1 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
3 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
5 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
7 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
10 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
13 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
14 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
15 apport right before the release.
16 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
17 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
18 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
20 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
22 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
24 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
25 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
27 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
29 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
31 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
32 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
33 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
34 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
36 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
38 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
41 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
44 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
46 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
48 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
51 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
54 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
55 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
57 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
59 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
62 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
65 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
67 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
68 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
69 corruption (LP: #230703).
71 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
73 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
75 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
77 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
78 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
79 corruption (LP: #230703).
81 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
83 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
85 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
86 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
89 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
91 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
94 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
97 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
98 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
101 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
103 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
106 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
107 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
108 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
111 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
112 by root (LP: #218576).
113 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
114 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
115 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
116 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
117 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
118 open another bug for this.
120 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
122 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
124 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
127 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
129 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
131 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
132 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
133 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
134 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
135 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
136 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
139 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
141 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
144 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
145 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
146 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
147 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
148 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
151 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
152 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
156 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
158 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
160 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
162 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
164 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
166 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
168 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
170 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
171 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
173 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
175 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
178 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
179 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
180 specification (LP: #204185).
183 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
185 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
187 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
190 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
193 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
194 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
195 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
197 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
199 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
201 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
202 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
203 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
204 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
206 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
208 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
210 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
212 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
214 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
216 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
218 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
220 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
222 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
223 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
224 propagating to the installed system.
226 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
228 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
231 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
232 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
233 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
234 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
235 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
236 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
239 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
240 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
242 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
244 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
246 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
247 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
249 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
251 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
253 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
255 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
258 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
260 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
262 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
263 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
264 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
267 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
269 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
271 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
273 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
275 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
278 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
279 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
281 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
284 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
286 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
289 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
290 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
291 a system. LP: #150188
294 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
295 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
296 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
297 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
299 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
301 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
303 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
305 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
306 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
308 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
310 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
312 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
314 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
315 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
316 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
318 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
320 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
322 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
323 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
324 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
326 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
328 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
330 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
331 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
333 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
334 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
336 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
338 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
340 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
341 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
342 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
343 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
346 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
348 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
350 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
352 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
353 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
354 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
355 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
356 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
357 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
359 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
361 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
363 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
364 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
365 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
367 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
369 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
371 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
373 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
375 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
376 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
379 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
381 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
383 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
386 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
388 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
390 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
391 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
392 installed (LP: #139403).
394 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
396 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
398 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
399 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
400 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
401 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
404 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
406 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
408 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
409 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
410 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
411 systems. (LP: #131976)
413 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
415 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
417 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
418 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
419 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
421 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
423 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
426 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
427 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
428 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
430 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
432 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
434 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
436 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
438 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
440 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
441 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
443 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
445 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
448 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
451 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
452 restricted-manager autostart files
454 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
456 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
458 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
460 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
463 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
465 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
468 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
469 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
471 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
474 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
475 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
476 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
477 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
478 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
479 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
481 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
482 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
484 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
486 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
488 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
489 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
490 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
492 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
494 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
497 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
500 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
501 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
504 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
506 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
508 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
509 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
512 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
514 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
516 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
517 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
519 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
521 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
523 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
526 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
528 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
530 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
531 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
532 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
533 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
534 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
535 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
536 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
537 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
538 kernels (LP: #118561).
540 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
542 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
545 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
548 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
549 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
550 for the final release.
552 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
554 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
557 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
558 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
559 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
560 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
562 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
564 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
566 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
568 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
570 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
573 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
574 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
577 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
579 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
580 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
581 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
582 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
583 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
584 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
587 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
589 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
591 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
593 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
594 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
595 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
596 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
597 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
599 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
601 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
604 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
605 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
606 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
607 * Add driver-updates hooks.
610 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
611 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
613 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
615 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
617 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
618 for use with encryption.
620 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
622 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
624 * Added depends to eject.
625 * Removed recommends to live-package.
627 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
629 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
632 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
633 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
636 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
637 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
638 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
640 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
642 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
644 * New upstream release.
