1 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
3 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
4 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
6 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
8 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
10 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
13 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
15 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
17 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
18 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
19 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
20 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
21 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
22 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
23 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
24 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
25 kernels (LP: #118561).
27 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
29 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
32 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
35 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
36 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
37 for the final release.
39 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
41 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
44 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
45 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
46 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
47 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
49 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
51 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
53 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
55 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
57 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
60 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
61 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
64 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
66 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
67 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
68 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
69 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
70 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
71 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
74 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
76 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
78 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
80 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
81 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
82 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
83 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
84 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
86 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
88 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
91 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
92 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
93 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
94 * Add driver-updates hooks.
97 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
98 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
100 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
102 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
104 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
105 for use with encryption.
107 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
109 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
111 * Added depends to eject.
112 * Removed recommends to live-package.
114 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
116 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
119 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
120 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
123 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
124 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
125 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
127 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
129 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
131 * New upstream release.
132 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
133 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
134 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
135 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
136 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
137 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
138 parameter: module=NAME.
140 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
142 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
144 * Merge in Debian's changes.
146 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
148 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
150 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
151 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
153 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
155 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
157 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
158 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
160 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
162 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
164 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
165 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
166 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
168 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
170 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
172 * New Upstream release.
173 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
175 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
177 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
180 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
181 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
182 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
184 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
185 avoid interfering with debconf.
188 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
189 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
190 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
193 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
194 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
196 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
198 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
200 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
201 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
202 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
204 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
206 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
208 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
209 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
210 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
211 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
212 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
214 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
216 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
218 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
219 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
220 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
221 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
223 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
225 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
227 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
228 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
229 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
230 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
231 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
232 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
234 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
236 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
238 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
239 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
241 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
242 * Fixed keyboard setup.
243 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
244 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
245 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
248 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
250 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
252 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
253 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
256 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
258 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
261 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
262 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
263 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
264 requested by many people.
265 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
266 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
268 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
269 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
270 * Fixed locale generation.
271 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
275 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
277 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
279 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
281 * New upstream release.
282 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
283 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
284 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
286 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
287 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
288 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
289 * Extendend manpages.
290 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
291 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
292 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
293 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
294 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
295 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
296 needed by casper-snapshot.
297 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
300 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
302 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
304 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
307 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
309 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
312 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
314 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
315 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
316 aren't supplied on the command line.
319 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
320 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
321 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
323 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
324 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
325 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
326 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
328 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
330 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
332 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
333 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
335 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
337 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
340 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
341 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
342 enabling accessibility in KDE.
345 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
347 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
349 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
351 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
352 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
353 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
355 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
357 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
359 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
360 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
363 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
365 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
367 * New upstream release.
368 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
369 * Tagged for debtags project.
371 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
373 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
375 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
376 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
377 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
379 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
380 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
381 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
382 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
383 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
384 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
385 casper-bottom scripts use this.
386 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
388 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
390 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
392 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
395 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
397 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
400 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
401 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
404 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
406 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
408 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
410 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
412 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
413 * Lintian cleanness reached.
415 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
417 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
419 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
420 * Added a manpage for casper.
423 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
425 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
427 * New upstream release.
428 * Added static network configuration support.
429 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
430 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
431 via kernel parameters.
433 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
435 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
437 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
438 (closes: Malone #61573).
440 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
442 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
444 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
445 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
446 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
447 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
448 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
449 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
451 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
453 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
455 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
456 * Default user password now "live".
458 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
460 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
462 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
463 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
464 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
465 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
466 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
468 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
470 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
472 * New upstream release.
473 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
474 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
475 as kernel parameter).
477 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
479 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
481 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
483 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
485 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
487 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
488 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
489 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
491 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
493 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
494 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
496 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
498 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
500 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
501 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
503 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
505 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
507 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
508 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
510 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
512 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
515 * New upstream release.
516 * Fixed upstream changelog.
517 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
518 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
519 script/casper-bottom.
520 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
521 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
522 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
523 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
524 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
527 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
528 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
529 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
532 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
533 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
535 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
537 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
540 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
542 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
543 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
544 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
545 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
546 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
547 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
548 * Minor build system fixes.
