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- 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.
- LFS 6.2-pre3 Released
- Bruce Dubbs - 2006/07/30
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the third pre-release of LFS 6.2. This release provides several updated to the -pre2 release. It includes several minor textual changes and updates patches to linux-libc-headers and Berkeley DB.
You can read the book online, or download to read locally.
Again, we would appreciate you taking the time to try it out and report any bugs you find in it to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org.
- LFS 6.2-pre2 Released
- Bruce Dubbs - 2006/07/22
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the second pre-release of LFS 6.2. This release provides several updated to the -pre1 release. It includes several minor textual changes and updates patches to vim and grub. It also includes an update to Linix-2.6.16.27.
You can read the book online, or download to read locally.
This being a test release, we would appreciate you taking the time to try it out and report any bugs you find in it to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org.
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the first pre-release of LFS 6.2. 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.
This being a test release, we would appreciate you taking the time to try it out and report any bugs you find in it to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org.
Latest SVN Changes
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Jeremy Huntwork - 2006/11/25
- Simplified the installation of Linux Headers in Chapter 5.
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Bryan Kadzban - 2006/11/11
- Move custom CD symlink and custom NIC name rules files to 70-persistent-*.rules, and add ENV{GENERATED} to the CD symlink rules. Prevents Udev rule_generator stuff from conflicting.
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Bryan Kadzban - 2006/11/06
- Delete the persistent-net-generator rules file when using bus positions for network device name assignments. Fixes #1912.
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Matthew Burgess - 2006/11/03
- Use version entities rather than hardcoded values so the note about keeping up to date with stable kernel releases remains accurate
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Matthew Burgess - 2006/10/29
- Upgrade to Vim-7.0-fixes-14.patch and drop the spellfile patch as that is now included in the former.
- Add some verbose flags to commands in the Util-Linux and Vim instructions
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Matthew Burgess - 2006/10/28
- Upgrade to Automake-1.10
- Upgrade to Bash-3.2
- Upgrade to Coreutils-6.4
- Upgrade to Berkeley-DB-4.5.20
- Upgrade to Gettext-0.16
- Upgrade to Groff-1.18.1.4
- Upgrade to Inetutils-1.5
- Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.18-20061002
- Fix a bug in Less whereby the deprecated sigsetmask function was being used instead of sigprocmask
- Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18.1
- Upgrade to Man-Pages-2.41
- Upgrade to Readline-5.2
- Upgrade to Tar-1.16
- Upgrade to TCL-8.4.14
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Bryan Kadzban - 2006/10/24
- Add an explanation of how to find the PCI bus position of network devices, to fix #1904. Also switch the sample udev rule from ID== to KERNELS== (required for udev >=098).
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Bryan Kadzban - 2006/10/21
- Remove rules files that are duplicated from upstream, add Dan's Makefile to install rules and docs (modified slightly).
- Fix typo in Makefile
- Update to udev-config-20061021, install common Udev rules from the Udev tarball, and install udev-config documentation files
- Upgrade to udev-103, and change some of the text in udev.xml to be more internally consistent
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Bryan Kadzban - 2006/10/15
- Update to udev-102 and udev-config-20061014.
- Fix udev_retry script to work with udev >= 099.
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Dan Nicholson - 2006/10/15
- Fixed kbd datadir on console configuration page