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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

• Robert Connolly - 2008/06/03

  • fix bad links for Attr and Libcap2

• Robert Connolly - 2008/06/02

  • Install ping/ping6 without suid, and set caps
  • Use sha512 passwords with shadow-utils login.defs. libshadow isn't installed anymore (only needed by shadow-utils).
  • Create /etc/shells after installing Bash in chap6, so the chsh program can function.
  • Remove SUID from chage, chfn, chsh, and passwd, in favor of posix capabilities
  • Removed SUID from mount and umount in favor of posix capabilities
  • use fewer sha rounds in chap6 shadow, so there are fewer assertion failures from salt.c

• Robert Connolly - 2008/06/01

  • Touch up last svn commit, in regards to --disable-werror comments
  • forgot a --disable-werror for glibc
  • Bump to coreutils-6.11
  • Bump to findutils-4.4.0
  • Added upstream Glibc patch for strfry to handle empty strings. Added upstream Glibc patch for sha256/sha512 support in libcrypt, so Shadow can use it
  • removed /tools/bin/nice from chapter06/chroot.xml. it seems to cause glibc test failures
  • fix little oops in last svn commit
  • Bump to openssl-0.9.8h
  • Reorder chap6 to match LFS
  • Bump to kbd-1.14.1
  • fix module-init-tools url link
  • Moved Gettext and Make in chap6 to be installed earlier, to satisfy the Attr package. Added Attr package.
  • Added Libcap2 package

• Robert Connolly - 2008/05/31

  • Tagged snapshot release 0.6
  • Added missing chap5/e2fsprogs.xml file
  • Cleared changelog, reset milestone
  • fix invalid date
  • Use --disable-werror for the toolchain in chap5

• Robert Connolly - 2008/05/19

  • Bump to bash-3.2-fixes-8.patch
  • Bump to tar-1.20
  • Bump to m4-1.4.11
  • Bump to texinfo-4.12
  • Bump to flex-2.5.35
  • Flip to util-linux-ng. This includes adding e2fsprogs to chap5. Bumped to e2fsprogs-1.40.8
  • New glibc-2.5.1-arc4_prng patch to fix strfry bug. Thanks to Mordae for reporting it
  • Added test for strfry() to butterfly page
  • Bump to Vim fixes-8 patch
  • Bump to autoconf-2.62
  • Bump to file-4.24
  • Bump to module-init-tools-3.4
  • fix md5sum for module-init-tools-nostatic-patch
  • Bump to shadow-4.1.1
  • fix grsecurity url

• Robert Connolly - 2008/05/18

  • Bump to Linux 2.6.24.7, and new Grsecurity patch.
  • The if_addrlabel.h header issue was fixed upstream. Removed it
  • Bump to tcl8.4.19

• Robert Connolly - 2008/04/14

  • Bump to automake-1.10.1 and added test suite patch
  • New Inetutils fixes patch
  • fixed automake patch name

• Robert Connolly - 2008/04/13

  • Fixed some package urls
  • Bump to Linux 2.6.24.4
  • Bump to vim-fixes-7 patch
  • Removed the YYENABLE_NLS hack from Bison chap6 because we don't need it. Removed --enable-gcc-warnings from Bison because it causes test suite failures
  • Bump to flex-2.5.34
  • Bump to bzip2-1.0.5
  • Bump to iana-etc-2.30
  • Bump to libtool-1.5.26

• Robert Connolly - 2008/03/08

  • grsec testing patch is not gzipped. fixed the patch command on the kernel page.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/03/07

  • Updated the commands for linux-headers from LFS-svn; the old commands would destroy /usr/include if you run them on anexisting system.