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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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Randy McMurchy - 2008/10/06
- Corrected some erroneous text in the Coreutils instructions, thanks to Greg Shafer for pointing it out
- Updated E2fsprogs to 1.41.1
- Updated Findutils to 4.4.0
- Updated the date of the SVN book
- Updated SBU and disk spaced used for Gawk
- Updated SBU and disk spaced used for Gettext
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Bruce Dubbs - 2008/10/05
- Touch up validate Makefile rule.
- Typo
- More tweaking of Makefile validate rule
- Make title of fstab entry for /dev/shm consistent with kernel documentation
- Add explaination of backslash in typography
- Typo
- Add note about symlink reqt in Host Requirements Add simple compilation check in Host Requirements
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Randy McMurchy - 2008/10/05
- Added the GMP and MPFR packages to the list of packages in Chapter 3, thanks to Lefteris Dimitroulakis for pointing out the omission
- Updated Glibc to a 2.8 snapshot taken on 9/29/2008, the tarball of this snapshot includes the libidn data that previously was separately packaged
- Updated the Linux kernel to 2.6.26.5
- Updated Tcl to 8.5.4
- Fixed validation error
- Added a patch to the Expect instructions to fix an issue with recent Tcl versions
- Updated the Bash Fixes patch to the -8 version
- Fixed Expect-Tcl patch MD5sum
- Typo fix
- Updated Coreutils to 6.12, thanks to William Immendorf for contributing a patch to add the mktemp program information to the Coreutils page
- Added the Mktemp-1.5 package to the list of removed items in the Chapter3 'What's new ...' page
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Bruce Dubbs - 2008/10/04
- Fix 'make validate' Makefile rule Add Perl version check to Host System Requirements
- Cosmetic change to perl check
- Remove tabs
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Randy McMurchy - 2008/10/03
- Updated GCC to 4.3.2 which includes adding the GMP-4.2.4 and MPFR-2.3.2 packages - This new version of GCC requires the added packages - Thanks to DJ Lucas for the stimulus and initial work resulting in this and all of the other package updates coming up
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DJ Lucas - 2008/09/14
- undo premature rename of scripts
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DJ Lucas - 2008/09/09
- Correct echo command in rc
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DJ Lucas - 2008/09/07
- Use new initd-tools package, store log times in UTC, use soft depenendencies for minimal install target
- account for /usr and /var by network dependency
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DJ Lucas - 2008/09/01
- Added missing dep for sysklogd script.
- mountfs stops before swap goes
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DJ Lucas - 2008/08/31
- See contrib/lsb-v3/ChangeLog