fixes the
166          following issue: There are parsing problems with compound assignments in several contexts,
167          including as arguments to builtins like `local', `eval', and `let', and
168          as multiple assignments in a single command.</para>
169        </listitem>
170        <listitem>
171          <para>[jim] - Readline Maintainer Released Readline-001 patch. This patch fixes the
172          following issue: A problem with the readline callback interface can result in segmentation
173          faults when using the delete-char function via a multiple-key sequence.
174          Two consecutive calls to delete-char will crash the application calling
175          readline.</para>
176        </listitem>
177        <listitem>
178          <para>[jim] - Removed halt, sync, and shutdown users. These users work, but offer
179           a potential security threat. Thus the reason for removal.</para>
180        </listitem>
181        <listitem>
182          <para>[jim] - Fixed Vim symlink. Thank you LFS and Jeremy Huntwork.</para>
183        </listitem>
184      </itemizedlist>
185    </listitem>
186
187    <listitem>
188      <para>December 20, 2005</para>
189      <itemizedlist>
190        <listitem>
191          <para>[jim] - Updated to M4 1.4.4.</para>
192        </listitem>
193      </itemizedlist>
194    </listitem>
195
196   <listitem>
197     <para>December 19, 2005</para>
198     <itemizedlist>
199        <listitem>
200          <para>[ken] - Fix for accessing vim's documentation, from LFS.</para>
201        </listitem>
202        <listitem>
203          <para>[jim] - Fixed the Gettext testsuite from failing, by fixing
204          an issue in Gawk. Thank you Greg Schaefer.</para>
205        </listitem>
206     </itemizedlist>
207   </listitem>
208
209    <listitem>
210      <para>December 18, 2005</para>
211      <itemizedlist>
212        <listitem>
213          <para>[jim] - Re-arranged temp-tools. Renamed it to testsuite-tools. Moved
214          perl and texinfo to temp-system. Moved flags from testsuite-tools to chroot
215          and boot sections.</para>
216        </listitem>
217        <listitem>
218          <para>[jim] - Removed 32bit and N32 builds from temp-system, upon testing
219          it was found that these were not needed for building the final system on
220          a multilib capable build.</para>
221        </listitem>
222        <listitem>
223          <para>[jim] - Updated to Libtool 1.5.22.</para>
224        </listitem>
225        <listitem>
226          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.18.</para>
227        </listitem>
228      </itemizedlist>
229    </listitem>
230
231    <listitem>
232      <para>December 17, 2005</para>
233      <itemizedlist>
234        <listitem>
235          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.9.</para>
236        </listitem>
237      </itemizedlist>
238    </listitem>
239
240    <listitem>
241      <para>December 16, 2005</para>
242      <itemizedlist>
243        <listitem>
244          <para>[jim] - Moved Tree to temp-tools, since it's not needed for the final-system.</para>
245        </listitem>
246        <listitem>
247          <para>[jim] - Moved Procps before perl in the final-system build. Fixes test suite issue
248          in perl.</para>
249        </listitem>
250      </itemizedlist>
251    </listitem>
252
253    <listitem>
254      <para>December 15, 2005</para>
255      <itemizedlist>
256        <listitem>
257          <para>[ken] - Minor fix for rendering in temp-tools/texinfo.</para>
258        </listitem>
259        <listitem>
260          <para>[jim] - Added not to temp-system about the WARNING message.</para>
261        </listitem>
262      </itemizedlist>
263    </listitem>
264
265    <listitem>
266      <para>December 14, 2005</para>
267      <itemizedlist>
268        <listitem>
269          <para>[jim] - Change the LFS_HOST and LFS_TARGET pages to prevent
270          further build issues.</para>
271        </listitem>
272        <listitem>
273          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.17.</para>
274        </listitem>
275        <listitem>
276          <para>[jim] - Added Tree 1.5.0. Added for the udev testsuite.</para>
277        </listitem>
278      </itemizedlist>
279    </listitem>
280
281    <listitem>
282      <para>December 13, 2005</para>
283      <itemizedlist>
284        <listitem>
285          <para>[jim] - Removed setvbuf test from Temp-System Bash compile.
