1 casper (1.221) lucid; urgency=low
3 * Remove the rest of the mythbuntu delta from 10adduser. It will be
4 maintained in the mythbuntu-live-autostart package instead so that
5 users from ~mythbuntu-dev can administer it.
7 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:22:00 -0600
9 casper (1.220) lucid; urgency=low
11 * scripts/casper: calculate memory without "head" utility, thanks to
12 Petar Bogdanovic (LP: #25496).
14 -- Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:04:18 -0800
16 casper (1.219) lucid; urgency=low
19 * Disable casper-reconfigure from 22gnome_panel_data. It doesn't (appear) to
20 serve a functional purpose as the postinst does nothing different for laptops.
23 * add 35copy_wallpaper_cache to copy the wallpaper cache created at boot time
24 to the main user's directory. First boot will take it into account in
27 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:14:53 +0100
29 casper (1.218) lucid; urgency=low
31 * Allow dpkg and apt-get to be installed from within commands that operate
32 in the chroot via early_command or driver updates. (LP: #521218)
34 -- Mario Limonciello <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com> Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:38:48 -0600
36 casper (1.217) lucid; urgency=low
39 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Enable accessible login for the blindness
40 and braile accessibility profiles.
43 * Use egrep rather than 'grep -E' (LP: #512386).
46 * 15autologin: Add support for LXDM autologin (LP: #511976).
49 * Properly shut down debconf-communicate so that its database gets
50 written (LP: #518272).
52 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:25:53 +0000
54 casper (1.216) lucid; urgency=low
57 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
58 - Remove code to disable pulseaudio, as it is no longer needed, and
59 the supporting code in the pulseaudio package was removed a long time
61 - Set the default empathy theme to classic for blindness and braille
62 accessibility profiles.
65 * Speed up work around debconf-communicate. Replace several calls to
66 debconf-communicate with one persistent invocation followed by
68 * Disable guest account by rm'ing rather than waiting for dpkg to
71 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:57 -0800
73 casper (1.215) lucid; urgency=low
76 * Support multiple preseed file/urlarguments on the kernel commandline
77 rather than just selecting the last one and going with that.
78 * debian/control: Set Vcs-Bzr.
81 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/48enable_kubuntu_netbook and ubiquity-
82 hooks/48enable_kubuntu_netbook to enable Plasma Netbook workspace
83 for Kubuntu Netbook Remix
85 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:55:42 +0000
87 casper (1.214) lucid; urgency=low
89 * 15autologin: simplify the code with escape character evaluation
92 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:57:05 +0100
94 casper (1.213) lucid; urgency=low
96 * printf does not evaluate escape characters in the argument string.
98 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:02:12 +0000
100 casper (1.212) lucid; urgency=low
103 * debian/control: Add ${misc:Depends}.
104 * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes necessary).
107 * 15autologin: Use printf rather than echo -e, since its behaviour is
108 portable across shells.
111 * Remove scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_apparmor. Apparmor
112 2.3.1+bzr1312-0ubuntu3 and ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu26 now no-op when
113 they detect the live CD environment.
115 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:56:27 +0000
117 casper (1.211) lucid; urgency=low
119 * Readd scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin changes: derivatives have
120 now a custom.conf file and still need autologin in live version.
121 Merge with my previous fix proposed for sponsoring one week ago:
122 use echo -e to enable \n interpretation (/bin/sh is busybox ash
123 which behavior differs from vanilla ash interpretor) (LP: #500786)ยท
125 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:05:26 +0100
127 casper (1.210) lucid; urgency=low
129 [ Scott James Remnant ]
130 * Dropped Vcs-Bzr headers, pushed to lp:ubuntu/casper
131 * conf-hooks.d/casper: Changed to FRAMEBUFFER=y
134 * Source /scripts/casper-functions and /scripts/casper-helpers only after
135 processing 'prereqs' argument, to avoid lots of warnings with new
138 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:54:54 +0000
140 casper (1.209) lucid; urgency=low
142 * Revert the previous change to 15autologin and instead just make sure
143 custom.conf does not exist.
145 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:18:47 +0000
147 casper (1.208) lucid; urgency=low
150 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: sreadahead is no more, disable
154 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Don't erase /etc/gdm/custom.conf but
155 only append autologin on casper startup if needed. This avoids removing
156 default session set in this file for ubuntu derivatives which use GDM.
157 The script also check if the modification is already there for
158 persistent usb keys. (LP: #498971)
160 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:54:36 +0100
162 casper (1.207) lucid; urgency=low
164 * Drop 46_disable_services. It didn't need to be running on "all" systems
165 with casper installed. Mythbuntu systems will pull this in via a package
166 that is administerable via ~mythbuntu-dev.
168 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:29 -0600
170 casper (1.206) karmic; urgency=low
172 * Fix broken /cdrom writable test in 43disable_initramfs
175 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:49:15 +0100
177 casper (1.205) karmic; urgency=low
179 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Disable sreadahead on live CD
180 boot. Not only does it profile the live CD boot to no benefit, but it
181 also looks as if it may be responsible for breaking Wubi installs by
182 reading from partman's synchronisation FIFOs (LP: #439279).