645 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
646 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
647 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
648 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
649 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
650 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
651 parameter: module=NAME.
653 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
655 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
657 * Merge in Debian's changes.
659 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
661 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
663 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
664 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
666 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
668 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
670 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
671 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
673 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
675 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
677 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
678 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
679 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
681 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
683 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
685 * New Upstream release.
686 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
688 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
690 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
693 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
694 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
695 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
697 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
698 avoid interfering with debconf.
701 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
702 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
703 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
706 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
707 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
709 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
711 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
713 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
714 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
715 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
717 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
719 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
721 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
722 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
723 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
724 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
725 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
727 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
729 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
731 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
732 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
733 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
734 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
736 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
738 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
740 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
741 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
742 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
743 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
744 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
745 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
747 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
749 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
751 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
752 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
754 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
755 * Fixed keyboard setup.
756 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
757 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
758 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
761 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
763 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
765 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
766 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
769 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
771 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
774 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
775 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
776 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
777 requested by many people.
778 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
779 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
781 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
782 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
783 * Fixed locale generation.
784 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
788 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
790 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
792 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
794 * New upstream release.
795 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
796 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
797 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
799 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
800 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
801 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
802 * Extendend manpages.
803 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
804 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
805 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
806 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
807 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
808 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
809 needed by casper-snapshot.
810 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
813 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
815 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
817 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
820 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
822 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
825 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
827 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
828 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
829 aren't supplied on the command line.
832 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
833 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
834 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
836 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
837 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
838 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
839 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
841 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
843 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
845 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
846 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
848 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
850 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
853 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
854 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
855 enabling accessibility in KDE.
858 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
860 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
862 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
864 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
865 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
866 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
868 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
870 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
872 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
873 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
876 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
878 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
880 * New upstream release.
881 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
882 * Tagged for debtags project.
884 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
886 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
888 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
889 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
890 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
892 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
893 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
894 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
895 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
896 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
897 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
898 casper-bottom scripts use this.
899 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
901 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
903 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
905 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
908 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
910 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
913 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
914 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
917 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
919 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
921 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
923 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
925 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
926 * Lintian cleanness reached.
928 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
930 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
932 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
933 * Added a manpage for casper.
936 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
938 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
940 * New upstream release.
941 * Added static network configuration support.
942 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
943 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
944 via kernel parameters.
946 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
948 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
950 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
951 (closes: Malone #61573).
953 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
955 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
957 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
958 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
959 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
960 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
961 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
962 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
964 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
966 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
968 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
969 * Default user password now "live".
971 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
973 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
975 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
976 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
977 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
978 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
979 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
981 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
983 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
985 * New upstream release.
986 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
987 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
988 as kernel parameter).
990 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
992 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
994 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
996 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
998 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1000 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1001 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1002 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1004 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1006 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1007 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1009 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1011 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1013 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1014 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1016 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1018 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1020 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1021 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1023 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1025 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1028 * New upstream release.
1029 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1030 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1031 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1032 script/casper-bottom.
1033 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1034 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1035 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1036 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1037 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1040 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1041 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1042 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1045 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1046 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1048 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1050 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1053 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1055 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1056 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1057 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1058 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1059 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1060 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1061 * Minor build system fixes.
1062 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1063 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1064 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1066 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1068 * Add stacked file system support
1071 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1072 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1075 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1077 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1079 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1081 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1083 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1085 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1088 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1089 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1090 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1091 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1094 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1095 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1097 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1099 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1101 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1102 PATH isn't correctly set.
1104 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1106 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1108 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1109 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1110 * Rearrange source package.
1111 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1113 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1116 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1118 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1124 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1125 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1126 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1127 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1130 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1132 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1134 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1135 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1136 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1137 * Removed ubiquity code.
1138 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1139 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1140 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1141 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1142 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1143 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1144 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1145 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1146 instead of group 'admin'.