549 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
550 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
551 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
553 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
555 * Add stacked file system support
558 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
559 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
562 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
564 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
566 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
568 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
570 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
572 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
575 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
576 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
577 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
578 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
581 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
582 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
584 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
586 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
588 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
589 PATH isn't correctly set.
591 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
593 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
595 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
596 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
597 * Rearrange source package.
598 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
600 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
603 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
605 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
608 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
611 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
612 * Removed "persistent" wait.
613 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
614 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
617 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
619 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
621 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
622 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
623 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
624 * Removed ubiquity code.
625 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
626 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
627 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
628 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
629 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
630 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
631 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
632 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
633 instead of group 'admin'.
635 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
637 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
639 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
641 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
643 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
645 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
646 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
647 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
649 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
651 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
653 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
655 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
656 CD/DVD has been ejected.
658 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
660 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
662 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
665 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
667 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
670 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
674 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
676 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
678 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
681 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
685 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
688 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
690 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
692 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
695 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
697 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
700 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
701 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
702 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
705 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
707 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
708 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
709 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
710 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
711 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
712 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
714 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
715 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
718 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
719 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
720 scripts. Malone #43860
721 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
722 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
724 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
725 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
727 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
729 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
732 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
733 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
735 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
736 for the v1 accessibility profile.
737 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
738 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
739 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
742 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
744 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
745 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
746 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
749 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
751 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
753 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
755 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
757 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
759 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
761 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
762 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
765 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
767 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
770 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
771 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
772 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
773 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
774 gnome-panel-data is installed.
775 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
776 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
778 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
779 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
780 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
781 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
784 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
786 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
788 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
790 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
791 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
792 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
793 ubiquity-casper to match.
795 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
797 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
800 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
804 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
806 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
808 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
810 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
811 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
812 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
813 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
815 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
817 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
819 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
820 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
822 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
824 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
827 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
828 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
829 in the relevant packages.
832 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
833 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
834 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
835 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
838 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
840 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
842 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
843 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
845 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
847 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
849 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
850 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
852 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
853 check. (Malone: #29203)
854 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
856 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
858 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
861 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
865 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
866 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
867 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
869 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
871 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
873 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
875 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
877 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
879 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
880 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
881 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
882 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
884 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
886 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
889 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
890 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
891 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
894 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
896 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
898 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
900 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
901 debconf-set-selections.
903 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
905 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
908 * Add initial accessibility support framework
910 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
912 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
914 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
916 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
917 actually look in the right place.
918 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
920 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
922 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
924 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
926 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
928 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
931 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
933 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
934 into the right place. Malone #20978
937 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
940 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
942 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
944 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
946 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
947 * Set up the right console keymap.
949 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
951 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
954 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
955 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
956 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
958 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
959 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
960 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
965 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
967 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
968 casper in the installed system.
970 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
972 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
974 * Depend on user-setup
975 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
976 be copied into the initramfs.
978 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
980 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
982 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
984 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
986 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
988 * Add persistency support
989 * Usplash integration
991 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
993 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
995 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
997 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
999 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
1001 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
1002 working in shell variables.
1003 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
1004 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
1006 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
1008 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
1010 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
1013 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
1015 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
1017 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
1019 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
1022 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
1024 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
1026 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
1027 list of supported locales.