184 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:02 +0100
186 casper (1.204) karmic; urgency=low
188 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
189 - .pulse_a11y_nostart -> pulse_a11y_nostart due to being in a system
190 directory, to completely match the change in pulseaudio, which I missed
193 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:29:07 +1100
195 casper (1.203) karmic; urgency=low
197 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
198 - Change .pulse_a11y_nostart location to /var/lib/pulseaudio, as per
199 the change in pulseaudio itself, to solve a race condition with volume
202 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:31:51 +1100
204 casper (1.202) karmic; urgency=low
206 * scripts/casper-bottom/46_disable_services:
207 - MythTV backend is now an upstart service, so rename it's conf file
208 in /etc/init, rather than using update-rc.d.
210 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:47:00 -0500
212 casper (1.201) karmic; urgency=low
215 * Don't prompt to eject the SD card on Babbage boards, since for now it's
216 reused as a quasi-boot-floppy (LP: #364273).
219 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: update to work for polkit-1
220 as well. Allow the live cd user to perform any action when at the
221 active console. (LP: #447141)
223 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:06:53 +0100
225 casper (1.200) karmic; urgency=low
227 * scripts/casper-bottom/20xconfig:
228 - Fix xforcevesa to generate a good failsafe xorg.conf (LP: #423969)
230 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:26:42 -0500
232 casper (1.199) karmic; urgency=low
235 * Scan device-mapper (RAID) devices for live filesystem (LP: #385305).
237 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:39:57 +0100
239 casper (1.198) karmic; urgency=low
241 * scripts/casper: Send PULSELOGO usplash command at startup. (LP: #438762)
243 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:07 +0200
245 casper (1.197) karmic; urgency=low
248 * Fix tty device name construction to work with new upstart (LP: #438678).
251 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: pass -L to getty and set term to vt100.
252 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: set +x...
254 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0100
256 casper (1.196) karmic; urgency=low
258 * Extend our hack that arranges to run setupcon after usplash exits to
259 cover the new Upstartified usplash as well.
261 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:36:55 +0100
263 casper (1.195) karmic; urgency=low
266 * add support for serialtty= cmdline option for debugging purposes in live
270 * Upstart moved /etc/event.d/ to /etc/init/; adjust shell provision on VTs
271 to match (LP: #434769).
273 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:52:32 +0100
275 casper (1.194) karmic; urgency=low
277 * Fix 47unr_ubiquity shell code to make slightly more sense.
278 * Tell mkinitramfs that casper needs usplash (LP: #434980).
280 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:29:21 +0100
282 casper (1.193) karmic; urgency=low
284 * Sync LSB headers in init script with desired behaviour: don't start
285 casper at boot, and stop after umountroot but before halt/reboot.
287 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:23 +0100
289 casper (1.192) karmic; urgency=low
292 * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
295 * Add 37kubuntu_netbook_installer_link to show ubiquity launcher
297 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:10:03 +0100
299 casper (1.191) karmic; urgency=low
301 * Slightly re-work 47unr_ubiquity, so that ubiquity doesn't keep getting
302 added to the favourites if persistence is used.ยท
304 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:35:00 +1000
306 casper (1.190) karmic; urgency=low
309 * Don't produce an invalid sed program when trying to remove an applet
310 which isn't in the panel (LP: #406188).
313 * do not remount filesystems that already have been probed when
314 searching for the livefs (LP: #424464)
315 * Fix quoting in try_snap (LP: #424742).
316 * Silence error messages for non-existent device nodes (LP: #425159).
318 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:10:53 +0100
320 casper (1.189) karmic; urgency=low
322 * In 10adduser fix path to ubiquity-kde.desktop file
324 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:54:41 +0100
326 casper (1.188) karmic; urgency=low
328 * Allow for platform-orion-ehci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device"
329 i.e. one which can host a livefs. This is the name of the USB device
330 driver on Marvell Dove boards.
332 -- Loรฏc Minier <loic.minier@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:16:21 +0200
334 casper (1.187) karmic; urgency=low
336 * Stop recommending unionfs-fuse, as we're using aufs again in Karmic.
338 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:14 +0100
340 casper (1.186) karmic; urgency=low
343 * Allow for platform-mxsdhci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device" i.e.
344 one which can host a livefs. This is the new name of this device in
345 2.6.31 kernels on Babbage i.MX51.
348 * Rename 47unr-ubiquity as 47unr_ubiquity, as scripts with dashes don't
349 get installed into the initramfs. (LP: #411616)
351 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:39:34 +1000
353 casper (1.185) karmic; urgency=low
355 * Actually set 47unr-ubiquity as executable.ยท
357 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:41:35 +1000
359 casper (1.184) karmic; urgency=low
362 * Apply the Ubuntu release version to the installer menu entries as well
366 * Fix disabling of apt-check (LP: #406191).
369 * Remove the UNR ubiquity .desktop hack in 10adduser.
370 * Set ubiquity as a UNR Favourite in 47unr-ubiquity.
