%general-entities; ]> 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. July 29, 2006 [bdubbs] - Added a patch to the linux-libc-headers to add the inotify header. [bdubbs] - Added a patch to Berkeley DB to avoid potential program traps. July 21, 2006 [bdubbs] - Added the existing bash patch to Chapter 5 to avoid potential custom scripting problems. [bdubbs] - Added grub-0.97-disk_geometry-1.patch. [bdubbs] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.27. Added a note to use the latest kernel version available in the 2.6.16 series. [bdubbs] - Updated vim patch set to level 7. [bdubbs] - Updated the discussion concerning zimezones. [dnicholson] - Added a reminder to check that the virtual kernel file systems are mounted after the description of the revised chroot command. [dnicholson] - Fixed dead link to Linux Driver Model paper on the Device and Module Handling page. Replaced with sysfs paper by the same author. Thanks to Chris Staub and Bryan Kadzban. July 18, 2006 [bdubbs] - Several textual corrections. Thanks to Chris Staub. July 15, 2006 [bdubbs] - Added a patch to module-init-tools to correct a possible problem when aliases are specified with regular expressions. [bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.26. [bdubbs] - Added sed to correct path to the find program in updatedb after moving find to /bin. [bdubbs] - Updated text concerning test failures in glibc to describe the most recent results. July 13, 2006 [bdubbs] - Moved the executables: nice, find, kbd_mode, openvt, and setfont to /bin to support boot scripts. Added --datadir=/lib/kbd to kbd's configure so that keyboard data will always be on the root partition. [bdubbs] - Updated text in section 7.9 (The Bash Shell Startup Files) to better explain the Xlib example. July 12, 20006 [bdubbs] - Updated to man-pages-2.34. [bdubbs] - Updated to e2fsprogs-1.39. [dnicholson] - Changed text explaining the installation of the udev-config rules. Thanks to Matthew Burgess. [dnicholson] - Various fixes and additions for examples of custom rules in Udev courtesy of Alexander Patrakov. Added the "Creating custom symlinks" page which includes examples of creating persistent device symlinks, including CD-ROMs. Added a second set of guidelines for creating persistent symlinks for network cards. Other text touch ups on the configuration pages involving Udev. Closes ticket #1818. [bdubbs] - Updated udev-config and bootscripts download location. [dnicholson] - Added commands to create the vi to vim man page symlink in all available languages. Closes ticket #1811. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. [dnicholson] - Updated to udev-096 and udev-config-20060712. Removed the bug.c program and the cd symlinks script. The cd symlinks will be covered in Chapter 7. Closes ticket #1804. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for making the appropriate changes in the Udev rules. July 11, 2006 [bdubbs] - Changed url for the SBU pages to a generic location. [bdubbs] - Added clarifying text to section 7.9 concerning charmap specifications. Thanks to Dan Nicholson. Closes ticket #1813. [bdubbs] - Moved text in section 5.7 "Adjusting the Toolchain" referencing TCL out of the caution and into its own note so it does not get included later in gcc-pass2. Closes ticket #1822. [bdubbs] - Updated the kernel to version 2.6.16.24. Closes ticket #1808. July 10, 2006 [dnicholson] - Specified the full path to modprobe in the example modprobe rule. Closes ticket #1812. [dnicholson] - Remove the locale country command from the heuristic to determine the locale in the Bash Shell Startup Files since it doesn't produce results in all locales. July 7, 2006 [matt] - Updated module-init-tools download information as it has a new maintainer. June 10, 2006 [ken] - Added gettext.sh to list of programs installed by gettext, similarly nologin for shadow, grub-set-default for grub, enc2xs and instmodsh for perl, slabtop for procps, flock and tailf for util-linux, bootlogd for sysvinit, manpath for man-db, filefrag for e2fsprogs. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. May 31, 2006 [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.16.19. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.33. [matthew] - Upgrade to Bison-2.2. [matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.96. [gerard] - Added tee to chapter 6's Glibc make check so the output can be seen on screen as well as captured in the log file. May 30, 2006 [matthew] - Removed an out of date comment regarding having to run pwconv to reset passwords after enabling password shadowing. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report. [matthew] - Removed getunimap, setlogons, and setvesablank from the list of programs installed by kbd. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. May 30, 2006 [matthew] - Removed swapdev from the list of files installed by util-linux. