From 35edd526b5f7a6e5cf351f2cbe161ff85dbb3910 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Manuel Canales Esparcia Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 19:02:07 +0000 Subject: Retaged and indented changelog.xml. Moved the list of packaged updates to the new whatsnew.xml file. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@7269 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 1955 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- chapter01/chapter01.xml | 1 + chapter01/whatsnew.xml | 287 +++++++ 3 files changed, 1541 insertions(+), 702 deletions(-) create mode 100644 chapter01/whatsnew.xml 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 @@ - %general-entities; ]> - -Changelog - - -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 . - -Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book. -First a summary, then a detailed log. - - - -Upgraded to: - - -Automake &automake-version; -Bash &bash-version; -Binutils &binutils-version; -Bison &bison-version; - -Coreutils &coreutils-version; - - - -E2fsprogs &e2fsprogs-version; - -File &file-version; -Findutils &findutils-version; - -Gawk &gawk-version; -GCC &gcc-version; -Gettext &gettext-version; -Glibc &glibc-version; - - -GRUB &grub-version; - - -IANA-Etc &iana-etc-version; - - - -Less &less-version; - -Libtool &libtool-version; -Linux &linux-version; -Linux-Libc-Headers &linux-libc-headers-version; -M4 &m4-version; - - -Man-pages &man-pages-version; - - -Ncurses &ncurses-version; - -Perl &perl-version; -Procps &procps-version; -Psmisc &psmisc-version; -Readline &readline-version; - -Shadow &shadow-version; - - - -TCL &tcl-version; - -Udev &udev-version; - -Vim &vim-version; -Zlib &zlib-version; - - - -Downgraded to: - -Groff &groff-version;-&groff-patchlevel; - - - -Added: - -&bzip2-bzgrep-patch; -&bzip2-docs-patch; -&gawk-segfault-patch; -&gcc-specs-patch; -Berkeley DB-&db-version; -&inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch; -&kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch; -MAN-DB-&man-db-version; -&mktemp-tempfile-patch; -&perl-libc-patch; -&shadow-configure-patch; -&tar-gcc4_fix-patch; -&texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch; - - - -Removed: - -gcc-3.4.3-linkonce-1.patch -gcc-3.4.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch -gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch -glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch -inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch -iproute2-2.6.11-050330-remove_db-1.patch -Man-1.6b -mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-2.patch -perl-5.8.6-libc-1.patch -vim-6.3-security_fix-1.patch -zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch - - - -January 10, 2006 [ken]: define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to -resolve a code difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. -Thanks to Greg Schafer. - - -January 10, 2006 [ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a -sed to correct gccbug. - - -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. - -January 7, 2006 [ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so -that the latter will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP. - - -January 7, 2006 [ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that -gccbug will use mktemp. - - -January 7, 2006 [ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, -and remove the '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks -to Randy McMurchy. - - -January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news -server until we actually have one. Thanks Randy. - - -January 5, 2006 [jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 -support. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. - - -January 3, 2006 [matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's ---with-libc configure parameter (fixes bug 1667). - -January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22. - - -January 3, 2006 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18. - - -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). - - -December 31, 2005 [ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm -Headers in chroot, to be repeatable. - - -December 23, 2005 [jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink - - -December 21, 2005 [matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation -to /usr/share/doc. Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix. - - -December 17, 2005 [matt]: Pass a valid path to -module-init-tools' --prefix configure switch and remove the now unnecessary ---mandir switch - -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. - - -December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9 - - -December 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17 - - -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). - - -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. - - -December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12 - - -December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394. - - -December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0 -and readline-5.0 specific patches. - - -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. - - -December 11, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking -in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix. - - -December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16 - - -December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2 - - -December 9, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27 - - -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. - -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). - -November 26, 2005 [matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not -having to dump/check a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662). - - -November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1. - - -November 26, 2005 [matt]: Prevent installing the -internationalized man pages for Shadow's groups binary -(thanks to Randy McMurchy for the report). - -November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14. - - -November 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26 - - -November 26, 2005 [manuel]: Changed --strip-path to ---strip-components in the unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite -package. - -November 24, 2005 [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 -release. - -November 