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ChangeLog


2007/09/15	- Added patch for loop-aes
		- Updated Slackware note for 11.0 and 12.0
Apr 10, 2006	- Find clear, tput, strings, etc. in ..
		  instead of ~/src/blah
Apr 4, 2006	- 2.12q -> 2.12r
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.2
Nov 2, 2005	- Fixed broken md5sum and sha1sum links
Sep 22, 2005	- Added a /sbin/umount symlink
Sep 15, 2005	- Changed download URL from old maintainer's ftp server to
		  ftp.kernel.org
		- Updated list of alternate download URLs
		- Removed make, gcc, binutils, and fileutils/coreutils links
		- Moved source directory (see note <a href="howtos.php?msd">here</a>)
		- Rearranged options to shut up new version of find
		- root.root -> root:root, run when $UID = 0
		- Updated Slackware note for 10.1
		- tar.gz -> tar.bz2
		- 2.12m -> 2.12q
Dec 21, 2004	- 2.12h -> 2.12m
		- Added note about versions that come with Slackware
Oct 14, 2004	- 2.12a -> 2.12h
Apr 14, 2004	- 2.12 -> 2.12a
		- Changed the home page link from ftp.kernel.org to
		  freshmeat's project page
		- Added " or coreutils" to the fileutils prerequisite
Dec 19, 2003	- I remember seeing 2.12 was out (after 2.12pre), but never
		  did see it anywhere...  I finally checked all of the mirrors
		  and sure enough, it's available at the 4th one.  I removed
		  2.11z and 2.12pre leaving just 2.12.
		- Added links to the 4 mirrors at the top
		- Added my own md5sum, no md5sums are posted anywhere (that
		  I could find)
		- Added more prerequisites
		- Added a rm of /bin/sln, /sbin/sln, /bin/kill, and
		  /usr/bin/kill before running make install (to remove dupes)
Sep 23, 2003	- Added 2.12pre to the bottom
		- Updated it's gpg verification
		- Create ~/installed with mode 700
Apr 24, 2003	- Modernized the howto
		- Added a 2nd patch to set up MCONFIG for use with systems
		  that don't have PAM installed
		- Added the MCONFIG equivalent of --disable-nls to the
		  patches, removal of .mo files
		- Added note about /usr/bin/strings
		- Updated notes about missing clear and tput
Feb 5, 2003	- 2.11y -> 2.11z
		- Updated gpg verification of tarball
		- Added note about clear and tput
Dec 6, 2002	- 2.11x -> 2.11y
		- Put the pgp verification back in, back to using kernel.org
		  (and .tar.bz2 instead of .tar.gz)
Nov 21, 2002	- 2.11w -> 2.11x
		- Removed all of the pgp verification, the kernel.org
		  archive doesn't have 2.11x for some reason... (it's
		  been out since Nov 2nd)
Oct 25, 2002	- 2.11u -> 2.11w
		- Added removal of previous versions
		- Replaced the "rm ... ; ln -s ..." lines with "ln -sf ..."
		  lines
Aug 20, 2002	- Replaced the multiple wget runs with one
		- Added gpg verification (against the kernel archive key)
Aug 4, 2002	- 2.11t -> 2.11u
Jul 28, 2002	- Updated MCONFIG patch to reflect having previously
		  installed shadow 4.0.3 with PAM
		- added note to see the shadow howto first

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