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jhalfs 1.0 Released

Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/07/23

The jhalfs development team is pleased to announce the release of jhalfs-1.0.

This new version includes support for current LFS, CLFS and HLFS books. The under development code for BLFS is included also in the tarball.

Among the ability to build a system directly from the book's sources, this version has some nice additional features like:

• Creation of SBU/disk usage reports
• ICA/farce iterative builds
• Customized build optimizations
• A contributed patch that adds PACO support

The jhalfs-1.0 tarball can be downloaded from here.

The list of supported book's versions can be found at SupportedBooks

Please, try it out and send any bugs you find in to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

nALFS 1.2.6 Released

Thomas Pegg - 2006/01/28

The ALFS team is pleased to announce the release of nALFS version 1.2.6. This is a bugfix update to version 1.2.5, incorporating two changes:

1. A fix for corruption of files when using search_replace, in cases where the search pattern is at the end of the file. Thanks to David Rosal and Arthur Demchenkov.

2. A fix for an issue with the drawing of line characters in UTF-8 locales. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov.

This new release can be downloaded from the usual location.

All comments, questions and discussions of this release should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

LFS 6.1.1-1 Profile Released

Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/04

This is an update to the previous release of the LFS-6.1.1 profile and fixes the following bugs:

Fixed md5sum's for the bash-docs and bison packages.
Corrected the udev rules file version.
Fixed creation of /etc/localtime

This profile can be downloaded from the usual location.

All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

jhalfs 0.2 Released

Jeremy Huntwork - 2005/12/02

There is a new implementation of ALFS available, called jhalfs. The main purpose of jhalfs is to provide a pure reference build of LFS by extracting the commands to run directly from the LFS book. This has the added benefit of reducing maintenance as there are no profiles needed.

This is the first release of jhalfs. Version 0.1 was a proof-of-concept and not a working release. You can download version 0.2 here.

Any comments or questions concerning jhalfs should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

LFS 6.1.1 Profile Released

Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/02

To accompany the recently released LFS-6.1.1, the ALFS team is proud to announce the release of the LFS-6.1.1 ALFS profile.

This profile can be downloaded from the usual location.

All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

nALFS 1.2.5 Released

Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/10

The ALFS team is pleased to announce the release of nALFS version 1.2.5. This is a feature/bugfix update to version 1.2.4, incorporating four changes:

1. Support was added for printing the name of any package that is required but not present before nALFS gives the build aborted message.

2. A new command line option has been added to disable digest checking (-d).

3. A new command line option has been added to support for downloading and digest checking packages within the <unpack> and <download> elements without executing the other tags in a profile. (-D).

4. Properly fix detection of the ncurses library, if ncurses is not found configure will bail out. (Bug 929)

This new release can be downloaded from the usual location.

All comments, questions and discussions of this release should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

LFS-6.1-1 Profile Released

Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/01

This is an update to the previous release of the LFS-6.1 Profile and fixes two bugs, one important and one minor.

Bugs fixed:
Due to a recent hiccup on the LFS FTP Mirror master server, some tarballs had to be regenerated therefore changing the md5sums. So those md5's have now been updated in the profile to accomdate this.
Also fixed is that the path to nALFS is no longer hardcoded into the runit.sh script.

This updated profile can be downloaded from the usual location.

LFS 6.1 Profile Released

Thomas Pegg - 2005/07/09

With the release of LFS-6.1, the ALFS team is proud to announce the release of the accompanying ALFS profile. Also in this release features better compatibility for those users who wish to use the lfs-packages tarball.

This profile can be downloaded from the usual location.

All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

BLFS 6.0 Profile Released

Thomas Pegg - 2005/06/07

The ALFS Team is proud to announce the release of the BLFS-6.0 ALFS profile. It can be downloaded from the usual location.

All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

BLFS 6.0-test1 Profile Released

Thomas Pegg - 2005/05/05

With the release of BLFS-6.0, the ALFS Team is proud to announce the first test release of the ALFS profile to accompany it. This profile is still considered very much beta, as it has not the widespread testing that it's LFS counterparts have had. It can be downloaded from the usual locations (/alfs/downloads/profiles/blfs/test/profile-BLFS-6.0-test1.tar.bz2).

Please do test this profile, try to break it if possible and help us make it better.

All comments, questions and discussion of this profile should be directed to the alfs-discuss mailing list.

