This is version SVN-200800519 of the Hardened Linux From Scratch book, dated May 19th, 2008. This book is still in an alpha state. Please help to make this book better by testing it and sending feedback to hlfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org.
Below is a list of changes since the creation of this book for both Glibc and uClibc based books.
Changelog Entries:
May 19th, 2008
[robert] - Bump to module-init-tools-3.4.
[robert] - Bump to file-4.24.
[robert] - Bump to autoconf-2.62.
[robert] - Bump to Vim fixes-8 patch.
[robert] - Added test for strfry() to butterfly page.
[robert] - New glibc-2.5.1-arc4_prng patch to fix strfry bug. Thanks to Mordae for reporting it.
May 18th, 2008
[robert] - Flip to util-linux-ng. This includes adding e2fsprogs to chap5. Bumped to e2fsprogs-1.40.8.
[robert] - Bump to flex-2.5.35.
[robert] - Bump to texinfo-4.12.
[robert] - Bump to m4-1.4.11.
[robert] - Bump to tar-1.20.
[robert] - Bump to bash-3.2-fixes-8.patch.
[robert] - Bump to tcl8.4.19.
[robert] - Bump to Linux 2.6.24.7, and new Grsecurity patch.
April 13th, 2008
[robert] - New Inetutils fixes patch.
[robert] - Bump to automake-1.10.1 and added test suite patch.
[robert] - Bump to libtool-1.5.26.
[robert] - Bump to iana-etc-2.30.
[robert] - Bump to bzip2-1.0.5.
[robert] - Bump to flex-2.5.34.
[robert] - 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.
[robert] - Bump to vim-fixes-7 patch.
[robert] - Bump to Linux 2.6.24.4.
March 8th, 2008
[robert] - Added --without-included-regex to Sed. This gets rid of a warning about redefining __mempcpy, and uses the regex from libc.
March 6th, 2008
[robert] - Updated the commands for linux-headers from LFS-svn; the old commands would destroy /usr/include if you run them on an existing system.
March 5th, 2008
[robert] - Cleared the change log. Reset milestone.