Gerard Beekmans - Linux From Scratch

August 8th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Gettext: added the missing program description of msgcat.

August 4th, 2002 [timothy]: Added zlib-1.1.4.

August 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.52, man-1.5k, gettext-0.11.4, modutils-2.4.18.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Removed Reiserfsprogs. Updated to util-linux-2.11t and file-3.39.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 & 05 – Creating a new partition, Introduction, Why static: grammatic changes. Diffutils, Fileutils, Grep, Texinfo: set LDFLAGS=-static before configure instead of as an argument to make. GCC: appended HAVE_GAS_HIDDEN to auto-host.h.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Glibc: added –disable-profile flag.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 08 – Linux: added information about modules and kernel documentation.

July 29th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system: added a command to remove the static directory.

July 8th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system: Pointed to BLFS as the next step.

July 3rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Sysvinit: Simplified the sed command and updated the installation description because init now prints «Sending processes» instead of «Sending all processes».

July 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Internal change – Made all patches use a &package-patch-version; entity and removed all hardcoding of patch versions.

June 30th, 2002 [timothy]: Updated to man-pages-1.51 and automake-1.6.2

June 24th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Shadow, Util-linux, LFS-Bootscripts: Updated package contents.

June 23rd, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Net-tools, Perl, Texinfo, Autoconf, Automake, File, Libtool, Bin86, Vim, Linux, Bison, Less, Man-pages, Groff, Bzip2, E2fsprogs, Grep, Lilo, Modutils, Procps, Psmisc, Reiserfsprogs: Updated package contents.

June 23rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 05 & 06 – M4, Bzip2, File, E2fsprogs: Added «last checked against» for uniformity. GCC: Removed i686-specific programs.

June 16th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Gettext: Updated package contents.

June 14th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Binutils, Bzip2, Diffutils, Grep: Updated package contents. GCC: Updated description of c++filt.

June 13th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – The End: Changed $LFS/etc/lfs-4.0 to $LFS/etc/lfs and put the version number inside this file.

June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 – GCC: Modified the build instructions and command explanations to only build the C compiler. The C++ compiler is not needed until after the second GCC build.

June 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 06 – Shadow: grammatic changes.

June 11th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Gawk: Created a list of package contents and descriptions. Fileutils: Removed a confusing paragraph about the fileutils patch. GCC: Updated the package contents.

June 11th, 2002 [timothy] All software: Updated the estimated required disk space.

June 9th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Creating Directories: Changed usr,usr/local to just usr/local as we use the -p option to mkdir which will create the usr directory anyways.

June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 06 – Reiserfsprogs: added a description for unpack.

June 7th, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 02 – How to ask for help: mentioned the FAQ.

June 6th, 2002 [markh] – Chapter 05 – Tidy up explanations following the /static change.

June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Preface – Who would not want to read this book: applied a revised version of Scot's grammar patch.

June 5th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 09 – Rebooting the system, Lilo, Bootscripts: named the hint authors. Chapter 06 – Vim: updated the hint URL. Chapter 05 – Gawk: to avoid confusion, mentioned that the patch will be applied in Chapter 06.

June 3rd, 2002 [timothy] Chapter 01 – FAQ: edited to include reporting typos.

May 31st, 2002 [gerard] Chapter 05 – Findutils: Added the CPPFLAGS...re_max_failures fix which is needed on Glibc-2.1 systems.

May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 & 06 – Update to binutils-2.12.1.

May 30th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 – Bash: Removed section about «last two commands executing anyways» because we no longer have the commands referred to there.

May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Glibc: Replaced the various sed fixes with a regular patch.

May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Gawk: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.

May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 – Fileutils: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.

May 30th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Ed: Replaced the sed fix with a regular patch.

May 28th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Changing ownership: removed the explicit command to chown /lost+found. This is done by the first command now that proc isn't mounted anymore in chapter 5.

May 27th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to ncurses-5.2-2.patch (this patch is smaller than the previously used one).

