Please note that the Change Log only lists which editor was responsible for putting the changes into SVN; please read the Credits page in Chapter 1 for details on who wrote what.
Current release: 6.2.0 – February 14th, 2007
Changelog Entries:
February 14th, 2007
[randy] - Released BLFS Version 6.2.0.
[randy] - Added an FTP download URL in the Links instructions as the HTML URL is currently unavailable.
[dnicholson] - Added a patch from Ag Hatzimanikas to fix issues with UTF-8 in Vorbis Tools.
[randy] - Added an additional parameter to the Expect configure command to fix a build problem in certain situations; also added a note to run the test suite.
[dnicholson] - Fixed three package link labels to match their titles. Thanks to Chuck Rohde.
[randy] - Minor modifications to the MesaLib instructions, both text explanations and commands.
February 13th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Textual fixes from Chuck Rohde.
[dnicholson] - Added text be more explicit that luit is not a required dependency of xterm.
[dnicholson] - Added a reminder to set the necessary variables when building packages for Xorg-7.
[dnicholson] - Reverted two changes in MC and ReiserFS specific to LFS-SVN.
February 11th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Add information for running the Vim testsuite. Patch from Ag Hatzimanikas.
February 10th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Moved the Linux-PAM dependency in Xorg-7 from the Libraries to the Applications.
[dnicholson] - Converted UTF-8 man pages in the Xorg-7 drivers. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for supplying the fixes.
February 7th, 2007
[randy] - Released BLFS 6.2.0-rc2.
[randy] - Updated to iptables-1.3.6, thanks to Andy Beverley for helping solve some build issues.
February 6th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Populated the contents for the Xorg-7 Xbitmaps, Applications, Data, Fonts, Server, and Drivers sections.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the grammar on the Xorg-7 Utilities and Libraries pages to use full sentences to describe the package contents.
February 5th, 2007
[randy] - Clarified the text in the Mutt and FCron instructions that an MTA should install the sendmail command.
February 4th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Populated the package contents for the Xorg-7 Protocol Headers, Utilities, and Libraries sections.
[dnicholson] - Added an optional libcap dependency to vsftpd.
[dnicholson] - Added instructions for installing the Xorg-7 man pages to $XORG_PREFIX/share/man and configuring Man-DB to use that location. Fixes ticket #2229.
February 3rd, 2007
[randy] - Released Version 6.2.0-rc1.
February 2nd, 2007
[alexander] - Added CUPS and LPRng as recommended dependencies of a2ps.
[alexander] - Added some caution boxes for packages that are not going to work in multibyte locales.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Koffice-1.6.1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to KDE-3.5.6. Added runtime dependencies to kdelibs and kdebase thanks to Chris Staub. Added a change to kdebindings to reduce build time by a factor of five thanks to Dan Nicholson.
February 1st, 2007
[randy] - Changed the references of polypaudio to the new project name of PulseAudio, also updated the URL.
[randy] - Fixed broken URL for the "Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad" site in the Beyond BLFS page.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the ISO Codes instructions.
[randy] - Enabled the D-BUS FTP download URL.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URL for a known working version of Pyrex in the D-Bus instructions.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the HTML Tidy instructions.
January 31st, 2007
[randy] - Broke out the separate sections of the Preface into separate XML files and added 6.2.0 release information to the Preface.
[alexander] - Upgraded GC to version 6.8 in order to fix the build failure with GCC-4.1.1.
January 30th, 2007
[randy] - Added a note to the D-Bus instructions to identify a known working version of Pyrex, thanks to DJ Lucas for the report.
[randy] - Updated several Perl Modules versions: Business-ISBN-Data-1.13, Business-ISBN-1.84, Devel-Symdump-2.07, HTML-Element-Extended-1.17, HTML-Tree-3.23, Module-Corelist-2.09, PAR-Dist-0.21, Pod-Coverage-0.18, Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 and Test-Prereq-1.032.
January 29th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated the desktop-file-utils page to more closely reflect the XDG Base Directory Specification and corrected the information on the gnome-menus page. Fixes ticket #2172. Thanks to Luca Piol for the report.
[dnicholson] - Set the sysconfdir for libxfce4util, fixing ticket #2227.
January 28th, 2007
[randy] - Updated the default MPlayer codecs and skin versions.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the NAS, libmikmod, OpenOffice, SANE Backends, ESP Ghostscript, CUPS, GPM, Transcode, FOP and teTeX instructions.
[dj] - Removed modification of JAI source file in FOP instructions.
[dj] - Updated to JDK-1.5.0_10 and modified the jdk.sh profile.d script.
January 27th, 2007
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the Tin, RSync, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Apache HTTPD server instructions.
January 26th, 2007
[dj] - Modified Linux-PAM configuration in the Shadow instructions.
[dj] - Updated to vsftpd-2.0.5.
[randy] - Updated to ISO Codes-0.58-1.
[randy] - Fixed Starlink download URLs in the PDL instructions, fixed broken Shadow, Python, PPP, WVDial and NTP download URLs.
January 24th, 2007
[randy] - Fixed the Zip, Unzip and FTP GCC download URLs.
[dnicholson] - Reverted the xsetpointer upgrade as it is broken with the inputproto in Xorg-7.1.
