This is version 6.3 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated August 28, 2007. 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 http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mirrors.html.
Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
2007-08-28
[bdubbs] - LFS-6.3 released.
2007-08-27
[dnicholson] - Changed the Shadow download URL to a more stable location.
[dnicholson] - Updated the acknowledgements page again.
[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.5. Fixes #2065.
2007-08-21
[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.4. Fixes #2064.
2007-08-20
[bdubbs] - Add man-db fixes patch.
2007-08-19
[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.3, fixes #2060.
[bdubbs] - Updated acknowledgements.
2007-08-13
[dnicholson] - Updated to LFS-Bootscripts-20070813.
2007-08-11
[dnicholson] - Changed the Bash testsuite standard input fix to only affect the necessary test script.
[bdubbs] - Created LFS 6.3-rc-2..
[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.2, fixes #2059.
2007-08-08
[dnicholson] - Clarify the description of the Udev persistent network rules file.
[dnicholson] - Redirected /dev/tty to standard input when running
the Bash testsuite to prevent errors with terminal
permissions.
2007-08-07
[dnicholson] - Added the --disable-werror parameter
to Binutils Pass 1.
2007-08-06
[dnicholson] - Fixed a typo and clarified text on the Perl page. Reported by Shawn.
2007-07-31
[dnicholson] - Updated to glibc-2.5.1.
[dnicholson] - Updated udev-config rules to 20070731 to work with Linux-2.6.22.
2007-07-30
[dnicholson] - Updated LFS-Bootscripts to 20070730 and added the description for the new consolelog script.
2007-07-26
[bdubbs] - Adjust grep patteren in Ch. 6 gcc to only match desired output.
2007-07-24
[dnicholson] - Fix the Ncurses' library install to remove a symbolic link before writing a linker script to that location. Reported by Lieven De Keyzer.
[bdubbs] - Created LFS 6.3-rc-1.
[dnicholson] - Remove inconsistent uses of && from the book.
2007-07-23
[bdubbs] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.63, fixes #2050.
[dnicholson] - Added `echo' to the Essential Symlinks section as it is needed for the Glibc testsuite.
[dnicholson] - Added a known failing test to the Ch. 6 Glibc page.
2007-07-18
[dnicholson] - Described the configuration of the consolelog bootscript.
2007-07-17
[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.62, fixes #2049.
[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.10, fixes #2048.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.22.1, fixes #2044.
[matthew] - Upgrade to E2fsprogs-1.40.2, fixes #2042. Remove the --disable-evms configure parameter as it is no longer recognised by the configure script.
2007-07-14
[dnicholson] - Updated the Glibc Branch Update patch to a new snapshot from upstream.
[dnicholson] - Made the Linux API Headers install safer by using an intermediate directory.
2007-07-06
[manuel] - Updated the stylesheets and Makefile to use the new XSL code and Fop-0.93.
2007-06-30
[matthew] - Add upstream patches for Vim.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-113, fixes #2040.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.9, fixes #2041.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.18, fixes #2039.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Libtool-1.5.24, fixes #2038.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Less-406, fixes #2036.
[alexander] - Updated inetutils MD5 sum. Upstream has re-released the tarball with the only changes being relicensing under GPLv3 or later, and re-autotooling.
2007-06-29
[alexander] - Use stable download location for Man-Pages.
2007-06-28
[dnicholson] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.60, fixes #2035.
2007-06-17
2007-06-12
2007-06-10
2007-06-06
[manuel] - Adjusted locale settings for Bash testsuite run and kernel make menuconfig command. Fixes #1938.
2007-06-05
2007-05-13
2007-05-07
[dnicholson] - Fixed the toolchain sanity check after GCC to reference the /usr/local/include directory. Thanks to David Murphy for the report.
2007-05-05
[matthew] - Incorporate latest upstream patches for Vim.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-110. Fixes #1992.
[matthew] - Incorporate latest upstream patches for Readline.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.5. Fixes #1991.
[matthew] - Add a patch from upstream to fix issues in Ncurses found by the Coverity static code analysis tool. Fixes #1995.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.46. Fixes #1994.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.21.1. Fixes #1993.
[matthew] - Incorporate latest upstream patches for Bash.
2007-04-20
[dnicholson] - Upgrade to LFS-Bootscripts-20070420.
2007-04-16
[matthew] - Increase the version of Bison required on host systems to 1.875. Bash doesn't work correctly with versions less than that. Fixes #1977.
[matthew] - Change all references to /etc/adjtime in the Util-Linux sources
to /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime. Previously,
only hwclock/hwclock.c was
changed, which meant that man pages contained references
to the non-FHS compliant location. Fixes #1984.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-108. Fixes #1976.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.44. Fixes #1987.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-db-2.4.4. Fixes #1975.
