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