Please note that the Change Log only lists which editor was responsible for putting the changes into SVN; please read the Credits page in Chapter 1 for details on who wrote what.
Current release: 6.2.0 – February 14th, 2007
Changelog Entries:
February 14th, 2007
[randy] - Released BLFS Version 6.2.0.
[randy] - Added an FTP download URL in the Links instructions as the HTML URL is currently unavailable.
[dnicholson] - Added a patch from Ag Hatzimanikas to fix issues with UTF-8 in Vorbis Tools.
[randy] - Added an additional parameter to the Expect configure command to fix a build problem in certain situations; also added a note to run the test suite.
[dnicholson] - Fixed three package link labels to match their titles. Thanks to Chuck Rohde.
[randy] - Minor modifications to the MesaLib instructions, both text explanations and commands.
February 13th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Textual fixes from Chuck Rohde.
[dnicholson] - Added text be more explicit that luit is not a required dependency of xterm.
[dnicholson] - Added a reminder to set the necessary variables when building packages for Xorg-7.
[dnicholson] - Reverted two changes in MC and ReiserFS specific to LFS-SVN.
February 11th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Add information for running the Vim testsuite. Patch from Ag Hatzimanikas.
February 10th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Moved the Linux-PAM dependency in Xorg-7 from the Libraries to the Applications.
[dnicholson] - Converted UTF-8 man pages in the Xorg-7 drivers. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for supplying the fixes.
February 7th, 2007
[randy] - Released BLFS 6.2.0-rc2.
[randy] - Updated to iptables-1.3.6, thanks to Andy Beverley for helping solve some build issues.
February 6th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Populated the contents for the Xorg-7 Xbitmaps, Applications, Data, Fonts, Server, and Drivers sections.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the grammar on the Xorg-7 Utilities and Libraries pages to use full sentences to describe the package contents.
February 5th, 2007
[randy] - Clarified the text in the Mutt and FCron instructions that an MTA should install the sendmail command.
February 4th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Populated the package contents for the Xorg-7 Protocol Headers, Utilities, and Libraries sections.
[dnicholson] - Added an optional libcap dependency to vsftpd.
[dnicholson] - Added instructions for installing the Xorg-7 man pages to $XORG_PREFIX/share/man and configuring Man-DB to use that location. Fixes ticket #2229.
February 3rd, 2007
[randy] - Released Version 6.2.0-rc1.
February 2nd, 2007
[alexander] - Added CUPS and LPRng as recommended dependencies of a2ps.
[alexander] - Added some caution boxes for packages that are not going to work in multibyte locales.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Koffice-1.6.1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to KDE-3.5.6. Added runtime dependencies to kdelibs and kdebase thanks to Chris Staub. Added a change to kdebindings to reduce build time by a factor of five thanks to Dan Nicholson.
February 1st, 2007
[randy] - Changed the references of polypaudio to the new project name of PulseAudio, also updated the URL.
[randy] - Fixed broken URL for the "Why LD_LIBRARY_PATH is bad" site in the Beyond BLFS page.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the ISO Codes instructions.
[randy] - Enabled the D-BUS FTP download URL.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URL for a known working version of Pyrex in the D-Bus instructions.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the HTML Tidy instructions.
January 31st, 2007
[randy] - Broke out the separate sections of the Preface into separate XML files and added 6.2.0 release information to the Preface.
[alexander] - Upgraded GC to version 6.8 in order to fix the build failure with GCC-4.1.1.
January 30th, 2007
[randy] - Added a note to the D-Bus instructions to identify a known working version of Pyrex, thanks to DJ Lucas for the report.
[randy] - Updated several Perl Modules versions: Business-ISBN-Data-1.13, Business-ISBN-1.84, Devel-Symdump-2.07, HTML-Element-Extended-1.17, HTML-Tree-3.23, Module-Corelist-2.09, PAR-Dist-0.21, Pod-Coverage-0.18, Test-Pod-Coverage-1.08 and Test-Prereq-1.032.
January 29th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated the desktop-file-utils page to more closely reflect the XDG Base Directory Specification and corrected the information on the gnome-menus page. Fixes ticket #2172. Thanks to Luca Piol for the report.
[dnicholson] - Set the sysconfdir for libxfce4util, fixing ticket #2227.
January 28th, 2007
[randy] - Updated the default MPlayer codecs and skin versions.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the NAS, libmikmod, OpenOffice, SANE Backends, ESP Ghostscript, CUPS, GPM, Transcode, FOP and teTeX instructions.
[dj] - Removed modification of JAI source file in FOP instructions.
[dj] - Updated to JDK-1.5.0_10 and modified the jdk.sh profile.d script.
January 27th, 2007
[randy] - Fixed broken download URLs in the Tin, RSync, PostgreSQL, MySQL and Apache HTTPD server instructions.
January 26th, 2007
[dj] - Modified Linux-PAM configuration in the Shadow instructions.
[dj] - Updated to vsftpd-2.0.5.
[randy] - Updated to ISO Codes-0.58-1.
[randy] - Fixed Starlink download URLs in the PDL instructions, fixed broken Shadow, Python, PPP, WVDial and NTP download URLs.
January 24th, 2007
[randy] - Fixed the Zip, Unzip and FTP GCC download URLs.
[dnicholson] - Reverted the xsetpointer upgrade as it is broken with the inputproto in Xorg-7.1.
[dnicholson] - Actually apply the xorg-server and luit version upgrades.
January 23rd, 2007
[dnicholson] - Patchlevel upgrades to the Xorg-7 packages. Removed unneeded patches encompassed in these updates. See #2225 for more details.
[dnicholson] - Changed the download location for the Xorg-7 wget lists and md5sums file.
January 22nd, 2007
[alexander] - Added some options to Lynx for better locale support. Fixes ticket #1961.
[randy] - Updated to ZSH-4.2.6 and added a warning for users with multibyte locales.
January 21st, 2007
[dnicholson] - Added an example local session configuration file for D-Bus showing how to add new service directories. Changed the Epiphany instructions to reference this instead of symlinking its service file to the standard location.
[dnicholson] - Added optional configuration to HAL to prevent methods on fixed disk drives.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the X Input Devices User Notes link to point to a more appropriate place on the Wiki. Closes #2190.
[dnicholson] - Remove unneeded sed command from the Luit instructions. Fixes #2123.
[dnicholson] - Added text to the Locale Related Issues page suggesting the User Notes on the BLFS Wiki for the most recent information. Closes ticket #1993.
[alexander] - Removed obsolete statements about problems with MC and Nano from the Locale Related Issues page.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.9 with enigmail-0.94.2.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.9.
January 20th, 2007
[randy] - Modified the Spiffy, Test::Base and YAML Perl Module instructions so that UTF-8 encoded manual pages are not installed.
[randy] - Modified the XScreenSaver instructions so that a UTF-8 encoded manual page is not installed.
[randy] - Added a shell script and additional information about UTF-8 manual pages to the Locale Related Issues page.
[randy] - Moved the CM-Super type1ec.sty file from the texmf-local directory structure to the texmf structure.
[bdubbs] - Updated to seamonkey-1.1.
January 19th, 2007
[alexander] - Added Debian patch and bash-3.2 compatibility patch to MC. Fixes #2189.
January 18th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Added ftp:// links for the Xorg-7.1 packages.
[dnicholson] - Updated security patches for Xorg-6.9.0 and xorg-server-1.1.0.
[dnicholson] - Changed the i18n.sh profile text to reference the LFS locale discussion and moved the GLib specific settings to that package's page. Fixes #2012.
[randy] - Added text to the 'Locale Related Issues' page which discusses improperly encoded manual pages.
[randy] - Added sed commands to the ImageMagick and Xorg evdev packages to remove UTF-8 encoded manual pages.
January 17th, 2007
[dnicholson] - Updated the ALSA Library, Plugins, Utilities, Tools and Firmware to version 1.0.13. Updated ALSA OSS to 1.0.12. Fixes tickets #2112 and #2201. Notes have been added for untested packages.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the ALSA udev rules to work properly with the Udev and rules in stable LFS. Closes ticket #2125.
[dnicholson] - Added an http:// link for the gpm package.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the GLib-2 ftp:// link. Thanks to Guy Dalziel for spotting the error.
[alexander] - Removed the dead link to the old LiveCD hint.
[dnicholson] - Updated to HAL-0.5.7.1.
January 15th, 2007
[randy] - Modified all the Sourceforge download links to use the new standard Sourceforge has implemented.
[randy] - Added a comment to the XFCE instructions saying that hicolor-icon-theme is a run-time dependency.
[randy] - Added commands to the teTeX instructions to install the cm-super type1ec.sty font file.
[alexander] - Added reiserfsprogs build fix for LFS SVN.
[randy] - Updated to Lynx-2.8.6.
January 14th, 2007
[randy] - Added Alexander to the list of BLFS Editors.
[randy] - Fixed a broken download URL in the SLIB instructions, thanks to Leo Peschier for pointing it out.
[bdubbs] - Added security patch to unzip.
[bdubbs] - Updated patch in ed to correct an error. Thanks to Tyler Berry.
[randy] - Updated the md5sums and build data for the GNOME accessibility packages to be compatible with GNOME-2.14.3, This completes the GNOME-2.14.3 update.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Python-2.4.4.
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcp-3.0.5.
[randy] - Updated the md5sums and build data for the GNOME add-on utilities to be compatible with GNOME-2.14.3.
[alexander] - Removed the commands that remove vim tutorials.
[alexander] - Updated to xfsprogs-2.8.18, added notes about the lack of testsuites to xfsprogs and reiserfsprogs.
January 13th, 2007
[bdubbs] - Updated to vim-7.0.
[bdubbs] - Updated to bind-9.3.3.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssh-4.5p1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssl-0.9.8d.
January 11th, 2007
[randy] - Updated to MIT Kerberos V5-1.6. Also overhauled the instructions to fit the updated version and included enhancements to the instructions.
December 22nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Evolution-2.6.3.
[randy] - Updated GtkHTML, gtksourceview and Evolution Data Server to versions used with GNOME-2.14.3.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME-2.14.3. The “Core” packages are completely finished, the “Additional” packages still require updates to the MD5sums and build sizes/times.
December 20th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to xterm-223.
[dnicholson] - Ensured that the terminfo files from xterm are installed in the system terminfo database.
[dnicholson] - Removed the --datadir setting for Xorg-7. Some packages had broken configurations that caused files to be installed to the wrong location. Forcing ${datadir} to match ${libdir} worked around these problems, but they have now been resolved properly upstream.
December 15th, 2006
[tushar] - Remove autoreconf command from popt. The tarball that matches the md5sum has the generated files.
December 11th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer-0.10.11, GST Plugins Base-0.10.11, GST Plugins Good-0.10.4 and GST Plugins Ugly-0.10.4
December 10th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GSview-4.8 and fixed an issue with GSview using recent versions of ESP Ghostscript.