[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.9. Fixes #1983.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.7. Fixes #1986.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.12. Fixes #1989.
[matthew] - Remove File's reg_startend patch. It is not necessary on Glibc-based systems. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.9. Fixes #1982.
2007-04-03
[jhuntwork] - Install su from coreutils in chapter 5 as su-tools. Use su-tools to run test suites from coreutils and bash as user nobody. Fixes #1877.
2007-04-01
[jhuntwork] - Upgraded to linux-2.6.20.4. Updated linux-headers instructions in chapter 5 to match instructions in chapter 6. The INSTALL_HDR_PATH is no longer forcibly removed.
2007-03-27
[dnicholson] - Fixed a typo in the readjusting section. Reported by Steve Crosby.
2007-03-24
[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest 011-015 patches from upstream.
[dnicholson] - Upgrade the Readline fixes patch to include the latest 002 patch from upstream.
2007-03-23
[dnicholson] - Don't install the kernel headers in
/usr/include/scsi as the
ones provided by Glibc are preferred.
[dnicholson] - Force ldd to use /bin/bash since it contains Bash-specific syntax.
[dnicholson] - When readjusting the GCC specs file, ensure that GCC will search for the system headers in /usr/include. An addition to the toolchain sanity checks has been made to test this. This fix originates from DIY Linux.
[dnicholson] - Included the branch update patch for the temporary Glibc in Chapter 5 to help minimize differences with the final Glibc.
2007-03-21
[manuel] - Updated book sources to use DocBook-XML DTD 4.5.
2007-03-19
[matthew] - Change the default home directory for new
users and do not create mail spool files for them. Add a
mail group so that if
Shadow is configured to create mail spool files for new
users, it can do so without issuing a warning.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Shadow-4.0.18.1. Fixes #1850
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.3. Fixes #1971
[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.20-070313. Fixes #1974
[matthew] - Upgrade the Bash fixes patch to include the latest patch from upstream. Fixes #1973
2007-03-14
[dnicholson] - Force the host's linker to be used throughout Binutils-Pass1 and GCC-Pass1. This makes the build more robust since the host's compiler may not be compatible with the linker installed in Binutils-Pass1, such as on newer Fedora hosts. Fix originates from DIY Linux.
2007-03-04
[matthew] - Make mention of the Ncurses testsuite. Fixes #1954
[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-15.patch which includes all upstream patches up to 206.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-106 and udev-config-20070304. Fixes #1969
[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.30. Fixes #1967
[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.20. Fixes #1968
2007-03-1
[jhuntwork] - Minor grammatical changes. Move some warnings and notices to appear before affected commands.
2007-02-25
[manuel] - Removed M4 build from Chapter05. No other packages builts before the build of M4 in chapter06 depends on M4.
2007-02-24
[manuel] - Removed obsolete warning about reinstalling Bzip2. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report and patch.
[manuel] - Removed chmod and chown commands from linux headers installation. The headers are now installed with the proper permissions. Fixes #1965
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20.1. Fixes #1964
[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Glibc. Fixes #1930
[matthew] - Upgrade to GCC-4.1.2. Fixes #1960
[matthew] - Add an upstream patch for Berkeley-DB. Fixes #1961
[dnicholson] - Added missing command descriptions for cpan and prove from the Perl package. Reported by Leonhard Landrock.
2007-02-23
[dnicholson] - Removed /usr/local/man lines from man_db.conf to prevent redundant results. Reported by Chris Staub.
[dnicholson] - Applied a patch from Chris Staub to fix some commands and text on the kernel file systems, E2fsprogs and Autoconf pages.
[dnicholson] - Dropped the -D switch from the Udev documentation install command since it is already created by udev-config. Reported by Chris Staub.
[dnicholson] - Corrected the text about Udev not installing any configuration files. Reported by Chris Staub.
[dnicholson] - Removed the text suggesting that you can edit the specs file by hand in the toolchain adjustment since it's only generated if you run the previous commands. Reported by Chris Staub.
2007-02-20
[bryan] - Add a comment about CD symlinks possibly not matching the host in section 7.12.2. Should fix the rest of #1963.
2007-02-18
[bryan] - Fix obsolete syntax used in the example Udev rules in section 7.12.2. Fixes the easy part of #1963. Also re-add the note about the backslash at the end of the udev rule lines.
2007-02-17
[bryan] - Use upstream's rule_generator rules exclusively for NIC naming, and generate the rules before configuring the network script, so the user knows what NIC names to use. Fixes the rest of #1912.
[bryan] - Change from writing CD symlink rules files directly to configuring the file installed by Udev's rule_generator. Fixes part of #1912.