[dnicholson] - Actually apply the xorg-server and luit version upgrades.
January 23rd, 2007
[dnicholson] - Patchlevel upgrades to the Xorg-7 packages. Removed unneeded patches encompassed in these updates. See #2225 for more details.
[dnicholson] - Changed the download location for the Xorg-7 wget lists and md5sums file.
January 22nd, 2007
[alexander] - Added some options to Lynx for better locale support. Fixes ticket #1961.
[randy] - Updated to ZSH-4.2.6 and added a warning for users with multibyte locales.
January 21st, 2007
[dnicholson] - Added an example local session configuration file for D-Bus showing how to add new service directories. Changed the Epiphany instructions to reference this instead of symlinking its service file to the standard location.
[dnicholson] - Added optional configuration to HAL to prevent methods on fixed disk drives.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the X Input Devices User Notes link to point to a more appropriate place on the Wiki. Closes #2190.
[dnicholson] - Remove unneeded sed command from the Luit instructions. Fixes #2123.
[dnicholson] - Added text to the Locale Related Issues page suggesting the User Notes on the BLFS Wiki for the most recent information. Closes ticket #1993.
[alexander] - Removed obsolete statements about problems with MC and Nano from the Locale Related Issues page.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.9 with enigmail-0.94.2.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.9.
January 20th, 2007
[randy] - Modified the Spiffy, Test::Base and YAML Perl Module instructions so that UTF-8 encoded manual pages are not installed.
[randy] - Modified the XScreenSaver instructions so that a UTF-8 encoded manual page is not installed.
[randy] - Added a shell script and additional information about UTF-8 manual pages to the Locale Related Issues page.
[randy] - Moved the CM-Super type1ec.sty file from the texmf-local directory structure to the texmf structure.
[bdubbs] - Updated to seamonkey-1.1.
January 19th, 2007
[alexander] - Added Debian patch and bash-3.2 compatibility patch to MC. Fixes #2189.
January 18th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Added ftp:// links for the Xorg-7.1 packages.
[dnicholson] - Updated security patches for Xorg-6.9.0 and xorg-server-1.1.0.
[dnicholson] - Changed the i18n.sh profile text to reference the LFS locale discussion and moved the GLib specific settings to that package's page. Fixes #2012.
[randy] - Added text to the 'Locale Related Issues' page which discusses improperly encoded manual pages.
[randy] - Added sed commands to the ImageMagick and Xorg evdev packages to remove UTF-8 encoded manual pages.
January 17th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated the ALSA Library, Plugins, Utilities, Tools and Firmware to version 1.0.13. Updated ALSA OSS to 1.0.12. Fixes tickets #2112 and #2201. Notes have been added for untested packages.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the ALSA udev rules to work properly with the Udev and rules in stable LFS. Closes ticket #2125.
[dnicholson] - Added an http:// link for the gpm package.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the GLib-2 ftp:// link. Thanks to Guy Dalziel for spotting the error.
[alexander] - Removed the dead link to the old LiveCD hint.
[dnicholson] - Updated to HAL-0.5.7.1.
January 15th, 2007
[randy] - Modified all the Sourceforge download links to use the new standard Sourceforge has implemented.
[randy] - Added a comment to the XFCE instructions saying that hicolor-icon-theme is a run-time dependency.
[randy] - Added commands to the teTeX instructions to install the cm-super type1ec.sty font file.
[alexander] - Added reiserfsprogs build fix for LFS SVN.
[randy] - Updated to Lynx-2.8.6.
January 14th, 2007
[randy] - Added Alexander to the list of BLFS Editors.
[randy] - Fixed a broken download URL in the SLIB instructions, thanks to Leo Peschier for pointing it out.
[bdubbs] - Added security patch to unzip.
[bdubbs] - Updated patch in ed to correct an error. Thanks to Tyler Berry.
[randy] - Updated the md5sums and build data for the GNOME accessibility packages to be compatible with GNOME-2.14.3, This completes the GNOME-2.14.3 update.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Python-2.4.4.
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcp-3.0.5.
[randy] - Updated the md5sums and build data for the GNOME add-on utilities to be compatible with GNOME-2.14.3.
[alexander] - Removed the commands that remove vim tutorials.
[alexander] - Updated to xfsprogs-2.8.18, added notes about the lack of testsuites to xfsprogs and reiserfsprogs.
January 13th, 2007
[bdubbs] - Updated to vim-7.0.
[bdubbs] - Updated to bind-9.3.3.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssh-4.5p1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssl-0.9.8d.
January 11th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to MIT Kerberos V5-1.6. Also overhauled the instructions to fit the updated version and included enhancements to the instructions.
December 22nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Evolution-2.6.3.
[randy] - Updated GtkHTML, gtksourceview and Evolution Data Server to versions used with GNOME-2.14.3.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME-2.14.3. The “Core” packages are completely finished, the “Additional” packages still require updates to the MD5sums and build sizes/times.
December 20th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to xterm-223.
[dnicholson] - Ensured that the terminfo files from xterm are installed in the system terminfo database.
[dnicholson] - Removed the --datadir setting for Xorg-7. Some packages had broken configurations that caused files to be installed to the wrong location. Forcing ${datadir} to match ${libdir} worked around these problems, but they have now been resolved properly upstream.