Latest SVN Changes

• Profile DTD

  • Jamie Bennett - 2004/09/21

    • trunk: Fixed typo

  • kpfleming - 2004/07/11

    • root: make DTD repo directories
    • trunk: move DTD trunk
    • root: create branch for 3.1 DTD
    • branches/3.1: move DTD version 3.1
    • root: add project description property for logging use
    • root: update project_desc property

• ALFS POC Code

  • Thomas Pegg - 2006/04/12

    • root: Added project_desc keyword, should see changelog on website now

  • Jeremy Huntwork - 2006/03/06

    • root: Improved parsing of tag pairs
    • root: Don't parse comments
    • root: Adjusted parsing of comments to track comments that may appear on the same line as un-commented code
    • root: Initial addition of parsing entities
    • root: Added functions to parse and retrieve entities
    • root: Added a few missing comments

  • Jeremy Huntwork - 2006/03/03

    • root: Adding first loop for isolating '<,>' pairs

  • Jeremy Huntwork - 2006/03/02

    • root: Added initial version of the parser in C++
    • root: Fix the way files are opened - will correctly bail on error now.
    • root: Fix how the parent string is set
    • root: Added check to make sure the current line isn't empty

  • Jeremy Huntwork - 2006/02/01

    • root: Added initial code for a parser
    • root: Adjusted initial comment

  • Jeremy Huntwork - 2005/11/26

    • root: Initial tests with sending commands to the server
    • root: Moved 'client-server' dir to a simpler named dir
    • root: Renamed the components and adjusted the Makefile to follow suit.
    • root: Some improvemnts to the code - actually consistenly runs commands now
    • root: Some more error checking
    • root: Fixed error checking
    • root: Playing with pipes

  • Gerard Beekmans - 2005/11/25

    • root: Simple client<->server connection
    • root: Added comments

  • Jeremy Huntwork - 2005/11/25

    • root: Moved alfs-POC to old-alfs-POC
    • root: Added a new, clean alfs-POC directory. :)
    • root: Added the GPL and a doc sub-dir

  • Matthew Burgess - 2005/02/04

    • root: Renaming the proof of concept code

• Profile DTD Documentation

  • jwrober - 2004/10/13

    • trunk: added svn keywords
    • trunk: set svn keywords

  • kpfleming - 2004/07/11

    • root: create new directories for syntax doc
    • root: move syntax_doc trunk
    • root: make directory for syntax_doc 3.1 tag
    • tags/3.1: move syntax_doc v3.1 tag items
    • tags/3.1: move syntax_doc v3.1 tag items
    • tags/3.1: move syntax_doc v3.1 tag items
    • tags/3.1: move syntax_doc v3.1 tag items
    • tags/3.1: move syntax_doc v3.1 tag items
    • tags/3.1: move syntax_doc v3.1 tag items
    • tags/3.1: move syntax_doc v3.1 tag items
    • root: add project_desc property for logging use

• jhalfs

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/23

    • trunk: Bug fix.

  • George Boudreau - 2006/11/21

    • trunk: clfs-embedded: changed root shell to uClibc <ash>

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/19

    • trunk: HLFS book is still broken. Fixed CLFS2 and CLFS3 SVN paths.

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/16

    • trunk: Some config fixes.
    • trunk: Look fix.

  • George Boudreau - 2006/11/15

    • trunk: Added missing case statement for clfs3

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/15

    • trunk: Now HLFS is using kernel headers.
    • trunk: Embryo-toolchain don't need gcc-g++ package.
    • trunk: Updated TODO.

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/14

    • trunk: Removed obsolete note.
    • trunk: Fixed some config settings for CLFS3. Remains to add mips arch support.
    • trunk: Added CLFS3 mips confog options.
    • trunk: This is a very ugly way to set CLFS_MIPS_LEVEL. A more proper method need be found.

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/13

    • trunk: Using only one set of functions for both chroot and boot methods in CLFS Makefile creation.
    • trunk: Fixed a small bug.

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/12

    • trunk: Replaced CLFS BOOT_* functions by CHROOT_* functions due that are identical.
    • trunk: Reordered makefile_functions.
    • trunk: Changed how create-sbu_du-report target is created. Added blfs-tool support to HLFS.

  • George Boudreau - 2006/11/11

    • trunk: Initial commit of CLFS3 changes, pt2.
    • trunk: Initial commit of CLFS3 changes, pt3.

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/11

    • trunk: Replaced /bin/sh by /bin/bash
    • trunk: master.sh files don't need be executables. Fixed chroot commands extraction.
    • trunk: Created directory to place common functions library files.
    • trunk: Moved current functions library files to libs directory.
    • trunk: Fixed path to functions library files.
    • trunk: Renamed file for consistency.
    • trunk: Splitted common-functions.
    • trunk: Moved Makefile header creation to a common function.
    • trunk: Functions clean-up.

  • Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/11/10

    • trunk: Improved customization explanations.
    • trunk: Small change required by customization support.
    • trunk: Updated TODO.

