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diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 62ba02e7c..e80ed5dff 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -1,711 +1,1262 @@ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> -<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ +<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" + "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> %general-entities; ]> -<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog"> -<title>Changelog</title> -<?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?> - -<para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated -&releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better -version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the -mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;"/>.</para> - -<para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. -First a summary, then a detailed log.</para> -<itemizedlist> - -<!-- - Every package in the book is listed in the "Upgraded to:" section. - Comment/uncomment as needed. DO NOT delete any of these lines unless that - package is removed from the book entirely. +<sect1 id="ch-scatter-changelog"> + <?dbhtml filename="changelog.html"?> + + <title>Changelog</title> + + <para>This is version &version; of the Linux From Scratch book, dated + &releasedate;. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better + version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the + mirrors via <ulink url="&lfs-root;mirrors.html"/>.</para> + + <para>Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the + book.</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <title>Changelog Entries:</title> + +<!-- Changelog template + + <listitem> + <para>Date</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[name] - New changelog entry.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[name] - Previous changelog entry.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Upgraded to:</para> -<itemizedlist> -<!-- <listitem><para>Autoconf &autoconf-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Automake &automake-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Bash &bash-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Binutils &binutils-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Bison &bison-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Bzip2 &bzip2-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Coreutils &coreutils-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>DB &db-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>DejaGNU &dejagnu-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>Diffutils &diffutils-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>E2fsprogs &e2fsprogs-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Expect &expect-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>File &file-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Findutils &findutils-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Flex &flex-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Gawk &gawk-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>GCC &gcc-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Gettext &gettext-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Glibc &glibc-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Grep &grep-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>Groff &groff-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>GRUB &grub-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Gzip &gzip-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>Hotplug &hotplug-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>IANA-Etc &iana-etc-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Inetutils &inetutils-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>IPRoute2 &iproute2-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>Kbd &kbd-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Less &less-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>LFS-Bootscripts &lfs-bootscripts-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Libtool &libtool-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Linux &linux-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Linux-Libc-Headers &linux-libc-headers-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>M4 &m4-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Make &make-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>Man-DB &man-db-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Man-pages &man-pages-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Mktemp &mktemp-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>Module-Init-Tools &module-init-tools-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Ncurses &ncurses-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Patch &patch-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Perl &perl-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Procps &procps-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Psmisc &psmisc-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Readline &readline-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Sed &sed-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Shadow &shadow-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Sysklogd &sysklogd-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>SysVinit &sysvinit-version;</para></listitem> --> -<!-- <listitem><para>Tar &tar-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>TCL &tcl-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Texinfo &texinfo-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Udev &udev-version;</para></listitem> -<!-- <listitem><para>Util-Linux &util-linux-version;</para></listitem> --> -<listitem><para>Vim &vim-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Zlib &zlib-version;</para></listitem> -</itemizedlist> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>Downgraded to:</para> -<itemizedlist> -<listitem><para>Groff &groff-version;-&groff-patchlevel;</para></listitem> -</itemizedlist> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>Added:</para> -<itemizedlist> -<listitem><para>&bzip2-bzgrep-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&bzip2-docs-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&gawk-segfault-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&gcc-specs-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Berkeley DB-&db-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>MAN-DB-&man-db-version;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&mktemp-tempfile-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&perl-libc-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&shadow-configure-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&tar-gcc4_fix-patch;</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch;</para></listitem> -</itemizedlist> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>Removed:</para> -<itemizedlist> -<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-linkonce-1.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>iproute2-2.6.11-050330-remove_db-1.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>Man-1.6b</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-2.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>perl-5.8.6-libc-1.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>vim-6.3-security_fix-1.patch</para></listitem> -<listitem><para>zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch</para></listitem> -</itemizedlist> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 10, 2006 [ken]: define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to -resolve a code difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. -Thanks to Greg Schafer.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 10, 2006 [ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a -sed to correct gccbug.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to -always create an /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in -the 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban for -explaining this.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so -that the latter will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP. -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that -gccbug will use mktemp.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 7, 2006 [ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, -and remove the '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks -to Randy McMurchy.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news -server until we actually have one. Thanks Randy.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 -support. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's ---with-libc configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>January 3, 2006 [matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example -mkswap command in chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674). -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 31, 2005 [ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm -Headers in chroot, to be repeatable.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 23, 2005 [jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 21, 2005 [matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation -to /usr/share/doc. Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Pass a valid path to -module-init-tools' --prefix configure switch and remove the now unnecessary ---mandir switch</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to -/usr/share/doc. Fixes bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original -report and to Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 13, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include, -allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is Greg Schafer, and thanks to -Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes bug 1670).</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 12, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues with -texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0 -and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to -work with the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately, Greg Schafer -for the fix.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking -in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2 -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>December 7, 2005 [matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of -them) for all packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the -report and analysis of affected packages.