December 9th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Nano-2.0.1.
December 8th, 2006
[randy] - Added Sharutils (for the uudecode program) to the FreeTTS required dependencies, thanks to Chris Staub for the report.
[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.0.23d.
December 7th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to CUPS-1.2.7.
December 6th, 2006
[randy] - Added a note to the GNOME Panel instructions saying that the libxml2 Python module must be available.
December 4th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Whois-4.7.20.
October 28th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Changed the structure of the Locale Related Issues page to describe general classes of problems. The package specific workarounds have been moved to their respective pages. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for providing the rewrite, which better supports these situations.
October 27th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to qt-3.3.7.
[dnicholson] - Fixed Screen description to reflect that UTF-8 is now available. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the suggestion.
[dnicholson] - Updated to libmusicbrainz-2.1.4, fixing security vulnerability CVE-2006-4197. Closes ticket #2181.
October 26th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Screen-4.0.3, fixing a security vulnerability. Closes ticket #2197.
October 25th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed the hdparm instructions to work correctly when installing to an alternate prefix. Thanks to Miguel Bazdresch for reporting the problem. Fixes ticket #2196.
[bdubbs] - Updated to zip 2.32.
October 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Exim instructions documentation links.
October 22nd, 2006
[randy] - Added a note to the GTK+2 instructions about the test suite requiring an X Window session.
[randy] - Removed references to the shared library from the UnZip instructions. Thanks to Gabriel Batir for the report.
[randy] - Added a sed command to the Graphviz instructions so that the Java bindings will build correctly if you have the JDK installed.
October 19th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added needed macro to use Cyrus-SASL in Postfix.
[dnicholson] - Updated to OpenLDAP-2.3.27.
October 15th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to Ruby-1.8.5. Fixes #2127.
[djensen] - Updated Seamonkey to Enigmail-0.94.1. Fixes #2170.
October 14th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added information about creating the /dev/dvd symlink for Mplayer with links pointing back to the relevant section of the LFS book. Fixes #1995.
[dnicholson] - Removed the note about installing UUID from the XFS page as the only libuuid comes from E2fsprogs. It is assumed that E2fsprogs is installed from LFS. Closes #2176.
[dnicholson] - Added PAM configuration to the host.def example in Xorg-6.9.0 and XFree86-4.6.0. It is commented out by default.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Postfix-2.3.3. Added configuration to automatically install HTML and README docs.
October 12th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed broken ASH download link and added text about lack of test suite. Fixes ticket #2130.
[dnicholson] - Fixed broken Rsync download link. Thanks to Miguel Bazdresch for the fix.
[dnicholson] - Fixed GNOME Doc Utils so that the pkg-config files are always installed. Closes #2126.
[dnicholson] - Patched Emacs to ensure that the AltGr key is recognized. Added information about lack of test suite.
October 11th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Applied security patches to Xorg-6.9.0 and libXfont-1.1.0.
[randy] - Updated to NSS-3.11.3.
October 8th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.7. Fixes #2150.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.7 and Enigmail-0.94.1. Fixes #2151 and #2171.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Links-2.1pre23. Installed some user documentation from the tarball. Closes #2042.
October 5th, 2006
[randy] - Changed the TCP ports used by tunneled SWAT in the Samba instructions from 901 and 902 to 904 and 905 so that there is no conflict with the IANA database.
[randy] - Updated to cairo-1.2.4.
October 1st, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed an issue with with rendering of OpenGL applications with MesaLib by adding an appropriate compiler flag. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the report and the fix. Closes ticket #2103.
[dnicholson] - Fixed an error with output redirection in MesaLib when /bin/sh is not Bash. Fixes ticket #2118.
September 30th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to Balsa-2.3.13.
September 25th, 2006
[djensen] - Added 2 seds to LPRng-3.8.28, fixing a gcc-4.1 bug and a syntax error for newer makes.
[dnicholson] - Updated to dhcpcd-2.0.8. Changed the build to execute the dhcpcd.exe configuration file.
September 24th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to SeaMonkey-1.0.5. Added the optional pango patch.
[randy] - Added a patch to the Heimdal instructions to fix a security vulnerability identified in MIT advisories CVE-2006-3083 and CVE-2006-3084.
September 19th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to Mpg123-0.60.
September 16th, 2006
[djensen] - Removed a possible spurious doc dir installation in EsounD.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssl-0.9.8c.
September 14th, 2006
[randy] - Fixed broken Linux-PAM documentation download URL.
September 12th, 2006
[dj] - Updated to JDK-1.0.5_08.
September 10th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to nfs-utils-1.0.10.
[bdubbs] - Updated bootscripts to properly handle non-TERM stop signals.
[bdubbs] - Added creation of bin user to portmap.
[bdubbs] - Updated to pcre-6.7.
September 5th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.5. Reordered the patches so that they can apply cleanly.
September 4th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.6. Changed the order of the patches so that they can apply cleanly.
[dnicholson] - Fixed the text describing the default PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include /usr/share/pkgconfig. Fixes #2117. Thanks to Joe Ciccone.
[dnicholson] - Removed the ispell package as it has problems in UTF-8 locales and the aspell package is superior. Fixes ticket #2101.
[dnicholson] - Updated to xterm-218. Fixes tickets #2096 and #2100.
[bdubbs] - Fixed wording in php describing ini file. Thanks to Pippin for pointing this out.
[dnicholson] - Moved xterm, rman, MesaLib and libdrm packages out of the Xorg-7 chapter as they are now developed externally. Added notes to their pages to indicate that they should only be built when using Xorg-7. Fixes ticket #2120.
[dnicholson] - Added a missing program description to the Luit page.
August 30th, 2006
[djensen] - Updated to JOE-3.5.
August 29th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed the download link for the Linux-PAM docs. Thanks to Tor Olav Slava.
[dnicholson] - Removed the reference to the vimrc question in the FAQ since it no longer exists. Thanks to Peter Ennis.
[dnicholson] - Minor text update on the bootdisk page. Thanks to Peter Ennis.
August 9th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added patch to fix a security vulnerability in Mutt-1.5.11. Fixes ticket #2072.
[dnicholson] - Added patches to fix security vulnerabilities in Xorg-7.1. Closes ticket #2100.
[dnicholson] - Added configuration for HAL and gnome-volume-manager for use without the pam_console module.
[dnicholson] - Fixed a broken iptables link and a typo on the About Devices page. Thanks to Gabriel Batir.
August 7th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added a patch to fix security vulnerabilities in Xorg-6.9.0. See ticket #2100. Removed fix for Glibc sys/kd.h as it is now in LFS stable.
August 6th, 2006
[randy] - Noted in the Evince instructions that shared-mime-info is a run-time requirement.
[randy] - Updated to libsoup-2.2.96.
[randy] - Added XMLRPC-EPI as an optional dependency of PHP.
August 5th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libwnck-2.14.3.
[randy] - Updated to libglade-2.6.0.
[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.8.20.
[dnicholson] - Removed /etc/profile.d/tinker-term.sh since it is no longer needed with the Ncurses in stable LFS-6.2.
August 4th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libpng-1.2.12.
[randy] - Updated to libIDL-0.8.7.
[randy] - Added libxslt as a required dependency of the GNOME Doc Utils package.
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.17.
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.26.
August 3rd, 2006
[randy] - Added four upstream patches to the Berkeley-DB instructions.
August 2nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated the book to point at LFS 'stable' and use LFS stable package versions of Coreutils and Flex.
[randy] - Removed an obsolete ldconfig command from the OAF instructions.
July 25th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GIMP-2.2.12.
July 24th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libquicktime-0.9.9.
July 22nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Avifile-0.7.45.
July 15th, 2006
[randy] - Fixed the creation of the symbolic link in the Gnumeric instructions to fix access to the help documentation if GNOME is installed in a prefix other than /usr, thanks to Alessandro Alocci for spotting the error and contributing the fix.
July 13th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed patch XML tags for Firefox and Thunderbird. Closes ticket #2069. Thanks to Joe Ciccone.
July 11th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to K3b-0.12.16 and clarified the dependencies to fix Ticket #2015.
[randy] - Added DAO to the Glossary.
[randy] - Updated to CVS-1.11.22.
July 9th, 2006
[randy] - Added a note about some additional optional dependencies in the Cdrdao instructions.
[dj] - Clarified instructions concerning alternate X Window System installation prefix.
[dj] - Corrected permission of installed files in OpenOffice instructions.
July 8th, 2006
[dj] - Added instructions to QT installation to account for alternate installation prefix in X Window System.
July 7th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Apache Ant instructions to specify the version of Junit you should use.
[randy] - Added new package - gnome-screensaver-2.14.2.
[andy] - Updated ppp to 2.4.4.
July 6th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixed typo in libusb udev rule creation. Thanks to Johannes Lächele.
July 4th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated Firefox and Thunderbird to version 1.5.0.4. Added a patch to fix the builds with --enable-pango.
[randy] - Added a command to the Linux-PAM instructions to alter the unix_chkpwd password helper setuid, thanks to Jürg Billeter for pointing this out.
July 3rd, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Zenity and GNOME Keyring Manager package instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[dj] - Clarified text surrounding additional downloads section of OpenOffice instructions.
July 2nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GNOME System Monitor-2.14.4.
[randy] - Updated the GConf Editor, gedit, bug-buddy, EOG and File Roller package instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice-2.0.3.
[andy] - Updated SDL to SDL-1.2.11
July 1st, 2006
[randy] - Removed unnecessary --sysconfdir and --localstatedir parameters from the GStreamer (and plugins) instructions. Updated the 'Good' Plugins with a --sysconfdir parameter that will force the GConf configuration files into the correct location.
[randy] - Updated the GNOME Utilities and GNOME Games package instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
June 30th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the GNOME Accessibility packages' instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
June 29th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Changed the installation instructions and explanations in XFS to be more consistent with the rest of the book. Thanks to Chris Staub for prompting the change.
[dnicholson] - Fixed sed command in WvStreams to not alter a non-existent file. Thanks to Angel Tsankov.
June 28th, 2006
[randy] - Renamed the GnomeMeeting package to Ekiga and updated the instructions to be compatible with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[randy] - Updated the dependencies and build commands in the gnome-volume-manager instructions to conform with GNOME-2.14.2. There is still some additional information that needs to be added to this page after the additions are finalized via BLFS-Dev discussion.
[dj] - Updated JDK, source and bin, to jdk-1.5.0 update 7.
June 27th, 2006
[randy] - Added new package GStreamer Ugly Plugins-0.10.3
[randy] - Updated the Nautilus CD Burner, GNOME Media and Sound Juicer instructions to conform with the GNOME 2.14.2 update.
[randy] - Completed the gnome-mount instructions.
June 26th, 2006
[randy] - Replaced many instances of repetitive similar text with xinclude files in various package instructions.