• nALFS Hacker's Guide

  • jwrober - 2004/11/18

    • trunk: updates from jamie bennett

  • jwrober - 2004/11/12

    • trunk: updates from the wiki page

  • jwrober - 2004/10/22

    • trunk: removed redundant info from svn keywords
    • trunk: small edits to main svn page

  • jwrober - 2004/10/15

    • trunk: cvs to svn conversion

  • jwrober - 2004/10/13

    • trunk: added svn keywords
    • trunk: update various pages
    • trunk: a little cleanup
    • trunk: set svn keywords

  • kpfleming - 2004/07/11

    • root: make new nALFS directories
    • root: move nALFS hacker's guide trunk
    • root: create hacker's guide 1.2 branch
    • root: set project_desc properties for logging use

• nALFS

  • Thomas Pegg - 2006/01/28

    • trunk: Version update to 1.2.6. Updated CHANGES file to reflect recent changes
    • root: Tagged nALFS 1.2.6
    • trunk: switch back to SVN version

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/29

    • trunk: fix for corruption of files when using search_replace, when the search pattern is at the end of the file. Thanks to David Rosal and Arthur Demchenkov for the report and the fix.
    • trunk: fixed an issue with the drawing of line characters in UTF-8 locales. Thanks to Alexander Patrakov for this fix.

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/10

    • trunk: Update CHANGES file to include changes made since 1.2.4
    • root: remove 1.2.5 tag
    • root: re-tagged 1.2.5, to include updated CHANGES file
    • trunk: Switch version to SVN so daily snapshots can be properly generated.

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/09

    • trunk, root: Version 1.2.5 * Pull 3.1 version of DTD not the trunk version
    • root: 1.2.5 Release

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/03

    • trunk: Merge a change that was lost to fix detection of the ncurses library properly.

  • Jamie Bennett - 2005/04/11

    • trunk: Added support for downloading and digest checking packages within the <unpack> and <download> elements without executing the other tags in a profile.

  • Jamie Bennett - 2005/03/07

    • trunk: Added support for printing the name of any package that is required but not present before nALFS gives the build aborted message.

  • Jamie Bennett - 2004/12/10

    • trunk: Added the pulling in of the DTD.
    • trunk, root: Move the DTD to the right directory this time.

  • Jamie Bennett - 2004/12/03

    • trunk: Set svn:executable for the automatic nALFS generator script.

  • Jamie Bennett - 2004/12/01

    • trunk: Reverting back to 1.2.4.
    • trunk: Option to disable digest checking from the command line.

  • jeremy - 2004/12/01

    • root: Removing Trunk to prepare to bring 1.2.4 back as trunk
    • root: Moving 1.2.4 tag back to trunk

• nALFS User's Guide

  • jwrober - 2004/10/13

    • trunk: added svn keywords
    • trunk: set svn keywords

  • kpfleming - 2004/07/11

    • root: make new nALFS directories
    • root: move nALFS user's guide trunk
    • root: create user's guide 1.2 branch
    • root: set project_desc properties for logging use

• BLFS Profile

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/06

    • trunk: Applied patches from Filip Bartmann and Jasmine Iwanek: * Added several doc install and generation sections * Corrected dependencies for several packages * Only build one kerberos implementation, configurable through config.ent

  • Joachim Beckers - 2005/10/03

    • trunk: appleid two patches with these fixes: * (commented out) installation of remaining programs to alsa-tools * (commented out) support for A4 paper in xpdf * whitespace fixes in mitkrb * fix for libusb * fix for qt if installed in opt - this one is quite major * (commented out) support for apidox in kde thx to Jasmine Iwanek

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/02

    • trunk: Apply patch from Filip Bartmann. Thanks :).

  • Joachim Beckers - 2005/10/01

    • trunk: Patch from Jasmine Iwanek. Fixes: * add --libexecdir to xscreensaver * typo in samba instructions * typo in alsa-lib instructions * typo in qt instructions

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/09/23

    • trunk: Added security fix patches to openoffice and mpg123 * Package upgrades: - firefox-1.0.6 - thunderbird-1.0.6 - libvorbis-1.1.1 - speex-1.0.5 - vorbis-tools-1.1.1
    • trunk: apply patch for ch 12 from Torsten Vollmann
    • trunk: change all dependency references for pkgconfig to pkg-config

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/09/22

    • trunk: Minor fixes for shadow and sysstat. Thanks Torsten.