1148 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1150 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1152 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1154 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1156 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1158 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1159 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1160 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1162 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1164 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1166 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1168 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1169 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1171 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
1173 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
1175 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
1178 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
1180 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
1183 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
1187 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
1189 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
1191 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
1194 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
1198 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
1201 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
1203 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
1205 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
1208 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
1210 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
1213 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1214 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
1215 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
1218 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
1220 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
1221 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
1222 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
1223 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
1224 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
1225 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
1227 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
1228 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
1231 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
1232 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
1233 scripts. Malone #43860
1234 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
1235 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
1237 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
1238 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
1240 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
1242 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
1245 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
1246 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
1248 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
1249 for the v1 accessibility profile.
1250 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
1251 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
1252 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
1255 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
1257 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
1258 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
1259 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
1262 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
1264 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
1266 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
1268 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
1270 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
1272 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
1274 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
1275 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
1278 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
1280 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
1283 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
1284 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
1285 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
1286 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
1287 gnome-panel-data is installed.
1288 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
1289 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
1291 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
1292 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
1293 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
1294 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
1297 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
1299 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
1301 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
1303 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
1304 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
1305 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
1306 ubiquity-casper to match.
1308 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
1310 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
1313 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
1317 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
1319 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
1321 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
1323 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
1324 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
1325 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
1326 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
1328 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
1330 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
1332 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
1333 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
1335 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
1337 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
1340 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1341 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
1342 in the relevant packages.
1345 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
1346 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
1347 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
1348 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
1351 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
1353 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
1355 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
1356 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
1358 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
1360 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
1362 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
1363 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
1364 trigger unionfs bugs
1365 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
1366 check. (Malone: #29203)
1367 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
1369 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
1371 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
1374 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
1378 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
1379 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
1380 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
1382 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
1384 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
1386 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
1388 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
1390 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
1392 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
1393 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
1394 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
1395 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
1397 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
1399 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
1402 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
1403 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
1404 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
1407 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
1409 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
1411 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
1413 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
1414 debconf-set-selections.
1416 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
1418 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
1421 * Add initial accessibility support framework
1423 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
1425 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
1427 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
1429 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
1430 actually look in the right place.
1431 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
1433 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
1435 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
1437 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
1439 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
1441 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
1444 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
1446 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
1447 into the right place. Malone #20978
1450 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
1453 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
1455 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
1457 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
1459 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
1460 * Set up the right console keymap.
1462 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
1464 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
1467 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
1468 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1469 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
1471 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1472 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
1473 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
1478 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
1480 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
1481 casper in the installed system.
1483 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
1485 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
1487 * Depend on user-setup
1488 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
1489 be copied into the initramfs.
1491 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
1493 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
1495 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
1497 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
1499 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
1501 * Add persistency support
1502 * Usplash integration
1504 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
1506 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
1508 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
1510 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
1512 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
1514 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
1515 working in shell variables.
1516 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
1517 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
1519 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
1521 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
1523 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
1526 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
1528 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
1530 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
1532 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
1535 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
1537 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
1539 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
1540 list of supported locales.