June 25th, 2006
[randy] - Minor fixes and clean-up to the core GNOME-2 package instructions including standardizing the text in the 'Command Explanations' section by using xinclude files and changing the creation of symbolic links to using PYTHONPATH so Python can find modules installed in non-standard locations.
[randy] - Added some new xinclude files to replace the repetitive similar text in many package instructions.
June 24th, 2006
[randy] - Created a new BLFS BootScript tarball to reflect the updated HAL script.
[randy] - Updated to GDM-2.14.9.
[randy] - Updated to Totem-1.4.2.
[randy] - Updated to gcalctool-5.8.16.
June 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Added new package GStreamer Good Plug-ins-0.10.3.
[randy] - Created a new BLFS BootScript tarball to reflect the updated GDM script.
[randy] - Updated the Evince, Poppler and GNOME Netstatus instructions to conform with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
June 21st, 2006
[randy] - Updated the Epiphany and gucharmap instructions to conform with the GNOME-2.14.2 update.
[randy] - Updated the GNOME2 additional libraries instructions to conform with the GNOME-2.14.2 update. This leaves the GNOME2 Accessibility and Additional Utility packages to update.
[randy] - Updated to Evolution-2.6.2.
[randy] - Added new package gnome-mount-0.4 (not fully complete, but added now to fix a validation issue).
[randy] - Updated to GNOME-2.14.2. All version entities have been updated with the core package updates being complete. The 'Additional' packages will be updated in upcoming commits.
[randy] - Changed references to GNOME2 User Docs to the renamed package of GNOME User Docs.
June 20th, 2006
[randy] - Removed all instances of the old GStreamer Plug-ins package and replaced them with the new GStreamer Base Plug-ins.
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer-0.10.8.
[randy] - Updated to Metacity-2.14.5.
[randy] - Updated to libsoup-2.2.94.
[randy] - Updated to libwnck-2.14.2.
[randy] - Updated to libxklavier-2.2.
[randy] - Updated to HAL-0.5.7.
[randy] - Updated to D-BUS-0.62.
[dnicholson] - Updated to TIN-1.8.2.
[randy] - Added new package GStreamer Base Plug-ins-0.10.8
[randy] - Replaced the obsolete Howl dependency in the xinetd and Gaim instructions with an Avahi dependency.
[randy] - Fixed broken download URL in the Pilot-Link instructions.
[randy] - Removed cairo as a recommended dependency of Pango.
[bdubbs] - Fixed typo in NAS instructions.
June 19th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to ISO Codes-0.51-1.1.
[randy] - Updated to GMime-2.2.2.
June 13th, 2006
[randy] - Removed Fontconfig as an optional dependency of Pango as it is required in one way or another, thanks to Chris Staub for pointing this out.
[tushar] - Removed incorrect dependencies from gtk+
June 11th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.2.8-0.
June 6th, 2006
[randy] - Added a sed command to the Crypt::SSLeay Perl module instructions to fix a bug exposed by newer versions of OpenSSL.
[randy] - Modified the existing, and added new dependencies to the Module::Build Perl module instructions.
[randy] - Added the dependencies for the YAML Perl module.
[randy] - Added new Perl modules: Pod::Readme-0.081, Spiffy-0.30, Test::Base-0.50 and Test::Portability::Files-0.05
[randy] - Updated several Perl modules: Archive::Tar-1.29, Business::ISBN::Data-1.11, Digest::SHA-5.41, ExtUtils::CBuilder-0.18, HTML::Parser-3.54, Module::Build-0.2801, Module::Signature-0.54, PAR::Dist-0.09, Pod::Simple-3.04, Test::Pod-1.24, Test::Prereq-1.031, version-0.63 and YAML-0.58.
June 5th, 2006
[andy] - Updated the Cdrtools ascii patch so that it applies properly.
May 31st, 2006
[dj] - Updated xorg-server and xterm dependencies.
May 29th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixes for the X Window System Components page. Add information for setting up DRI correctly. Thanks to Peter Steiger for the alert. Clarified the relationship between the Xft font system and Fontconfig. Thanks to Archaic for reviewing the previous contents.
[dnicholson] - Simplified mv command and fixed the explanation of the --enable-xine option in GStreamer Plug-ins. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
[dnicholson] - Changed the text explaining the need for the mkisofs and cdrecord patches in Cdrtools. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for the clarification.
[dnicholson] - Added optional dependencies for rebuilding the Mutt documentation. Thanks to Ag Hatzimanikas for the information.
May 27th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to librsvg-2.14.4.
[randy] - Added intltool as an optional dependency of libgnomecups.
[randy] - Updated to libgsf-1.14.1.
[randy] - Updated to Gtk+-2.8.18.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.12.3.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.10.3.
May 26th, 2006
[manuel] - Made all dependencies on a mail server actual cross-references.
May 25th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to desktop-file-utils-0.11.
[dj] - Updated Xorg Modular to 7.1 release.
[dj] - Updated to xterm-213.
[dj] - Updated to Mesa-6.5.
May 24th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the ALSA Plugins dependencies and installed plugin module list; also added documentation installation commands to the ALSA Plugins instructions.
[randy] - Several fixes to the MPlayer instructions: added a sed command to fix the getline function name issue, added a patch to fix the round function issue, fixed the creation of the font symlink to point to /usr/share/fonts, commented out the command and text that created a /dev/dvd device file as this is now done in LFS.
[randy] - Modified the way the GLUT library dependency is described in the LibTIFF instructions.
[randy] - Modified the configure script in the libfame instructions using a sed so that the -fstrict-aliasing flag is properly passed along to the Makefiles.
May 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Clarified the XvMC Wrapper dependency in the MPlayer and xine libraries instructions.
[randy] - Added libid3tag as an optional dependency of imlib2.
May 21st, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libdvdread-0.9.6.
[randy] - Updated codecs to the 20060501 versions in the MPlayer instructions.
[randy] - Added a note to the D-BUS instructions that you must have Qt installed if you are planning on using HAL with KDE.
[randy] - Added a note to the lm_sensors dependency in the kdebase instructions that the Sysfs Utilities package is also required.
[tushar] - Added note that proxymngr requires lbxproxy.
May 20th, 2006
[randy] - Added a patch to the kdelibs instructions so it will build if you have CUPS-1.2.x installed. The patch does not affect the build with lesser versions of CUPS. Thanks to Matthew Carson for chasing down the problem and sending in the patch.
[dnicholson] - Added -ifv arguments to the autoreconf command in libdrm so that libtoolize will be run. The shared library is created without the .so suffix without it.
[randy] - Added new package usbutils-0.72.
May 19th, 2006
[randy] - Changed the GNAT installation in the GCC instructions to use the existing Makefile, which eliminates the need to install Tcsh, thanks to Jim Gifford for the tip.
May 18th, 2006
[randy] - Moved the ScrollKeeper instructions from Chapter 31 - GNOME Core Packages to Chapter 10 - General Utilities as the package installation prefix is /usr and other-than-GNOME packages can utilize it.
[randy] - Added libacl as an optional dependency of Samba.
[randy] - Added additional commands to the LessTif instructions to accommodate an X Window System installation in /usr.
[dj] - Corrected NAS bootscript after installation.
[dj] - Standardized Xorg7 PREFIX commands using XORG_PREFIX.
[dj] - Re-added sed to fix incorrect path in luit.
May 17th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Changed home directory of named to /srv/named.
[bdubbs] - Added "About Devices" page.
[dnicholson] - Added two patches to Cdrtools improving its use in locales with non-ISO-8859-1 character sets. Fixes ticket #1837. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for explaining the situation and supplying the patches.
[randy] - Added jbig2dec as an optional dependency of ESP GhostScript.
[dj] - Moved libdrm, mesa, xterm, and rman to xorg7 section.
[dj] - Added test suite notes to each xorg7 page.
May 16th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Added UTF-8 patch to Pine.
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the popt instructions.
[bdubbs] - Added paps-0.6.6 for UTF-8 printing.
[randy] - Updated to PHP-5.1.4.
[dj] - Added rman-3.2.
May 15th, 2006
[randy] - Added librsvg as an optional dependency of ImageMagick.
[bdubbs] - Update to postfix-2.2.9.
May 14th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Apache HTTPD-2.2.2.
[randy] - Added a note to the MySQL instructions about TCP Wrapper and MySQL's test suite.
[randy] - Added a note to the cURL instructions about TCP Wrapper and cURL's test suite.
[dj] - Updated OpenOffice patch for system Firefox and added OpenOffice to list of packages that will utilize system nss in Mozilla product pages.
May 13th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Remove malloc switch from kdelibs.
[tushar] - Add GTK1 dependency for vim.
[bdubbs] - Added XChat-2.6.2.
[randy] - Updated the GCC (gcj) dependency in the Libidn instructions to include the gjdoc package also.
[randy] - Updated to GTK-Doc-1.6.
May 12th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to GIMP-2.2.11 and gimp-help-2-0.10.
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.16.
[bdubbs] - Created a consolidated autofs patch to combine nine small patches and updated autofs to reflect the combined patch file.
[bdubbs] - Updated to imlib2-1.2.2.
[bdubbs] - Updated to intltool-0.34.2.
May 11th, 2006
[randy] - Added commands to the JDK instructions to run a demo program with the newly created java binary to provide a basic test of the build.
[randy] - Added commands to the cpio instructions to create alternate forms of the documentation.
[dj] - Added note to not build MesaLib with X11R6 and removed Xfree and xorg-6.9 from required deps.
[andy] - Updated to XFree86-4.6.0.
May 10th, 2006
[randy] - Added resmgr as an optional dependency of ALSA Library.
[randy] - Renamed the TeX package to its proper name - teTeX.
[dj] - Added sed for additional xorg-6.9.0 security vulnerability.
[dj] - Updated dependencies for Xorg-7.0.0 section and corrected text.
May 9th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to PCI Utilities-2.2.3.
[randy] - Modified the Expect build commands to work with the new Tcl build method.
[randy] - Added an additional command to the Sysstat installation so that a configuration file containing the history variable is installed.
[randy] - Added a note to the Shadow instructions about running the Linux-PAM test suite.
[randy] - Updated to Linux-PAM-0.99.4.0.
May 8th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.2.7-5.
[bdubbs] - Updated to libgtkhtml-2.11.0.
[bdubbs] - Updated to rsync-2.6.8.
May 7th, 2006
[randy] - Removed the ext3 file system page from the book as this file system is now the LFS default.
[randy] - Modified the Tcl and Tk instructions to install the library interface headers using the maintainer's recommended method and removed all the hacks from previous installation methods.
May 6th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to alsa-1.0.11.
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcp-3.0.4.
[dnicholson] - Fixed EsounD installation to note that the documentation can only be installed with DocBook-utils. Thanks to Chris Staub for the patch.
