3.3. Needed Patches

In addition to the packages, several patches are also required. These patches correct any mistakes in the packages that should be fixed by the maintainer. The patches also make small modifications to make the packages easier to work with. The following patches will be needed to build an LFS system:

Bash Upstream Fixes Patch - 18 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/bash-3.1-fixes-7.patch

Bzip2 Bzgrep Security Fixes Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/bzip2-1.0.3-bzgrep_security-1.patch

Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/bzip2-1.0.3-install_docs-1.patch

Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 110 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/coreutils-5.94-i18n-1.patch

Coreutils Suppress Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 13 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/coreutils-5.94-suppress_uptime_kill_su-2.patch

Coreutils Uname Patch - 4 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/coreutils-5.94-uname-1.patch

Diffutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 18 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/diffutils-2.8.1-i18n-1.patch

Expect Spawn Patch - 7 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/expect-5.43.0-spawn-1.patch

Gawk Segfault Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/gawk-3.1.5-segfault_fix-1.patch

GCC Specs Patch - 14 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/gcc-4.0.3-specs-1.patch

Grep RedHat Fixes Patch - 56 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/grep-2.5.1a-redhat_fixes-2.patch

Groff Debian Patch - 360 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/groff-1.18.1.1-debian_fixes-1.patch

Gzip Security Patch - 2 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/gzip-1.3.5-security_fixes-1.patch

Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/kbd-1.12-backspace-1.patch

Kbd GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/kbd-1.12-gcc4_fixes-1.patch

Inetutils GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 2 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/inetutils-1.4.2-gcc4_fixes-3.patch

Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/inetutils-1.4.2-no_server_man_pages-1.patch

Linux kernel UTF-8 Composing Patch - 11 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/linux-2.6.16.1-utf8_input-1.patch

Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 4 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/mktemp-1.5-add_tempfile-3.patch

Ncurses Fixes Patch - 9 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/ncurses-5.5-fixes-1.patch

Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/perl-5.8.8-libc-2.patch

Readline Upstream Fixes Patch - 4 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/readline-5.1-fixes-3.patch

Sysklogd 8-Bit Cleanness Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/sysklogd-1.4.1-8bit-1.patch

Sysklogd Fixes Patch - 27 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/sysklogd-1.4.1-fixes-1.patch

Tar GCC-4.x Fix Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/tar-1.15.1-gcc4_fix_tests-1.patch

Tar Sparse Fix Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/tar-1.15.1-sparse_fix-1.patch

Texinfo Multibyte Fixes Patch - 1 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/texinfo-4.8-multibyte-1.patch

Texinfo Tempfile Fix Patch - 2 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/texinfo-4.8-tempfile_fix-2.patch

Util-linux Cramfs Patch - 3 KB:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/udev_update/util-linux-2.12r-cramfs-1.patch

In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of optional patches created by the LFS community. These optional patches solve minor problems or enable functionality that is not enabled by default. Feel free to peruse the patches database located at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/ and acquire any additional patches to suit the system needs.