372 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:58 +0100
374 casper (1.183) karmic; urgency=low
376 * Remove erroneous /root prefix on the ubiquity desktop files in
379 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:34 +0100
381 casper (1.182) karmic; urgency=low
384 * Busybox sed does not preserve ownership, so chown after using it.
387 * Set AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME, not =ubuntu (thanks, arky; LP: #401321).
389 [ Mario Limonciello ]
390 * Add support for lzma type archives to casper-new-uuid.
392 -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0500
394 casper (1.181) karmic; urgency=low
396 * Insert a version number in the name field for ubiquity's desktop file
399 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100
401 casper (1.180) karmic; urgency=low
404 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Minor consistency fixes.
407 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update for new gdm custom configuration
408 file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). (LP: #395861)
410 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0200
412 casper (1.179) karmic; urgency=low
415 * If LIVE_MEDIA_PATH is set on the command line, record it in
416 /etc/casper.conf for the benefit of ubiquity.
419 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update to work with new gdm.
421 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:57 +0200
423 casper (1.178) karmic; urgency=low
425 * Ensure that unionfs-fuse isn't killed by /etc/init.d/sendsigs on
426 shutdown (LP: #386010).
427 * Patches from "phl" (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-leledy), adjusted by
428 me, to fix snapshot resync:
429 - Avoid using cpio -u -d options if klibc cpio is in use (LP: #384059).
430 - Copy /etc/casper.conf into /root, otherwise we forget snapshot resync
431 settings (LP: #384061).
432 - Adjust the first field of *SNAP entries in casper.conf to be relative
433 to /cow, not /root (LP: #384066).
434 - Prefix $DEST with $MOUNTP in casper-snapshot (LP: #384068).
435 - /etc/init.d/casper is usually called with 'start', so handle that as
436 well as 'stop' to do snapshot resyncing and CD ejecting (LP: #384076).
437 * Fix casper-snapshot(1) syntax to avoid missing spaces between options
439 * Fix showmounts when used in conjunction with unionfs-fuse; read-only
440 filesystems need to be bind-mounted rather than move-mounted.
442 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0100
444 casper (1.177) karmic; urgency=low
446 * Port from Debian (thanks, Daniel Baumann):
447 - Added live-media-path as suggested by Jordi Pujol.
448 - Tail casper.log and show its messages during boot (thanks, Michal
449 Suchanek; LP: #363886).
451 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0100
453 casper (1.176) karmic; urgency=low
456 * Fix symlinking of anacron to /bin/true.
459 * Drop scripts/casper-bottom/38jockey_disable_check: Some drivers, like wl
460 or printer drivers, do need to be advertised in a live system. Jockey has
461 been fixed to not advertise video drivers automatically if the packages
462 aren't available (such as in the live system), and even if we should ever
463 put them back, it is easier to disable the notifications in jockey's
464 handlers instead of here. (LP: #381687)
466 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:05 +0200
468 casper (1.175) karmic; urgency=low
470 * Suppress error message if
471 /root/usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop doesn't exist.
472 * Add unionfs-fuse support.
473 * Automatically fall back to unionfs-fuse if the default union filesystem
474 is not available but unionfs-fuse is.
476 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:00 +0100
478 casper (1.174) karmic; urgency=low
480 * debian/control: Increase dependency on initramfs-tools to get the version
481 that uses blkid, depend on util-linux as well
482 * hooks/casper: No need to copy vol_id into the initramfs image.ยท
483 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Use blkid -o udev -p instead of vol_id,
484 there's probably a much cleaner way to check for RAID like this, but
485 this is the direct equivalent.
486 * scripts/casper-helpers (get_fstype): use a blkid call to get the typeยท
487 * scripts/casper-helpers (find_cow_device): use a blkid call to get the
490 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:41 +0100
492 casper (1.173) jaunty; urgency=low
494 * Don't use head -n1 in where_is_mounted, we don't have head in the
495 initramfs. LP: #363038.
497 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:22:06 -0700
499 casper (1.172) jaunty; urgency=low
501 * 43disable_updateinitramfs: The /cdrom mount has been moved to
502 /root/cdrom by the time this script runs, so check that instead.
504 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0100
506 casper (1.171) jaunty; urgency=low
508 * Set MP_QUIET to -q instead of -Q on Ubuntu as well, and not just for
509 Debian as the modprobe in the latest upstream release of module-init-tools
510 doesn't accept -Q anymore.
512 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0200
514 casper (1.170) jaunty; urgency=low
516 * is_nice_device(): allow devices with an ID_PATH of platform-mmc* as well
517 as used for instance for SD cards on the ARM iMX51 Babbage board;
520 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0200
522 casper (1.169) jaunty; urgency=low
524 * [ -w /cdrom ] turns out not to be a sufficient test for files under
525 /cdrom being writable; with busybox, it always returns true even for
526 read-only filesystems. Explicitly check for the read-only flag in mount
527 output to work around this.
528 * Fix where_is_mounted helper function to actually produce output (thanks,
529 Steve Dodd; LP: #346941).
530 * Add a comment to find_cow_device explaining why the choice of
531 filesystems is restricted (I asked for this comment in LP #230703 but it
532 apparently never got written).