[tushar] - Updated to Popt-1.10.4.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Bluefish-1.0.5.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.3.
May 5th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to nmap-4.03.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Leafnode-1.11.5.
[bdubbs] - Updated to AFPL Ghostscript-8.53.
[bdubbs] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.24.
[bdubbs] - Updated to proftpd-1.3.0.
[bdubbs] - Updated to mysql-5.0.21.
[bdubbs] - Updated to ntp-4.2.0a.
[dj] - Reorganized X Window System chapter.
[dj] - Spilt Xorg-7 instructions into several pages.
[dj] - Corrected links in Mesa and xterm instructions for new xorg7 pages.
May 4th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to ESP Ghostscript-8.15.2.
[bdubbs] - Updated to openssl-0.9.8b.
[bdubbs] - Simplified mysql compilation flags. Thanks to Archaic.
May 3rd, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated sed for openssh to link crypto libraries statically.
[bdubbs] - Updated location of kernel options in iptables. Thanks to Allard Welter who pointed this out.
May 1st, 2006
[randy] - Updated to XScreenSaver-4.24.
[randy] - Updated to Gtk+-2.8.17.
[randy] - Updated to ATK-1.11.4.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.12.2.
[randy] - Updated to Ethereal-0.99.0.
April 30th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Removed the gid for bin and usb as they are defined in LFS. Added comment in the section about users and groups that base entries are in LFS.
[randy] - Updated to K3b-0.12.15.
[randy] - Updated to NFS Utilities-1.0.8.
[andy] - Updated Pine to 4.64 and Abiword-2.4.4.
April 29th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to exim-4.61.
[bdubbs] - Updated to Links-2.1pre21.
[randy] - Updated to Galeon-2.0.1.
[randy] - Added a new category 'Integrated Development Environments' to the 'Other Programming Tools' page and added additional components to the page.
[randy] - Updated Tcl and Tk to 8.4.13. Also modified the build commands to not use any user-created environment variables.
[bdubbs] - Changed openssh libexecdir to /usr/lib/openssh.
[bdubbs] - Added instruction to optionally enable ssl support to dillo.
April 28th, 2006
[randy] - Added new package libquicktime-0.9.8 and removed the Openquicktime package.
[bdubbs] - Updated to seamonkey-1.0.1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to rp-pppoe-3.8.
[bdubbs] - Updated bootscripts Makefile to install autofs after cleanfs.
[randy] - Updated to Berkeley DB-4.4.20.
April 27th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to gc-6.6.
[bdubbs] - Updated to mysql-5.0.20a. Fixed all testsuite failures.
[dnicholson] - Updated to OpenSSL-0.9.8a. Added patch to Cyrus-SASL for compatibility with this version of OpenSSL.
[randy] - Updated to GCC-4.0.3
[randy] - Updated to GMP-4.2
[bdubbs] - Updated to vsftpd-2.0.4
April 26th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated libexecdir location in emacs.
[randy] - Added clarification about NSS/NSPR libraries to the Evolution and Evolution Data Server instructions.
[bdubbs] - Updated to iso-codes-0.51.
[bdubbs] - Updated ntp configuration to use pool servers.
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcp-3.0.3.
[bdubbs] - Updated to WvStreams-4.2.2.
[randy] - Updated to Balsa-2.3.12.
April 25th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Fixes for Cyrus SASL-2.1.21. Added patch to allow OpenLDAP => 2.3, converted GCC-4 patch to a sed, and added a sed command to put saslauthd man page in the correct location. Noted method to address LDAPDB plugin circular dependency in the User Notes.
[bdubbs] - Dropped NCPFS from the book due to lack of testing ability. Placed contents in the User Notes.
[randy] - Updated to GMime-2.2.1.
[bdubbs] - Added errata page to preface.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5.0.2.
[randy] - Updated to libESMTP-1.0.4.
[randy] - Added a sed command to the PDL instructions to fix a build issue caused by ExtUtils::MakeMaker-6.30 which was introduced in Perl-5.8.8.
[bdubbs] - Fixed configuration instructions in GPM. Thanks to Chris Staub.
[bdubbs] - Updated to fcron-3.0.1.
[bdubbs] - Added a note about adding FORTRAN 77 to the gcc-3 instructions.
[randy] - Added a short note about the GCC-3.4.6 Fortran installation instructions on the BLFS Wiki to the GCC-4.0.x instructions.
[Randy] - Modifications to the PDL instructions: added an FTP download location, rewrite of the introductory text to include a discussion about a proper version of Fortran, updated some of the dependency package download URLs and changed the links to a Fortran compiler to the one on the BLFS Wiki.
[andy] - Updated to OpenSP-1.5.2.
April 24th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the introductory text of the GCC-3 instructions to better explain its use, and to add a link to the Wiki pointing to a Fortran specific installation.
[bdubbs] - Updated to qpopper-4.0.9. Added standalone instructions and a configuration file. Added an initialization script to the bootscripts and bootscripts Makefile.
April 23rd, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to dhcpcd-2.0.5.
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice-2.0.2.
[bdubbs] - Added a note to Apache that the apache user's home directory of /dev/null may fail for some add-ons.
[bdubbs] - Updated to fetchmail-6.3.4.
April 22nd, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated Additional X Window System Configuration section.
[randy] - Updated to ExtUtils-F77-1.15.
[randy] - Modified the method of using cpan in the Perl Modules instructions, thanks to William Zhou for the suggestion.
[bdubbs] - Updated to iptables-1.3.5.
[dnicholson] - Fixes for TIN. Moved some run-time dependencies to the Configuration section. Installed documentation files. Added command to install default configuration files.
April 21st, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.2.
[randy] - Updated to Filter-1.32.
[randy] - Updated to Net::DNS-0.57.
[randy] - Updated to Digest::SHA1-2.11.
[randy] - Updated to Net::IP-1.24.
[bdubbs] - Updated to bind-9.3.2. Updated bind-utils also.
[andy] - Added Audacious-1.0.0.
[andy] - Updated to Fluxbox 0.9.15.1.
April 20th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to hdparm-6.6.
[bdubbs] - Updated udftools to compile with gcc4. Also deleted the kernel patch from the package because it is in linux 2.6.16 and later.
[dnicholson] - Added TIN version 1.8.1 to the book. Removed slrn. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov. Closes tickets #1845 and #1847.
[dnicholson] - Updated to Python-2.4.3.
[bdubbs] - Updated to glib-2.10.2.
April 19th, 2006
[tushar] - Corrected vim option description.
[bdubbs] - Updated to iso-codes-0.50.
[bdubbs] - Updated proftpd instructions.
[randy] - Updated to Socket6-0.19.
[randy] - Updated to Finance::QuoteHist-1.07.
[randy] - Updated to HTML::TableExtract-2.07.
[randy] - Added new Perl module; Text::CSV_PP-1.01.
[randy] - Updated to Finance::Quote-1.11.
[randy] - Updated to libwww-perl-5.805 (also renamed the package from LWP).
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.23.
[bdubbs] - Updated to nmap-4.01.
[dnicholson] - Changed X Window System to required dependency for Imlib-1.9.15. Fixes ticket #1792.
[randy] - Updated to Test::Prereq-1.030.
[randy] - Updated to Module::CoreList-2.04.
[randy] - Updated to GnuCash-1.8.12.
April 18th, 2006
[randy] - Downgraded to Guile-1.6.7 and G-Wrap-1.3.4 and modified the SLIB instructions to work with the downgraded packages. These changes are to support GnuCash which will not work with the more recent versions.
[manuel] - Removed creation of xsl-stylesheets-current symlink.
[bdubbs] - Updated to wireless_tools.28.
April 17th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Changed vim to match LFS instructions regarding UTF-8 locales.
[bdubbs] - Updated to kde-3.5.2.
April 15th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to koffice-1.5.0.
[randy] - Updated the SLIB patch to a -2 version.
[randy] - Removed some optional dependencies (Gtk-1 and guile-gtk) from the G-Wrap instructions.
[dj] - Wrapped the lnx_agp.c sed in a testcase to make the change, only if required in Xorg-6.9 and Xorg-7.0 instructions.
[dj] - Added install command to create the /usr/share/fonts directory to Xorg-6.9, Xorg-7.0, and XFree86 instructions.
April 14th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added sed to Xorg-6.9.0 to fix security vulnerability in ticket #1876. Changed sed to include linux/types.h to be the same as that in Xorg-7.0.0.
[randy] - Updated all the wiki links to point to the existing package wiki page if one existed.
[dnicholson] - Added information about the Nano development version which supplies UTF-8 support to Locale Related Issues. Added a caution on the Nano page.
[dnicholson] - Added pkg-config as a required dependency for MesaLib. Fixes ticket #1904.
[randy] - Readded the links in the Perl Modules instructions to the MD5sums of all the Perl Module source tarballs.
[randy] - Moved GConf-1 from an optional to a required dependency in the GNOME-VFS-1 and GtkHTML-1 instructions.
[randy] - Added new package Graphviz-2.8.
[bdubbs] - Added openssl as a required dependency of tripwire.
[andy] - Updated to Gnumeric-1.6.3 and Goffice-0.2.1.
April 13th, 2006
[randy] - Added the Io programming language to Chapter 12 - "Other Programming Tools".
April 12th, 2006
[randy] - Updates to the Enscript instructions: added a patch to fix security vulnerabilities, added commands to build alternate formats of the documentation, fixed the wiki link to point to the already existing wiki page.
[bdubbs] - Updated to tripwire-2.4.0.1.
[randy] - Updated to Whois-4.7.13.
April 11th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added gcc4 patch for nfs-utils-1.0.7.
[bdubbs] - Updated bootscripts version to 20060411
April 10th, 2006
[randy] - Added the 'User Notes' wiki link to each package page.
[randy] - Changed all instances of .[so,a] to .{so,a} (brackets changed to braces).
[randy] - Changed all [some_text] instances to <some_text> (square brackets changed to angle brackets).
April 9th, 2006
[randy] - Changed all the references to X Window System links to a common entity displayed as 'X Window System'.
[randy] - Updated to Doxygen-1.4.6.
April 8th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GnuPG-1.4.3.
[dj] - Moved to gzipped bsh tarball in OpenOffice-2.0.0 instructions.
[randy] - Updated to librsvg-2.14.3.
[randy] - Updated to libgsf-1.14.0.
April 7th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to hicolor-icon-theme-0.9.
[randy] - Updated to shared-mime-info-0.17.
[randy] - Updated to libcroco-0.6.1.
April 6th, 2006
[randy] - Added a parameter to the Subversion build commands to disable the use of Berkeley DB; also added commands to fix the improper permissions on the installed documentation.
[dnicholson] - Fixed typo in Xorg-7 font installation. Fixed typos in X Window System Components fonts section.
[randy] - Updated to Poppler-0.4.5.
April 5th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Qt-3.3.6.