December 15th, 2006
[tushar] - Remove autoreconf command from popt. The tarball that matches the md5sum has the generated files.
December 11th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer-0.10.11, GST Plugins Base-0.10.11, GST Plugins Good-0.10.4 and GST Plugins Ugly-0.10.4
December 10th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GSview-4.8 and fixed an issue with GSview using recent versions of ESP Ghostscript.
December 9th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Nano-2.0.1.
December 8th, 2006
[randy] - Added Sharutils (for the uudecode program) to the FreeTTS required dependencies, thanks to Chris Staub for the report.
[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.0.23d.
December 7th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to CUPS-1.2.7.
December 6th, 2006
[randy] - Added a note to the GNOME Panel instructions saying that the libxml2 Python module must be available.
December 4th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Whois-4.7.20.
October 28th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Changed the structure of the Locale Related Issues page to describe general classes of problems. The package specific workarounds have been moved to their respective pages. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for providing the rewrite, which better supports these situations.
October 27th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to qt-3.3.7.
[dnicholson] - Fixed Screen description to reflect that UTF-8 is now available. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the suggestion.
[dnicholson] - Updated to libmusicbrainz-2.1.4, fixing security vulnerability CVE-2006-4197. Closes ticket #2181.
October 26th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Screen-4.0.3, fixing a security vulnerability. Closes ticket #2197.
October 25th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed the hdparm instructions to work correctly when installing to an alternate prefix. Thanks to Miguel Bazdresch for reporting the problem. Fixes ticket #2196.
[bdubbs] - Updated to zip 2.32.
October 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Exim instructions documentation links.
October 22nd, 2006
[randy] - Added a note to the GTK+2 instructions about the test suite requiring an X Window session.
[randy] - Removed references to the shared library from the UnZip instructions. Thanks to Gabriel Batir for the report.
[randy] - Added a sed command to the Graphviz instructions so that the Java bindings will build correctly if you have the JDK installed.
October 19th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added needed macro to use Cyrus-SASL in Postfix.
[dnicholson] - Updated to OpenLDAP-2.3.27.
October 15th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to Ruby-1.8.5. Fixes #2127.
[djensen] - Updated Seamonkey to Enigmail-0.94.1. Fixes #2170.
October 14th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added information about creating the /dev/dvd symlink for Mplayer with links pointing back to the relevant section of the LFS book. Fixes #1995.
[dnicholson] - Removed the note about installing UUID from the XFS page as the only libuuid comes from E2fsprogs. It is assumed that E2fsprogs is installed from LFS. Closes #2176.
[dnicholson] - Added PAM configuration to the host.def example in Xorg-6.9.0 and XFree86-4.6.0. It is commented out by default.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Postfix-2.3.3. Added configuration to automatically install HTML and README docs.
October 12th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed broken ASH download link and added text about lack of test suite. Fixes ticket #2130.
[dnicholson] - Fixed broken Rsync download link. Thanks to Miguel Bazdresch for the fix.
[dnicholson] - Fixed GNOME Doc Utils so that the pkg-config files are always installed. Closes #2126.
[dnicholson] - Patched Emacs to ensure that the AltGr key is recognized. Added information about lack of test suite.
October 11th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Applied security patches to Xorg-6.9.0 and libXfont-1.1.0.
[randy] - Updated to NSS-3.11.3.
October 8th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.7. Fixes #2150.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.7 and Enigmail-0.94.1. Fixes #2151 and #2171.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Links-2.1pre23. Installed some user documentation from the tarball. Closes #2042.
October 5th, 2006
[randy] - Changed the TCP ports used by tunneled SWAT in the Samba instructions from 901 and 902 to 904 and 905 so that there is no conflict with the IANA database.
[randy] - Updated to cairo-1.2.4.
October 1st, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed an issue with with rendering of OpenGL applications with MesaLib by adding an appropriate compiler flag. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the report and the fix. Closes ticket #2103.
[dnicholson] - Fixed an error with output redirection in MesaLib when /bin/sh is not Bash. Fixes ticket #2118.
September 30th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to Balsa-2.3.13.
September 25th, 2006
[djensen] - Added 2 seds to LPRng-3.8.28, fixing a gcc-4.1 bug and a syntax error for newer makes.
[dnicholson] - Updated to dhcpcd-2.0.8. Changed the build to execute the dhcpcd.exe configuration file.
September 24th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to SeaMonkey-1.0.5. Added the optional pango patch.
[randy] - Added a patch to the Heimdal instructions to fix a security vulnerability identified in MIT advisories CVE-2006-3083 and CVE-2006-3084.
September 19th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to Mpg123-0.60.
September 16th, 2006
[djensen] - Removed a possible spurious doc dir installation in EsounD.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssl-0.9.8c.
September 14th, 2006
[randy] - Fixed broken Linux-PAM documentation download URL.
September 12th, 2006
[dj] - Updated to JDK-1.0.5_08.
September 10th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to nfs-utils-1.0.10.
[bdubbs] - Updated bootscripts to properly handle non-TERM stop signals.
[bdubbs] - Added creation of bin user to portmap.
[bdubbs] - Updated to pcre-6.7.
