1 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
3 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
4 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
5 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
7 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
9 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
11 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
13 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
15 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
16 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
19 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
21 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
23 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
26 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
28 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
30 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
31 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
32 installed (LP: #139403).
34 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
36 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
38 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
39 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
40 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
41 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
44 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
46 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
48 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
49 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
50 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
51 systems. (LP: #131976)
53 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
55 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
57 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
58 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
59 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
61 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
63 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
66 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
67 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
68 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
70 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
72 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
74 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
76 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
78 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
80 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
81 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
83 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
85 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
88 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
91 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
92 restricted-manager autostart files
94 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
96 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
98 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
100 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
103 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
105 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
108 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
109 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
111 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
114 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
115 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
116 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
117 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
118 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
119 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
121 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
122 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
124 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
126 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
128 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
129 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
130 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
132 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
134 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
137 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
140 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
141 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
144 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
146 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
148 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
149 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
152 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
154 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
156 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
157 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
159 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
161 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
163 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
166 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
168 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
170 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
171 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
172 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
173 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
174 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
175 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
176 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
177 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
178 kernels (LP: #118561).
180 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
182 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
185 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
188 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
189 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
190 for the final release.
192 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
194 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
197 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
198 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
199 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
200 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
202 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
204 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
206 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
208 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
210 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
213 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
214 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
217 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
219 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
220 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
221 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
222 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
223 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
224 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
227 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
229 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
231 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
233 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
234 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
235 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
236 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
237 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
239 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
241 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
244 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
245 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
246 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
247 * Add driver-updates hooks.
250 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
251 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
253 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
255 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
257 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
258 for use with encryption.
260 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
262 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
264 * Added depends to eject.
265 * Removed recommends to live-package.
267 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
269 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
272 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
273 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
276 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
277 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
278 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
280 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
282 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
284 * New upstream release.
285 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
286 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
287 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
288 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
289 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
290 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
291 parameter: module=NAME.
293 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
295 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
297 * Merge in Debian's changes.
299 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
301 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
303 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
304 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
306 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
308 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
310 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
311 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
313 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
315 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
317 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
318 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
319 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
321 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
323 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
325 * New Upstream release.
326 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
328 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
330 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
333 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
334 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
335 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
337 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
338 avoid interfering with debconf.
341 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
342 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
343 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
346 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
347 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
349 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
351 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
353 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
354 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
355 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
357 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
359 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
361 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
362 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
363 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
364 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
365 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
367 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
369 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
371 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
372 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
373 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
374 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
376 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
378 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
380 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
381 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
382 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
383 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
384 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
385 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
387 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
389 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
391 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
392 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
394 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
395 * Fixed keyboard setup.
396 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
397 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
398 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
401 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
403 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
405 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
406 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
409 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
411 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
414 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
415 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
416 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
417 requested by many people.
418 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
419 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
421 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
422 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
423 * Fixed locale generation.
424 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
428 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
430 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
432 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
434 * New upstream release.
435 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
436 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
437 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
439 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
440 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
441 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
442 * Extendend manpages.
443 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
444 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
445 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
446 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
447 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
448 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
449 needed by casper-snapshot.
450 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
453 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
455 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
457 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
460 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
462 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
465 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
467 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
468 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
469 aren't supplied on the command line.
472 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
473 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
474 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
476 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
477 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
478 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
479 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
481 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
483 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
485 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
486 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
488 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
490 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
493 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
494 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
495 enabling accessibility in KDE.
498 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
500 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
502 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
504 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
505 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
506 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
508 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
510 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
512 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
513 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
516 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
518 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
520 * New upstream release.
521 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
522 * Tagged for debtags project.
524 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
526 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
528 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
529 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
530 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
532 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
533 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
534 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
535 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
536 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
537 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
538 casper-bottom scripts use this.
539 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
541 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
543 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
545 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
548 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
550 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
553 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
554 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
557 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
559 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
561 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
563 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
565 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
566 * Lintian cleanness reached.
568 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
570 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
572 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
573 * Added a manpage for casper.
576 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
578 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
580 * New upstream release.
581 * Added static network configuration support.
582 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
583 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
584 via kernel parameters.
586 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
588 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
590 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
591 (closes: Malone #61573).
593 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
595 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
597 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
598 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
599 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
600 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
601 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
602 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
604 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
606 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
609 * Default user password now "live".
611 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
613 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
615 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
616 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
617 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
618 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
619 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
621 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
623 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
625 * New upstream release.
626 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
627 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
628 as kernel parameter).
630 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
632 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
634 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
636 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
638 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
640 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
641 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
642 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
644 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
646 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
647 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
649 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
651 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
653 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
654 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
656 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
658 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
660 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
661 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
663 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
665 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
668 * New upstream release.