[bryan] - Update contents of lfs-bootscripts.
2007-02-09
[matthew] - Move readlink to
/bin because sysreadlink in Udev's shell functions
may call it before /usr has
been mounted. Fixes #1913
[matthew] - Remove some chmod and chown commands from DB, NCurses and Readline as they are no longer required with recent upstream versions. Fixes #1953
[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-105. Fixes #1949
[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.11. Fixes #1951
2007-02-07
[ken] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.20. Fixes #1950.
2007-02-03
[bryan] - Update to lfs-bootscripts-20070203. Fixes both #1948 and the udev_retry script.
2007-01-31
[matthew] - Add verbose flags when untarring the glibc-libidn and udev-config tarballs. Fixes #1932.
[matthew] - Do not set/export INPUTRC anymore, as it is not required after upgrading to Readline-5.2. Fixes #1942. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the report and fix.
[matthew] - Include a patch from the Readline maintainer to fix a multibyte-related issue. Fixes #1945
[matthew] - Include more upstream fixes from the Bash maintainer in bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch
[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-104. Fixes #1941
[matthew] - Upgrade to Ncurses-5.6. Fixes #1940
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.19.2. Fixes #1928
[matthew] - Upgrade to Iproute2-2.6.19-061214. Fixes #1936
[matthew] - Upgrade to Gzip-1.3.10. Fixes #1924
[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.1. Fixes #1925
[matthew] - Upgrade to Findutils-4.2.29. Fixes #1923.
[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.19. Fixes #1946.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.7. Fixes #1934.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.4. Fixes #1943.
2007-01-13
2006-12-09
[bryan] - Fix /etc/passwd entry for "nobody" user in chapter 6. Fixes #1931; thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.
2006-12-01
[matthew] - Fix an ICA breakage in E2fsprogs. Sed needs
to be built before E2fsprogs and a hardcoded reference to
/bin/rm needs to be changed
to point to /tools/bin/rm
instead. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report and fix.
2006-11-25
[jhuntwork] - Add a cautionary note to the end of chapter 5. Archiving of the temporary tools for future use should take place before starting chapter 6. Fixes #1879
[matthew] - Move mv from /usr/bin to /bin again. The upgrade to
Coreutils-6.6 mistakenly removed it from the list of
files to be moved. Thanks to Chris Staub for the report.
[matthew] - Prevent Inetutils from building and installing ifconfig as LFS uses ip to configure network interfaces. Thanks to Marty Jack for the report and the fix. Fixes #1914
[jhuntwork] - Fix potential corruption of the testsuite tools by forcing expect to always use /bin/stty and not /usr/local/bin/stty. Fixes #1892
[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-pages-2.42. Fixes #1922
[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-no_server_man_pages-2.patch. This removes the last of the unwanted man pages (rexecd.8). Thanks to Joe Ciccone for the report and the updated patch. Fixes #1915
[jhuntwork] - Added 'make headers_install' to chapter 5 Linux Headers for the educational value and in preparation of changes in Linux-2.6.19. See this thread.
[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.8. Fixes 1920
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.3. Fixes #1911
[matthew] - chapter08/kernel.xml: Reworded the warning about overwriting sanitized kernel headers rather than raw headers, so as to avoid mentioning the now obsolete Linux-Libc-Headers package. Fixes #1917
[matthew] - Upgrade to IANA-Etc-2.20. Fixes #1916
[matthew] - Upgrade to File-4.18. Fixes #1910
[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.6. Fixes #1919
[matthew] - Add Bison to the host requirements as it is required by bash-3.2-fixes-5.patch in chapter 5 (Fixes #1863).
[matthew] - Use all 5 of the patches currently supplied by the upstream maintainers of Bash.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Autoconf-2.61. Fixes #1918.
2006-11-24
[jhuntwork] - Simplified the installation of Linux Headers in Chapter 5.
2006-11-10
[bryan] - Use 70-persistent-*.rules for custom symlinks and NIC naming, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rule. Gets #1912 closer to really being fixed.
2006-11-05
[bryan] - Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file if bus-position-based persistence is going to be used. Fixes #1912.
2006-11-03
[matthew] - Use version entities from packages.ent rather than hardcoded
values in the note in chapter03/packages.xml. Remove the
warning about potential incompatibilities with the
bootscripts. Thanks to Rainer Wirtz for the report.
2006-10-29
[matthew] - Add verbose flags to some commands in Util-Linux and Vim. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch. Drop the "spellfile" fix as it was applied upstream as patch 076.
2006-10-28
[matthew] - Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Tar-1.16, including dropping the now unnecessary "gcc4", "security", and "sparse" patches.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Readline-5.2, including dropping the now unnecessary "fixes" patch.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1.
