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