ALFS News
- jhalfs Stable Version 2.4 Released
- Pierre Labastie - 2017/04/08
After eight years of rolling release, the jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.4. Uncountable changes have been made since the last version, to adapt to the new versions of the LFS/CLFS/BLFS books. The main new features are the ability to use a package manager (provided it can use
DESTDIR install
) and the ability to automatically install dependencies of BLFS packages.This release is compatible with the (B)LFS books in the 7.x series, as well as with the recent 8.0 versions and the current SVN, both Sys V and systemd. It also works with CLFS-3.x versions and CLFS development.
See the list of supported books
Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.4-rc2 Release Candidate
- Pierre Labastie - 2017/03/19
After eight years of rolling release, the jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.4-rc2. It is a preliminary release of jhalfs-2.4. Uncountable changes have been made since the last version. The main new features are the ability to use a package manager (provided it can use
DESTDIR install
) and the ability to install tools to build BLFS packages.This release is compatible with the (B)LFS books in the 7.x series, as well as with the recent 8.0 versions and the current SVN, both SYS V and systemd.
Download jhalfs-2.4-rc2 tarball
See the list of supported books
Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.4-rc1 Release Candidate
- Pierre Labastie - 2017/03/12
After eight years of rolling release, the jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.4-rc1. It is a preliminary release of jhalfs-2.4. Uncountable changes have been made since the last version. The main new features are the ability to use a package manager (provided it can use
DESTDIR install
) and the ability to install tools to build BLFS packages.This release is compatible with the (B)LFS books in the 7.x series, as well as with the recent 8.0 versions and the current SVN, both SYS V and systemd.
Download jhalfs-2.4-rc1 tarball
See the list of supported books
Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.3.2 Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2009/07/31
The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.3.2
This is a bugfix release to match the upcoming LFS-6.5, plus other fixes.
See the list of supported books
Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.3.1 Released
- Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2007/08/30
The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.3.1
This is a bugs-fixes release to match LFS-6.3 and current BLFS development book. If you are using jhalfs-2.3, please upgrade to jhalfs-2.3.1.
See the list of supported books
Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.3 Released
- Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2007/07/29
The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.3.
Plus several bugs fixes and code clean-up, this release includes support for installed files logs generation and to stop the build at a desired point.
See the list of supported books
Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.2 Released
- Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2007/03/05
The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.2.
Plus several bugs fixes and code clean-up, this release add support for blfs-tool and customized packages to all books. Also add support for stable BLFS-6.2.0 book.
See the list of supported books
Please, send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.1 Released
- Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/12/7
The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.1.
New features in this version:
- Better support for CLFS Sysroot book
- Added support for CLFS Embedded book
- Several bugs fixes and code clean-up
The jhalfs-2.1 tarball can be downloaded from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/downloads/jhalfs/stable/jhalfs-2.1.tar.bz2
The list of supported books can be found at https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/wiki/SupportedBooks
Please, try it out and send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 2.0 Released
- Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/10/14
The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-2.0.
New features in this version:
- Added support for CLFS-2.0 development book
- Added support for BLFS via blfs-tool framework
- Added support to install blfs-tool dependencies while installing xLFS systems
- A configuration system full-based on a menuconfig interface
- Full Makefile rewrite to su to the "lfs" user and to enter to the chroot jail only one time.
- Now the system build must be done as an unprivileged user, no more as root. This means that sudo is now a required dependency.
- Check that the host has the proper tools installed and the versions that are able to run jhalfs and build the system.
The jhalfs-2.0 tarball can be downloaded from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/downloads/jhalfs/stable/jhalfs-2.0.tar.bz2
The list of supported books can be found at https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/wiki/SupportedBooks
Please, try it out and send any comments or bugs you find to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 1.0 Released
- Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/07/23
The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-1.0.
This new version includes support for current LFS, CLFS and HLFS books. The under development code for BLFS is included also in the tarball.
