diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index e0aa19e93..a9810f7c8 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,17 @@
     </listitem>
 
 -->
+    <listitem>
+      <para>2009-07-29</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Add -v to various commands.  
+          Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2462">#2462</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
 
     <listitem>
       <para>2009-07-28</para>
diff --git a/chapter05/glibc.xml b/chapter05/glibc.xml
index e6738437f..fd0285a69 100644
--- a/chapter05/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter05/glibc.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
     <para>Fix an error in the constants that get passed to the futex system
     call in some cases, causing certain pthread_mutex operations to fail:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">cp nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S{,.orig}
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">cp -v nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S{,.orig}
 sed -e 's/FUTEX_WAIT\( | FUTEX_CLOCK_REALTIME, reg\)/FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET\1/' \
         &lt;nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S.orig \
         &gt;nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i486/lowlevellock.S</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml
index f88922be7..70dec0a2e 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
     Unpack the tarball from within the Glibc source directory:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="pre">tar -xvf ../glibc-libidn-&glibc-version;.tar.bz2
-mv glibc-libidn-&glibc-version; libidn</userinput></screen>
+mv -v glibc-libidn-&glibc-version; libidn</userinput></screen>
 
 <!--
     This should have been fixed a long time ago.
diff --git a/chapter06/mpfr.xml b/chapter06/mpfr.xml
index 2c99e84f7..78f9b5b29 100644
--- a/chapter06/mpfr.xml
+++ b/chapter06/mpfr.xml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
     <para>Install the documentation:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make html
-mkdir -p /usr/share/doc/mpfr-&mpfr-version;
+mkdir -pv /usr/share/doc/mpfr-&mpfr-version;
 find . -name \*.html -type f -exec cp -v \{} /usr/share/doc/mpfr-&mpfr-version; \;</userinput></screen>
 
   </sect2>
diff --git a/chapter06/texinfo.xml b/chapter06/texinfo.xml
index 4f4a4e31c..a2c615caf 100644
--- a/chapter06/texinfo.xml
+++ b/chapter06/texinfo.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
     recreated, the following optional commands will accomplish the task:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cd /usr/share/info
-rm dir
+rm -v dir
 for f in *
 do install-info $f dir 2&gt;/dev/null
 done</userinput></screen>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index f2dabbf55..bf1ce38db 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20090728">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "July 28, 2009">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20090729">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "July 29, 2009">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2009"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
 <!ENTITY milestone "6.5">
 <!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->