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- LFS 6.3 Release
- Bruce Dubbs - 2007/08/28
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.3. This release includes numerous changes to LFS-6.2 (including update to Linux-2.6.22.5, GCC-4.1.2, Glibc-2.5) and security fixes. It also includes a large amount of editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.
You can read the book online, or download to read locally.
Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.3 Release Candidate 2. This release includes some minor changes to Release Candidate 1 (including an update to Linux-2.6.22.2).
You can read the book online, or download to read locally.
Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.
- LFS 6.3 Release Candidate 1 Release
- Bruce Dubbs - 2007/07/24
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.3 Release Candidate 1. This release includes a large number of package upgrades (including Linux-2.6.22.1, GCC-4.1.2, Glibc-2.5) and security fixes. It also includes a large amount of editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.
You can read the book online, or download to read locally.
Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.
- LFS 6.2 Stable Release
- Bruce Dubbs - 2006/08/02
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 6.2. This release is the culmination of the dedicated efforts of many talented developers. This release includes a large number of package upgrades (including Linux-2.6.16.26, GCC-4.0.3, Glibc-2.3.6) and security fixes. It also includes a large amount of editorial work on the explanatory material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text.
You can read the book online, or download to read locally.
Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.
Latest SVN Changes
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Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/04/23
- Fixed kbd to build and install setkeycodes, getkeycodes and resizecons. Also move loadkeys to /bin from /usr/bin for use by the bootscripts. Thanks, Greg Schafer.
- Fixed behavior in kbd where man pages for optional programs that aren't built are installed. Thanks Greg Schafer for spotting this.
- Merged r8536 and r8537 from trunk to jh branch
- Updated E2fsprogs to 1.40.8. Fixes #2173.
- Updated Autoconf to 2.62
- Use -mtune=native for glibc. We don't want our libc optimized for 486. It should be optimized for the local machine.
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Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/04/22
- Fixed a couple of typos
- Merged r8517, r8518, r8519, r8520 & r8521 from trunk to jh branch
- Merged r8527 from trunk to jh branch
- Minor fix of explanatory text to match commands
- Merged r8530 from jh branch to trunk
- Updated Flex to 2.5.35. Fixes #2179.
- Merged r8532 from trunk to jh branch
- Updated Kbd to 1.14.1. Fixes #2162.
- Merged r8534 from trunk to jh branch
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DJ Lucas - 2008/04/13
- Added manage_functions.
- minor cleanups
- Header corrections
- added config file, updated README
- correct error in cleanup from removing pipe
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Bruce Dubbs - 2008/04/11
- Fix copyright date
- Updated host requirments to check for symlinks
- Typo/whitespace
- Tweak version-check.sh script
- More tweaks to version-check.sh
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Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/04/05
- Two minor textual improvments
- Merge r8515 from trunk to jh branch
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Jeremy Huntwork - 2008/04/03
- Merged r8469, r8470, r8471, r8472, r8473, r8474, r8478, r8479, r8480, r8481, r8482, r8483, r8484, r8485, r8486, r8487, r8488, r8489, r8490, r8491, r8492, r8493, r8494, r8495, r8500, r8501 from trunk to jh branch
- Updated to linux-2.6.24.4, fixes #2157
- Merged r8503 from trunk to jh branch
- Added an upstream patch for db-4.6.21, thanks Randy McMurchy for the report. Fixes #2164.
- Fixed some changelog entries so they are formatted properly
- Merge r8505 and r8506 from trunk to jh branch
- Suppress installation of uptime in coreutils. Thanks to Randy McMurchy. Fixes #2133.
- Merge r8508 from trunk to jh branch
- Upgraded to iana-etc-2.30. Fixes #2174.
- Merged r8510 from trunk to jh branch
- Fixed incorrect entity
- Merged r8512 from trunk to jh branch
- Added patch for 256-byte inode support in GRUB. Fixes #2161.
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Dan Nicholson - 2008/03/30
- Add --sysconfdir=/etc to Man-db so we get /etc/man_db.conf
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Ken Moffat - 2008/03/27
- Upgrade bzip2.
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DJ Lucas - 2008/03/16
- fixed incorrect test in pidofproc
- added changelog entry
- replaced exit with retrun in statusproc()
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DJ Lucas - 2008/03/15
- contrib/lsb-v3 - added missing stale pid file checking for pidofproc