534 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:05 +0100
536 casper (1.168) jaunty; urgency=low
538 * Fix writing of "$@" to diverted update-initramfs script (here-documents
539 perform parameter expansion unless the delimiter is quoted).
540 * Don't bring up a temporary network interface while fetching the preseed
541 file when netbooting, as that will disconnect our root filesystem
544 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:29 +0100
546 casper (1.167) jaunty; urgency=low
548 * Disable kwallet from KDE 4 in 34disable_kde_services
550 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:35 +0000
552 casper (1.166) jaunty; urgency=low
555 * Show the ubiquity icon in kourou (LP: #338730)
558 * Move examples.desktop to Desktop/ if it exists, as an alternative to
559 Examples (LP: #45489).
562 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
563 - Make the special case disabling of pulseaudio per user, and not system
565 - Also disable PulseAudio for the Braille profile.
566 - Fix incorrect paths when chowning files.
567 - Don't use /root for the ubiquity hook accessibility script, /target is
568 where the installed system is located.
569 - Remove laptop detect code. Its not currently working, and getting it to
570 work requires invasive changes.
571 - Only set pulseaudio settings and create the .orca directory if sed
572 packages are installed on the live filesystem and installed system.
573 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Copy orca settings to the installed system.
575 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:20 +1100
577 casper (1.165) jaunty; urgency=low
579 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
580 - When the blindness accessibility profile is chosen, create the .orca
581 directory in the live user's home directory. This seems to allow orca
582 to properly reload and use settings in the live session without needing
583 to be restarted. This is only needed for the blindness profile, due to
584 the other profiles that use orca already creating the .orca directory.
587 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:37:20 +1100
589 casper (1.164) jaunty; urgency=low
591 * Update 34disable_kde_services to not start
592 update-notifier-kde or plasma's contact plugin which uses akonadi
594 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:52 +0000
596 casper (1.163) jaunty; urgency=low
598 * 34disable_kwallet moved to 34disable_kde_services and disables
599 various services not needed by live CDs
601 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000
603 casper (1.162) jaunty; urgency=low
605 * If /cdrom is writable, call the diverted update-initramfs and copy
606 the resulting kernel and initrd to /cdrom/casper (LP: #292159).
608 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000
610 casper (1.161) jaunty; urgency=low
613 * Regenerate SSL certificate at boot so that it isn't the same for all
614 live CD users (LP: #337723).
616 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:21 +0000
618 casper (1.160) jaunty; urgency=low
620 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
621 - Adjust sudoers file to allow ORBIT_SOCKET_DIR, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE and
622 GTK_MODULES environment variables through to root, for v2, v3, and
623 braille profiles. This allows users to use administrative GTK/GNOME
624 applications executed by gksudo with accessibility tools like orca.
626 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +1100
628 casper (1.159) jaunty; urgency=low
630 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
631 - Disable pulseaudio for the blindness profile, as pulseaudio and espeak
632 and portaudio v19 do not play very well with each other, lots of
633 crackling, cut of speech. At least espeak via ALSA natively is usable,
634 and latency is relatively low.
636 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:06 +1100
638 casper (1.158) jaunty; urgency=low
640 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
641 - use laptop_detect function in blindness profile as well
643 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:07:17 +1100
645 casper (1.157) jaunty; urgency=low
648 * 10adduser: add Category=Favorites support for netbook-launcher
652 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
653 - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable
654 the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for
655 the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several
656 keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible
657 yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is
658 likely to cause much confusion if sed menu entries are not present.
660 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +1100
662 casper (1.156) jaunty; urgency=low
664 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
665 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
666 - If using a laptop, enable the laptop keyboard layout
667 - There is no longer a need to set gconf values as root in only-ubiquity
670 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:52 +0100
672 casper (1.155) jaunty; urgency=low
675 * Add myself to debian/copyright as an author, as I've done fairly
676 significant work on this.
677 * Eliminate casper-md5check's libm linkage; patch from "SurJector" who
678 points out that the automatic conversion is sufficient (LP: #293613).
679 * Restore showmounts/show-cow option (thanks, Carlo de Wolf and "probono";
680 LP: #159006, #290330).
683 * Add support for ext4.
685 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000
687 casper (1.154) jaunty; urgency=low
690 * scripts/casper-bottom/02timezone:
691 - Remove as it's no longer needed and resets the timezone when
692 persistence is enabled (LP: #296855).
695 * Preseed console-setup/optionscode and console-setup/codesetcode to the
696 empty string on boot to avoid debris from the live filesystem build
697 process getting in the way of installation (LP: #94177).
699 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:44:45 +0000
701 casper (1.153) jaunty; urgency=low
703 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser:
704 - Create links for Mythbuntu items on the Desktop too.
705 - Don't show removable drives on Mythbuntu desktop
706 * scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services:
707 - New script for disabling services unnecessary to Live
708 mode that should still start after being installed.