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. May 27, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Remove the 'refer back's in the gcc-pass2 and chapter06/gcc pages. Better organizes the commands and data so that the flow of the book is not lost. [jhuntwork] - Add a note about installing spell files for Vim in a language other than English. [jhuntwork] - Correct Vim's installation of man pages to work well with Man-DB. Patch from Alexander Patrakov and Ag Hatzim. May 26, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Some version corrections in the vim page. May 25, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Updated to Vim-7.0. Fixes #1793. [jhuntwork] - Fixed generation of diff's man page. Thanks Randy McMurchy for the report and Ken Moffat for the fix. Fixes #1800. May 22, 2006 [jim] - Fixed a constant support question asked in #IRC and the mailing lists about shadow's additional sed command for cracklib. Using a complete sed command instead. May 15, 2006 [archaic] - Updated to udev-config-20060515. This adds the rule to create /dev/usb nodes as well as making the rules files slightly more modular by reorganizing which rules go to which files. This is a very minor update. [archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.32. [archaic] - Updated to udev-092. May 14, 2006 [manuel] - Updated SBU and disk usage values. [manuel] - Created packages.ent. Moved data about packages to packages.ent as entities. May 12, 2006 [archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.16. May 9, 2006 [manuel] - Updated packages and patches sizes. May 8, 2006 [archaic] - Made the directory tree creation more concise and removed the extraneous /opt/* hierarchy (it is not required by FHS). Closes ticket #1656. May 7, 2006 [archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.14. [ken] - Use ext3 filesystem instead of ext2. Resolves ticket #1792. May 6, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Added MD5 sums for packages and patches. Resolves ticket #1788. May 3, 2006 [archaic] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.16.13. [jhuntwork] - Updated stripping notes to reflect current findings. Resolves ticket #1657. [archaic] - Updated the bug.c code to avoid USB-related uevent leakage reports. May 2, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Fixed sanity checks to work after final GCC and changed their format. Resolves ticket #1768. [archaic] - Removed mention of usbfs from the fstab page since it is already covered in BLFS. [archaic] - Updated to man-pages-2.31. [archaic] - Updated to iana-etc-2.10. [archaic] - Updated to tcl8.4.13. May 1, 2006 [archaic] - Added two seds to avoid symlink problems with Readline during reinstallation. Thanks to Dan and Manuel for the fix and for testing. Fixes ticket #1770. [archaic] - Fixed issue where module-init-tools would not re-install its binaries. [archaic] - Updated to linux-2.6.16.11. [archaic] - Updated to udev-091. Moved to a tarball-based set of udev rules. Updated the bootscripts to support the new udevsettle program. April 27, 2006 [manuel] - Added SEO Company Canada to donators acknowledgements. April 23, 2006 [manuel] - Fixed command to change $LFS/tools ownership. Resolves ticket #1780. April 22, 2006 [manuel] - Revised again the Host System Requirements page wording and look. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. Resolves ticket #1779. April 21, 2006 [manuel] - Added commands to determine the version of the required packages installed on the host. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the commands list and Randy McMurchy for reviewing the wording. [manuel] - Alphabetized patches list. Thanks to Justin R. Knierim for the patch. April 20, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Updated bash to 3.1.17 via an updated patch. Resolves Ticket 1775. [manuel] - Reworded why a 2.6 kernel compiled with GCC-3 is required on the host system. [manuel] - Revised dependencies info. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. April 19, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Added a more detailed list of minimum software requirements. Thanks to Chris Staub for researching these and Alexander Patrakov for suggesting the enhancement. Resolves Ticket 1598. April 18, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Moved all dependency information to a new page, Appendix C. Appendix C also contains information concerning the build order. While there might need to be a few tweaks yet, this information is complete enough at this point to close out the long-standing ticket #684. Many thanks to Chris Staub, Dan Nicholson and Manuel Canales Esparcia for helping get this finished. April 15, 2006 [archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-20060415. [archaic] - Added patch to glibc to fix build errors in packages that include linux/types.h after sys/kd.h. April 14, 2006 [ken] - Add security patch for tar to address CVE-2006-0300. [archaic] - Upgraded to man-pages-2.29 and linux-2.6.16.5. No command changes. [manuel] - Changed typography conventions. From now, replaceable text is encapsulated inside < >, optional text inside [ ], and library extensions inside { }. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs for the patch. April 13, 2006 [archaic] - Removed boot logging rule from /etc/syslog.conf and removed the command to move logger to /bin. [archaic] - Added symlink from vim.1 to vi.1. [archaic] - Added chgpasswd to the list of installed files for Shadow. [archaic] - Merged the udev_update branch to trunk. April 12, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Rewrote section explaining IP Addresses. Thanks Bryan Kadzban and Bruce Dubbs. Resolves Ticket 1663. [jhuntwork] - Added a pointer to GDBM in Berkeley DB page. Also added explanatory text concerning why LFS chose Debian's convention for storing man pages. Thanks to Tushar Teredesai and Alexander Patrakov. Resolves Ticket 1694. [jhuntwork] - Remove symlink of zsoelim to groff's soelim in chapter 6. Man-DB produces a sufficient zsoelim which overwrites the symlink we used to create. April 11, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Updated bash-3.1 patch. (Ticket 1758) April 8, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Added a command to create an empty /etc/mtab file early in chapter 6. This avoids testsuite failures in e2fsprogs and possibly other programs that expect /etc/mtab to be present. Explanation from Dan Nicholson, slightly modified. Also merged the 'Creating Essential Symlinks' section with 'Creating passwd, group and log Files'. April 6, 2006 [manuel] - Placed home page (when available) and full download links for all packages in chapter03/packages.xml. [jhuntwork] - Merged alphabetical branch to trunk. April 2, 2006 [archaic] - Moved the chowning of /tools to the end of chapter 5 and rewrote note about backing up or re-using /tools. Moved the mounting of kernel filesystems before the package management page and rewrote the page to mount --bind /dev and mount all other kernel filesystems while outside chroot. Rewrote note about re-entering chroot and remounting kernel filesystems. Removed /dev from the list of dirs created in chroot and added it before chroot. March 30, 2006 [ken] - Correct my erroneous comment about UTF-8 locales in Man-DB. Thanks to Alexander for explaining it. [ken] - upgraded to Linux-2.6.16.1, Iproute2-2.6.16-060323, and Udev-088. March 29, 2006 [ken] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.15 and add convert-mans script to convert its UTF-8 man pages. Thanks to Alexander and Archaic for the script and commands. Fixes tickets #1748 and #1750. March 22, 2006 [archaic] - Updated to lfs-bootscripts-udev_update-20060321. March 21, 2006 [archaic] - Updated the bootscripts. Removed references to hotplug and the bootscripts udev patch. Removed reference to udevstart. Added text and commands for generating Udev bug reports. March 18, 2006 [matthew] - Do not run configure manually for iproute2 as it is run automatically by the Makefile. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket #1734. [matthew] - Make bzdiff use mktemp instead of the deprecated tempfile command. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch. Fixes ticket #1713. [matthew] - Upgrade to flex-2.5.33. [matthew] - Upgrade to readline-5.1.004. [matthew] - Upgrade to bash-3.1.014. [matthew] - Upgrade to psmisc-22.2. [matthew] - Upgrade to file-4.17. [matthew] - Use updated version of the coreutils suppression patch to prevent coreutils version of the su man page from being installed. Fixes #1690. March 11, 2006 [matthew] - Upgrade to GCC 4.0.3. March 8, 2006 [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.25. [matthew] - Remove an example of poor Udev support as it does not apply to the kernel used in the book. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.6. [matthew] - Upgrade to udev-087. [matthew] - Udev's run_program rules require a null device to be present at an early stage, so create one in /lib/udev/devices. March 7, 2006 [matthew] - Update Udev rules file to load SCSI modules and upload firmware to devices that need it. Improve explanations of device and module handling. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. [archaic] - Replaced the debian-specific groff patch with an LFS-style patch. March 3, 2006 [gerard] - Remove -D_GNU_SOURCE from chapter 5 - Patch. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the patch. March 1, 2006 [archaic] - Create the Udev directories before creating the symlinks. [jhuntwork] - Added a description of perl configure flags that help perl deal with a lack of groff. Thanks Dan Nicholson. February 27, 2006 [archaic] - New bash fixes patch adds patch 011 from Bash upstream. Bash patch 010 broke quoting in certain situations. February 20, 2006 [matthew] - Use non-deprecated format for accessing MODALIAS keys in the Udev rules file, and prevent the "$" from being expanded by the shell. [matthew] - Add patches 009 and 010 from Bash upstream. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.24. February 19, 2006 [matthew] - Upgrade Perl libc patch to prevent Perl from trying to find headers on the host system. Fixes bug 1695. [matthew] - Expand the Udev module handling rule to run for every subsystem, not just USB. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux 2.6.15.4. [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev 085. [matthew] - Install Sed's HTML documentation by using --enable-html instead of editing the Makefile. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report and the fix. [matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-002 for Readline. [matthew] - Add upstream fixes 001-008 for Bash. [matthew] - Upgrade to Sed 4.1.5. [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.23. [matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-5.94. [matthew] - Upgrade to DB-4.4.20. [matthew] - Upgrade to Perl-5.8.8, removing the now unneeded vulnerability and DB module patches. [matthew] - Add the verbose parameter to a couple of commands in Linux-Libc-Headers and DB. [matthew] - Create udev specific directories in udev's instructions instead of the more generic creatingdirs.xml. Add "pts" and "shm" directories to /lib/udev/devices so that they can be mounted successfully at boot time. February 10, 2006 [manuel] - Finished the XML indentation plus few tags changes. February 8, 2006 [matthew] - Rewrite the majority of chapter07/udev.xml to reflect the new configuration for handling dynamic device naming and module loading. February 3, 2006 [matthew] - Create the /lib/firmware directory that can be used by Udev's firmware_helper utility. [matthew] - Add descriptions of Udev's helper binaries. [manuel] - Add udev bootscript patch to whatsnew. Removed hotplug from list of packages to download. [ken] - Add udev bootscript patch to list of patches to download. [ken] - Correct the size of the udev tarball. February 2, 2006 [matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-084 and build all its extras to enable custom rules to be written more easily. Also, change the rules file to handle kernel module loading and patch the udev bootscript to work with this version of udev. [matthew] - Remove the hotplug package and related bootscript. Udev will now handle device creation and module loading. [matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.15.2. January 30, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Adjust binutils-pass1 so we don't need to hang on to its source directories. Also use 'gcc -dumpmachine' instead of the MACHTYPE var. [jhuntwork] - Various textual corrections. Thanks Chris Staub. [jhuntwork] - Remove unnecessary LDFLAGS variables in binutils pass 1 and 2. Thanks Dan Nicholson. January 29, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Restore the use of *startfile_prefix_spec. [jhuntwork] - Remove a spurious -i from the perl command when readjusting the toolchain. Thanks Dan Nicholson. January 26, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Modify chapter 6 Glibc's make install command to allow test-installation.pl to run. [jhuntwork] - Adjust chapter 5 binutils to build a static ld-new for use in the chapter 6 readjusting section. Also add some extended sanity checks. These fixes are adapted from DIY-Linux and Greg Schafer. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report, as well. [jhuntwork] - Added 'nodump' to commands in the Package Management section. January 25, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Remove ppc specific instructions from chapter 6 patch. Cross-LFS can handle non-x86 arch specifics at this point. [jhuntwork] - Fix chapter 6 Glibc's test-installation.pl to test the correct Glibc. Fixes bug 1675. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the report and Greg Schafer for the fix. [jhuntwork] - Fixed the re-adjusting of the toolchain in chapter 6 so that chapter 6 GCC and Binutils links against the proper Glibc and so that we don't have to keep the binutils directories from chapter 5. Also moved a note about saving the /tools directory to the beginning of chapter 6. Fixes bug 1677. Thanks to Chris Staub, Alexander Patrakov, Greg Schafer and Tushar Teredesai for reporting and resolving this issue. [matthew] - Upgrade coreutils i18n patch to version 2 to fix sort -n and add the en_US.UTF-8 locale to improve coreutils' test coverage. Fixes bugs 1688 and 1689. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. [matthew] - Add information about package management. Thanks to the BLFS project for the text. January 24, 2006 [matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.1-11. January 23, 2006 [matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages 2.21. [matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc 22.1. [matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow 4.0.14. [matthew] - Install documentation for the Linux kernel. Thanks to Tushar for the report. Fixes bug 1683. [matthew] - Added a patch to enable Perl's DB_File module to compile with the latest version of Berkeley DB. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch. January 20, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Added a patch to fix the sprintf security vulnerability in Perl. Thanks to Tim van der Molen for pointing it out. January 17, 2006 [jhuntwork] - Fixed locale generation for French UTF-8. Thanks to Dan McGhee for the report and Alexander Patrakov for the fix. 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 16, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Move Procps to before Perl in chapter 6. Perl's testsuite uses 'ps'. 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 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 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. [jhuntwork]: Move sed to earlier in the build. [jhuntwork]: Move m4 to earlier in the build. Thanks Chris Staub. November 11, 2005 [matt]: Omit running Bzip2's testsuite as a separate step, as make runs it automatically (bug 1652). November 10, 2005 [jhuntwork]: Initial re-ordering of packages. Thanks to Chris Staub (bug 684). 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 -v 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.