286          Thanks to David Fix.</para>
287        </listitem>
288      </itemizedlist>
289    </listitem>
290
291    <listitem>
292      <para>December 12, 2005</para>
293      <itemizedlist>
294        <listitem>
295          <para>[jim] - Removed testsuites from Temp-Tools section.</para>
296        </listitem>
297      </itemizedlist>
298    </listitem>
299
300    <listitem>
301      <para>December 11, 2005</para>
302      <itemizedlist>
303        <listitem>
304          <para>[ken] - Fix Tcl configure, thanks to Greg Schafer.</para>
305        </listitem>
306      </itemizedlist>
307    </listitem>
308
309    <listitem>
310      <para>December 9, 2005</para>
311      <itemizedlist>
312        <listitem>
313          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Module Init Tools 3.2.2.</para>
314        </listitem>
315        <listitem>
316          <para>[ken] - Bzip2 - clarify what is being tested.</para>
317        </listitem>
318        <listitem>
319          <para>[jim] - Removed installation of sound sanitized headers.
320          They will be removed in the next release of linux-libc-headers.</para>
321        </listitem>
322      </itemizedlist>
323    </listitem>
324
325    <listitem>
326      <para>December 8, 2005</para>
327      <itemizedlist>
328        <listitem>
329          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Less 394.</para>
330        </listitem>
331        <listitem>
332          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.1.</para>
333        </listitem>
334        <listitem>
335          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.1.</para>
336        </listitem>
337      </itemizedlist>
338    </listitem>
339
340    <listitem>
341      <para>December 7, 2005</para>
342      <itemizedlist>
343        <listitem>
344          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to TCL 8.4.12.</para>
345        </listitem>
346        <listitem>
347          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to IPRoute2 2.6.14-051107.</para>
348        </listitem>
349        <listitem>
350          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Readline 5.0.5.</para>
351        </listitem>
352        <listitem>
353          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Bash 3.0.16.</para>
354        </listitem>
355      </itemizedlist>
356    </listitem>
357
358    <listitem>
359      <para>December 6, 2005</para>
360      <itemizedlist>
361        <listitem>
362          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Glibc 20051107.</para>
363        </listitem>
364        <listitem>
365          <para>[jim] - Sparcv8 now uses the same Glibc as the other architectures.</para>
366        </listitem>
367        <listitem>
368          <para>[jim] - Ported Gettext update from Temp-system LFS to Cross-LFS.</para>
369        </listitem>
370        <listitem>
371          <para>[ken] - Tidying in Gettext to reflect our differences from LFS, and
372                correct the date in changelog.</para>
373        </listitem>
374        <listitem>
375          <para>[jim] - Moved Cross-tools from $HOME to LFS. This provide a easy way
376          for livecd builders to not loose valueable build time, if something goes
377          wrong.</para>
378        </listitem>
379        <listitem>
380          <para>[jim] - Upgraded to Findutils 4.2.27.</para>
381        </listitem>
382      </itemizedlist>
383    </listitem>
384
385    <listitem>
386      <para>December 5, 2005</para>
387      <itemizedlist>
388        <listitem>
389          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated the resources page to include reference and base
390                instructions on using the LFS pastebin</para>
391        </listitem>
392        <listitem>
393          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated some of the missing text poritions of the book</para>
394        </listitem>
395        <listitem>
396          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated creation of $LFSHOME parameter to a less
397                user error system. This change will will need to be validated by
398                by other devs</para>
399        </listitem>
400        <listitem>
401          <para>[ken] - Moved Mktemp ahead of Module-init-tools so that the latter's
402                testsuite doesn't bail out when testing generate-modprobe.conf.</para>
403        </listitem>
404      </itemizedlist>
405    </listitem>
406
407    <listitem>
408      <para>December 3, 2005</para>
409      <itemizedlist>
410        <listitem>
411          <para>[ken] - Reference a home directory for dummy user when testing
412          coreutils, and correct sed 'man page' to 'HTML documentation', both
413          from LFS.</para>
414        </listitem>
415      </itemizedlist>
416    </listitem>
417
418    <listitem>
419      <para>December 2, 2005</para>
420      <itemizedlist>