23, 2005 [gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to -'HTML documentation' in chapter 6/sec - -November 18, 2005 [manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the -module-init-tools-testsuite package. - -November 17, 2005 [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 -release. - -November 16, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning -gettext in chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared - -November 15, 2005 [archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager -configure option to reflect the new location of the less -binary. - -November 14, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Only install msgfmt -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. - -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. - -November 11, 2005 [matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a -separate step, as make runs it automatically (bug 1652). - - -November 7, 2005 [matt]: Install the binaries from Less to -/usr/bin instead of /bin (fixes bug 1643). - -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). - -November 6, 2005 [matt]: Remove the optimization related -warnings from the toolchain packages (bug 1650). - -November 6, 2005 [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. - - -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. - -November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93. - - -November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8. - - -November 6, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6. - - -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). - -November 3, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13. - - -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. - -October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13. - - -October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4. - - -October 31, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6. - - -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. - - -October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-071 - -October 29, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11. - - -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. - -October 22, 2005 [archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4. - - -October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16. - - -October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10. - - -October 21, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5. - - -October 15, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09. - - -October 15, 2005 [matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev -rules file (fixes bug 1639). - -October 15, 2005 [matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the -Udev rules file - -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. - -October 8, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile -creation in Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack. - -October 8, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007. - - -October 7, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2. - -October 4, 2005 [matt]: Prevent GCC from running the -fixincludes script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug -1636). Thanks to Tushar and Greg for their contributions on this issue. - - -September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add more explicit reader -prerequisites (fixes bug 1629). - -September 29, 2005 [matt]: Add to commands -that accept it (fixes bug 1612). - -September 26, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08. - - -September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5. - - -September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b. - - -September 24, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r. - - -September 20, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1. - - -September 17, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the -unnecessary "udevdir=/dev" parameter. - -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. - -September 15, 2005 [archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to -prevent a umount vulnerability. - -September 8, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2 - - -September 6, 2005 [ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect -test failures. - -September 5, 2005 [ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math -tests in glibc. - -September 4, 2005 [matt]: Add patch to stop -cfdisk segfaulting when invoked on devices with partitions -that don't contain an ext2, ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604) - - -September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20 - - -September 4, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25 - - -September 2, 2005 [matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux -comes from configure rather than -MCONFIG, so adjust the sed in order for -the segfault fix to actually work. - -September 2, 2005 [matt]: Avoid the potential race condition -when invoking find to remove GCC's fixed headers. - - -August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by -compiling with -O instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug -1604). - -August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the -upstream fix for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602). - -August 30th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12 - - -August 30th, 2005 [ken]: Remove sed -i - commands from gcc-pass2. - -August 28th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash -and Glibc chapter six builds for consistency - -August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: find 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). - -August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating -to configuring rules (fixes bug 1622) - -August 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a - -August 20th, 2005 [matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries -to /bin as they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620). - -August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068 - -August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00 - -August 19th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15 - -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. - -August 18th, 2005 [ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's -handling of