May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Upgraded to: automake-1.6.1, bin86-0.16.3, file-3.38, gawk-3.1.1, gcc-3.1, gettext-0.11.2, modutils-2.4.16, psmisc-21 and util-linux-2.11r. Added gcc-3.1 compile fix patches for ncurses, perl and vim.

May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05+06 – Binutils: Removed the tooldir setting from chapter 05-binutils, moved its description to chapter 06-binutils.

May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 05 – Gawk & Findutils: simplified the installation by removing the libexecdir modifications. We can live with a $LFS/static/libexecdir being created. The whole $LFS/static directory is temporarily anyways, so we're not all that concerned with what it looks like.

May 26th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Creating Directories: removed the cd /command and changed the two chmodcommands to use absolute paths instead.

May 25th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 06 – Some minor corrections dealing with removing the $LFS variable where it isn't wanted.

May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Implemented the keep_chap5_and_chap6_sep lfs-hint. Highlights of the change: added findutils and util-linux to chapter 5, installed everything from chapter 5 into $LFS/static and re-ordered the installation of packages in chapter 6 to prevent hard-wiring the wrong path (files from $LFS/static).

May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – E2fsprogs: Added some more descriptions.

May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Bin86: Added some descriptions.

May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Flex: Added some descriptions.

May 23rd, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Glibc: Added some more descriptions.

May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – E2fsprogs: Added some descriptions.

May 18th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Glibc: Added some more descriptions.

May 17th, 2002 [markh]: Changed all chown X.X's to chown X:X's which is less likely to run into problems (according to info chown).

May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 01 – Mirror sites: Added http interface to FTP mirror at idge.net

May 16th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Glibc: Added some more descriptions.

May 15th, 2002 [markh]: Chapter 05 – Bzip2. Changed the instructions to deal with hard links in older distros a'la the Chapter 05 gzip instructions.

May 11th, 2002 [markh]: Various XML fixups; mainly altering tags to remove erroneous in the HTML output.

May 9th, 2002 [gerard]: Appendix A – Glibc: Filled in the missing descriptions.

May 6th, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Shadow: Fixed the symlink location of vigr to /usr/sbin

May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 – Procps: Changed the two single quotes to two double quotes (the two single quotes can be mistaken for one double quote which will cause an error).

May 2nd, 2002 [gerard]: Changed the cd dir && ln -sfcommands to one single command (such as ln -sf bash $LFS/bin/shSame goes for cd dir && mv/cpconstructions which are now replaced with constructions like mv $LFS/usr/bin/{bzcat,bzip2} $LFS/bin

May 2nd, 2002 [markh]: Removed the «Removing old NSS library files» section.

1 мая 2002 [gerard]: Removed all Glibc-2.0 workarounds – gzip patch, sh-utils patch, copying of libnss files. Also removed the export VAR=VALUE...unset VARconstructions and changed them to VAR=VALUE ./configureconstructions.

26 апреля 2002 [marcheerdink]: Глава 06 Findutils: добавлен libexecdir=/usr/bin к команде make. Исправляет неверный путь libexecdir в updatedb.

25 апреля 2002 [gerard]: Глава 06 Glibc: добавлена заметка от том, что вручную можно установить только нужные локали, а не все. Для этого необходимо создать директорию /usr/lib/locale.

21 апреля 2002 [gerard & markh]: Обновлен пакет MAKEDEV-1.5

12 апреля 2002 [markh]: Добавлена организация директорий к cvs и разделен index.xml.

10 апреля 2002 [marcheerdink]: Обновлены следующие пакеты: bison-1.35, diffutils-2.8.1, texinfo-4.2, util-linux-2.11q

9 апреля 2002 [marcheerdink]: Добавлено –disable-perl-regexp к configure-опциям grep, чтобы избежать ссылки на несуществующую статическую библиотеку pcre.

8 апреля 2002 [gerard]: Добавлено зеркало http://ftp.de.linuxfromscratch.org (в дополнение к ftp://ftp.de).

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