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