filenames. - -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). - - -August 16th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5. - - -August 15th, 2005 [matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed -to protect from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer) - -August 14th, 2005 [ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with ---enable-shadowgrp as advised by Greg Schafer. - -August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test -failures in GCC (fixes bug 1615). - -August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Added patch to install documentation -for bzip2 (fixes bug 1603). - - -August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4. - - -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). - -August 14th, 2005 [matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix -for the failing test (bug 1611). - -August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required -on an LFS system (fixes bug 1614). - -August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl -data files (fixes bug 1601). - -August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure -switch explanations to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug -1613). - -August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Expand explanation of device node -creation at the start of chapter 6. - -August 12th, 2005 [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for -expect's installed library (Bug 1608) - -August 7th, 2005 [archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding -building Cracklib from BLFS first. - -August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's -installed files. - -August 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address -the latest modeline vulnerability. - -July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash -documentation (Randy McMurchy). - -July 30th, 2005 [matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml as it's no longer used in the book - -July 29th, 2005 [manuel]: Removed the text about defining -gvimrc. - -July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd - -July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils - -July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB. The test no longer fails under GCC-4 - -July 28th, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar - -July 27th, 2005 [matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file -as we don't compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs). - -July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Remove groups from the -list of programs installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by -coreutils instead (Randy McMurchy). - -July 26th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds license and copyright information to the previous version. - -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 publically acknowledge the efforts -of previous contributors. - -July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07. - -July 23rd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3. - -July 22nd, 2005 [manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the -Makefile to obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output. - -July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc - -July 21st, 2005 [matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once -it's no longer needed. - -July 19th, 2005 [matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy) - -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. - -July 18th, 2005 [matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h - -July 17th, 2005 [matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, -to prevent multiple seds from adversely affecting them. - -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. - -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. - -July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce -patches for gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h. - -July 16th, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both -chapters 5 and 6. - -July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3. - -July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build -with gcc-4.0.1 - -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. - -July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with gcc-4.0.1 - -July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1. - -July 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-063. - -July 13th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6. - -July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to udev-062. - -July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0. - -July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2. - -July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10. - -July 8th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10. - -July 6th, 2005 [archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header -patch out again as it is not needed. - -July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38. - -July 6th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1. - -July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11. - -July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-1.6. - -July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to file 4.14. - -July 5th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05. - -June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5. - -June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7. - -June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10. - -June 12th, 2005 [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03. - -May 24th, 2005 [jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2. - -May 23nd, 2005 [jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities. - -May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Udev-058. - -May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18. - -May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4. - -May 22nd, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16. - -May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97. - -May 15th, 2005 [matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16. - -April 15, 2005 [jim]: Updated to udev 057. - -April 14, 2005 [jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02. - -April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5. - -April 