This is version 6.8-rc1 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated February 16, 2011. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better version is probably already available. To find out, please check one of the mirrors via http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mirrors.html.
Below is a list of changes made since the previous release of the book.
Changelog Entries:
2011-02-16
2011-02-10
2011-02-04
2011-01-27
[bdubbs] Add a sed that modifies incorrect defines in glibc. Thanks to Bryan Kadzban for identifying the proper fix. Fixes #2820.
2011-01-25
[bdubbs] Add a note about optionally building popt before pkg-config. Fixes #2781.
2011-01-24
[bdubbs] Move chroot man page to man8. Fixes #2782.
2011-01-23
[matthew] Ignore failing tests in Man-DB as they're only due to a change in Groff-1.21's warning output. Fixes #2823.
[matthew] Change password hashing from MD5 to SHA-512. Fixes #2814.
[matthew] Upgrade to File-5.05. Fixes #2821.
[matthew] Upgrade to IPRoute2-2.6.37. Fixes #2817.
[matthew] Upgrade to Coreutils-8.9. Fixes #2815.
2011-01-10
2011-01-04
[bdubbs] Move XZ-Utils to before Man-DB. Tweak install instructions.
2011-01-02
[bdubbs] Added XZ-Utils as a new compression utility package for independent use or with tar. Fixes #2619.
2010-12-29
[ken] Allow shadow to install its korean and chinese man-pages, since man-db can now format them. Thanks to William Immendorf for the report.
2010-12-28
2010-12-19
2010-12-14
[matthew] Upgrade to Glibc-2.12.2. Fixes #2804.
2010-12-13
2010-11-18
2010-11-10
[matthew] Add security fixes for Glibc. Fixes #2790.
[matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.30. Fixes #2788.
[matthew] Mention Inetutils' testsuite, and also install its HTML documentation. Fixes #2784 and #2785
[matthew] Upgrade to Tar-1.25, and also install its HTML documentation. Fixes #2777 and #2786.
2010-10-27
[bdubbs] Add an example on how to use wget-list. Fixes #2778.
2010-10-26
[bdubbs] Clarify text in Chapter 5 GCC Pass 1 concerning supporting packages.
2010-10-24
2010-10-18
2010-09-22
[matthew] Following r9370, fix the Autoconf underquoting bug in Autoconf itself, rather than just the one affected LFS package, Pkg-config.
[matthew] Upgrade to Linux-2.6.35.5. Fixes #2761.
[matthew] Upgrade to Grep-2.7. Fixes #2760.
[matthew] Upgrade to Bzip2-1.0.6. Fixes #2759.
[matthew] Add patch to fix "Unknown HZ value" error in some procps tools. Thanks to DJ Lucas for the report and patch. Fixes #2758.
[matthew] Upgrade to Tcl-8.5.9. Fixes #2753.
[matthew] Upgrade to Perl-5.12.2. Fixes #2752.
[matthew] Upgrade to Psmisc-22.13. Fixes #2751.
[matthew] Upgrade to Man-Pages-3.27. Fixes #2750.
[matthew] Upgrade to Udev-162. Fixes #2747.
[matthew] Upgrade to M4-1.4.15. Fixes #2744.
2010-09-18
[bdubbs] - LFS-6.7 released.