421        <listitem>
422          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.16.</para>
423        </listitem>
424      </itemizedlist>
425    </listitem>
426
427    <listitem>
428      <para>December 1, 2005</para>
429      <itemizedlist>
430        <listitem>
431          <para>[jim] - Updated to Linux 2.6.14.3.</para>
432        </listitem>
433        <listitem>
434          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.15.</para>
435        </listitem>
436        <listitem>
437          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 076.</para>
438        </listitem>
439        <listitem>
440          <para>[jim] - Added support for Sparc v8 and below.</para>
441        </listitem>
442      </itemizedlist>
443    </listitem>
444
445   <listitem>
446      <para>November 30, 2005</para>
447      <itemizedlist>
448        <listitem>
449          <para>[jim] - Text updates to final-system.</para>
450        </listitem>
451        <listitem>
452          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-tools.</para>
453        </listitem>
454      </itemizedlist>
455    </listitem>
456
457   <listitem>
458      <para>November 29, 2005</para>
459      <itemizedlist>
460        <listitem>
461          <para>[jim] - Text updates to chroot.</para>
462        </listitem>
463        <listitem>
464          <para>[jim] - Text updates to boot.</para>
465        </listitem>
466      </itemizedlist>
467    </listitem>
468
469   <listitem>
470      <para>November 28, 2005</para>
471      <itemizedlist>
472        <listitem>
473          <para>[jim] - Text updates to glibc in all sections.</para>
474        </listitem>
475        <listitem>
476          <para>[jim] - Text updates to temp-system.</para>
477        </listitem>
478        <listitem>
479          <para>[jim] - Fixed duplicated gcc configure line in gcc. Thank you Dennis Perkins.</para>
480        </listitem>
481      </itemizedlist>
482    </listitem>
483
484   <listitem>
485      <para>November 27, 2005</para>
486      <itemizedlist>
487        <listitem>
488          <para>[jim] - Text updates to gcc in all sections.</para>
489        </listitem>
490        <listitem>
491          <para>[jim] - Updates to Ncurses, added curses file and link. Thank you G. Moko.</para>
492        </listitem>
493      </itemizedlist>
494    </listitem>
495
496   <listitem>
497      <para>November 25, 2005</para>
498      <itemizedlist>
499        <listitem>
500          <para>[jim] - Text updates to binutils in all sections.</para>
501        </listitem>
502      </itemizedlist>
503    </listitem>
504
505    <listitem>
506      <para>November 24, 2005</para>
507      <itemizedlist>
508        <listitem>
509          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Text updates to resources page </para>
510        </listitem>
511        <listitem>
512          <para>[Matt Darcy] - Updated reference to LFS news server to reflect
513          that it no longer exists</para>
514        </listitem>
515      </itemizedlist>
516    </listitem>
517
518    <listitem>
519      <para>November 23, 2005</para>
520      <itemizedlist>
521        <listitem>
522          <para>[jim] - For inetutils to utilize the Ncurses headers in
523          /tools/include.</para>
524        </listitem>
525      </itemizedlist>
526    </listitem>
527
528    <listitem>
529      <para>November 21, 2005</para>
530      <itemizedlist>
531        <listitem>
532          <para>[jim] - Updated to Udev 075.</para>
533        </listitem>
534        <listitem>
535          <para>[jim] - Updated to Module Init Tools 3.2.1.</para>
536        </listitem>
537      </itemizedlist>
538    </listitem>
539
540    <listitem>
541      <para>November 20, 2005</para>
542      <itemizedlist>
543        <listitem>
544          <para>[jim] - Updated to Findutils 4.2.26.</para>
545        </listitem>
546      </itemizedlist>
547    </listitem>
548
549    <listitem>
550      <para>November 18, 2005</para>
551      <itemizedlist>
552        <listitem>
553          <para>[manuel] - Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite
554          package.</para>
555        </listitem>
556      </itemizedlist>
557    </listitem>
558
559    <listitem>
560      <para>November 17, 2005</para>
561      <itemizedlist>
562        <listitem>
563          <para>[jim] - Update to Man-Pages 2.14.</para>
564        </listitem>
565        <listitem>
566          <para>[jim] - Update to Linux 2.6.14.2. This includes changes for the MIPS
567          Architecture. New Patch added.</para>
568        </listitem>
569        <listitem>
570          <para>[jim] - Added change to move /usr/bin/less to /bin/less.</para>
571        </listitem>
572      </itemizedlist>
573    </listitem>
574
575    <listitem>
576      <para>November 13, 2005</para>
577      <itemizedlist>
578        <listitem>
579          <para>[manuel] - Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that