1028 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
1029 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
1030 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
1031 * Disable checkroot when booting
1033 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
1035 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
1037 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
1038 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
1039 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
1040 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
1042 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
1044 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
1045 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
1047 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
1049 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
1051 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
1052 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
1053 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
1054 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
1055 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
1056 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
1058 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
1060 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
1062 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
1063 Brazilian Portuguese.
1065 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
1067 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
1069 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
1071 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
1073 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
1075 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
1076 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
1077 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
1079 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
1081 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
1083 * Neutralize branding in startup message
1084 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
1085 the console from d-i's death throes
1087 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
1089 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
1091 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
1092 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
1094 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
1096 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
1098 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
1100 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
1102 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
1104 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
1105 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
1108 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
1110 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
1112 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
1113 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
1114 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
1116 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
1118 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
1120 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
1121 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
1124 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
1126 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
1128 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
1129 device nodes clobbered by udev
1130 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
1131 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
1134 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
1136 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
1138 * Add usplash support
1140 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
1142 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
1144 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
1145 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
1146 can be invaluable for debugging
1148 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
1150 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
1152 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
1153 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
1154 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
1157 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
1159 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
1161 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
1164 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
1166 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
1168 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
1171 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
1173 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
1175 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
1177 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
1179 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
1181 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
1183 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
1185 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
1187 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
1190 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
1192 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
1194 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
1196 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
1198 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
1199 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
1202 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
1204 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
1206 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
1208 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
1210 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
1212 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
1214 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
1215 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
1217 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
1219 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
1221 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
1222 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
1224 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
1226 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
1228 * Updated translations from
1229 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
1231 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
1233 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
1235 * Updated translations from
1236 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
1238 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
1240 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
1242 * Updated translations from
1243 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
1245 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
1247 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
1249 * Updated translations from
1250 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
1252 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
1254 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
1256 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
1258 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
1260 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
1262 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
1264 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
1265 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
1267 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
1269 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
1271 * Suppress error output from eject
1272 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
1273 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
1275 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
1277 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
1279 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
1281 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
1283 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
1285 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
1286 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
1288 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
1290 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
1292 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
1293 provided by base-installer).
1295 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
1297 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
1299 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
1300 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
1302 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
1304 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
1306 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
1308 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
1310 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
1312 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
1313 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
1314 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
1316 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
1318 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
1320 * Fix 20xconfig harder
1322 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
1324 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
1326 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
1328 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
1330 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
1332 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
1333 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
1335 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
1337 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
1339 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
1340 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
1341 their password is irrelevant.
1343 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
1345 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
1347 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
1348 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
1350 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
1352 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
1354 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
1355 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
1356 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
1357 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
1358 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
1359 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
1361 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
1363 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
1365 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
1366 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
1368 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
1370 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
1372 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
1373 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
1374 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
1375 already a (different) debian/compat.
1377 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
1379 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
1381 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
1383 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
1385 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
1387 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
1389 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
1391 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
1393 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
1395 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
1397 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
1399 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
1400 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
1401 mounted using devfs names
1402 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
1403 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
1404 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
1407 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
1409 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
1411 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
1413 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
1415 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
1417 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
1418 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
1421 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
1423 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
1425 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
1426 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
1427 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
1428 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
1431 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
1433 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
1435 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
1436 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
1438 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
1439 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
1441 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
1443 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
1445 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
1447 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
1449 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
1451 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
1452 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
1453 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
1454 create progress bar text for them
1455 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
1457 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
1459 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
1461 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
1463 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
1465 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
1467 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
1470 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
1472 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
1474 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
1477 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
1479 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
1481 * Suppress network configuration questions
1483 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
1484 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
1485 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
1487 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
1488 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
1491 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
1493 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
1495 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
1496 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
1497 session based on whether the system is a laptop
1498 - Corresponding progress template
1499 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
1500 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
1501 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
1504 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
1506 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
1508 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
1510 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
1512 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
1514 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
1515 what is and is not a kernel thread
1517 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
1519 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
1521 * Add a backtitle properly
1523 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
1525 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
1529 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
1531 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
1533 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
1535 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
1537 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
1540 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
1543 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
1545 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
1547 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
1550 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
1552 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
1555 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
1557 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
1559 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
1561 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
1563 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
1565 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
1567 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
1568 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
1569 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
1570 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
1571 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
1572 questions from being asked
1574 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
1576 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
1578 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
1579 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
1581 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
1583 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
1585 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
1588 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
1590 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
1592 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
1594 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
1596 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
1598 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
1600 * Remove some unused templates
1602 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
1604 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
1606 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
1607 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
1608 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
1611 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
1613 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
1615 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
1616 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
1618 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
1619 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
1621 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
1623 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
1625 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
1626 during reboot or shutdown
1628 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
1630 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
1632 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
1634 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
1636 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
1638 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
1639 readable menu item text
1640 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
1642 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
1644 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
1645 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
1647 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
1649 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
1651 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
1653 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
1655 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
1657 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
1659 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
1661 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
1663 * Attempt to configure X
1664 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
1665 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
1666 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
1667 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
1668 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
1669 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
1670 elsewhere, but for now...)
1672 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
1674 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
1676 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
1678 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
1680 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
1682 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
1683 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
1684 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
1685 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
1687 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
1689 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
1691 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
1692 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
1693 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
1694 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
1695 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
1696 * Add a progress bar
1697 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
1699 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
1701 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
1705 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800