September 5th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.5. Reordered the patches so that they can apply cleanly.
September 4th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.6. Changed the order of the patches so that they can apply cleanly.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the text describing the default PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/share/pkgconfig. Fixes #2117. Thanks to Joe Ciccone.
[dnicholson] - Removed the ispell package as it has problems in UTF-8 locales and the aspell package is superior. Fixes ticket #2101.
[dnicholson] - Updated to xterm-218. Fixes tickets #2096 and #2100.
[bdubbs] - Fixed wording in php describing ini file. Thanks to Pippin for pointing this out.
[dnicholson] - Moved xterm, rman, MesaLib and libdrm packages out of the Xorg-7 chapter as they are now developed externally. Added notes to their pages to indicate that they should only be built when using Xorg-7. Fixes ticket #2120.
[dnicholson] - Added a missing program description to the Luit page.
August 30th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to JOE-3.5.
August 29th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed the download link for the Linux-PAM docs. Thanks to Tor Olav Slava.
[dnicholson] - Removed the reference to the vimrc question in the FAQ since it no longer exists. Thanks to Peter Ennis.
[dnicholson] - Minor text update on the bootdisk page. Thanks to Peter Ennis.
August 9th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added patch to fix a security vulnerability in Mutt-1.5.11. Fixes ticket #2072.
[dnicholson] - Added patches to fix security vulnerabilities in Xorg-7.1. Closes ticket #2100.
[dnicholson] - Added configuration for HAL and gnome-volume-manager for use without the pam_console module.
[dnicholson] - Fixed a broken iptables link and a typo on the About Devices page. Thanks to Gabriel Batir.
August 7th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added a patch to fix security vulnerabilities in Xorg-6.9.0. See ticket #2100. Removed fix for Glibc sys/kd.h as it is now in LFS stable.
August 6th, 2006
[randy] - Noted in the Evince instructions that shared-mime-info is a run-time requirement.
[randy] - Updated to libsoup-2.2.96.
[randy] - Added XMLRPC-EPI as an optional dependency of PHP.
August 5th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libwnck-2.14.3.
[randy] - Updated to libglade-2.6.0.
[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.8.20.
[dnicholson] - Removed /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh since it is no longer needed with the Ncurses in stable LFS-6.2.
August 4th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libpng-1.2.12.
[randy] - Updated to libIDL-0.8.7.
[randy] - Added libxslt as a required dependency of the GNOME Doc Utils package.
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.17.
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.26.
August 3rd, 2006
[randy] - Added four upstream patches to the Berkeley-DB instructions.
August 2nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated the book to point at LFS 'stable' and use LFS stable package versions of Coreutils and Flex.
[randy] - Removed an obsolete ldconfig command from the OAF instructions.
July 25th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GIMP-2.2.12.
July 24th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libquicktime-0.9.9.
July 22nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Avifile-0.7.45.
July 15th, 2006
[randy] - Fixed the creation of the symbolic link in the Gnumeric instructions to fix access to the help documentation if GNOME is installed in a prefix other than /usr, thanks to Alessandro Alocci for spotting the error and contributing the fix.
July 13th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed patch XML tags for Firefox and Thunderbird. Closes ticket #2069. Thanks to Joe Ciccone.
July 11th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to K3b-0.12.16 and clarified the dependencies to fix Ticket #2015.
[randy] - Added DAO to the Glossary.
[randy] - Updated to CVS-1.11.22.
July 9th, 2006
[randy] - Added a note about some additional optional dependencies in the Cdrdao instructions.
[dj] - Clarified instructions concerning alternate X Window System installation prefix.
[dj] - Corrected permission of installed files in OpenOffice instructions.
July 8th, 2006
[dj] - Added instructions to QT installation to account for alternate installation prefix in X Window System.
July 7th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Apache Ant instructions to specify the version of Junit you should use.
[randy] - Added new package - gnome-screensaver-2.14.2.
[andy] - Updated ppp to 2.4.4.
July 6th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed typo in libusb udev rule creation. Thanks to Johannes Lächele.
July 4th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated Firefox and Thunderbird to version 1.5.0.4. Added a patch to fix the builds with --enable-pango.
[randy] - Added a command to the Linux-PAM instructions to alter the unix_chkpwd password helper setuid, thanks to Jürg Billeter for pointing this out.
July 3rd, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Zenity and GNOME Keyring Manager package instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[dj] - Clarified text surrounding additional downloads section of OpenOffice instructions.
July 2nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GNOME System Monitor-2.14.4.
[randy] - Updated the GConf Editor, gedit, bug-buddy, EOG and File Roller package instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice-2.0.3.
[andy] - Updated SDL to SDL-1.2.11
July 1st, 2006
[randy] - Removed unnecessary --sysconfdir and --localstatedir parameters from the GStreamer (and plugins) instructions. Updated the 'Good' Plugins with a --sysconfdir parameter that will force the GConf configuration files into the correct location.
[randy] - Updated the GNOME Utilities and GNOME Games package instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
June 30th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the GNOME Accessibility packages' instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
June 29th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Changed the installation instructions and explanations in XFS to be more consistent with the rest of the book. Thanks to Chris Staub for prompting the change.