Among the ability to build a system directly from the book's sources, this version has some nice additional features like:
- Creation of SBU/disk usage reports
- ICA/farce iterative builds
- Customized build optimizations
- A contributed patch that adds PACO support
The jhalfs-1.0 tarball can be downloaded from here.
The list of supported book's versions can be found at SupportedBooks
Please, try it out and send any bugs you find in to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- nALFS 1.2.6 Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2006/01/28
The ALFS team is pleased to announce the release of nALFS version 1.2.6. This is a bugfix update to version 1.2.5, incorporating two changes:
1. A fix for corruption of files when using search_replace, in cases where the search pattern is at the end of the file. Thanks to David Rosal and Arthur Demchenkov.
2. A fix for an issue with the drawing of line characters in UTF-8 locales. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.
This new release can be downloaded from the usual location.
All comments, questions and discussions of this release should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- LFS 6.1.1-1 Profile Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/04
This is an update to the previous release of the LFS-6.1.1 profile and fixes the following bugs:
Fixed md5sum's for the bash-docs and bison packages.
Corrected the udev rules file version.
Fixed creation of /etc/localtimeThis profile can be downloaded from the usual location.
All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- jhalfs 0.2 Released
- Jeremy Huntwork - 2005/12/02
There is a new implementation of ALFS available, called jhalfs. The main purpose of jhalfs is to provide a pure reference build of LFS by extracting the commands to run directly from the LFS book. This has the added benefit of reducing maintenance as there are no profiles needed.
This is the first release of jhalfs. Version 0.1 was a proof-of-concept and not a working release. You can download version 0.2 here.
Any comments or questions concerning jhalfs should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- LFS 6.1.1 Profile Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/02
To accompany the recently released LFS-6.1.1, the ALFS team is proud to announce the release of the LFS-6.1.1 ALFS profile.
This profile can be downloaded from the usual location.
All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- nALFS 1.2.5 Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/10
The ALFS team is pleased to announce the release of nALFS version 1.2.5. This is a feature/bugfix update to version 1.2.4, incorporating four changes:
1. Support was added for printing the name of any package that is required but not present before nALFS gives the build aborted message.
2. A new command line option has been added to disable digest checking (-d).
3. A new command line option has been added to support for downloading and digest checking packages within the <unpack> and <download> elements without executing the other tags in a profile. (-D).
4. Properly fix detection of the ncurses library, if ncurses is not found configure will bail out. (Bug 929)
This new release can be downloaded from the usual location.
All comments, questions and discussions of this release should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- LFS-6.1-1 Profile Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/01
This is an update to the previous release of the LFS-6.1 Profile and fixes two bugs, one important and one minor.
Bugs fixed:
Due to a recent hiccup on the LFS FTP Mirror master server, some tarballs had to be regenerated therefore changing the md5sums. So those md5's have now been updated in the profile to accomdate this.
Also fixed is that the path to nALFS is no longer hardcoded into the runit.sh script.This updated profile can be downloaded from the usual location.
- LFS 6.1 Profile Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2005/07/09
With the release of LFS-6.1, the ALFS team is proud to announce the release of the accompanying ALFS profile. Also in this release features better compatibility for those users who wish to use the lfs-packages tarball.
This profile can be downloaded from the usual location.
All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- BLFS 6.0 Profile Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2005/06/07
The ALFS Team is proud to announce the release of the BLFS-6.0 ALFS profile. It can be downloaded from the usual location.
All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.
- BLFS 6.0-test1 Profile Released
- Thomas Pegg - 2005/05/05
With the release of BLFS-6.0, the ALFS Team is proud to announce the first test release of the ALFS profile to accompany it. This profile is still considered very much beta, as it has not the widespread testing that it's LFS counterparts have had. It can be downloaded from the usual locations (/alfs/downloads/profiles/blfs/test/profile-BLFS-6.0-test1.tar.bz2).
Please do test this profile, try to break it if possible and help us make it better.
All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.