HLFS News
- HLFS Status
- Archaic - 2005/07/06
HLFS is currently in an alpha state. Work continues on it constantly. It is recommended that only experienced testers read the current development book.
Latest SVN Changes
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robert - 2011/09/04
- Bump to binutils-2.21.1a.
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robert - 2011/08/21
- Be verbose (-v) with setcap.
- Be verbose (-v) with setcap.
- Stop using capabilities with Shadow and Util-linux-ng. They're vulnerable to race conditions.
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robert - 2011/08/20
- Added a couple hardening tests to gcc chap6.
- New date
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robert - 2011/08/19
- Symlink /dev/urandom to /dev/erandom if /dev/erandom does not already exist.
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robert - 2011/08/18
- Added Frandom to kernel page.
- Use /dev/erandom with Perl and Glibc.
- Bump to attr-2.4.46 and acl-2.2.51.
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robert - 2011/08/16
- Replaced lfs-bootscripts with hlfs-bootscripts. No actual changes yet.
- Added random boot script to hlfs-bootscripts, from BLFS.
- Touch up Attr and Acl pages.
- Added iptables to chapter 6.
- Added iptables to chapter 6.
- new boot scripts
- mv bootscripts/lfs bootscripts/hlfs
- fix makefile for bootscripts/lfs bootscripts/hlfs
- Added iptables boot script
- s/lfs/hlfs/
- New bootscripts md5sum
-
robert - 2011/08/14
- Use acl,user_xattr in /etc/fstab.
- Add PaX patches to Binutils and Glibc.
- Add strlcpy_strlcat patch to Glibc.
- Install the strlcpy manual page.
- Use --disable-werror with Binutils
- Fixed bug in Binutils pt_pax patch. Binutils can build with -Werror now
- Configure Glibc, in chapter 6, with --enable-bind-now --enable-stackguard-randomization.
- Typo
- Mention that the Binutils test suite is known to fail due to PT PaX program headers.
- Added XZ utils, needed to unpack Strace.
- Added Strace to chapter 6, for debugging Linux Caps.
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robert - 2011/08/11
- Use Linux Caps for mount and umount
- Use Linux Caps for ping and ping6.
- Use Linux Caps for Shadow's utils. New Grsecurity patch and kernel.
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robert - 2011/08/02
- Bump to binutils-2.21.1.
- Bump to latest grsecurity-stable.
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robert - 2011/07/24
- Added Attr to chapter 6. Thanks entirely to BLFS for their Attr page.
- Added Attr to chapter 6. Thanks entirely to BLFS for their Attr page.
- Fix the description for Attr.
- Added Acl to chapter 6, again thanks to BLFS.
- Added libcap2
- Fix typo
- Added a note and example to use the user_xattr,acl mount options.