[dj] - Added sed to correct glibc header problem in xorg-server.
[bdubbs] - Added Wireless Tools.
April 4th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Subversion-1.3.1.
[randy] - Updated Xpdf-3.01 to patch-level 2.
April 2nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to libusb-0.1.12.
[randy] - Updated to G-Wrap-1.9.6.
[randy] - Updated to SLIB-3a3.
[randy] - Updated to Guile-1.8.0.
[randy] - Updated to Ruby-1.8.4.
[randy] - Updated the HTTP download link in the PPP instructions.
[randy] - Commented out the link to the 'non-root dial-out HOWTO' from the WvDial instructions as it is no longer available.
[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.0.22.
March 31st, 2006
[randy] - Changed the name of the Nail package to its new name of 'Heirloom mailx' and updated to the 12.0 version.
[randy] - Updated to Sendmail-8.13.6.
[randy] - Updated to Linux-PAM-0.99.3.0.
[randy] - Updated to Shadow-4.0.15 (now current with the LFS version).
[randy] - Updated to PHP-5.1.2.
[randy] - Updated to cURL-7.15.3.
[randy] - Updated to Stunnel-4.15.
March 30th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Libidn-0.6.3.
[randy] - Updated to GTK-Doc-1.5.
[randy] - Added XML::Parser as a required dependency and intltool as an optional dependency of ScrollKeeper.
[randy] - Added LWP as an optional dependency of XML::Parser.
March 29th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to OpenLDAP-2.3.20 (stable-20060227).
[dnicholson] - Fixed typo and added font size setting to Xterm configuration.
[dnicholson] - Updated to OpenSSH-4.3p2
[randy] - Updated to PostgreSQL-8.1.3.
March 28th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Heimdal-0.7.2.
[dnicholson] - Changed --with-luit to --enable-luit in Xterm. Added information about configuring in Xterm.
[dnicholson] - Added --without-add-fonts back into Fontconfig with a different note describing its use. Added more information about configuring Fontconfig and a link to the user's manual.
[dnicholson] - Reworked the fonts section of X Window System Components. Added detailed description of both font services and more links to available fonts. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov, Andrew Benton, Bruce Dubbs and Ken Moffat for their contributions.
[dnicholson] - Added commands to make only TrueType fonts available to Fontconfig in Xorg-6.9.0, Xorg-7.0.0 and XFree86-4.5.0. Fixed name of luit patch in Xorg-6.9.0.
[randy] - Updated to Firefox-1.5.0.1.
[dj] - Fixed xorg-server download link.
[dj] - Removed unneeded -lglut from Mesa Demos linker flags.
March 27th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Gtk+-2.8.16.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.12.0.
[randy] - Updated to ATK-1.11.3.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.10.1.
[randy] - Updated to cairo-1.0.4.
March 26th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Changed note for Bc test suite. Removed one unnecessary test. Thanks to Bruce Dubbs.
[dnicholson] - Updated to LibTIFF-3.8.2. Noted optional dependency of MesaLib for the GLUT library.
[randy] - Updated to Whois-4.7.12.
[randy] - Applied a patch sent in by Chris Staub to suppress some unneeded screen output by the update-pciids command.
[randy] - Updated to Tcl-8.4.12 and Tk-8.4.12.
March 25th, 2006
[dj] - Updated individual X.org packages (wget files updated) and corrected two instructions where $XORG_CONFIG should be used.
[dnicholson] - Removed patches in Bc and replaced with equivalent seds. Fixed segmentation faults with bc -l. Fixes #1846. Added commands for test suite. Removed libedit dependency as it conflicts with Readline and causes problems.
March 24th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Expat-2.0.0.
[randy] - Updated to S-Lang-2.0.6.
[randy] - Updated to PCRE-6.6.
[andy] - Updated Fluxbox to 0.9.15
March 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Added a note to the CrackLib instructions advising to reinstall Shadow if you need strong password support without installing Linux-PAM.
[randy] - Modified the Shadow instructions to reflect that it needs to be reinstalled (and provided the modified commands) if CrackLib is installed without Linux-PAM.
[randy] - Updated to CrackLib-2.8.9.
March 22nd, 2006
[archaic] - Updated the Coreutils entity in the Net-Tools page.
March 21st, 2006
[randy] - Updated Perl version entity to 5.8.8 to match current LFS SVN.
March 19th, 2006
[randy] - Changed the Expect dependency in the DejaGnu instructions to a run-time-only dependency.
March 18th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated compressdoc script to use Man-DB.
March 16th, 2006
[randy] - Added new package K3b.
[randy] - Created two XInclude files to replace instances of identical text in several KDE packages.
March 15th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Added sed to libexif commands to fix Ticket #1785.
[dj] - Added --mandir switch to dhcpcd instructions.
March 14th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Clarified jdk download instructions and made minor updates to the install of the binary version.
March 13th, 2006
[dj] - Removed font path comments and defines from Xorg and XFree86 host.def files.
[dj] - Fixed typos, clarified library installation, added pkg-config note, and added return notes for data packages and luit to Xorg-7 instructions.
March 9th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Updated to gnupg-1.4.2.2 to fix security problem.
March 7th, 2006
[dj] - Updated to dhcpcd-2.0.2.
March 6th, 2006
[dnicholson] - Moved libgtkhtml to General Libraries since it is not a GNOME library. Change prefix to /usr.
[dj] - Removed /usr/share/fonts symlink in Xorg-7 instructions.
March 5th, 2006
[dj] - Updated to xorg-6.9.0
March 4th, 2006
[dj] - Updated JDK to account for Xorg-7.0.0.
March 3rd, 2006
[dj] - Updated Xorg-7 and Mesa to use alternate module path.
[dj] - Separated user and root commands in Xorg-7.0.0.
March 2nd, 2006
[dnicholson] - Updated to Mutt-1.5.11. Added note about use of development release.
[dj] - Added command explanations and corrected prefix for xterm, libdrm, and Mesa.
[dj] - Added Xorg-7.0 and corrected links in xterm and Mesa pages.
[dj] - Added Xorg-7 to all X dependency references.
March 1st, 2006
[dnicholson] - Update to XFS-2.7.11. Expanded library installation commands.
[randy] - Final cleanup to the GNOME add-on packages after the 2.12.2 update.
February 27th, 2006
[randy] - Added a patch to fix librsvg if NSS/NSPR is installed.
[dnicholson] - Added note that tinker-term.sh is irrelevant with Ncurses-5.5+ and shouldn't be installed in that situation.
[bdubbs] - Added seamonkey-1.0 and deleted mozilla.
February 25th, 2006
[dj] - Added libdrm, Mesa, and xterm packages.
February 23rd, 2006
[bdubbs] - Removed duplicate installation of lndir in xorg and xfree86.
February 21st, 2006
[bdubbs] - Simplified unzip instructions.
February 13th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Gnome System Monitor-2.12.2.
February 12th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GConf Editor-2.12.1.
[archaic] - Updated to Postfix-2.2.8.
[randy] - Text updates and corrections provided by a patch sent in by Chris Staub.
[randy] - Replaced the commands to modify the *ns*.pc pkgconfig files with commands to create symlinks to the actual NSS/NSPR .pc files in the Firefox, Mozilla and Thunderbird instructions as suggested by Dan Nicholson.
[randy] - Abbreviated the commands used to install the NSS libraries in the NSS instructions as suggested by Tushar Teredesai.
[randy] - Updated to Galeon-2.0.0.
February 10th, 2006
[randy] - Added new package dvd+rw-tools-6.1.
February 9th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Transcode-1.0.2.
[randy] - Minor corrections and updates to the Avifile instructions.
February 8th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Totem-1.2.1.
[randy] - Updated to Gnumeric-1.6.2.
February 7th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GOffice-0.2.0.
[randy] - Updated to Evolution-2.4.2.1.
February 6th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GtkHTML-3.8.2.
[randy] - Updated Gnopernicus to fit the GNOME-2.12.2 version changes.
February 5th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to GNOME Magnifier-0.12.3.
[randy] - Updated to libgail-gnome-1.1.3.
[randy] - Modified the instructions for linking to installed plugins and removed the commands to create /usr/lib/mozilla compatibility links from the Mozilla instructions.
[randy] - Updated the following GNOME Add-on package instructions to fit the 2.12.2 version changes: GDM, Java Access Bridge, GNOME Speech.
February 4th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the following GNOME Add-on package instructions to fit the 2.12.2 version changes: Epiphany, gnome-volume-manager, GNOME Games, Sound Juicer.
February 3rd, 2006
[randy] - Updated the following GNOME Add-on package instructions to fit the 2.12.2 version changes: libgnomecups, libgnomeprint, libgnomeprintui, libgtkhtml, Evolution Data Server, system-tools-backends, EOG, gucharmap, File Roller, Gnome Utilities, Nautilus CD Burner.
[randy] - Updated the GNOME Core packages to the 2.12.2 version. Modified the /opt installation path to /opt/gnome-2.12.2, the configuration directory to /etc/gnome/2.12.2 and the libexecdir settings to a subdirectory of $GNOME_PREFIX/lib. The GNOME add-on packages version entities also now reflect the 2.12.2 version, though the actual package instructions have not been updated.
[randy] - Added a new page in the GNOME Core section for the shared-mime-info package as it is not a direct dependency of any GNOME Core package any longer.
[randy] - Updated Evolution Data Server dependencies to reflect the NSS package and modified the libexecdir setting.
[randy] - Updated to Metacity-2.12.2.
[randy] - Updated to libwnck-2.12.2.
[randy] - Updated to libsoup-2.2.7.
February 2nd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to XScreenSaver-4.23.
February 1st, 2006
[randy] - Updated to LZO-2.02.
[randy] - Updated to Cdrdao-1.2.1.
[bdubbs] - Updated vim to version 6.4.
January 31st, 2006
[randy] - Removed the piping of 'yes' commands from the installation of the packages containing Sun license agreements (JDK binary, FOP and FreeTTS) and instead provided a note to reference the text about automating builds.
January 30th, 2006
[randy] - Renamed the 'unpacking' page in Chapter 2 to 'building-notes' as this more accurately reflects the page and added a new section 'Automated Building Procedures' to the 'building-notes' page.
January 29th, 2006
[randy] - Added instructions to build the Akode package, added a patch to fix a build issue with libtunepimp, and adjusted the dependencies in the Kdemultimedia instructions.
[randy] - Updated all the links to files located on the Anduin server to use entities.
[andy] - Updated glib2 to 2.8.6.
January 28th, 2006
[randy] - Updated numerous items in the GStreamer Plug-ins instructions.
[andy] - Updated GConf to 2.12.1
[andy] - Updated gtk+2 to 2.8.11
January 27th, 2006
[bdubbs] - Added section on the BLFS Wiki.
[bdubbs] - Removed section on package management because it has been incorporated into LFS.