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man -pages, the POSIX threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by -the man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not -having to dump/check a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1. -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Prevent installing the -internationalized man pages for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary -(thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 26, 2005 [manuel]: Changed --strip-path to ---strip-components in the unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite -package.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 24, 2005 [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 -release.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 23, 2005 [gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to -'HTML documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 18, 2005 [manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the -module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 17, 2005 [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 -release.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 16, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning -gettext in chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 15, 2005 [archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager -configure option to reflect the new location of the less -binary.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 14, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> -from gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents gettext -from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host. Thanks to Greg Schafer -for pointing this out.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 12, 2005 [matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining -a locale that is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642). -Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous issues and for -reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 11, 2005 [matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a -separate step, as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652). -</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 7, 2005 [matt]: Install the binaries from Less to -/usr/bin instead of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 7, 2005 [matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from -both passes of GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir -option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename convention already -prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Remove the optimization related -warnings from the toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Install Vim's documentation to -<filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version;</filename> instead -of <filename class="directory">/usr/share/vim/vim64/doc</filename> (bug 1610). -Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy Huntwork for the fix.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 7, 2005 [matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes -on the host system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the -report and the fix.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 5, 2005 [matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity -check in chapter 5 to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of -a broken toolchain (bug 1581).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 3, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>November 3, 2005 [matt]: Correct the instructions for running -Module-Init-Tools' testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar -Teredesai and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 31, 2005 [matt]: Build udev_run_devd and -udev_run_hotplugd and alter the udev rules file so that udev once again executes -programs in the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635). -Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card" and "dm" -devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside of LFS.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This -involved removing the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no -longer required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from Perl, -so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 22, 2005 [archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 15, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 15, 2005 [matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev -rules file (fixes bug 1639).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 15, 2005 [matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the -Udev rules file</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 9, 2005 [matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete -the source directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638. -Thanks to Chris Staub.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 8, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile -creation in Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 8, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 7, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>October 4, 2005 [matt]: Prevent GCC from running the -<command>fixincludes</command> script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug -1636). Thanks to Tushar and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add more explicit reader -prerequisites (fixes bug 1629).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands -that accept it (fixes bug 1612).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 20, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the -unnecessary "udevdir=/dev" parameter.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 17, 2005 [matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve -echo's POSIX and bash compatibility and to recognise "\xhh" syntax as -required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 15, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to -prevent a umount vulnerability.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 8, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 6, 2005 [ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect -test failures.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 5, 2005 [ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math -tests in glibc.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Add patch to stop -<command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting when invoked on devices with partitions -that don't contain an ext2, ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 2, 2005 [matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux -comes from <filename>configure</filename> rather than -<filename>MCONFIG</filename>, so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for -the segfault fix to actually work.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>September 2, 2005 [matt]: Avoid the potential race condition -when invoking <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by -compiling with -O instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug -1604).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the -upstream fix for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 30th, 2005 [ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> - commands from gcc-pass2.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 28th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash -and Glibc chapter six builds for consistency</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due -to a race condition when deleting files. Remove the && construct in -chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing fixed -headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating -to configuring rules (fixes bug 1622)</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 20th, 2005 [matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries -to /bin as they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 18th, 2005 [matt]: Simplify the method for finding where -GCC's default specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, -don't assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 18th, 2005 [ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's -handling of filenames.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Install sed's man page to -/usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4 instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 15th, 2005 [matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed -to protect from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with ---enable-shadowgrp as advised by Greg Schafer.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test -failures in GCC (fixes bug 1615).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added patch to install documentation -for bzip2 (fixes bug 1603).</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para> -</listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the -bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix -for the failing test (bug 1611).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required -on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl -data files (fixes bug 1601).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure -switch explanations to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug -1613).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node -creation at the start of chapter 6.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for -expect's installed library (Bug 1608)</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 7th, 2005 [archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding -building Cracklib from BLFS first.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's -installed files.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address -the latest modeline vulnerability.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash -documentation (Randy McMurchy).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml as it's no longer used in the book</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 29th, 2005 [manuel]: Removed the text about defining -gvimrc.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB. The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 27th, 2005 [matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file -as we don't compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the -list of programs installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by -coreutils instead (Randy McMurchy).