1541 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
1542 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
1543 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
1544 * Disable checkroot when booting
1546 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
1548 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
1550 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
1551 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
1552 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
1553 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
1555 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
1557 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
1558 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
1560 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
1562 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
1564 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
1565 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
1566 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
1567 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
1568 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
1569 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
1571 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
1573 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
1575 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
1576 Brazilian Portuguese.
1578 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
1580 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
1582 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
1584 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
1586 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
1588 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
1589 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
1590 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
1592 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
1594 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
1596 * Neutralize branding in startup message
1597 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
1598 the console from d-i's death throes
1600 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
1602 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
1604 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
1605 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
1607 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
1609 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
1611 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
1613 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
1615 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
1617 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
1618 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
1621 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
1623 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
1625 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
1626 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
1627 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
1629 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
1631 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
1633 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
1634 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
1637 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
1639 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
1641 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
1642 device nodes clobbered by udev
1643 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
1644 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
1647 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
1649 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
1651 * Add usplash support
1653 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
1655 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
1657 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
1658 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
1659 can be invaluable for debugging
1661 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
1663 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
1665 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
1666 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
1667 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
1670 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
1672 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
1674 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
1677 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
1679 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
1681 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
1684 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
1686 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
1688 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
1690 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
1692 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
1694 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
1696 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
1698 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
1700 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
1703 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
1705 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
1707 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
1709 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
1711 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
1712 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
1715 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
1717 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
1719 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
1721 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
1723 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
1725 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
1727 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
1728 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
1730 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
1732 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
1734 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
1735 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
1737 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
1739 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
1741 * Updated translations from
1742 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
1744 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
1746 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
1748 * Updated translations from
1749 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
1751 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
1753 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
1755 * Updated translations from
1756 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
1758 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
1760 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
1762 * Updated translations from
1763 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
1765 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
1767 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
1769 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
1771 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
1773 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
1775 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
1777 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
1778 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
1780 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
1782 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
1784 * Suppress error output from eject
1785 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
1786 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
1788 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
1790 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
1792 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
1794 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
1796 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
1798 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
1799 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
1801 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
1803 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
1805 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
1806 provided by base-installer).
1808 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
1810 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
1812 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
1813 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
1815 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
1817 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
1819 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
1821 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
1823 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
1825 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
1826 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
1827 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
1829 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
1831 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
1833 * Fix 20xconfig harder
1835 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
1837 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
1839 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
1841 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
1843 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
1845 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
1846 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
1848 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
1850 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
1852 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
1853 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
1854 their password is irrelevant.
1856 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
1858 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
1860 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
1861 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
1863 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
1865 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
1867 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
1868 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
1869 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
1870 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
1871 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
1872 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
1874 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
1876 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
1878 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
1879 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
1881 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
1883 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
1885 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
1886 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
1887 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
1888 already a (different) debian/compat.
1890 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
1892 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
1894 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
1896 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
1898 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
1900 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
1902 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
1904 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
1906 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
1908 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
1910 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
1912 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
1913 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
1914 mounted using devfs names
1915 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
1916 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
1917 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
1920 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
1922 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
1924 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
1926 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
1928 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
1930 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
1931 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
1934 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
1936 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
1938 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
1939 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
1940 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
1941 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
1944 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
1946 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
1948 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
1949 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
1951 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
1952 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
1954 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
1956 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
1958 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
1960 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
1962 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
1964 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
1965 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
1966 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
1967 create progress bar text for them
1968 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
1970 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
1972 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
1974 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
1976 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
1978 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
1980 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
1983 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
1985 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
1987 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
1990 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
1992 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
1994 * Suppress network configuration questions
1996 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
1997 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
1998 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2000 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2001 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2004 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2006 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2008 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2009 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2010 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2011 - Corresponding progress template
2012 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2013 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2014 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2017 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2019 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2021 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2023 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2025 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2027 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2028 what is and is not a kernel thread
2030 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2032 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2034 * Add a backtitle properly
2036 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2038 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2042 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2044 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2046 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2048 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2050 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2052 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2053 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2056 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2058 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2060 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2063 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2065 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2068 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2070 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2072 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2074 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2076 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2078 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2080 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2081 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2082 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2083 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2084 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2085 questions from being asked
2087 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2089 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2091 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2092 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2094 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2096 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2098 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2101 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2103 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2105 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2107 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2109 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2111 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2113 * Remove some unused templates
2115 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2117 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2119 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2120 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2121 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2124 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2126 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2128 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2129 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2131 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2132 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2134 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2136 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2138 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2139 during reboot or shutdown
2141 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2143 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2145 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2147 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2149 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2151 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2152 readable menu item text
2153 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2155 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2157 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2158 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2160 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2162 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2164 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2166 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2168 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2170 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
2172 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
2174 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
2176 * Attempt to configure X
2177 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
2178 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
2179 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
2180 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
2181 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
2182 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
2183 elsewhere, but for now...)
2185 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
2187 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
2189 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
2191 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
2193 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
2195 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
2196 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
2197 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
2198 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
2200 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
2202 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
2204 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
2205 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
2206 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
2207 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
2208 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
2209 * Add a progress bar
2210 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
2212 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
2214 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
2218 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800