710 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:59 -0600
712 casper (1.152) intrepid; urgency=low
714 * Use kde4rc now for accessibility profiles
716 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:54 +0100
718 casper (1.151) intrepid; urgency=low
720 * Force ubiquity to --automatic mode for ubuntu-mid
722 -- Emmet Hikory <persia@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:31:16 +0100
724 casper (1.150) intrepid; urgency=low
726 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser (really)
728 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:54 +0100
730 casper (1.149) intrepid; urgency=low
732 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
733 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
734 - Revert to using gconf keys for starting orca, as this is now what
735 orca does when the user chooses to automatically start orca from Orca's
737 - Explicitly set orca as the program to start up for magnification,
740 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:02 +1100
742 casper (1.148) intrepid; urgency=low
744 * Skip remounting read-only in try_mount as it's unnecessary and
745 breaks persistence. Thanks James Westby (LP: #274076).
747 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
749 casper (1.147) intrepid; urgency=low
751 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser
753 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0100
755 casper (1.146) intrepid; urgency=low
757 * Update About Kubuntu link in 10adduser for KDE 4
759 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:15 +0100
761 casper (1.145) intrepid; urgency=low
763 * 38disable_restricted_manager: Remove some obsolete l-r-m and
764 restricted-manager code, and rename the script to 38jockey_disable_check
765 to better reflect its purpose.
767 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0200
769 casper (1.144) intrepid; urgency=low
771 * Bump media detection timeout to a minute; thanks to Tormod Volden and
772 Steve Beattie for analysis (LP: #258432).
773 * Note that this changes (fixes?) the semantics of LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT due
774 to not using hex values in a for loop which aren't understood by test
775 -lt (thanks, Steve Beattie).
777 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:13 +0100
779 casper (1.143) intrepid; urgency=low
781 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
782 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change the way that orca is set to
783 automatically start. Orca can be started via a gconf key, however this
784 is not reflected in the orca UI, and doesn't easily allow the user to
785 prevent orca from autostarting on an installed system.
787 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +1000
789 casper (1.142) intrepid; urgency=low
791 * Fix syntax error introduced by is_nice_device regex fix.
793 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:59 +0100
795 casper (1.141) intrepid; urgency=low
798 * Handle spaces in file names in md5sum.txt (LP: #251112).
801 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax in
802 preseed script; previously we only supported it in the keyboard script,
803 which confusingly doesn't deal with propagating console-setup/* preseeds
804 to the target filesystem (LP: #253749).
805 * Update to localechooser's new languagelist format.
808 * scripts/casper: don't scan floppy drives for livefs images (LP: #97306)
809 * scripts/casper: fix broken RE in is_nice_device() (LP: #250328)
810 * scripts/casper: properly use argument $1 in matches_uuid()
812 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:05 +0100
814 casper (1.140) intrepid; urgency=low
817 * Disable jockey as well as the old restricted-manager. While jockey does
818 do more than restricted-manager did, it also still uses a good chunk of
819 memory for a use case that's fairly limited on the live CD.
822 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
823 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
824 - Check that usr/bin/orca exists and is executable before creating user
827 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:23:41 +1000
829 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
831 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
833 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
835 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
838 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
841 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
842 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
843 apport right before the release.
844 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
845 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
846 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
848 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
850 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
852 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
853 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
855 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
857 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
859 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
860 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
861 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
862 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
864 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
866 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
869 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
872 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
874 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
876 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
879 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
882 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
883 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
885 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
887 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
890 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
893 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
895 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
896 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
897 corruption (LP: #230703).
899 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
901 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
903 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
905 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
906 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
907 corruption (LP: #230703).
909 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
911 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
913 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
914 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
917 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
919 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
922 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
925 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
926 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
929 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
931 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
934 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
935 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
936 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
939 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
940 by root (LP: #218576).
941 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
942 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
943 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
944 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
945 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
946 open another bug for this.
948 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
950 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
952 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
955 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
957 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
959 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
960 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
961 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
962 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
963 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
964 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
967 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
969 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
972 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
973 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
974 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
975 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
976 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
979 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
980 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
984 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
986 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
988 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
990 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
992 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
994 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
996 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
998 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
999 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
1001 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
1003 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
1006 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
1007 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
1008 specification (LP: #204185).
1010 [ Jonathan Riddell ]
1011 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
1013 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
1015 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
1018 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
1021 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
1022 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
1023 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
1025 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
1027 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
1029 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
1030 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
1031 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
1032 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
1034 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
1036 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
1038 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
1040 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
1042 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
1044 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
1046 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
1048 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
1050 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
1051 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
1052 propagating to the installed system.
1054 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
1056 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
1059 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1060 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1061 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
1062 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
1063 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
1064 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
1067 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
1068 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
1070 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
1072 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
1074 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
1075 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
1077 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
1079 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
1081 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
1083 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
1086 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
1088 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
1090 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
1091 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
1092 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
1095 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
1097 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
1099 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
1101 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
1103 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
1106 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
1107 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
1109 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
1112 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
1114 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
1117 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
1118 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
1119 a system. LP: #150188
1122 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
1123 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
1124 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
1125 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
1127 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
1129 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
1131 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
1132 there inside udevadm
1133 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
1134 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
1136 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
1138 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
1140 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
1142 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
1143 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
1144 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
1146 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
1148 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
1150 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
1151 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
1152 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
1154 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
1156 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
1158 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
1159 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
1161 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
1162 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
1164 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
1166 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
1168 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
1169 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
1170 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
1171 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
1174 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
1176 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
1178 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
1180 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
1181 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
1182 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
1183 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
1184 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
1185 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
1187 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
1189 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
1191 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
1192 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
1193 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
1195 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
1197 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
1199 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
1201 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
1203 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
1204 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
1207 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
1209 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
1211 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
1212 fails (LP: #131209).