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/09/21

    • trunk: Fixed validation error in apache-ant * Fixed unknown element error in opt version of kdebindings

  • Joachim Beckers - 2005/09/20

    • trunk: extra-prompt.sh fix
    • trunk: various fixes for BLFS 6.1
    • trunk: more fixes

  • Joachim Beckers - 2005/09/19

    • trunk: sysstat fix and patches from torsten
    • trunk: small fix for apache ant + giving torsten the credit he deserves :-)

  • Joachim Beckers - 2005/09/17

    • trunk: patches from torsten

• LFS Profile

  • Thomas Pegg - 2006/02/21

    • trunk: Update to LFS:r7371 (Part 1)

  • Thomas Pegg - 2006/02/07

    • trunk: remove wget url lists that are no longer necessary with new download system

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/06

    • trunk: corrected several md5sum's
    • trunk: Add download tags to chapter 6
    • trunk: Add download tags to bootscripts, kernel, libxml2 and nALFS
    • trunk: Upgraded libxml2 to 2.6.22 and nALFS to 1.2.5
    • trunk: add missing download to chapter 5 findutils, and integrate final pieces of new download system to LFS.xml

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/04

    • branches/6.1: Fix bad md5sums on bash-doc and bison packages, fixed udev config rules files version (thanks Justin Knierim) and fixed creation /etc/localtime, before the new localtime file was not being copied leaving the factory symlink in place
    • trunk: apply /etc/localtime fix from 6.1 branch to trunk
    • root: Tag bugfix 6.1.1-1 profile
    • trunk: Update to r7192: * Package upgrades: - findutils-4.2.26 - man-pages-2.14 - module-init-tools-3.2.1 * Stopped udev from killing the host system's udevd process * Removed --libexecdir from gcc pass1 and pass2 * Changed --libexecdir for findutils to conform to the /usr/lib/packagename convention * Install binaries from the less package in /usr/bin instead of /bin * Reduced chapter5 gettext to only install the msgfmt program * Prevent shadow from installing internationalized man pages for the groups binary that is not installed * No longer install linuxthreads man pages from glibc, these man pages are already installed by the man-pages package
    • trunk: Initial phase to add download tags: * Added package/patch url entities * Added md5sum's to patches * Dropped package copying in creatingtoolsdir in favor of mount --bind * Updated README to note that we need nALFS 1.2.5 or later
    • trunk: Added "Download and Check" stages to chapter5 packages * Made the use of patching consistent in chapter5 * Fixed a entity typo for expect * Corrected the dejagnu md5sum

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/12/02

    • branches/6.1: Updates for 6.1.1 final: * Added bash docs install * Replaced iproute2 patch with a sed * Add capability to run module-init-tools testsuite * Stop the udev build process from killing the hosts' udevd processes * Add patch to glibc to fix a bug that prevents some programs from running * Updated required packages url list to match package versions and patches
    • branches/6.1: Final preps for 6.1.1 release * Updated libxml2 to 2.6.22 and nALFS to 1.2.5
    • branches/6.1: Update version in README file
    • branches/6.1: Update version in LFS.xml file
    • root: Tag 6.1.1

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/11/08

    • trunk: fix major errors in the way the commands were written in the xml for adjustingtoolchain.xml in chapter05 and moved the sed's for ch6 gcc.xml to a new patching stage.
    • trunk: added missing application of inetutils gcc4 fixes patch

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/11/07

    • root: Remove old and unused branches
    • trunk: Update to r7130: * Package upgrades: - coreutils-5.93 - file-4.16 (JI) - glibc-2.3.6 - m4-1.4.4 (JI) - man-pages-2.13 - ncurses-5.5 (JI) - procps-3.2.6 - psmisc-21.8 - shadow-4.0.13 - udev-071 - vim-6.4 * Changed --without-csharp to --disable-csharp in ch5 gettext (JI) * Added missing NLS fixes for gawk (JI) * Properly added ability to run the module-init-tools testsuite Patch Credits: Entries denoted with (JI) are part of a patch provided by Jasmine Iwanek

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/16

    • branches/download-tags: Added base package/patch urls * Added package urls * Updated README to note 1.2.5 is needed
    • branches/download-tags: Added md5sum to patches

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/15

    • trunk: Update to r7026: * Updated udev rules file to -4 * Add cdrom group as required by udev rules file * Applied patch for changes up to r6983: * Package Upgrades: - gcc-4.0.2 - iproute2-051007 * Added patch to fix vulnerability in texinfo
    • branches/6.1: Update from 6.1.1 branch (r7027): * Package upgrades: - perl-5.8.7 - zlib-1.2.3 * Updated the vim security fix patch * Added the following patches: - binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2-gcc4-1.patch - bzip2-1.0.3-install_docs-1.patch - bzip2-1.0.3-bzgrep_security-1.patch - glibc-2.3.4-rtld_search_dirs-1.patch - texinfo-4.8-tempfile_fix-1.patch - util-linux-2.12q-umount_fix-1.patch * Added cdrom group and updated udev rules file

  • Thomas Pegg - 2005/10/10

    • root: create download tags playground