580          is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS. Ported from
581          LFS-SVN.</para>
582        </listitem>
583        <listitem>
584          <para>[manuel] - Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step,
585          as make runs it automatically. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
586        </listitem>
587        <listitem>
588          <para>[jim] - Updated TCL build to install headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
589        </listitem>
590        <listitem>
591          <para>[jim] - Updated Expect to use the newly relocated TCL Headers. Thank you Greg Schafer.</para>
592        </listitem>
593      </itemizedlist>
594    </listitem>
595
596    <listitem>
597      <para>November 10, 2005</para>
598      <itemizedlist>
599        <listitem>
600          <para>[ken] - Added Data/Dumper to temp perl modules, for coreutils
601          testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
602        </listitem>
603        <listitem>
604          <para>[ken] - Removed POSIX VERSION information from coreutils page Thank you G Moko.</para>
605        </listitem>
606        <listitem>
607          <para>[jim] - Added text for multilib kernel build requirements.</para>
608        </listitem>
609      </itemizedlist>
610    </listitem>
611
612    <listitem>
613      <para>November 9, 2005</para>
614      <itemizedlist>
615        <listitem>
616          <para>[manuel] - Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the
617          system and removed udevdir=/dev. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
618        </listitem>
619        <listitem>
620          <para>[manuel] - Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead
621          of /bin. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
622        </listitem>
623        <listitem>
624          <para>[manuel] - Removed SBUs and disk usage information.</para>
625        </listitem>
626        <listitem>
627          <para>[jim] - Added missing utmp group. Thank you William Zhou.</para>
628        </listitem>
629      </itemizedlist>
630    </listitem>
631
632    <listitem>
633      <para>November 8, 2005</para>
634      <itemizedlist>
635        <listitem>
636          <para>[jim] - Removed make headers -C bfd from Binutils. Thank you Robert Day.</para>
637        </listitem>
638      </itemizedlist>
639    </listitem>
640
641    <listitem>
642      <para>November 7, 2005</para>
643      <itemizedlist>
644        <listitem>
645          <para>[manuel] - Remove the optimization related warnings from the
646          toolchain packages. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
647        </listitem>
648        <listitem>
649          <para>[manuel] - Install Vim's documentation to <filename
650          class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead
651          of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename>.
652          Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
653        </listitem>
654        <listitem>
655          <para>[manuel] - Correct the instructions for running the
656          Module-Init-Tools' testsuite. Ported from LFS-SVN.</para>
657        </listitem>
658        <listitem>
659          <para>[jim] - Removed unnecessary linking libc sed in gcc-final in
660          cross-tools. Recommendation from Erik-Jan, via cross-lfs list.</para>
661        </listitem>
662      </itemizedlist>
663    </listitem>
664
665    <listitem>
666      <para>November 6, 2005</para>
667      <itemizedlist>
668        <listitem>
669          <para>[jim] - Updated to Coreutils 5.93.</para>
670        </listitem>
671        <listitem>
672          <para>[jim] - Updated to Procps 3.2.6.</para>
673        </listitem>
674        <listitem>
675          <para>[jim] - Updated to Man-Pages 2.13.</para>
676        </listitem>
677      </itemizedlist>
678    </listitem>
679
680    <listitem>
681      <para>November 5, 2005</para>
682      <itemizedlist>
683        <listitem>
684          <para>[jim] - Updated to psmisc 21.8.</para>
685        </listitem>
686      </itemizedlist>
687    </listitem>
688
689    <listitem>
690      <para>November 3, 2005</para>
691      <itemizedlist>
692        <listitem>
693          <para>[jim] - Fixes added to coreutils. Coreutils was install locales to /locale.
694           Added fixes for dircolors and md5sum also.</para>
695        </listitem>
696      </itemizedlist>
697    </listitem>
698
699    <listitem>
700      <para>October 31, 2005</para>
701      <itemizedlist>
702        <listitem>
703          <para>[jim] - Now an official project. Resetting all Changelogs.</para>
704        </listitem>
705      </itemizedlist>
706    </listitem>
707
708  </itemizedlist>
709
710  <para>Branch Synced from the Release of LFS 6.0 on February 23rd, 2005</para>
711
712</sect1>
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