1214 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
1216 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
1218 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
1219 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
1220 installed (LP: #139403).
1222 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
1224 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
1226 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
1227 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
1228 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
1229 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
1232 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
1234 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
1236 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
1237 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
1238 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
1239 systems. (LP: #131976)
1241 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
1243 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
1245 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
1246 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
1247 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
1249 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
1251 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
1254 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1255 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1256 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
1258 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
1260 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
1262 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
1264 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
1266 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
1268 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
1269 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
1271 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
1273 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
1276 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
1278 [ Jonathan Riddell ]
1279 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
1280 restricted-manager autostart files
1282 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
1284 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
1286 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
1288 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
1291 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
1293 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
1296 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
1297 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
1299 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
1302 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1303 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1304 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
1305 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
1306 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
1307 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
1309 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
1310 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
1312 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
1314 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
1316 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
1317 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
1318 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
1320 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
1322 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
1325 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
1328 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
1329 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
1332 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
1334 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
1336 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
1337 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
1338 .debs (LP: #120217).
1340 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
1342 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
1344 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
1345 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
1347 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
1349 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1351 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
1354 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
1356 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
1358 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
1359 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
1360 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
1361 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
1362 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
1363 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
1364 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
1365 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
1366 kernels (LP: #118561).
1368 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
1370 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
1373 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
1376 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
1377 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
1378 for the final release.
1380 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
1382 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
1385 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1386 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1387 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
1388 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
1390 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
1392 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
1394 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
1396 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
1398 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
1401 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
1402 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
1405 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
1407 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
1408 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
1409 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
1410 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
1411 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
1412 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
1415 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
1417 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
1419 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
1421 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
1422 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
1423 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
1424 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
1425 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
1427 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
1429 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
1432 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
1433 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
1434 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
1435 * Add driver-updates hooks.
1438 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
1439 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
1441 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
1443 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
1445 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
1446 for use with encryption.
1448 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
1450 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Added depends to eject.
1453 * Removed recommends to live-package.
1455 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
1457 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1460 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
1461 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
1464 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
1465 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
1466 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
1468 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
1470 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1472 * New upstream release.
1473 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
1474 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
1475 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
1476 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
1477 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
1478 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
1479 parameter: module=NAME.
1481 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
1483 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
1485 * Merge in Debian's changes.
1487 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
1489 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
1491 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
1492 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
1494 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
1496 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1499 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1501 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
1503 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1505 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1506 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
1507 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
1509 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
1511 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1513 * New Upstream release.
1514 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
1516 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
1518 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
1521 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
1522 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
1523 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
1525 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
1526 avoid interfering with debconf.
1529 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1530 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
1531 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
1534 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
1535 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
1537 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
1539 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
1541 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
1542 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
1543 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
1545 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
1547 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
1549 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
1550 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
1551 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1552 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1553 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1555 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
1557 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
1559 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
1560 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
1561 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
1562 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
1564 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
1566 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
1568 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
1569 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
1570 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
1571 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
1572 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
1573 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
1575 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
1577 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
1579 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
1580 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
1582 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
1583 * Fixed keyboard setup.
1584 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
1585 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
1586 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1589 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
1591 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
1593 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
1594 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1597 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
1599 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
1602 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
1603 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
1604 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
1605 requested by many people.
1606 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
1607 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
1609 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
1610 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
1611 * Fixed locale generation.
1612 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1616 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
1618 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
1620 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1622 * New upstream release.
1623 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
1624 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
1625 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
1627 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
1628 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
1629 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
1630 * Extendend manpages.
1631 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
1632 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
1633 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
1634 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
1635 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
1636 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
1637 needed by casper-snapshot.
1638 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
1641 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
1643 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
1645 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
1648 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
1650 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
1653 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
1655 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
1656 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
1657 aren't supplied on the command line.
1660 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
1661 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
1662 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
1664 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
1665 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
1666 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
1667 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
1669 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
1671 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
1673 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
1674 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
1676 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
1678 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
1681 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
1682 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
1683 enabling accessibility in KDE.
1686 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
1688 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
1690 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
1692 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
1693 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
1694 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
1696 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
1698 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
1700 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
1701 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
1704 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
1706 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1708 * New upstream release.
1709 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
1710 * Tagged for debtags project.
1712 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
1714 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
1716 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
1717 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
1718 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
1720 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
1721 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
1722 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
1723 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
1724 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
1725 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
1726 casper-bottom scripts use this.
1727 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
1729 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
1731 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
1733 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
1736 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
1738 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
1741 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
1742 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
1745 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
1747 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
1749 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
1751 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1753 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
1754 * Lintian cleanness reached.