669 * Fixed upstream changelog.
670 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
671 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
672 script/casper-bottom.
673 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
674 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
675 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
676 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
677 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
680 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
681 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
682 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
685 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
686 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
688 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
690 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
693 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
695 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
696 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
697 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
698 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
699 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
700 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
701 * Minor build system fixes.
702 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
703 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
704 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
706 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
708 * Add stacked file system support
711 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
712 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
715 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
717 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
719 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
721 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
723 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
725 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
728 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
729 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
730 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
731 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
734 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
735 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
737 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
739 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
741 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
742 PATH isn't correctly set.
744 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
746 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
748 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
749 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
750 * Rearrange source package.
751 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
753 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
756 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
758 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
761 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
764 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
765 * Removed "persistent" wait.
766 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
767 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
770 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
772 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
774 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
775 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
776 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
777 * Removed ubiquity code.
778 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
779 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
780 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
781 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
782 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
783 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
784 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
785 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
786 instead of group 'admin'.
788 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
790 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
792 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
794 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
796 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
798 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
799 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
800 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
802 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
804 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
806 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
808 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
809 CD/DVD has been ejected.
811 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
813 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
815 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
818 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
820 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
823 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
827 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
829 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
831 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
834 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
838 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
841 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
843 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
845 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
848 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
850 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
853 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
854 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
855 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
858 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
860 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
861 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
862 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
863 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
864 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
865 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
867 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
868 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
871 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
872 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
873 scripts. Malone #43860
874 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
875 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
877 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
878 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
880 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
882 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
885 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
886 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
888 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
889 for the v1 accessibility profile.
890 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
891 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
892 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
895 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
897 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
898 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
899 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
902 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
904 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
906 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
908 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
910 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
912 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
914 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
915 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
918 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
920 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
923 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
924 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
925 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
926 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
927 gnome-panel-data is installed.
928 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
929 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
931 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
932 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
933 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
934 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
937 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
939 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
941 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
943 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
944 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
945 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
946 ubiquity-casper to match.
948 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
950 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
953 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
957 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
959 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
961 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
963 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
964 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
965 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
966 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
968 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
970 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
972 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
973 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
975 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
977 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
980 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
981 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
982 in the relevant packages.
985 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
986 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
987 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
988 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
991 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
993 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
995 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
996 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
998 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
1000 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
1002 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
1003 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
1004 trigger unionfs bugs
1005 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
1006 check. (Malone: #29203)
1007 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
1009 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
1011 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
1014 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
1018 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
1019 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
1020 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
1022 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
1024 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
1026 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
1028 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
1030 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
1032 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
1033 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
1034 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
1035 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
1037 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
1039 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
1042 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
1043 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
1044 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
1047 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
1049 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
1051 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
1053 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
1054 debconf-set-selections.
1056 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
1058 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
1061 * Add initial accessibility support framework
1063 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
1065 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
1067 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
1069 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
1070 actually look in the right place.
1071 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
1073 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
1075 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
1077 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
1079 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
1081 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
1084 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
1086 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
1087 into the right place. Malone #20978
1090 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
1093 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
1095 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
1097 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
1099 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
1100 * Set up the right console keymap.
1102 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
1104 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
1107 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
1108 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1109 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
1111 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1112 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
1113 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
1118 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
1120 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
1121 casper in the installed system.
1123 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
1125 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
1127 * Depend on user-setup
1128 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
1129 be copied into the initramfs.
1131 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
1133 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
1135 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
1137 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
1139 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
1141 * Add persistency support
1142 * Usplash integration
1144 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
1146 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
1148 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
1150 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
1152 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
1154 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
1155 working in shell variables.
1156 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
1157 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
1159 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
1161 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
1163 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
1166 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
1168 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
1170 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
1172 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
1175 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
1177 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
1179 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
1180 list of supported locales.