[randy] - Modified the instruction to apply the patch in the kdegraphics instructions as the patch has changed, thanks to Miguel Bazdresch for the report.
[randy] - Added a note to the GStreamer instructions about Valgrind breaking the build.
[andy] - Updated libxklavier to 2.1.
January 25th, 2006
[randy] - Added Python to the ISO Codes dependencies. Thanks to Jay McHugh for sending in the report.
[randy] - Updated to Mozilla-1.7.12, changed the build method to use 'client.mk' and '.mozconfig', added instructions to use system-installed NSS/NSPR libraries and added additional configuration information.
[randy] - Changed the default to render SVG graphics in the Firefox instructions.
January 23rd, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Thunderbird-1.5, changed the build method to use 'client.mk' and '.mozconfig', added instructions to use system-installed NSS/NSPR libraries and added additional configuration information.
[randy] - Added information about using system-installed versions of the NSS/NSPR libraries and added additional configuration information to the Firefox instructions.
[randy] - Added new package Network Security Services, NSS-3.11.
January 22nd, 2006
[randy] - Adjusted some dependencies using a patch sent in by Chris Staub.
January 21st, 2006
[bdubbs] - Added the post-3.4.3-kdelibs-kjs.diff security vulnerability patch to the kdelibs instructions.
January 18th, 2006
[randy] - Modified the sed command in the Firefox instructions so that it can be run multiple times, also modified the instructions for creating symlinks to the system-wide mozilla plugin directory.
[randy] - Added a dependency and updated text to the Xine Libraries instructions.
[randy] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.2.5-5.
January 17th, 2006
[tushar] - Modify unzip compilation to enable unzip to unzip files up to 4 GB.
[bdubbs] - Added patch for sudo to clear selected environment variables. Submitted by archaic.
[randy] - Updated to the HTML::TableExtract-2.06 Perl Module and added new modules HTML::Element::Extended and HTML::Tree as dependencies; also more reorganization and singling out of the Perl Modules.
[tushar] - Change lynx installation target to install-full.
[tushar] - Removed obsolete note for zipcloack.
[randy] - Added three new Perl Modules as dependencies of the Digest::SHA module: Devel::Symdump, Pod::Coverage and Test::Pod::Coverage.
January 16th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to the Digest::SHA-5.32 Perl Module and numerous text and dependency corrections/additions in the Perl Modules instructions.
[randy] - Singled out the Text::Diff module in the Perl Modules instructions.
[randy] - Updated to the Module::Signature-0.51 Perl Module and singled it out in the instructions.
[randy] - Added optional dependencies to the Archive::Zip and HTML::Tagset Perl Modules instructions.
[randy] - Updated to the ExtUtils::CBuilder-0.15 and ExtUtils::ParseXS-2.15 Perl Modules.
[randy] - Updated to the YAML-0.50 Perl Module and provided a note in the Module::Build instructions about using an older version of YAML.
[randy] - Updated to the Module::Info-0.30 Perl Module and added new optional dependencies.
January 15th, 2006
[randy] - Replaced the Test::Builder::Tester Perl Module with the Test::Simple-0.62 module.
[randy] - Updated to the Test::Pod-1.22 Perl Module.
[randy] - Updated to the HTML::Tagset-3.10, HTML::Parser-3.48 and Pod::Simple-3.03 Perl Modules.
[randy] - Singled out the Compress::Zlib module in the Perl Modules instructions and updated to the 1.41 version.
January 14th, 2006
[randy] - Added a note to run the test suite and added documentation installation commands to the GnuPG instructions.
January 12th, 2006
[randy] - Updates to the FFmpeg instructions: added a patch and dependency URLs to fix the AMR support and added additional documentation installation commands.
January 11, 2006
[randy] - Updates to MPlayer: added an x264 patch, added new dependencies, updated the version of the Skins file.
[andy] - Updated to abiword-2.4.2.
January 10th, 2006
[randy] - Fixed broken commands in the XviD instructions.
[randy] - Corrections to the CVS instructions: fixed broken download URLs and corrected documentation installation commands.
January 9th, 2006
[randy] - Updated the MPlayer instructions with the new URL for the LIVE555 Streaming Media web site.
January 8th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Ethereal-0.10.14.
[randy] - Updated to libmusicbrainz-2.1.2.
[randy] - Minor updates to the Kdegraphics instructions: added new dependencies, added a note about creating the API documentation, added a note about the OCR support, updated the installed programs, libraries and directories list.
January 7th, 2006
[randy] - Removed the Berkeley DB dependency from packages utilizing it as BDB is now built in LFS.
[randy] - Updated to Berkeley DB-4.4.16, added a patch to the Python instructions to support the new BDB, updated the Heimdal instructions to account for the changed library file names.
[randy] - Updated to GIMP-2.2.10.
[andy] - Updated to xvidcore-1.1.0.
January 6th, 2006
[randy] - Updated SANE back ends to 1.0.17 and front ends to 1.0.14.
[randy] - Modified the command to run the libcroco test suite.
January 5th, 2006
[randy] - Updated to Poppler-0.4.3.
[randy] - Updated to giflib-4.1.4.
[randy] - Updated to libexif-0.6.13.
[randy] - Added the CAN-2005-3193 security vulnerability patch to the kdegraphics instructions.
January 4th, 2006
[randy] - Minor additions to the kdebase instructions: added optional dependencies, added a configuration section which includes information about run-time packages, and added installed programs, libraries and directories.
[igor] - Updated to Xpdf-3.01pl1.
January 2nd, 2006
[randy] - Added significant updates to the HAL instructions: updated the dependencies, modified the command that changes the storage device policy, added text and a visual chart to explain the requirements of the hal-device-manager program, added commands to allow for locale specific needs in the storage device policy, and some general text cleanup.
[randy] - Updated the D-BUS instructions to include text that identifies the needs of the HAL package.
December 31st, 2005
[randy] - Added a sed command to the D-Bus instructions to change a 'jar' command to 'fastjar' due to the changes in GCC-4.0.x.
December 30th, 2005
[randy] - Added some optional dependencies to the Kdelibs instructions.
[randy] - Added new package Libidn-0.6.0.
[andy] - Added new package Gaim-1.5.0.
December 29th, 2005
[randy] - Removed libogg and added NAS to the optional dependencies of aRts.
[randy] - Added a caution note to the MC instructions about the UTF-8 related issues.
[randy] - Added a caution note to the UnZip instructions about the locale related issues.
[randy] - Added new section 'Locale Related Issues' to Chapter 2, 'Important Information', thanks to Alexander Patrakov for contributing the text for this page. The page is very incomplete and many more packages with locale related issues will be added.
December 28th, 2005
[randy] - Added new package GOffice-0.1.2.
December 27th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to libgsf-1.13.3.
[randy] - Removed the unneeded 'make' command from the hicolor-icon-theme instructions.
[randy] - Minor cleanup to libgnomeprint dependencies and removed an unneeded switch from the configure command.
[randy] - Minor cleanup to libgnomecups dependencies.
[randy] - Updated to ISO Codes-0.49.
December 26th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Doxygen-1.4.5.
[randy] - Minor changes to the Qt instructions: fixed HTTP download URL, added test suite notes, modified the configure command to include switches for the recommended dependencies and added appropriate notes about the recommended dependencies.
[randy] - Updated to little cms-1.15.
[randy] - Updated to Sendmail-8.13.5.
[dj] - Added colorls patch to tcsh instructions.
[dj] - Corrected additional recommended and optional dependencies in OpenOffice instructions.
[andy] - Update xine-lib to 1.1.1.
December 25th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to LibMPEG3-1.6.
December 24th, 2005
[randy] - Fixed a syntax error in the configure scripts and simplified the existing sed commands in the Tcl and Tk instructions.
[randy] - Added pkg-config and ALSA Library as required dependencies of the ALSA Plugins package, thanks to Joe Ciccone for pointing out the omission.
[randy] - Fixed GTK+-2 documentation installation commands, thanks to Nico R. for pointing out the breakage.
[randy] - Updated to Firefox-1.5, modified the method used to build it and added a command to fix an anonymous enum in an interface header file.
[dj] - Added GTK+-2 to OpenOffice required dependencies and removed FreeType and OpenLDAP (OpenLDAP is currently broken).
December 23rd, 2005
[andy] - Updated librsvg to 2.12.7.
[andy] - Updated Gnome doc utils to 0.4.4.
December 22nd, 2005
[andy] - Updated XFce to 4.2.3.2.
December 21st, 2005
[archaic] - Removed the obsolete sed in sudo and added a note to use visudo to edit the sudoers file.
December 20th, 2005
[randy] - Commented out the Python and Perl bindings build notes from the Subversion instructions as there is a build failure using current versions of SWIG and (B)LFS packages.
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the Guile instructions.
December 19th, 2005
[randy] - Modified the sed command in the OpenSSH instructions to better allow for repeated builds.
[bdubbs] - Updated to nmap-3.95.
[bdubbs] - Added sed to Bind to prevent invalid warnings in the log.
[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.0.20b.
[andy] - Updated to Gnumeric-1.6.1.
December 18th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to ESP Ghostscript-8.15.1.
[bdubbs] - Changed configure instruction in gimp to use recommended dependencies. Added note that the switches to configure need to be changed if the recommended dependencies are not installed.
[bdubbs] - Updated to whois-4.7.10.
[bdubbs] - Updated to KDE-3.5 and kdevelop 3.3.0.
December 17th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to PHP-5.1.1.
December 16th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Stunnel-4.14.
[randy] - Updated to Ruby-1.8.3.
December 15, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Aspell-0.60.4.
[randy] - Added a sed command to the FOP instructions which fixes an obsolete tail command in the JAI binary.
[randy] - Updated to Gamin-0.1.7.
[bdubbs] - Removed section on newsserver.
[randy] - Updated to Apache HTTP Server-2.2.0.
December 14th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to OpenLDAP-2.3.11.
[randy] - Updated to PostgreSQL-8.1.1.
December 13th, 2005
[bdubbs] - Update description of LiveCD.
[randy] - Updated to MySQL-5.0.16.
[bdubbs] - Update koffice to version 1.4.2.
[bdubbs] - Removed libungif.
[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.8.9.
[andy] - Updated to Abiword-2.4.1
December 11th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.10.2.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.8.4.
December 10th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Heimdal-0.7.1.
December 9th, 2005
[randy] - Fixed command typos in the Gnome Menus and Gnome Volume Manager instructions.
[andy] - Updated Fluxbox to version 0.9.14.
[andy] - Added details of how to create a fluxbox.desktop file to the Fluxbox page.
December 8th, 2005
[bdubbs] - Updated to curl-7.15.1.
December 7th, 2005
[bdubbs] - Added sed to remove incomplete tests from test program in popt.
[bdubbs] - Removed reference to non-existent esound.ps from EsounD-0.2.36.
[bdubbs] - Removed --with-history option from libxml2. Added a caution that the make check command can hang forever under certain conditions with the option.
[bdubbs] - Added Andy Benton to the list of BLFS editors.
[randy] - Added GTK-Doc as a dependency of libxml, thanks to go moko for pointing out the omission.
[randy] - Added Ghostscript as a dependency of Doxygen.
[randy] - Added GNOME Doc Utils as a dependency of Evince, thanks to David Rosal for pointing out the omission.
[randy] - Updated to libvorbis-1.1.2.
[randy] - Updated to libogg-1.1.3.
December 6th, 2005
[dj] - Completed dependencies, removed optional configure parameters and added the no_mozilla (firefox) patch for OpenOffice.
December 3rd, 2005
[randy] - Updated to GCC-4.0.2.
[bdubbs] - Updated to qt-3.3.5.
December 2nd, 2005
[dj] - Updated JDK binary version to 1.5.0_06.
December 1st, 2005
[dj] - Added several fixes to OpenOffice instructions.
November 30th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to xinetd-2.3.14.
[randy] - Added a command to create the logging directory in the GDM instructions, thanks to Vincent Fretin for pointing out the oversight.
[randy] - Updated to PCI Utilities-2.2.1.
[randy] - Updated to Sysstat-6.0.2.
November 29th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Shadow-4.0.13.
[randy] - Updated to Linux-PAM-0.99.2.0. Note that many of the installation commands have changed.
[dj] - Updated ash patch for use with gcc-4.x.
November 27th, 2005
[randy] - Added an FTP download URL and changed the documentation installation to a versioned directory in the Fontconfig instructions.
[randy] - Added documentation installation and clarified the purpose of the sed command in the FreeType instructions.
November 26th, 2005
[randy] - Added a note to the Lynx instructions that identifies, and shows how to avoid, a security vulnerability.
[randy] - Updated to S-Lang-2.0.5.
[randy] - Updated the text in the Net-tools instructions to reflect the updated version of Coreutils.
November 25th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to OpenSSL-0.9.7i
[randy] - Updated to pkg-config-0.20
November 24th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to CrackLib-2.8.6 and modified the installation commands to work with the newer version.
November 23rd, 2005
[bdubbs] - Added sed to sudo to correct a security issue (Archaic). Also added --enable-shell-sets-home switch (Gerard).
November 22nd, 2005
[bdubbs] - Added sudo-1.6.8p12.
[randy] - Updated to HTML Tidy-051026. Also updated the docs to 051020 and changed the documentation directory to a versioned name.
[randy] - Updated to FriBidi-0.10.7.
[randy] - Added DocBook SGML DTD-3.1 as a dependency to perform the tests outlined in the DocBook DSSSL Stylesheets instructions.
[randy] - Updated to Ethereal-0.10.13.
[randy] - Added new package GC-6.5.
November 21st, 2005
[randy] - Updated the Rsync bootscript to remove the --compress parameter, thanks to Jeremy Huntwork for reporting the problem.
[randy] - Added --disable-python to the configure command in the D-BUS instructions to fix a broken build identified by Filip Bartmann.
[randy] - Added --disable-libwrap to the configure command in the Stunnel instructions to fix a broken build identified by Filip Bartmann.
[randy] - Added new package gnome-volume-manager-1.5.1 to the Utilities section of Chapter 31.
[randy] - Modified the libexecdir parameter passed to configure and tweaked the storage device policy in the HAL instructions.
November 19th, 2005
[randy] - Added notes to start a D-BUS session daemon to the D-BUS, GDM and GNOME Configuration instructions.
[dj] - Cleaned up OpenOffice instructions and added a no-pam patch.
November 18th, 2005
[randy] - Added a GCC4 patch to the libvorbis instructions, thanks to Steffen Knollman for discovering the problem and contributing the patch.
[igor] - Updated to rsync-2.6.6.
November 17th, 2005
[randy] - Added new package Sound Juicer-2.12.2 to the Utilities section of Chapter 31.
[dj] - Corrected OpenOffice patch names.
November 15th, 2005
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice-2.0.0
November 14th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Balsa-2.3.6.
November 13th, 2005
[randy] - Added several more entries to the 'Other Programming Tools' section. Many thanks to Miguel Bazdresch for his suggestions and other contributions.
November 12th, 2005
[dj] - Updated GCC4 patches for Mozilla projects to include xptinfo.h anonymous enum patch.
November 9th, 2005
[randy] - Updated references to source and md5sum files on the Anduin server due to the Anduin reorganization.
[randy] - Added several more programming languages to the 'Other Programming Tools' section.
November 7th, 2005
[randy] - Added several programming languages to the 'Other Programming Tools' section.
[dj] - Added Archive::Zip to the Perl Modules page.
November 5th, 2005
[dj] - Updated alsa-restore script per Alexander Patrakov's suggestions.
November 4th, 2005
[randy] - Added a patch to the libgsf instructions so that the configure script properly discovers GConf.
November 3rd, 2005
[randy] - Added new package GMime-2.1.17.
November 1st, 2005
[randy] - Added A-A-P, Mono, OProfile, OGDL and R to the 'Other Programming Tools' section.
[randy] - Added new package libmpeg2-0.4.0b.
[randy] - Updated to Transcode-1.0.1.
October 31st, 2005
[randy] - Added new package libmusicbrainz-2.1.1.
October 30th, 2005
[randy] - Added new package Totem-1.2.0.
[dj] - Updated to JDK-1.5.0_05.
October 29th, 2005
[archaic] - Updated to PCI-Utilities-2.2.0.
October 28th, 2005
[igor] - Updated to SDL-1.2.9.
[igor] - Updated to CVS-1.11.21.
October 25th, 2005
[randy] - Added new package Evince-0.4.0 and removed the GPDF package from the GNOME Add-on section.
October 23rd, 2005
[igor] - Updated to MPlayer-1.0pre7try2.
[randy] - Added new package Poppler-0.4.2.
October 21st, 2005
[randy] - Added new package GNOME Keyring Manager-2.12.0.
October 20th, 2005
[randy] - Added new package ISO Codes-0.48.
October 19th, 2005
[randy] - Added new package PyXML-0.8.4.
[randy] - Added category headers to the GNOME Add-on packages Table-of-Contents. Many thanks to Manuel Canales Esparcia for the XML wizardry to make this happen.
October 18th, 2005
[randy] - Added a patch and an additional command to enable the streaming audio method in the GNOME Speech instructions.
[randy] - Updated to GDM-2.8.0.5.
October 17th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to GOK-1.0.5.
[igor] - Updated to HTML Tidy-051013.
[randy] - Updated to Gnopernicus-0.12.0.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME Speech-0.3.8.
October 16th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to GNOME Magnifier-0.12.2; moved the creation of the xextensions.pc file from the GNOME Magnifier to the XFree86 instructions.
[igor] - Updated to PHP-5.0.5.
[randy] - Modified dependencies in the libgtkhtml instructions.
[igor] - Updated to PCRE-6.4.
[igor] - Updated to cURL-7.15.0.
October 15th, 2005
[igor] - Added the gcc4 patch for NTP.
[igor] - Updated to Fcron-3.0.0.
[igor] - Updated to Apache-2.0.55.
[igor] - Updated to Python-2.4.2.
[igor] - Updated to Berkeley DB-4.3.29.
[randy] - Updated to GGV-2.12.0.
[igor] - Updated to Firefox-1.0.7.
[randy] - Updated to AT SPI-1.6.6.
[igor] - Updated to libtiff-3.7.4.
[igor] - Updated to cairo-1.0.2.
[randy] - Updated to Zenity-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME-Netstatus-2.12.0.
October 14th, 2005
[igor] - Updated to libpcap-0.9.4.
[igor] - Updated to Wget-1.10.2.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME System Monitor-2.12.1.
[igor] - Updated to OpenSSL-0.9.7h.
[randy] - Updated to GConf Editor-2.12.0.
[randy] - Updated to File Roller-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to EOG-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to gedit-2.12.1.
October 13th, 2005
[igor] - Updated Vim security patch.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME Games-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to Epiphany-1.8.2.
[randy] - Changed Python from an optional to a recommended dependency in the GNOME Doc Utils dependencies.
October 12th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to gcalctool-5.6.31.
October 11th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to gtksourceview-1.4.2.
[randy] - Updated to bug-buddy-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to GnomeMeeting-1.2.2.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME Utilities-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to GNOME Media-2.12.0.
[randy] - Updated to Nautilus CD Burner-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to Evolution-2.4.1.
October 10th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to GtkHTML-3.8.1.
[randy] - Updated to system-tools-backends-1.4.0.
[randy] - Updated to libgnomeprintui-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to libgnomeprint-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to libgnomecups-0.2.2.
[randy] - Added GTK+-2 as a required dependency of libgtkhtml.
[randy] - Updated to Evolution Data Server-1.4.1.1.
[randy] - Updated core GNOME packages to the 2.12.1 release of GNOME. GNOME add-on packages are updated only to the release versions. The individual updates to the GNOME add-on packages will be accomplished individually.
October 8th, 2005
[tushar] - Replaced FAM with Gamin.
October 6th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to librsvg-2.12.4.
[dj] - Updated to JDK (source build) 1.5.0_04.
[dj] - Updated to OpenOffice 1.1.5.
October 5th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Metacity-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to libwnck-2.12.1.
[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.8.6.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.10.1.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.8.3.
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.22.
[randy] - Added the --disable-error-on-warning parameter to the GnuCash configure command as using GCC-4.0.x will generate warnings which will break the build if the parameter is not used.
[randy] - Added a patch to the Guile instructions and changed the sed command in the SLIB instructions so that the two packages work nicely together.
October 4th, 2005
[tushar] - Prevent gcc fixincludes from running to match LFS instructions.
[randy] - Added a sed command to the GtkHTML-1 instructions to fix a GCC-4.0.x build problem.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Soup instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Guppi instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the GConf-1.0.9 instructions.
[randy] - Added a sed command to the Bonobo-1.4 instructions to fix a GCC-4 build problem.
October 3rd, 2005
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the GNOME Libraries-1.4 instructions.
[randy] - Clarified the dependencies in the Imlib instructions.
[randy] - Updated to AbiWord-2.2.10.
October 1st, 2005
[randy] - Added new package HAL-0.5.4.
September 26th, 2005
[randy] - Added new package D-BUS-0.50.
September 25th, 2005
[randy] - Added a patch to fix a build problem with newer versions of libgsf and added a sed command so the default is to build the Perl plugin module to the Gnumeric instructions.
September 22nd, 2005
[dj] - Updated JDK-1.5.0 gcc4 patch.
September 21st, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Samba-3.0.20.
[bdubbs] - Reverted gcc build instructions.
[randy] - Updated to EsounD-0.2.36.
[randy] - Updated to Metacity-2.12.0.