1756 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
1758 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1760 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
1761 * Added a manpage for casper.
1762 * Lintian cleanings.
1764 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
1766 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1768 * New upstream release.
1769 * Added static network configuration support.
1770 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
1771 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
1772 via kernel parameters.
1774 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
1776 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
1778 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
1779 (closes: Malone #61573).
1781 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
1783 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
1785 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
1786 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
1787 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
1788 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
1789 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
1790 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
1792 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
1794 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1796 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
1797 * Default user password now "live".
1799 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
1801 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
1803 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
1804 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
1805 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
1806 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
1807 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
1809 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
1811 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * New upstream release.
1814 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
1815 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
1816 as kernel parameter).
1818 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
1820 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
1822 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
1824 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
1826 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1828 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1829 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1830 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1832 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1834 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1835 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1837 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1839 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1841 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1842 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1844 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1846 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1848 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1849 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1851 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1853 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1856 * New upstream release.
1857 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1858 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1859 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1860 script/casper-bottom.
1861 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1862 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1863 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1864 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1865 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1868 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1869 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1870 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1873 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1874 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1876 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1878 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1881 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1883 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1884 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1885 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1886 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1887 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1888 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1889 * Minor build system fixes.
1890 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1891 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1892 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1894 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1896 * Add stacked file system support
1899 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1900 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1903 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1905 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1907 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1909 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1911 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1913 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1916 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1917 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1918 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1919 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1922 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1923 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1925 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1927 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1929 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1930 PATH isn't correctly set.
1932 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1934 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1936 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1937 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1938 * Rearrange source package.
1939 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1941 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1944 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1946 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1949 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1952 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1953 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1954 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1955 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1958 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1960 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1962 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1963 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1964 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1965 * Removed ubiquity code.
1966 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1967 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1968 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1969 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1970 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1971 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1972 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1973 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1974 instead of group 'admin'.
1976 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1978 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1980 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1982 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1984 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1986 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1987 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1988 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1990 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1992 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1994 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1996 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1997 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1999 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
2001 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
2003 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
2006 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
2008 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
2011 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
2015 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
2017 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
2019 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
2022 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
2026 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
2029 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
2031 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
2033 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
2036 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
2038 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
2041 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
2042 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
2043 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
2046 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
2048 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
2049 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
2050 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
2051 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
2052 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
2053 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
2055 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
2056 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
2059 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
2060 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
2061 scripts. Malone #43860
2062 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
2063 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
2065 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
2066 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
2068 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
2070 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
2073 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
2074 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
2076 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
2077 for the v1 accessibility profile.
2078 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
2079 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
2080 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
2083 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
2085 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
2086 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
2087 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
2090 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
2092 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
2094 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
2096 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
2098 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
2100 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
2102 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
2103 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
2106 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
2108 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
2111 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
2112 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
2113 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
2114 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
2115 gnome-panel-data is installed.
2116 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
2117 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
2119 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
2120 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
2121 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
2122 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
2125 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
2127 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
2129 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
2131 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
2132 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
2133 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
2134 ubiquity-casper to match.
2136 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
2138 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
2141 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
2145 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
2147 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
2149 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
2151 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
2152 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
2153 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
2154 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
2156 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
2158 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
2160 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
2161 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
2163 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
2165 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
2168 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
2169 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
2170 in the relevant packages.
2173 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
2174 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
2175 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
2176 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
2179 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
2181 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
2183 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
2184 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
2186 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
2188 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
2190 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
2191 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
2192 trigger unionfs bugs
2193 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
2194 check. (Malone: #29203)
2195 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
2197 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
2199 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
2202 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
2206 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
2207 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
2208 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
2210 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
2212 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
2214 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
2216 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
2218 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
2220 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
2221 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
2222 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
2223 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
2225 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
2227 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
2230 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
2231 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
2232 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
2235 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
2237 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
2239 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
2241 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
2242 debconf-set-selections.
2244 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
2246 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
2249 * Add initial accessibility support framework
2251 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
2253 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
2255 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
2257 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
2258 actually look in the right place.
2259 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
2261 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
2263 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
2265 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
2267 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
2269 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
2272 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
2274 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
2275 into the right place. Malone #20978
2278 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
2281 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
2283 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
2285 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
2287 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
2288 * Set up the right console keymap.
2290 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
2292 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
2295 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
2296 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2297 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
2299 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2300 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
2301 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
2306 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
2308 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
2309 casper in the installed system.
2311 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
2313 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
2315 * Depend on user-setup
2316 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
2317 be copied into the initramfs.
2319 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
2321 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
2323 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
2325 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
2327 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
2329 * Add persistency support
2330 * Usplash integration
2332 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
2334 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
2336 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
2338 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
2340 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
2342 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
2343 working in shell variables.
2344 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
2345 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
2347 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
2349 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
2351 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
2354 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
2356 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
2358 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
2360 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
2363 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
2365 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
2367 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
2368 list of supported locales.