[dnicholson] - Fixed sed command in WvStreams to not alter a non-existent file. Thanks to Angel Tsankov.
June 28th, 2006
[randy] - Renamed the GnomeMeeting package to Ekiga and updated the instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[randy] - Updated the dependencies and build commands in the gnome-volume-manager instructions to conform with GNOME-2.14.2. There is still some additional information that needs to be added to this page after the additions are finalized via BLFS-Dev discussion.
[dj] - Updated JDK, source and bin, to jdk-1.5.0 update 7.
June 27th, 2006
[randy] - Added new package GStreamer Ugly Plugins-0.10.3
[randy] - Updated the Nautilus CD Burner, GNOME Media and Sound Juicer instructions to conform with the GNOME 2.14.2 update.
[randy] - Completed the gnome-mount instructions.
June 26th, 2006
[randy] - Replaced many instances of repetitive similar text with xinclude files in various package instructions.
June 25th, 2006
[randy] - Minor fixes and clean-up to the core GNOME-2 package instructions including standardizing the text in the 'Command Explanations' section by using xinclude files and changing the creation of symbolic links to using PYTHONPATH so Python can find modules installed in non-standard locations.
[randy] - Added some new xinclude files to replace the repetitive similar text in many package instructions.
June 24th, 2006
[randy] - Created a new BLFS BootScript tarball to reflect the updated HAL script.
[randy] - Updated to GDM-2.14.9.
[randy] - Updated to Totem-1.4.2.
[randy] - Updated to gcalctool-5.8.16.
June 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Added new package GStreamer Good Plug-ins-0.10.3.
[randy] - Created a new BLFS BootScript tarball to reflect the updated GDM script.
[randy] - Updated the Evince, Poppler and GNOME Netstatus instructions to conform with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
June 21st, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Epiphany and gucharmap instructions to conform with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[randy] - Updated the GNOME2 additional libraries instructions to conform with the GNOME-2.14.2 update. This leaves the GNOME2 Accessibility and Additional Utility packages to update.
[randy] - Updated to Evolution-2.6.2.
[randy] - Added new package gnome-mount-0.4 (not fully complete, but added now to fix a validation issue).
[randy] - Updated to GNOME-2.14.2. All version entities have been updated with the core package updates being complete. The 'Additional' packages will be updated in upcoming commits.
[randy] - Changed references to GNOME2 User Docs to the renamed package of GNOME User Docs.
June 20th, 2006
[randy] - Removed all instances of the old GStreamer Plug-ins package and replaced them with the new GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer-0.10.8.
[randy] - Updated to Metacity-2.14.5.
[randy] - Updated to libsoup-2.2.94.
[randy] - Updated to libwnck-2.14.2.
[randy] - Updated to libxklavier-2.2.
[randy] - Updated to HAL-0.5.7.
[randy] - Updated to D-BUS-0.62.
[dnicholson] - Updated to TIN-1.8.2.
[randy] - Added new package GStreamer Base Plug-ins-0.10.8
[randy] - Replaced the obsolete Howl dependency in the xinetd and Gaim instructions with an Avahi dependency.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URL in the Pilot-Link instructions.
[randy] - Removed cairo as a recommended dependency of Pango.
[bdubbs] - Fixed typo in NAS instructions.
June 19th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to ISO Codes-0.51-1.1.
[randy] - Updated to GMime-2.2.2.
June 13th, 2006
[randy] - Removed Fontconfig as an optional dependency of Pango as it is required in one way or another, thanks to Chris Staub for pointing this out.
[tushar] - Removed incorrect dependencies from gtk+
June 11th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.2.8-0.
June 6th, 2006
[randy] - Added a sed command to the Crypt::SSLeay Perl module instructions to fix a bug exposed by newer versions of OpenSSL.
[randy] - Modified the existing, and added new dependencies to the Module::Build Perl module instructions.
[randy] - Added the dependencies for the YAML Perl module.
[randy] - Added new Perl modules: Pod::Readme-0.081, Spiffy-0.30, Test::Base-0.50 and Test::Portability::Files-0.05
[randy] - Updated several Perl modules: Archive::Tar-1.29, Business::ISBN::Data-1.11, Digest::SHA-5.41, ExtUtils::CBuilder-0.18, HTML::Parser-3.54, Module::Build-0.2801, Module::Signature-0.54, PAR::Dist-0.09, Pod::Simple-3.04, Test::Pod-1.24, Test::Prereq-1.031, version-0.63 and YAML-0.58.
June 5th, 2006
[andy] - Updated the Cdrtools ascii patch so that it applies properly.
May 31st, 2006
[dj] - Updated xorg-server and xterm dependencies.
May 29th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixes for the X Window System Components page. Add information for setting up DRI correctly. Thanks to Peter Steiger for the alert. Clarified the relationship between the Xft font system and Fontconfig. Thanks to Archaic for reviewing the previous contents.
[dnicholson] - Simplified mv command and fixed the explanation of the --enable-xine option in GStreamer Plug-ins. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
[dnicholson] - Changed the text explaining the need for the mkisofs and cdrecord patches in Cdrtools. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the clarification.
[dnicholson] - Added optional dependencies for rebuilding the Mutt documentation. Thanks to Ag Hatzimanikas for the information.