[randy] - Updated to Libwnck-2.12.0.
September 20th, 2005
[david] - Added a sed to build Cdrdao-1.2.0 with gcc-4.0.1.
[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.8.3.
[randy] - Updated to ATK-1.10.3.
[randy] - Updated to Pango-1.10.0.
[randy] - Updated to GLib-2.8.1.
[randy] - Added a command to create an X Render pkg-config file to the XFree86 instructions. Also created notes in the Metacity and cairo instructions to ensure this file exists.
[randy] - Added new package cairo-1.0.0.
[bdubbs] - Changed gcc build instructions to use a simple make. Added a note to use make bootstrap if the base compiler is not gcc-4.0.1.
September 19th, 2005
[bdubbs] - Added a patch to build mozilla with gcc-4.0.1.
[randy] - Updated to gucharmap-1.4.4.
[randy] - Updated to GST-Plugins-0.8.11.
[richard] - Added a sed to fix the build of the test suite for cpio-2.6 when using gcc-4.0.1. Suggested by Matthew Burgess
September 18th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Xine User Interface-0.99.4.
[randy] - Updated to Xine Libraries-1.1.0.
[richard] - Updated to bluefish-1.0.4.
September 17th, 2005
[randy] - Added an alternate installation location for the shared library interface headers to the AFPL Ghostscript and ESP Ghostscript instructions.
[randy] - Updated to ImageMagick-6.2.4-5.
[randy] - Updated the Business::ISBN Perl module to 1.82.
[randy] - Updated the Test::Prereq Perl module to 1.028.
[randy] - Updated the Module::Signature Perl module to 0.50.
[randy] - Updated the Digest::SHA Perl module to 5.31.
[randy] - Updated the ExtUtils::ParseXS Perl module to 2.12.
[randy] - Updated the ExtUtils::CBuilder Perl module to 0.13.
[randy] - Updated the Archive::Tar Perl module to 1.26, added new Perl modules Text::Diff and Algorithm::Diff.
[randy] - Updated the Compress::Zlib Perl module to 1.38.
September 15th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to SANE-backends-1.0.16.
[randy] - Updated to the 0.9 version of the Gimp Help system, added a GCC-4 patch to the Gimp instructions.
[randy] - Updated to librsvg-2.11.1.
September 14th, 2005
[randy] - Removed redundant GTK+-2 dependency from the libgnomeprintui instructions.
[randy] - Updated to libgsf-1.12.3.
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands and corrected the note about the test suite in the libcroco instructions.
September 13th, 2005
[randy] - Added commands to the CVS instructions to create and install additional documentation.
[randy] - Updated to GStreamer-0.8.11 and adjusted the documentation files chown command to only run if the docs were built and installed.
September 12th, 2005
[tushar] - Moved creation of mad.pc to libmad section.
[randy] - Updated to VTE-0.11.15.
[randy] - Corrected the GNOME-1.4 OMF directory in the ScrollKeeper instructions.
[randy] - Updated to GCC-4.0.1.
September 11th, 2005
[randy] - Minor corrections to the XSL Stylesheets instructions, suggested by Manuel Canales Esparcia.
September 10th, 2005
[randy] - Added a note to the Tcl and Tk instructions to ensure the environment variables are properly set.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Xorg instructions.
[randy] - Updated to DocBook XSL Stylesheets-1.69.1.
[igor] - Updated to RP-PPPoE-3.6.
[dj] - Added a GCC-4 patch and updated 'fixed_paths' patch in JDK source build instructions.
[dj] - Added new Udev rules file for ALSA devices.
[dj] - Updated volume restore script for use with Udev versions greater than 058.
September 9th, 2005
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the libexif instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Avifile instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the FFmpeg instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the MPlayer instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Xvid instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the SDL instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Firefox instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Thunderbird instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the XMMS instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Qt instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch and documentation installation commands to the NAS instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Cyrus-SASL instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Guile instructions.
[randy] - Replaced the Kernel_Headers patch with a GCC-4 patch in the Inetutils instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the xinetd instructions.
[randy] - Added a GCC-4 patch to the Linux-PAM instructions.
[randy] - Updated to intltool-0.34.1.
[randy] - Updated to libsoup-2.2.6.1.
September 8th, 2005
[randy] - Added a sed command to the libxklavier instructions to fix a GCC-4.x build problem.
[randy] - Updated to libxslt-1.1.15.
[randy] - Updated to libxml2-2.6.21.
September 7th, 2005
[richard] - Updated to XScreenSaver-4.22.
September 6th, 2005
[richard] - Added patch to GnuPG-1.4.2 as required by release notes.
[randy] - Updated to libIDL-0.8.6. Also added documentation installation commands to the instructions.
September 5th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Subversion-1.2.3
September 4th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to OpenSSH-4.2p1. Also added some documentation installation commands to the instructions.
September 3rd, 2005
[randy] - Updated to HTML Tidy-050826.
[randy] - Updated to cURL-7.14.1.
September 2nd, 2005
[randy] - Added commands to the Heimdal instructions to preserve and restore some overwritten interface headers and libraries. Also listed the dependencies in a more accurate manner.
[randy] - Updated to MySQL-4.1.14.
[randy] - Fixed some broken commands in the TeX instructions.
September 1st, 2005
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the ALSA Libraries instructions.
August 31st, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Shadow-4.0.12.
[randy] - Updated to Wget-1.10.1.
August 30th, 2005
[bdubbs] - Updated to Mozilla-1.7.11.
[randy] - Removed obsolete dependencies from the LZO instructions.
August 29th, 2005
[bdubbs] - Updated to KDE-3.4.2. Added notes about the location of configuruation files. Updated optional dependencies.
[richard] - Added definition of dependency terms to Notes on Building Software.
August 28th, 2005
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the Xvid instructions.
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the libdv instructions.
[randy] - Updated to whois-4.7.6.
[randy] - Updated to libdvdcss-1.2.9.
[randy] - Added a patch to fix the XMMS plugin and added a sed command to fix the Valgrind testing in the FLAC instructions.
August 27th, 2005
[randy] - Added a patch to fix the test suite in the id3lib instructions.
[randy] - Updated the GCC patch and provided documentation installation commands to the libmpeg3 instructions.
August 26th, 2005
[randy] - Added fixes to the Thunderbird instructions: 1) the Movemail and RSS & Blogs account setup options are now available 2) modified the Enigmail setup so that it actually works 3) fixed the profile locking problem 4) made it so that if a mailto: URL is clicked, a message compose window is opened with the To: field filled out.
August 25th, 2005
[randy] - Added a command to the Firefox instructions to fix the profile locking problem and an optional command to open a new tab in an existing browser window, both suggested by Kevin Somervill. Thanks to Dan Nicholson for the reminder about Kevin's suggestions.
August 24th, 2005
[randy] - Modified SLIB instructions to use teTeX instead of Lynx to create the text documentation.
August 22nd, 2005
[randy] - Fixed chmod commands in GDM instructions, thanks to Hugo Villeneuve for pointed it out.
[randy] - Updated to Xpdf-3.01
[randy] - Updated to SLIB-3a2
August 21st, 2005
[randy] - Modifications to XMMS instructions: remove libogg as a dependency, added commands to install documentation and added an FTP download URL.
[richard] - Updated to Leafnode-1.11.3.
August 20th, 2005
[randy] - Added a new package, unixODBC-2.2.11 to BLFS.
[randy] - Renamed the FOP patch to adhere with the naming standards.
[randy] - Updated to GnuPG-1.4.2.
[randy] - Updated to GCC-3.4.4, modified the command to create the ffitarget.h interface header in /usr/include.
August 19th, 2005
[dj] - Updated dev.d scripts and surrounding text in alsa-utils.
[randy] - Updated to Sysstat-6.0.1.
[randy] - Updated to Apache Ant-1.6.5.
[randy] - Updated to Nail-11.25.
[randy] - Updated to Subversion-1.2.1.
[bdubbs] - Updated to KOffice-1.4.1.
August 17th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to GCC-3.3.6.
[randy] - Updated to Doxygen-1.4.4.
August 16th, 2005
[bdubbs] - Added instructions for cm-super fonts to TeX.
[randy] - Added additional parameters to the configure command and added a note to run the test suite to the Gimp-Print instructions.
[dj] - Updated cups bootscript installation to remove existing scripts and changed note to show that CUPS should be started after Samba.
August 15th, 2005
[randy] - Added a patch and a note about running the test suite to the CUPS instructions.
August 14th, 2005
[randy] - Updates to PHP: added new dependencies, placed the dependencies in catagories, added instructions to install documentation, added instruction to update php.ini and minor textual corrections.
[randy] - Updated to GTK-Doc-1.4.
[randy] - Updated to HTML Tidy-050803.
[randy] - Updated to Shadow-4.0.11.1.
[randy] - Added a configure switch to OpenLDAP to create the executables dynamically linked to the libraries.
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the GTK+ (version 1) instructions.
August 13th, 2005
[larry] - Add a warning to MIT KRB5 concerning the use of login.krb5 as a substitute for login.
[randy] - Updated to OpenLDAP-2.2.6 stable version; also added dependencies and configuration explanation.
August 12th, 2005
[randy] - Added a command to the PostgreSQL instructions to fix broken ownership of installed files.
August 11th, 2005
[randy] - Updated the JDK binary version to 1.5.0_04.
[randy] - Added sharutils as an optional dependency of Berkeley DB.
[randy] - Applied a patch contributed by stirling to fix many broken download URLs.
[randy] - Added a new section "Other Programming Tools" to Chapter 12 - Programming.
August 10th, 2005
[randy] - Added style information files and documentation installation commands to the JadeTeX instructions.
August 9th, 2005
[randy] - Modified the CrackLib instructions to include an alternate source for word lists, how to incorporate additional word lists, and added additional text contributed by Alexander Patrakov.
[dj] - Added default PATH for pam_env and a note about the lack of ENV_SUPATH.
August 8th, 2005
[randy] - Modified documentation installation in the Fontconfig instructions.
[randy] - Modified the Shadow instructions so that builders will not receive configuration errors during the testing recommended by the warning note.
[randy] - Added instructions to install a patch to Ruby that fixes a security vulnerability, thanks to Ken Moffat for the suggestion.
[randy] - Added instructions to install a patch to NASM that fixes a security vulnerability, thanks to Ken Moffat for the suggestion.
[randy] - Added documentation installation commands to the expat instructions.
August 7th, 2005
[randy] - Removed building the MPFR library from the GMP instructions.
August 6th, 2005
[larry] - Added dictionary file to MIT Kerberos setup and made adjusts for PAM.
[randy] - Updated to S-Lang-2.0.4.
August 5th, 2005
[randy] - Updated to Wget-1.10.
[randy] - Updated to PCRE-6.2.
August 1st, 2005
[bdubbs] - Released Version 6.1-pre1.
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