13, 2005 [jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4. - -April 12, 2005 [manuel]: Small redaction changes. - -April 11, 2005 [manuel]: Several tags and text corrections. - -April 6, 2005 [jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver). - - - -Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages -and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005. + + January 10, 2006 + + + [ken]: Define YYENABLE_NLS in bison, to resolve a code + difference shown up by Iterative Comparison Analysis. Thanks + to Greg Schafer. + + + [ken]: Revert my move of mktemp and add a sed to correct + gccbug. + + + + + + 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. + + + [ken]: Move grep ahead of libtool, so that the latter + will correctly reference /bin/grep in references to EGREP. + + + [ken]: Move mktemp ahead of gcc so that gccbug will + use mktemp. + + + [ken]: Give Berkeley DB its full name, and remove the + '-lpthread' overrides. Also add pointer to BLFS, thanks to + Randy McMurchy. + + + + + + January 5, 2006 + + + [jhuntwork]: Remove mention of news server until we actually + have one. Thanks Randy. + + + [jhuntwork]: Initial addition of UTF-8 support. Thanks to + Alexander Patrakov. + + + + + + January 3, 2006 + + + [matt]: Clarify the description of mktemp's --with-libc + configure parameter (fixes bug 1667). + + + [matt]: Upgrade to libtool 1.5.22. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.18. + + + [matt]: Remove the -v flag from the example mkswap command in + chapter 2 as it does not affect verbosity (fixes bug 1674). + + + + + + December 31, 2005 + + + [ken]: Alter installation of Linux Libc asm Headers in chroot, + to be repeatable. + + + + + + December 23, 2005 + + + [jim]: Corrected version on Vim symlink + + + + + + December 21, 2005 + + + [matt]: Correctly symlink Vim's documentation to /usr/share/doc. + Thanks to Jeremy for the report and the fix. + + + + + + December 17, 2005 + + + [matt]: Pass a valid path to module-init-tools' --prefix + configure switch and remove the now unnecessary --mandir switch + + + [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. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to psmisc-21.9 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.17 + + + + + + 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). + + + + + + 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. + + + + + + December 11, 2005 + + + [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to tcl-8.4.12 + + + [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to less-394. + + + [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to readline-5.1. Also removed bash-3.0 + and readline-5.0 specific patches. + + + [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. + + + [jhuntwork]: Changed variable used in readline for linking + in ncurses. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the fix. + + + + + + December 9, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.16 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools-3.2.2 + + + + [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.27 + + + + + + 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. + + + + + + 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). + + + [matt]: Remove the incorrect note about not having to dump/check + a journalled filesystem (fixes bug 1662). + + + [matt]: Upgrade to module-init-tools 3.2.1. + + + [matt]: Prevent installing the internationalized man pages + for Shadow's groups binary (thanks to Randy + McMurchy for the report). + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.14. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.26 + + + [manuel]: Changed --strip-path to --strip-components in the + unpack of module-init-tools-testsuite package. + + + + + + November 24, 2005 + + + [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre2 release. + + + + + + November 23, 2005 + + + [gerard]: Corrected reference to 'man page' to 'HTML + documentation' in chapter 6/sec + + + + + + November 18, 2005 + + + [manuel]: Fixed the unpack of the module-init-tools-testsuite + package. + + + + + + November 17, 2005 + + + [matt]: LFS-6.1.1-pre1 release. + + + + + + November 16, 2005 + + + [jhuntwork]: Textual correction concerning gettext in + chapter 5 and the use of --disable-shared + + + + + + November 15, 2005 + + + [archaic]: Changed the chapter 6 Perl Dpager configure option + to reflect the new location of the less binary. + + + + + + November 14, 2005 + + + [jhuntwork]: Only install msgfmt 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. + + + + + + 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. + + + + + + November 11, 2005 + + + [matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step, + as make runs it automatically (bug 1652). + + + + + + November 7, 2005 + + + [matt]: Install the binaries from Less to /usr/bin instead + of /bin (fixes bug 1643). + + + [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). + + + + + + November 6, 2005 + + + [matt]: Remove the optimization related warnings from the + toolchain packages (bug 1650). + + + [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. + + + [matt]: Stop Udev from killing udevd processes on the host + system (fixes bug 1651). Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the + report and the fix. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to Coreutils 5.93. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to Psmisc 21.8. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to Glibc 2.3.6. + + + + + + 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). + + + + + + November 3, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.13. + + + [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. + + + + + + October 31, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-4.0.13. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to vim-6.4. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to procps-3.2.6. + + + [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. + + + + + + October 29, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to udev-071 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.11. + + + [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. + + + + + + October 22, 2005 + + + [archaic]: Upgrade to m4-1.4.4. + + + + + + October 21, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.16. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.10. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to ncurses 5.5. + + + + + + October 15, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages 2.09. + + + [matt]: Use an updated version of the Udev rules file + (fixes bug 1639). + + + [matt]: Add a cdrom group as required by the Udev rules + file + + + + + + 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. + + + + + + October 8, 2005 + + + [archaic]: Added patch to fix poor tempfile creation in + Texinfo-4.8 that can lead to a symlink attack. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to iproute2-051007. + + + + + + October 7, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to gcc-4.0.2. + + + + + + October 4, 2005 + + + [matt]: Prevent GCC from running the fixincludes + script in chapter5 pass2 and chapter 6 (fixes bug 1636). Thanks to Tushar + and Greg for their contributions on this issue. + + + + + + September 29, 2005 + + + [matt]: Add more explicit reader prerequisites (fixes + bug 1629). + + + [matt]: Add to commands that accept it + (fixes bug 1612). + + + + + + September 26, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-pages-2.08. + + + + + + September 24, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to gawk-3.1.5. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to man-1.6b. + + + [matt]: Upgrade to util-linux-2.12r. + + + + + + September 20, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to bison-2.1. + + + + + + September 17, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to udev-070 and remove the unnecessary + "udevdir=/dev" parameter. + + + [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. + + + + + + September 15, 2005 + + + [archaic]: Added patch for util-linux to prevent a umount + vulnerability. + + + + + + September 8, 2005 + + + [jhuntwork]: Upgrade to groff-1.19.2 + + + + + + September 6, 2005 + + + [ken]: Reworded the glibc text to expect test failures. + + + + + + September 5, 2005 + + + [ken]: Add patch to fix some of the math tests in glibc. + + + + + September 4, 2005 + + + [matt]: Add patch to stop cfdisk segfaulting + when invoked on devices with partitions that don't contain an ext2, + ext3, xfs or jfs filesystem (see bug 1604) + + + [matt]: Upgrade to libtool-1.5.20 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to findutils-4.2.25 + + + + + + September 2, 2005 + + + [matt]: The optimization flag for util-linux comes from + configure rather than MCONFIG, + so adjust the sed in order for the segfault fix + to actually work. + + + [matt]: Avoid the potential race condition when invoking + find to remove GCC's fixed headers. + + + + + + August 30th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Work around a segfault in cfdisk by compiling with -O + instead of the default -O2 optimization setting (fixes bug 1604). + + + [matt]: Update the inetutils patch to use the upstream fix + for GCC-4.x compilation problems (fixes bug 1602). + + + [matt]: Upgrade to shadow-2.0.12 + + + [ken]: Remove sed -i commands from + gcc-pass2. + + + + + + August 28th, 2005 + + + [jhuntwork]: Adjusted tar commands in Bash and Glibc chapter 6 + builds for consistency + + + + + + August 23rd, 2005 + + + [matt]: find 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). + + + [matt]: Install Udev's documentation relating to configuring + rules (fixes bug 1622) + + + [matt]: Upgrade to Man-1.6a + + + + + + August 20th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Stop moving some of coreutils binaries to /bin as + they aren't required to be there (fixes bug 1620). + + + + + + August 19th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to Udev-068 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to IANA-etc-2.00 + + + [matt]: Upgrade to file-4.15 + + + + + + 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. + + + [ken]: Add a patch to sanitise bzgrep's handling of + filenames. + + + + + + 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). + + + [matt]: Upgraded to linux-2.6.12.5. + + + + + + August 15th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Alter the GCC -fomit-frame-pointer sed to protect + from multiple invocations (Greg Schafer) + + + + + + August 14th, 2005 + + + [ken]: Upgrade shadow to 4.0.11.1 with --enable-shadowgrp as + advised by Greg Schafer. + + + [matt]: Mention the common libmudflap test failures in GCC + (fixes bug 1615). + + + [matt]: Added patch to install documentation for bzip2 (fixes + bug 1603). + + + [matt]: Upgrade to linux-2.6.12.4. + + + [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). + + + [matt]: Upgrade to udev-067 including a fix for the failing + test (bug 1611). + + + + + + August 12th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Explain that libiconv isn't required on an LFS + system (fixes bug 1614). + + + [matt]: Fix ownership of libtool's libltdl data files + (fixes bug 1601). + + + [matt]: Change findutils and vim's configure switch explanations + to the convention used in the rest of the book (Bug 1613). + + + [matt]: Expand explanation of device node creation at the start + of chapter 6. + + + [matt]: Fix incorrect version number for expect's installed + library (Bug 1608) + + + + + + August 7th, 2005 + + + [archaic]: Added note in Shadow regarding building Cracklib + from BLFS first. + + + + + + August 6th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Add texi2pdf to list of Texinfo's installed files. + + + [matt]: Updated Vim's security patch to address the latest + modeline vulnerability. + + + + + + July 30th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Added instructions for installing Bash documentation + (Randy McMurchy). + + + [matt]: Remove GCC linkonce patch from chapter03/patches.xml + as it's no longer used in the book + + + + + + July 29th, 2005 + + + [manuel]: Removed the text about defining gvimrc. + + + + + + July 28th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for kbd + + + [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch for inetutils + + + [matt]: Remove the note regarding a known test failure in GRUB. + The test no longer fails under GCC-4 + + + [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patch to chapter06 tar + + + + + + July 27th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Don't define gvim's configuration file as we don't + compile gvim in LFS (Bruce Dubbs). + + + + + + July 26th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Remove groups from the list of programs + installed by shadow, as we use the version provided by coreutils + instead (Randy McMurchy). + + + [matt]: Updated to mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch, which adds + license and copyright information to the previous version. + + + + + + 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 publically + acknowledge the efforts of previous contributors. + + + [matt]: Updated to man-pages-2.07. + + + [matt]: Updated to zlib-1.2.3. + + + + + + July 22nd, 2005 + + + [manuel]: Added obfuscate.sh and modified the Makefile to + obfuscate e-mail addresses in XHTML output. + + + + + + July 21st, 2005 + + + [matt]: Add GCC-4 related patches to chapter06 glibc + + + [matt]: Unset the GCC_INCLUDEDIR variable once it's no longer + needed. + + + + + + July 19th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Removed flex++ from the list of installed files, as + it is no longer present (Randy McMurchy) + + + + + + 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. + + + [matt]: Remove all host headers brought in via the fixincludes + process, not just pthread.h and sigaction.h + + + + + + July 17th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Slightly adjusted the specs file seds, to prevent + multiple seds from adversely affecting them. + + + [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. + + + + + + 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. + + + [jhuntwork]: Removed no_fixincludes and linkonce patches for + gcc4. Also removed the command to remove the fixed pthread.h. + + + [jhuntwork]: Fixed adjusting toolchain sed for both chapters + 5 and 6. + + + + + + July 15th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Updated to Linux-2.6.12.3. + + + [matt]: Added a patch to enable tar to build with gcc-4.0.1 + + + [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. + + + [matt]: Added patches for chapter 5's Glibc to build with + gcc-4.0.1 + + + [matt]: Updated to gcc-4.0.1. + + + [matt]: Updated to udev-063. + + + + + + July 13th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Updated to automake-1.9.6. + + + + + + July 8th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Updated to udev-062. + + + [matt]: Updated to linux-libc-headers-2.6.12.0. + + + [matt]: Updated to linux-2.6.12.2. + + + [matt]: Updated to shadow-4.0.10. + + + [matt]: Updated to iana-etc-1.10. + + + + + + July 6th, 2005 + + + [archaic]: Pulled the inetutils kernel header patch out again + as it is not needed. + + + [matt]: Updated to e2fsprogs-1.38. + + + [matt]: Updated to binutils-2.16.1. + + + + + + July 5th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Updated to tcl-8.4.11. + + + [matt]: Updated to man-1.6. + + + [matt]: Updated to file 4.14. + + [matt]: Updated to man-pages 2.05. + + + + + + June 12th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Upgraded to gettext-0.14.5. + + + [matt]: Upgraded to perl-5.8.7. + + + [matt]: Upgraded to tcl-8.4.10. + + + [matt]: Upgraded to man-pages-2.03. + + + + + + May 24th, 2005 + + + [jim]: Changed gcc-specs patch to -2. + + + + + + May 23nd, 2005 + + + [jim]: Changed changelog to use version entities. + + + + + + May 22nd, 2005 + + + [matt]: Updated to Udev-058. + + + [matt]: Updated to Libtool-1.5.18. + + + [matt]: Updated to Gcc-3.4.4. + + + [matt]: Updated to Binutils-2.16. + + + + + + May 15th, 2005 + + + [matt]: Updated to Grub 0.97. + + + [matt]: Updated to Libtool 1.5.16. + + + [jim]: Updated to udev 057. + + + + + + April 14, 2005 + + + [jim]: Updated to man-pages 2.02. + + + + + + April 13, 2005 + + + [jim]: Updated to glibc 2.3.5. + + + [jim]: Updated to gettext 0.14.4. + + + + + + April 12, 2005 + + + [manuel]: Small redaction changes. + + + + + + April 11, 2005 + + + [manuel]: Several tags and text corrections. + + + + + + April 6, 2005 + + + [jim]: Removed IPRoute2 patch for a sed (Ryan Oliver). + + + + + + + Branch frozen for LFS 6.1 as of April 5, 2005. Some packages + and patches updates related with security up to July 9, 2005. diff --git a/chapter01/chapter01.xml b/chapter01/chapter01.xml index 3906cf0aa..2975cc8d8 100644 --- a/chapter01/chapter01.xml +++ b/chapter01/chapter01.xml @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Introduction + diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6b42680ae --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml @@ -0,0 +1,287 @@ + + + %general-entities; +]> + + + + + What's new since the last release. + + Below is a list of package updates made since the previous + release of the book. + + + + + Upgraded to: + + + + Automake &automake-version; + + + Bash &bash-version; + + + + Binutils &binutils-version; + + + Bison &bison-version; + + + + Coreutils &coreutils-version; + + + + + E2fsprogs &e2fsprogs-version; + + + + File &file-version; + + + Findutils &findutils-version; + + + + Gawk &gawk-version; + + + GCC &gcc-version; + + + Gettext &gettext-version; + + + Glibc &glibc-version; + + + + + GRUB &grub-version; + + + + + IANA-Etc &iana-etc-version; + + + + + + Less &less-version; + + + + Libtool &libtool-version; + + + Linux &linux-version; + + + Linux-Libc-Headers &linux-libc-headers-version; + + + M4 &m4-version; + + + + + Man-pages &man-pages-version; + + + + + Ncurses &ncurses-version; + + + + Perl &perl-version; + + + Procps &procps-version; + + + Psmisc &psmisc-version; + + + Readline &readline-version; + + + + Shadow &shadow-version; + + + + + + TCL &tcl-version; + + + + Udev &udev-version; + + + + Vim &vim-version; + + + Zlib &zlib-version; + + + + + Downgraded to: + + + Groff &groff-version;-&groff-patchlevel; + + + + + + Added: + + + &bzip2-bzgrep-patch; + + + &bzip2-docs-patch; + + + &gawk-segfault-patch; + + + &gcc-specs-patch; + + + Berkeley DB-&db-version; + + + &inetutils-gcc4_fixes-patch; + + + &kbd-gcc4_fixes-patch; + + + MAN-DB-&man-db-version; + + + &mktemp-tempfile-patch; + + + &perl-libc-patch; + + + &shadow-configure-patch; + + + &tar-gcc4_fix-patch; + + + &texinfo-tempfile_fix-patch; + + + + + Removed: + + + gcc-3.4.3-linkonce-1.patch + + + gcc-3.4.3-no_fixincludes-1.patch + + + gcc-3.4.3-specs-2.patch + + + glibc-2.3.4-fix_test-1.patch + + + inetutils-1.4.2-kernel_headers-1.patch + + + iproute2-2.6.11-050330-remove_db-1.patch + + + Man-1.6b + + + mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-2.patch + + + perl-5.8.6-libc-1.patch + + + vim-6.3-security_fix-1.patch + + + zlib-1.2.2-security_fix-1.patch + + + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf