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# Changelog

If, for example, a change is listed for chapter 5 it (usually) means the same change has been made in the chapters for the other architectures.

3.0-PRE1 - February 27th, 2001

- Converted the SGML source to XML.

- Chapter 4: Tell the user to use cfdisk rather than fdisk. The fdisk man page recommends cfdisk over fdisk because it's more stable.

- Chapter 4: Changed the wording to make it more general as ext2 no longer is the only used file system. Reiser for example is often used too now.

- Chapter 5: Added static mawk, texinfo and partially gettext to faciliate the move of Glibc from Chapter 5 to Chapter 6.

- Chapter 5: Added Makedev to chapter 5. We don't create the device files here, only copy the MAKEDEV script and make a temp copy which will be used to create device files. This second file (MAKEDEV-temp) doesn't contain user names and group names but only user id's and group id's. We need a few device files to get Glibc installed, but before GLibc is installed user and group names are not recognized yet; only the numeric id's. This requires a slightly modified MAKEDEV script which will be generated by patching the original one. This patching is done here in chapter 5. Also, fixed the explanations on both makedev installations.

- Chapter 5: Recommended to install all the software while logged in (or su'ed to) user root.

- Chapter 5+6: Added the fileutils-4.0 patch which is needed to compile the fileutils package on Glibc-2.2 based systems (such as the upcoming LFS-3.0 system).

- Chapter 5+6: Upgraded from gcc-2.95.2 to gcc-2.95.2.1

- Chapter 5+6: Moved Glibc from chapter 5 to chapter 6

- Chapter 6: Changed libexecdir=/usr/bin in fileutils to libexecdir=/bin

- Chapter 6: Updated Glibc installation instructions. 'configparms' file creation has been deleted. No need to pick a compiler (either distro's native or the /usr/local/gcc2952/bin/gcc one); we're in chroot now so we'll use the one we have

- Chapter 6: Only copy the man pages from the ld.so package. We don't need the ldconfig and ldd programs anymore; Glibc-2.2.1 comes with good working versions.

- Chapter 6: Added the creation of the lex symlink to the flex installation.

- Chapter 6: Changed $* into "$@" in the yacc script during bison's installation. "$@" allows usage of quoted arguments with blanks.

- Chapter 6: Fixed the man page installation during console-tools' installation.

- Chapter 6: When entering chroot the $TERM variable inside chroot is set properly. This is accomplished by: chroot ... -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM ...

- Chapter 6: Merged the different sulogin lines from the inittab file into one line.

- Chapter 7: Fixed the delays in the killproc function in the functions script. Now after kill, first check PIDs, then sleep 2 if needed. More details can be read in the comments in the script itself.

- Chapter 7: Added the explanation how the runlevels and boot process works when using the LFS scripts.

- Chapter 10: Added this chapter. It contains "thanks and good luck" notes and suggest creating the /etc/lfs-3.0-PRE1 file

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