2369 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
2370 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
2371 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
2372 * Disable checkroot when booting
2374 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
2376 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
2378 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
2379 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
2380 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
2381 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
2383 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
2385 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
2386 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
2388 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
2390 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
2392 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
2393 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
2394 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
2395 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
2396 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
2397 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
2399 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
2401 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
2403 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
2404 Brazilian Portuguese.
2406 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
2408 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
2410 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
2412 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
2414 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
2416 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
2417 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
2418 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
2420 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
2422 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
2424 * Neutralize branding in startup message
2425 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
2426 the console from d-i's death throes
2428 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
2430 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
2432 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
2433 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
2435 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
2437 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
2439 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
2441 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
2443 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
2445 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
2446 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
2449 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
2451 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
2453 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
2454 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
2455 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
2457 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
2459 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
2461 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
2462 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
2465 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
2467 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
2469 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
2470 device nodes clobbered by udev
2471 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
2472 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
2475 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
2477 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
2479 * Add usplash support
2481 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
2483 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
2485 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
2486 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
2487 can be invaluable for debugging
2489 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
2491 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
2493 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
2494 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
2495 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
2498 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
2500 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
2502 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
2505 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
2507 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
2509 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
2512 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
2514 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
2516 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
2518 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
2520 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
2522 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
2524 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
2526 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
2528 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
2531 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
2533 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
2535 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
2537 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
2539 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
2540 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
2543 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
2545 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
2547 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
2549 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
2551 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
2553 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
2555 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
2556 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
2558 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
2560 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
2562 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
2563 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
2565 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
2567 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
2569 * Updated translations from
2570 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
2572 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
2574 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
2576 * Updated translations from
2577 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
2579 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
2581 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
2583 * Updated translations from
2584 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
2586 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
2588 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
2590 * Updated translations from
2591 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
2593 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
2595 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
2597 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
2599 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
2601 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
2603 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
2605 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
2606 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
2608 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
2610 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
2612 * Suppress error output from eject
2613 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
2614 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
2616 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
2618 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
2620 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
2622 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
2624 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
2626 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
2627 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
2629 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
2631 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
2633 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
2634 provided by base-installer).
2636 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
2638 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
2640 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
2641 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
2643 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
2645 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
2647 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
2649 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
2651 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
2653 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
2654 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
2655 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
2657 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
2659 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
2661 * Fix 20xconfig harder
2663 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
2665 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
2667 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
2669 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
2671 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
2673 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
2674 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
2676 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
2678 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
2680 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
2681 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
2682 their password is irrelevant.
2684 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
2686 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
2688 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
2689 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
2691 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
2693 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
2695 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
2696 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
2697 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
2698 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
2699 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
2700 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
2702 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
2704 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
2706 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
2707 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
2709 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
2711 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
2713 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
2714 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
2715 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
2716 already a (different) debian/compat.
2718 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
2720 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
2722 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
2724 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
2726 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
2728 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
2730 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
2732 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
2734 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
2736 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
2738 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
2740 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
2741 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
2742 mounted using devfs names
2743 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
2744 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
2745 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
2748 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
2750 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
2752 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
2754 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
2756 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
2758 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
2759 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
2762 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
2764 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
2766 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
2767 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
2768 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
2769 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
2772 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
2774 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
2776 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
2777 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
2779 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
2780 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
2782 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
2784 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
2786 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
2788 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
2790 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
2792 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
2793 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
2794 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
2795 create progress bar text for them
2796 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
2798 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
2800 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
2802 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
2804 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
2806 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
2808 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
2811 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
2813 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
2815 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
2818 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
2820 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
2822 * Suppress network configuration questions
2824 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
2825 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
2826 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2828 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2829 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2832 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2834 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2836 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2837 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2838 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2839 - Corresponding progress template
2840 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2841 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2842 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2845 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2847 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2849 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2851 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2853 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2855 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2856 what is and is not a kernel thread
2858 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2860 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2862 * Add a backtitle properly
2864 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2866 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2870 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2872 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2874 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2876 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2878 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2881 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2884 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2886 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2888 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2891 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2893 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2896 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2898 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2900 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2902 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2904 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2906 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2908 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2909 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2910 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2911 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2912 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2913 questions from being asked
2915 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2917 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2919 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2920 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2922 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2924 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2926 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2929 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2931 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2933 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2935 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2937 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2939 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2941 * Remove some unused templates
2943 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2945 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2947 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2948 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2949 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2952 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2954 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2956 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2957 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2959 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2960 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2962 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2964 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2966 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2967 during reboot or shutdown
2969 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2971 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2973 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2975 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2977 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2979 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2980 readable menu item text
2981 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2983 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2985 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2986 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2988 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2990 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2992 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2994 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2996 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2998 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
3000 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
3002 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
3004 * Attempt to configure X
3005 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
3006 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
3007 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
3008 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
3009 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
3010 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
3011 elsewhere, but for now...)
3013 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
3015 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
3017 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
3019 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
3021 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
3023 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
3024 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
3025 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
3026 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
3028 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
3030 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
3032 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
3033 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
3034 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
3035 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
3036 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
3037 * Add a progress bar
3038 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
3040 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
3042 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
3046 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800