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Archaic - 2005/07/06

HLFS is currently in an alpha state. Work continues on it constantly. It is recommended that only experienced testers read the current development book.

Latest SVN Changes

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/29

  • Added modification to Util-linux-ng to use /dev/random for entropy, primarily for random swap.
  • Move tar.txt into alphabetical order.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/27

  • Use Glibc's regex with Sed.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/26

  • New patches for Perl bugs.
  • Added Loop-AES.
  • --enable-shared for Binutils pass2, for aslr in the rebooted system. Don't disable nls in Binutils pass2, since it should work.
  • Added Zlib to temporary tools.
  • Added nostatic patch for Module-init-tools.
  • Don't install Zlib manual page to /tools.
  • Install all of Gettext, to avoid issues with cvs versions of Binutils and GCC. This also helps with uClibc later.
  • Added notes about loop-aes swap keys.
  • Bump to tcl8.5.5.
  • In Gettext temporary tools, disable libasprintf and csharp, because we don't need them, and use regex from Glibc. Added note that Gettext fails to build with parallel make.
  • Added upstream bug fix for Gettext.
  • Added more notes to kernel-config.txt, for file system Access Control Lists.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/25

  • Added Sysvinit
  • Use tooldir=/tools for Binutils pass 1 and 2
  • Added Sysvinit page
  • mkdir -v
  • Get glibc-2.8-latest
  • Make the strlcat/strlcpy Glibc patch discription split http urls so they're easier to copy and paste, for web broswers.
  • Specify which functions come from libc, rather than the kernel, in the Glibc page.
  • Make urls in comments more friendly to copy/paste, in the Glibc page.
  • Fix the adjusting page, which broke when Binutils installs with toolsdir=/tools.
  • Install e2fsprog's shared libraries. This fixes the issue with Util-linux-ng BLKID_LIBS.
  • Bump to grep-2.5.4-20080209b, and drop the upstream patch. This is a bug fix release of Grep... no new features. All tests pass.
  • Install kernel modules. Add posix capabilities to the kernel config.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/20

  • Install Glibc's sbins to /tools/bin.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/19

  • bump to e2fsprogs-1.41.3
  • Bump to texinfo-4.13a, and symlink from wide to non-wide Ncurses libraries (for texinfo).
  • Install all of Util-linux-ng to /tools. We need agetty, swapon, etc.
  • Install Util-linux-ng's sbins to /tools/bin.
  • Added Module-init-tools to temporary system.
  • Added Module-init-tools to index.txt.
  • Added Udev to temporary tools.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/17

  • Build GCC with --disable-libssp. We can't use libssp with Glibc.
  • Removed gcc_cv_libc_provides_ssp=yes from GCC
  • Added patch to Glibc to check the buffer size of res_* functions.
  • Added patch for bug in Glibc's __getgroups_chk_warn.
  • Reverse last commit. Can't reproduce the bug.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/16

  • Added Glibc strlcpy()/strlcat() patch
  • Added res_randomid patch for Glibc
  • Bind uses Glibc's res_randomid without modification
  • Added patch to Glibc to add more checking to the size of DNS responses.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/15

  • Added issetugid and sanitize_env patches to Glibc
  • Added patch to Glibc so mk*temp(3) uses /dev/urandom.

• Robert Connolly - 2008/10/14

  • Build Grep with Glibc's regex.
  • Added gzip openbsd-owl-tmp patch
  • Added patches to Gzip for CVE 2006-4337 and CVE 2006-4338
  • Add patches to Gzip for CVE 2006-4337 and CVE 2006-4338
  • Added random number patch for Bash.
  • In Bash, use RTLD_NOW instead of RTLD_LAZY with dlopen()
  • Added small test for the Bash rng patch
  • In e2fsprogs libblkid, use safe_getenv().
  • miniperl uses tmpnam(), and big perl doesn't? strange but true