1181 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
1182 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
1183 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
1184 * Disable checkroot when booting
1186 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
1188 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
1190 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
1191 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
1192 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
1193 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
1195 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
1197 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
1198 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
1200 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
1202 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
1204 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
1205 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
1206 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
1207 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
1208 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
1209 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
1211 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
1213 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
1215 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
1216 Brazilian Portuguese.
1218 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
1220 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
1222 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
1224 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
1226 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
1228 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
1229 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
1230 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
1232 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
1234 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
1236 * Neutralize branding in startup message
1237 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
1238 the console from d-i's death throes
1240 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
1242 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
1244 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
1245 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
1247 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
1249 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
1251 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
1253 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
1255 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
1257 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
1258 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
1261 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
1263 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
1265 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
1266 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
1267 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
1269 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
1271 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
1273 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
1274 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
1277 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
1279 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
1281 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
1282 device nodes clobbered by udev
1283 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
1284 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
1287 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
1289 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
1291 * Add usplash support
1293 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
1295 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
1297 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
1298 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
1299 can be invaluable for debugging
1301 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
1303 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
1305 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
1306 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
1307 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
1310 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
1312 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
1314 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
1317 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
1319 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
1321 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
1324 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
1326 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
1328 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
1330 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
1332 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
1334 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
1336 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
1338 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
1340 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
1343 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
1345 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
1347 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
1349 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
1351 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
1352 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
1355 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
1357 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
1359 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
1361 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
1363 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
1365 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
1367 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
1368 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
1370 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
1372 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
1374 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
1375 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
1377 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
1379 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
1381 * Updated translations from
1382 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
1384 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
1386 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
1388 * Updated translations from
1389 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
1391 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
1393 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
1395 * Updated translations from
1396 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
1398 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
1400 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
1402 * Updated translations from
1403 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
1405 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
1407 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
1409 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
1411 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
1413 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
1415 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
1417 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
1418 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
1420 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
1422 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
1424 * Suppress error output from eject
1425 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
1426 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
1428 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
1430 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
1432 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
1434 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
1436 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
1438 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
1439 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
1441 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
1443 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
1445 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
1446 provided by base-installer).
1448 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
1450 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
1452 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
1453 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
1455 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
1457 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
1459 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
1461 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
1463 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
1465 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
1466 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
1467 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
1469 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
1471 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
1473 * Fix 20xconfig harder
1475 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
1477 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
1479 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
1481 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
1483 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
1485 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
1486 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
1488 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
1490 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
1492 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
1493 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
1494 their password is irrelevant.
1496 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
1498 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
1500 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
1501 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
1503 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
1505 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
1507 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
1508 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
1509 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
1510 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
1511 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
1512 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
1514 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
1516 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
1518 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
1519 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
1521 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
1523 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
1525 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
1526 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
1527 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
1528 already a (different) debian/compat.
1530 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
1532 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
1534 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
1536 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
1538 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
1540 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
1542 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
1544 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
1546 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
1548 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
1550 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
1552 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
1553 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
1554 mounted using devfs names
1555 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
1556 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
1557 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
1560 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
1562 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
1564 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
1566 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
1568 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
1570 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
1571 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
1574 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
1576 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
1578 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
1579 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
1580 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
1581 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
1584 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
1586 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
1588 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
1589 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
1591 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
1592 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
1594 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
1596 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
1598 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
1600 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
1602 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
1604 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
1605 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
1606 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
1607 create progress bar text for them
1608 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
1610 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
1612 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
1614 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
1616 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
1618 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
1620 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
1623 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
1625 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
1627 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
1630 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
1632 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
1634 * Suppress network configuration questions
1636 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
1637 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
1638 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
1640 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
1641 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
1644 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
1646 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
1648 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
1649 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
1650 session based on whether the system is a laptop
1651 - Corresponding progress template
1652 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
1653 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
1654 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
1657 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
1659 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
1661 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
1663 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
1665 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
1667 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
1668 what is and is not a kernel thread
1670 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
1672 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
1674 * Add a backtitle properly
1676 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
1678 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
1682 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
1684 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
1686 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
1688 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
1690 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1692 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
1693 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
1696 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
1698 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
1700 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
1703 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
1705 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
1708 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
1710 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
1712 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
1714 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
1716 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
1718 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
1720 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
1721 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
1722 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
1723 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
1724 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
1725 questions from being asked
1727 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
1729 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
1731 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
1732 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
1734 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
1736 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
1738 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
1741 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
1743 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
1745 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
1747 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
1749 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
1751 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
1753 * Remove some unused templates
1755 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
1757 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
1759 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
1760 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
1761 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
1764 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
1766 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
1768 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
1769 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
1771 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
1772 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
1774 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
1776 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
1778 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
1779 during reboot or shutdown
1781 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
1783 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
1785 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
1787 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
1789 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
1791 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
1792 readable menu item text
1793 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
1795 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
1797 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
1798 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
1800 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
1802 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
1804 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
1806 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
1808 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
1810 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
1812 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
1814 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
1816 * Attempt to configure X
1817 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
1818 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
1819 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
1820 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
1821 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
1822 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
1823 elsewhere, but for now...)
1825 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
1827 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
1829 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
1831 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
1833 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
1835 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
1836 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
1837 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
1838 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
1840 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
1842 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
1844 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
1845 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
1846 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
1847 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
1848 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
1849 * Add a progress bar
1850 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
1852 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
1854 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
1858 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800