</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds license and copyright information to the previous version.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information -into the book, so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument -in that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page document -(PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis> acknowledge the efforts -of previous contributors.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 22nd, 2005 [manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the -Makefile to obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once -it's no longer needed.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 19th, 2005 [matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description of the specs patch.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, -to prevent multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from -gcc-pass1 as we may need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the -associated removal of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds -to force the fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce -patches for gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both -chapters 5 and 6.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build -with gcc-4.0.1</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 15th, 2005 [matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its -specs file by default. Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first -dump the specs file where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with gcc-4.0.1</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 13th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 6th, 2005 [archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header -patch out again as it is not needed.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 24th, 2005 [jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 23nd, 2005 [jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>April 15, 2005 [jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>April 14, 2005 [jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>April 12, 2005 [manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>April 11, 2005 [manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para></listitem> - -<listitem><para>April 6, 2005 [jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para></listitem> - -</itemizedlist> - -<para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages -and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para> + <listitem> + <para>January 10, 2006</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code + difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks + to Greg Schafer.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct + gccbug.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>January 7, 2006</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Alter the Perl instructions to always create an + /etc/hosts file. This fixes a potential difference in the + 'hostcat' recorded in Config_heavy.pl. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban + for explaining this.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter + will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will + use mktemp.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the + '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to + Randy McMurchy.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>January 5, 2006</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually + have one. Thanks Randy.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to + Alexander Patrakov.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>January 3, 2006</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc + configure parameter (fixes bug 1667).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in + chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 31, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot, + to be repeatable.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 23, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 21, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. + Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 17, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix + configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. Fixes + bug 1610. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the original report and to + Ken and Jeremy for their investigations into the fix.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 13, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Install Tcl's internal headers to /tools/include, + allowing us to drop its source directory right away. Origin is + Greg Schafer, and thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report (fixes + bug 1670).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 12, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Updated texinfo patch. Fixes segfault issues + with texindex. Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report and Bruce + Dubbs and Joe Ciccone for the fix.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 11, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0 + and readline-5.0 specific patches.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to bash-3.1. Also fixed Tcl to work with + the new bash version. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov and ultimately, + Greg Schafer for the fix.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking + in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 9, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2 + </para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>December 7, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Mention the testsuites (or lack of them) for all + packages (fixes bug 1664). Thanks to Chris Staub for the report + and analysis of affected packages.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 26, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Don't install the Linuxthreads man pages, the POSIX + threading API is documented in the man3p section provided by the + man-pages package (fixes bug 1660).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check + a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages + for Shadow's <command>groups</command> binary (thanks to Randy + McMurchy for the report).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the + unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 24, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 23, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML + documentation' in chapter 6/sec</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 18, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite + package.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 17, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 16, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in + chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 15, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option + to reflect the new location of the less binary.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 14, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Only install <command>msgfmt</command> from + gettext in chapter 5. This is all that is necessary and prevents + gettext from trying to pull in unnecessary elements from the host. + Thanks to Greg Schafer for pointing this out.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 12, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Improve the heuristic for determining a locale that + is supported by both Glibc and packages outside LFS (bug 1642). + Many thanks to Alexander Patrakov for highlighting the numerous + issues and for reviewing the various suggested fixes.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 11, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step, + as <command>make</command> runs it automatically (bug 1652).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 7, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead + of /bin (fixes bug 1643).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove the --libexecdir option from both passes of + GCC in chapter 5 (fixes bug 1646). Also change the --libexecdir + option for Findutils to conform with the /usr/lib/packagename + convention already prevalent in the book (fixes bug 1644).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 6, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the + toolchain packages (bug 1650).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Install Vim's documentation to + /usr/share/doc/vim-&vim-version; instead of /usr/share/vim/vim64/doc + (bug 1610). Thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report, and Jeremy + Huntwork for the fix.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host + system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the + report and the fix.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 5, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add a note to the toolchain sanity check in chapter 5 + to explain that if TCL fails to build, it's an indication of a broken + toolchain (bug 1581).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>November 3, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Correct the instructions for running Module-Init-Tools' + testsuite (fixes bug 1597). Thanks to Greg Schafer, Tushar Teredesai + and to Randy McMurchy for providing the patch.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 31, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Build udev_run_devd and udev_run_hotplugd and alter + the udev rules file so that udev once again executes programs in + the /etc/dev.d and /etc/hotplug.d directories (fixes bug 1635). + Also change the udev rules to prevent udev from handling the "card" + and "dm" devices as these are managed entirely by programs outside + of LFS.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 29, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-071</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to coreutils-5.92. This involved removing + the DEFAULT_POSIX2_VERSION environment variable as it is no longer + required. The testsuite also requires the Data::Dumper module from + Perl, so it is now built in chapter05/perl.xml.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 22, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 21, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 15, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file + (fixes bug 1639).