May 27th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to librsvg-2.14.4.
[randy] - Added intltool as an optional dependency of libgnomecups.
[randy] - Updated to libgsf-1.14.1.
[randy] - Updated to Gtk+-2.8.18.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.12.3.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.10.3.
May 26th, 2006
[manuel] - Made all dependencies on a mail server actual cross-references.
May 25th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to desktop-file-utils-0.11.
[dj] - Updated Xorg Modular to 7.1 release.
[dj] - Updated to xterm-213.
[dj] - Updated to Mesa-6.5.
May 24th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the ALSA Plugins dependencies and installed plugin module list; also added documentation installation commands to the ALSA Plugins instructions.
[randy] - Several fixes to the MPlayer instructions: added a sed command to fix the getline function name issue, added a patch to fix the round function issue, fixed the creation of the font symlink to point to /usr/share/fonts, commented out the command and text that created a /dev/dvd device file as this is now done in LFS.
[randy] - Modified the way the GLUT library dependency is described in the LibTIFF instructions.
[randy] - Modified the configure script in the libfame instructions using a sed so that the -fstrict-aliasing flag is properly passed along to the Makefiles.
May 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Clarified the XvMC Wrapper dependency in the MPlayer and xine libraries instructions.
[randy] - Added libid3tag as an optional dependency of imlib2.
May 21st, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libdvdread-0.9.6.
[randy] - Updated codecs to the 20060501 versions in the MPlayer instructions.
[randy] - Added a note to the D-BUS instructions that you must have Qt installed if you are planning on using HAL with KDE.
[randy] - Added a note to the lm_sensors dependency in the kdebase instructions that the Sysfs Utilities package is also required.
[tushar] - Added note that proxymngr requires lbxproxy.
May 20th, 2006
[randy] - Added a patch to the kdelibs instructions so it will build if you have CUPS-1.2.x installed. The patch does not affect the build with lesser versions of CUPS. Thanks to Matthew Carson for chasing down the problem and sending in the patch.
[dnicholson] - Added -ifv arguments to the autoreconf command in libdrm so that libtoolize will be run. The shared library is created without the .so suffix without it.
[randy] - Added new package usbutils-0.72.
May 19th, 2006
[randy] - Changed the GNAT installation in the GCC instructions to use the existing Makefile, which eliminates the need to install Tcsh, thanks to Jim Gifford for the tip.
May 18th, 2006
[randy] - Moved the ScrollKeeper instructions from Chapter 31 - GNOME Core Packages to Chapter 10 - General Utilities as the package installation prefix is /usr and other-than-GNOME packages can utilize it.
[randy] - Added libacl as an optional dependency of Samba.
[randy] - Added additional commands to the LessTif instructions to accommodate an X Window System installation in /usr.
[dj] - Corrected NAS bootscript after installation.
[dj] - Standardized Xorg7 PREFIX commands using XORG_PREFIX.
[dj] - Re-added sed to fix incorrect path in luit.
May 17th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Changed home directory of named to /srv/named.
[bdubbs] - Added "About Devices" page.
[dnicholson] - Added two patches to Cdrtools improving its use in locales with non-ISO-8859-1 character sets. Fixes ticket #1837. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for explaining the situation and supplying the patches.
[randy] - Added jbig2dec as an optional dependency of ESP GhostScript.
[dj] - Moved libdrm, mesa, xterm, and rman to xorg7 section.
[dj] - Added test suite notes to each xorg7 page.
May 16th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Added UTF-8 patch to Pine.
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the popt instructions.
[bdubbs] - Added paps-0.6.6 for UTF-8 printing.
[randy] - Updated to PHP-5.1.4.
[dj] - Added rman-3.2.
May 15th, 2006
[randy] - Added librsvg as an optional dependency of ImageMagick.
[bdubbs] - Update to postfix-2.2.9.
May 14th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Apache HTTPD-2.2.2.
[randy] - Added a note to the MySQL instructions about TCP Wrapper and MySQL's test suite.
[randy] - Added a note to the cURL instructions about TCP Wrapper and cURL's test suite.
[dj] - Updated OpenOffice patch for system Firefox and added OpenOffice to list of packages that will utilize system nss in Mozilla product pages.
May 13th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Remove malloc switch from kdelibs.
[tushar] - Add GTK1 dependency for vim.
[bdubbs] - Added XChat-2.6.2.
[randy] - Updated the GCC (gcj) dependency in the Libidn instructions to include the gjdoc package also.
[randy] - Updated to GTK-Doc-1.6.
May 12th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to GIMP-2.2.11 and gimp-help-2-0.10.
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.16.
[bdubbs] - Created a consolidated autofs patch to combine nine small patches and updated autofs to reflect the combined patch file.
[bdubbs] - Updated to imlib2-1.2.2.
[bdubbs] - Updated to intltool-0.34.2.
May 11th, 2006
[randy] - Added commands to the JDK instructions to run a demo program with the newly created java binary to provide a basic test of the build.
[randy] - Added commands to the cpio instructions to create alternate forms of the documentation.
[dj] - Added note to not build MesaLib with X11R6 and removed Xfree and xorg-6.9 from required deps.
[andy] - Updated to XFree86-4.6.0.
