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

• robert - 2011/09/04

  • Bump to binutils-2.21.1a.

• 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.

• robert - 2011/08/20

  • Added a couple hardening tests to gcc chap6.
  • New date

• robert - 2011/08/19

  • Symlink /dev/urandom to /dev/erandom if /dev/erandom does not already exist.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• robert - 2011/08/02

  • Bump to binutils-2.21.1.
  • Bump to latest grsecurity-stable.

• 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.