[matthew] - Fix a bug in Less whereby the sigset_t type is not detected by the
configure
script, which causes sigsetmask to be used instead of the
preferred sigprocmask
function. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report and
patch.
[matthew] - Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5, including dropping the now unnecessary "GCC 4 fixes" patch.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Gettext-0.16.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Berkeley DB-4.5.20, including dropping the now unnecessary "fixes" patch.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Bash-3.2, including dropping the current "fixes" patch and adding a patch from upstream that fixes a bug when parsing comments.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Automake-1.10.
2006-10-23
[bryan] - Add an explanation of how to discover PCI bus locations for network devices. Fixes #1904.
2006-10-21
[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-103.
[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061021, install its doc files.
[bryan] - Install common rules from udev package.
2006-10-15
[dnicholson] - Fixed console setup page to reference the correct location for the kbd data. Thanks to Norman Urs Baier for reporting the issue.
[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-102, remove patch.
[bryan] - Upgrade to udev-config-20061014.
2006-10-05
[bryan] - Add udev-101-fix-sas-path_id-1.patch.
[bryan] - Update udev-config for Linux-2.6.18. This version also contains the new doc/ subdirectory, with explanations of most of the rules.
2006-10-02
[matthew] - Upgrade to Texinfo-4.8a.
[matthew] - Updated the text regarding UTF-8 support in the latest version of Linux. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the patch.
[matthew] - Remove Linux-Libc-Headers, replacing it with the "make headers_install" target now available in the upstream kernel sources.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Udev-101.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Psmisc-22.3.
[matthew] - Upgrade to M4-1.4.7.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Glibc-2.5.
[matthew] - Upgrade to Coreutils-6.3.
2006-09-23
[bryan] - Fixed typo in udev-100 instructions (extra/ should be extras/). Thanks to Balazs Parkanyi for the heads-up.
2006-09-22
[bryan] - Rewrote the notes in sections 7.12.1 and 7.13.1 to explicitly mention that the redirections rely on not quoting EOF. Fixes #1883.
2006-09-20
[bryan] - Updated udev-config for udev-098 and above.
[dnicholson] - Changed note about using newer Linux than in the book to reflect current versions.
2006-09-18
[dnicholson] - Added symlinks to the temporary libstdc++ in the Essential Symlinks section. These are needed by Glibc-2.4.
2006-09-17
[dnicholson] - Updated to Glibc-2.4. Added the iconv fix patch and removed the decprecated linux types and inotify syscall patches. Thanks to Matthew Burgess and Bryan Kadzban for textual suggestions.
2006-09-09
[matthew] - Fix non-POSIX syntax in gzexe's calls to tail. Fixes #1876. Thanks to Robert Connolly for the report.
[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.13.
[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.6.
2006-09-06
[bryan] - Change the sed applied to sysvinit, to hopefully be more clear (explicitly mention /etc/inittab).
2006-08-31
[matthew] - Remove spurious curly braces from the example /etc/resolv.conf. Fixes #1870.
2006-08-24
[matthew] - Remove the supposed fix for a buffer overflow in Coreutils, as it has been fixed upstream.
2006-08-17
[matthew] - Simplified the command that adjusts GCC's specs file. Fixes #1837. Thanks to Robery Connolly.
[matthew] - Noted devfs' removal from the kernel. Thanks to Peter Ennis.
[matthew] - Upgrade to linux-2.6.17.8.
[matthew] - Upgrade to udev-097.
[matthew] - Upgrade to findutils-4.2.28.
[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.39.
[matthew] - Fix autoconf's testsuite, which broke after upgrading to m4-1.4.5. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
[matthew] - Fix a buffer overrun in m4-1.4.5 which causes two of its tests to fail. Thanks to Greg Schafer for the report.
2006-08-08
[dnicholson] - Minor text updates to the Vim page. Thanks to Peter Ennis for the report.
2006-08-05
[matthew] - Add a link to the location of Shadow's previous versions.
2006-08-03
[manuel] - Ported updates from 6.2 branch.
2006-07-31
[matthew] - Upgrade to shadow-4.0.17.
[matthew] - Upgrade to procps-3.2.7.
[matthew] - Upgrade to man-pages-2.36.
[matthew] - Upgrade to make-3.81.
[matthew] - Upgrade to m4-1.4.5.
[matthew] - Upgrade to gettext-0.15.
[matthew] - Upgrade to gcc-4.1.1.
[matthew] - Upgrade to coreutils-5.97.
[matthew] - Upgrade to bison-2.3.
[matthew] - Upgrade to binutils-2.17.
[matthew] - Upgrade to autoconf-2.60.
LFS 6.2 released August 3, 2006.