May 10th, 2006
[randy] - Added resmgr as an optional dependency of ALSA Library.
[randy] - Renamed the TeX package to its proper name - teTeX.
[dj] - Added sed for additional xorg-6.9.0 security vulnerability.
[dj] - Updated dependencies for Xorg-7.0.0 section and corrected text.
May 9th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to PCI Utilities-2.2.3.
[randy] - Modified the Expect build commands to work with the new Tcl build method.
[randy] - Added an additional command to the Sysstat installation so that a configuration file containing the history variable is installed.
[randy] - Added a note to the Shadow instructions about running the Linux-PAM test suite.
[randy] - Updated to Linux-PAM-0.99.4.0.
May 8th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.2.7-5.
[bdubbs] - Updated to libgtkhtml-2.11.0.
[bdubbs] - Updated to rsync-2.6.8.
May 7th, 2006
[randy] - Removed the ext3 file system page from the book as this file system is now the LFS default.
[randy] - Modified the Tcl and Tk instructions to install the library interface headers using the maintainer's recommended method and removed all the hacks from previous installation methods.
May 6th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to alsa-1.0.11.
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcp-3.0.4.
[dnicholson] - Fixed EsounD installation to note that the documentation can only be installed with DocBook-utils. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
[tushar] - Updated to Popt-1.10.4.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Bluefish-1.0.5.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.3.
May 5th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to nmap-4.03.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Leafnode-1.11.5.
[bdubbs] - Updated to AFPL Ghostscript-8.53.
[bdubbs] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.24.
[bdubbs] - Updated to proftpd-1.3.0.
[bdubbs] - Updated to mysql-5.0.21.
[bdubbs] - Updated to ntp-4.2.0a.
[dj] - Reorganized X Window System chapter.
[dj] - Spilt Xorg-7 instructions into several pages.
[dj] - Corrected links in Mesa and xterm instructions for new xorg7 pages.
May 4th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to ESP Ghostscript-8.15.2.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssl-0.9.8b.
[bdubbs] - Simplified mysql compilation flags. Thanks to Archaic.
May 3rd, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated sed for openssh to link crypto libraries statically.
[bdubbs] - Updated location of kernel options in iptables. Thanks to Allard Welter who pointed this out.
May 1st, 2006
[randy] - Updated to XScreenSaver-4.24.
[randy] - Updated to Gtk+-2.8.17.
[randy] - Updated to ATK-1.11.4.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.12.2.
[randy] - Updated to Ethereal-0.99.0.
April 30th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Removed the gid for bin and usb as they are defined in LFS. Added comment in the section about users and groups that base entries are in LFS.
[randy] - Updated to K3b-0.12.15.
[randy] - Updated to NFS Utilities-1.0.8.
[andy] - Updated Pine to 4.64 and Abiword-2.4.4.
April 29th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to exim-4.61.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Links-2.1pre21.
[randy] - Updated to Galeon-2.0.1.
[randy] - Added a new category 'Integrated Development Environments' to the 'Other Programming Tools' page and added additional components to the page.
[randy] - Updated Tcl and Tk to 8.4.13. Also modified the build commands to not use any user-created environment variables.
[bdubbs] - Changed openssh libexecdir to /usr/lib/openssh.
[bdubbs] - Added instruction to optionally enable ssl support to dillo.
April 28th, 2006
[randy] - Added new package libquicktime-0.9.8 and removed the Openquicktime package.
[bdubbs] - Updated to seamonkey-1.0.1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to rp-pppoe-3.8.
[bdubbs] - Updated bootscripts Makefile to install autofs after cleanfs.
[randy] - Updated to Berkeley DB-4.4.20.
April 27th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to gc-6.6.
[bdubbs] - Updated to mysql-5.0.20a. Fixed all testsuite failures.
[dnicholson] - Updated to OpenSSL-0.9.8a. Added patch to Cyrus-SASL for compatibility with this version of OpenSSL.
[randy] - Updated to GCC-4.0.3
[randy] - Updated to GMP-4.2
[bdubbs] - Updated to vsftpd-2.0.4
April 26th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated libexecdir location in emacs.
[randy] - Added clarification about NSS/NSPR libraries to the Evolution and Evolution Data Server instructions.
[bdubbs] - Updated to iso-codes-0.51.
[bdubbs] - Updated ntp configuration to use pool servers.
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcp-3.0.3.
[bdubbs] - Updated to WvStreams-4.2.2.
[randy] - Updated to Balsa-2.3.12.
April 25th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixes for Cyrus SASL-2.1.21. Added patch to allow OpenLDAP => 2.3, converted GCC-4 patch to a sed, and added a sed command to put saslauthd man page in the correct location. Noted method to address LDAPDB plugin circular dependency in the User Notes.
[bdubbs] - Dropped NCPFS from the book due to lack of testing ability. Placed contents in the User Notes.
[randy] - Updated to GMime-2.2.1.
[bdubbs] - Added errata page to preface.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.2.
[randy] - Updated to libESMTP-1.0.4.
[randy] - Added a sed command to the PDL instructions to fix a build issue caused by ExtUtils::MakeMaker-6.30 which was introduced in Perl-5.8.8.
[bdubbs] - Fixed configuration instructions in GPM. Thanks to Chris Staub.