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules + file</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 9, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Emphasise the fact that one must delete the source + directory after each package has been installed. Fixes bug 1638. + Thanks to Chris Staub.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 8, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in + Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 7, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>October 4, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Prevent GCC from running the <command>fixincludes</command> + script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar + and Greg for their contributions on this issue.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 29, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes + bug 1629).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add <option>-v</option> to commands that accept it + (fixes bug 1612).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 26, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 24, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 20, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 17, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary + "udevdir=/dev" parameter.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Added patch for coreutils to improve echo's POSIX + and bash compatibility and to recognise "\xhh" syntax + as required by the test suite in udev-069 and later.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 15, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount + vulnerability.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 8, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 6, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 5, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem><para>September 4, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add patch to stop <command>cfdisk</command> segfaulting + when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2, + ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604)</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>September 2, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from + <filename>configure</filename> rather than <filename>MCONFIG</filename>, + so adjust the <command>sed</command> in order for the segfault fix + to actually work.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking + <command>find</command> to remove GCC's fixed headers.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 30th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O + instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix + for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Remove <command>sed -i</command> commands from + gcc-pass2.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 28th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6 + builds for consistency</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 23rd, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: <command>find</command> may fail due to a race + condition when deleting files. Remove the && construct in + chapter05/adjusting.xml so that the rest of the commands for removing + fixed headers will be executed (fixes bug 1621).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring + rules (fixes bug 1622)</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 20th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as + they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 19th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 18th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Simplify the method for finding where GCC's default + specs file and private include directory live. Additionally, don't + assume the host's sed supports the -i switch.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of + filenames.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 16th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Install sed's man page to /usr/share/doc/sed-4.1.4 + instead of /usr/share/doc (fixes bug 1600).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 15th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect + from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer)</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 14th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as + advised by Greg Schafer.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC + (fixes bug 1615).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes + bug 1603).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add sed to chapter05/gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc to + ensure they get built with -fomit-frame-pointer so it matches the + bootstrap build in chapter05/gcc-pass1 (fixes bug 1609).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing + test (bug 1611).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 12th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS + system (fixes bug 1614).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files + (fixes bug 1601).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations + to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start + of chapter 6.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed + library (Bug 1608)</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 7th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib + from BLFS first.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>August 6th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest + modeline vulnerability.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 30th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation + (Randy McMurchy).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml + as it's no longer used in the book</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 29th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 28th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB. + The test no longer fails under GCC-4</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 27th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't + compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 26th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove <quote>groups</quote> from the list of programs + installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils + instead (Randy McMurchy).</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds + license and copyright information to the previous version.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 23rd, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Moved FORMER_CONTRIBUTORS information into the book, + so as people can actually see it. The space constraint argument in + that file was weak - it only added another 10 lines to a 255 page + document (PDF). Now at least we <emphasis>publically</emphasis> + acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 22nd, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to + obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 21st, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer + needed.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 19th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as + it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy)</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 18th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Re-added the explanation of the fixincludes process + and rewording where necessary (Chris Staub), and reworded description + of the specs patch.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes + process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 17th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent + multiple seds from adversely affecting them.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Removed the fixincludes sed from gcc-pass1 as we may + need to fix up host's headers. Also reinstate the associated removal + of pthread.h and sigthread.h.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 16th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Added sed to chapter 5 gcc builds to force the + fixincludes to use the headers in /tools and not the host.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for + gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters + 5 and 6.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 15th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: GCC-4.x no longer installs its specs file by default. + Alter the toolchain adjustment stage to first dump the specs file + where GCC will find it, then alter it.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with + gcc-4.0.1</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-063.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 13th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 8th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to udev-062.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 6th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again + as it is not needed.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>July 5th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to man-1.6.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to file 4.14.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem><para>[matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>June 12th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>May 24th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>May 23nd, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>May 22nd, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to Udev-058.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>May 15th, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Updated to udev 057.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>April 14, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>April 13, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>April 12, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[manuel]: Small redaction changes.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>April 11, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[manuel]: Several tags and text corrections.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + <listitem> + <para>April 6, 2005</para> + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>[jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver).</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + </listitem> + + </itemizedlist> + + <para>Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages + and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005.</para> </sect1> |