Changeset 5e492c0 in clfs-embedded

Timestamp:

Jun 7, 2013, 11:29:18 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Andrew Bradford <andrew@…>

Branches:

master

Children:

833b9a5

Parents:

8d661ec

Message:

hostreqs: Update to minimum of Debian Squeeze

Squeeze goes end of support life in < 1 year and it already had quite
old software packaged in it. Testing against even older versions than
what Debian ships seems unlikely to be useful or possible for much
longer.

File:

• BOOK/prologue/common/hostreqs.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

BOOK/prologue/common/hostreqs.xml

@@ -12 +12 @@
 
     <para>You should be able to build a CLFS system from just about any
-    Unix-type operating system. Your host system should have the following
+    recent Linux distrubtion. Your host system should have the following
     software with the minimum versions indicated. Also note that many
     distributions will place software headers into separate packages, often in
@@ -22 +22 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash-2.05a</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bash 4.0</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.12</emphasis> (Versions
-      greater than &binutils-version; are not recommended as they have
-      not been tested)</para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Binutils-2.20</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.2</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Bzip2-1.0.5</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-5.0</emphasis> (or Sh-Utils-2.0,
-      Textutils-2.0, and Fileutils-4.1)</para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Coreutils-8.1</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-2.8</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Diffutils-3.0</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.1.20</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Findutils-4.4.0</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
@@ -53 +50 @@
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-2.95.3</emphasis> (Versions
-      greater than &gcc-version; are not recommended as they have not
-      been tested)</para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gcc-4.4</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.2.5</emphasis> (or EGLIBC.
-      Versions greater than 2.11 are not recommended as they have
-      not been tested)</para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Glibc-2.11</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.5</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Grep-2.6</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.2.4</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Gzip-1.3</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.79.1</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Make-3.81</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.5.4</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Patch-2.6</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-3.0.2</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Sed-4.2.1</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>
 
     <listitem>
-      <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.14</emphasis></para>
+      <para><emphasis role="strong">Tar-1.23</emphasis></para>
     </listitem>