[bdubbs] - Updated to fcron-3.0.1.
[bdubbs] - Added a note about adding FORTRAN 77 to the gcc-3 instructions.
[randy] - Added a short note about the GCC-3.4.6 Fortran installation instructions on the BLFS Wiki to the GCC-4.0.x instructions.
[Randy] - Modifications to the PDL instructions: added an FTP download location, rewrite of the introductory text to include a discussion about a proper version of Fortran, updated some of the dependency package download URLs and changed the links to a Fortran compiler to the one on the BLFS Wiki.
[andy] - Updated to OpenSP-1.5.2.
April 24th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the introductory text of the GCC-3 instructions to better explain its use, and to add a link to the Wiki pointing to a Fortran specific installation.
[bdubbs] - Updated to qpopper-4.0.9. Added standalone instructions and a configuration file. Added an initialization script to the bootscripts and bootscripts Makefile.
April 23rd, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcpcd-2.0.5.
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice-2.0.2.
[bdubbs] - Added a note to Apache that the apache user's home directory of /dev/null may fail for some add-ons.
[bdubbs] - Updated to fetchmail-6.3.4.
April 22nd, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated Additional X Window System Configuration section.
[randy] - Updated to ExtUtils-F77-1.15.
[randy] - Modified the method of using cpan in the Perl Modules instructions, thanks to William Zhou for the suggestion.
[bdubbs] - Updated to iptables-1.3.5.
[dnicholson] - Fixes for TIN. Moved some run-time dependencies to the Configuration section. Installed documentation files. Added command to install default configuration files.
April 21st, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.2.
[randy] - Updated to Filter-1.32.
[randy] - Updated to Net::DNS-0.57.
[randy] - Updated to Digest::SHA1-2.11.
[randy] - Updated to Net::IP-1.24.
[bdubbs] - Updated to bind-9.3.2. Updated bind-utils also.
[andy] - Added Audacious-1.0.0.
[andy] - Updated to Fluxbox 0.9.15.1.
April 20th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to hdparm-6.6.
[bdubbs] - Updated udftools to compile with gcc4. Also deleted the kernel patch from the package because it is in linux 2.6.16 and later.
[dnicholson] - Added TIN version 1.8.1 to the book. Removed slrn. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. Closes tickets #1845 and #1847.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Python-2.4.3.
[bdubbs] - Updated to glib-2.10.2.
April 19th, 2006
[tushar] - Corrected vim option description.
[bdubbs] - Updated to iso-codes-0.50.
[bdubbs] - Updated proftpd instructions.
[randy] - Updated to Socket6-0.19.
[randy] - Updated to Finance::QuoteHist-1.07.
[randy] - Updated to HTML::TableExtract-2.07.
[randy] - Added new Perl module; Text::CSV_PP-1.01.
[randy] - Updated to Finance::Quote-1.11.
[randy] - Updated to libwww-perl-5.805 (also renamed the package from LWP).
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.23.
[bdubbs] - Updated to nmap-4.01.
[dnicholson] - Changed X Window System to required dependency for Imlib-1.9.15. Fixes ticket #1792.
[randy] - Updated to Test::Prereq-1.030.
[randy] - Updated to Module::CoreList-2.04.
[randy] - Updated to GnuCash-1.8.12.
April 18th, 2006
[randy] - Downgraded to Guile-1.6.7 and G-Wrap-1.3.4 and modified the SLIB instructions to work with the downgraded packages. These changes are to support GnuCash which will not work with the more recent versions.
[manuel] - Removed creation of xsl-stylesheets-current symlink.
[bdubbs] - Updated to wireless_tools.28.
April 17th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Changed vim to match LFS instructions regarding UTF-8 locales.
[bdubbs] - Updated to kde-3.5.2.
April 15th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to koffice-1.5.0.
[randy] - Updated the SLIB patch to a -2 version.
[randy] - Removed some optional dependencies (Gtk-1 and guile-gtk) from the G-Wrap instructions.
[dj] - Wrapped the lnx_agp.c sed in a testcase to make the change, only if required in Xorg-6.9 and Xorg-7.0 instructions.
[dj] - Added install command to create the /usr/share/fonts directory to Xorg-6.9, Xorg-7.0, and XFree86 instructions.
April 14th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added sed to Xorg-6.9.0 to fix security vulnerability in ticket #1876. Changed sed to include linux/types.h to be the same as that in Xorg-7.0.0.
[randy] - Updated all the wiki links to point to the existing package wiki page if one existed.
[dnicholson] - Added information about the Nano development version which supplies UTF-8 support to Locale Related Issues. Added a caution on the Nano page.
[dnicholson] - Added pkg-config as a required dependency for MesaLib. Fixes ticket #1904.
[randy] - Readded the links in the Perl Modules instructions to the MD5sums of all the Perl Module source tarballs.
[randy] - Moved GConf-1 from an optional to a required dependency in the GNOME-VFS-1 and GtkHTML-1 instructions.
[randy] - Added new package Graphviz-2.8.
[bdubbs] - Added openssl as a required dependency of tripwire.
[andy] - Updated to Gnumeric-1.6.3 and Goffice-0.2.1.
April 13th, 2006