1 casper (1.186) karmic; urgency=low
4 * Allow for platform-mxsdhci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device" i.e.
5 one which can host a livefs. This is the new name of this device in
6 2.6.31 kernels on Babbage i.MX51.
9 * Rename 47unr-ubiquity as 47unr_ubiquity, as scripts with dashes don't
10 get installed into the initramfs. (LP: #411616)
12 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:39:34 +1000
14 casper (1.185) karmic; urgency=low
16 * Actually set 47unr-ubiquity as executable.·
18 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:41:35 +1000
20 casper (1.184) karmic; urgency=low
23 * Apply the Ubuntu release version to the installer menu entries as well
27 * Fix disabling of apt-check (LP: #406191).
30 * Remove the UNR ubiquity .desktop hack in 10adduser.
31 * Set ubiquity as a UNR Favourite in 47unr-ubiquity.
33 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:58 +0100
35 casper (1.183) karmic; urgency=low
37 * Remove erroneous /root prefix on the ubiquity desktop files in
40 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:34 +0100
42 casper (1.182) karmic; urgency=low
45 * Busybox sed does not preserve ownership, so chown after using it.
48 * Set AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME, not =ubuntu (thanks, arky; LP: #401321).
51 * Add support for lzma type archives to casper-new-uuid.
53 -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0500
55 casper (1.181) karmic; urgency=low
57 * Insert a version number in the name field for ubiquity's desktop file
60 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100
62 casper (1.180) karmic; urgency=low
65 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Minor consistency fixes.
68 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update for new gdm custom configuration
69 file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). (LP: #395861)
71 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0200
73 casper (1.179) karmic; urgency=low
76 * If LIVE_MEDIA_PATH is set on the command line, record it in
77 /etc/casper.conf for the benefit of ubiquity.
80 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update to work with new gdm.
82 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:57 +0200
84 casper (1.178) karmic; urgency=low
86 * Ensure that unionfs-fuse isn't killed by /etc/init.d/sendsigs on
87 shutdown (LP: #386010).
88 * Patches from "phl" (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-leledy), adjusted by
89 me, to fix snapshot resync:
90 - Avoid using cpio -u -d options if klibc cpio is in use (LP: #384059).
91 - Copy /etc/casper.conf into /root, otherwise we forget snapshot resync
92 settings (LP: #384061).
93 - Adjust the first field of *SNAP entries in casper.conf to be relative
94 to /cow, not /root (LP: #384066).
95 - Prefix $DEST with $MOUNTP in casper-snapshot (LP: #384068).
96 - /etc/init.d/casper is usually called with 'start', so handle that as
97 well as 'stop' to do snapshot resyncing and CD ejecting (LP: #384076).
98 * Fix casper-snapshot(1) syntax to avoid missing spaces between options
100 * Fix showmounts when used in conjunction with unionfs-fuse; read-only
101 filesystems need to be bind-mounted rather than move-mounted.
103 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0100
105 casper (1.177) karmic; urgency=low
107 * Port from Debian (thanks, Daniel Baumann):
108 - Added live-media-path as suggested by Jordi Pujol.
109 - Tail casper.log and show its messages during boot (thanks, Michal
110 Suchanek; LP: #363886).
112 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0100
114 casper (1.176) karmic; urgency=low
117 * Fix symlinking of anacron to /bin/true.
120 * Drop scripts/casper-bottom/38jockey_disable_check: Some drivers, like wl
121 or printer drivers, do need to be advertised in a live system. Jockey has
122 been fixed to not advertise video drivers automatically if the packages
123 aren't available (such as in the live system), and even if we should ever
124 put them back, it is easier to disable the notifications in jockey's
125 handlers instead of here. (LP: #381687)
127 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:05 +0200
129 casper (1.175) karmic; urgency=low
131 * Suppress error message if
132 /root/usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop doesn't exist.
133 * Add unionfs-fuse support.
134 * Automatically fall back to unionfs-fuse if the default union filesystem
135 is not available but unionfs-fuse is.
137 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:00 +0100
139 casper (1.174) karmic; urgency=low
141 * debian/control: Increase dependency on initramfs-tools to get the version
142 that uses blkid, depend on util-linux as well
143 * hooks/casper: No need to copy vol_id into the initramfs image.·
144 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Use blkid -o udev -p instead of vol_id,
145 there's probably a much cleaner way to check for RAID like this, but
146 this is the direct equivalent.
147 * scripts/casper-helpers (get_fstype): use a blkid call to get the type·
148 * scripts/casper-helpers (find_cow_device): use a blkid call to get the
151 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:41 +0100
153 casper (1.173) jaunty; urgency=low
155 * Don't use head -n1 in where_is_mounted, we don't have head in the
156 initramfs. LP: #363038.
158 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:22:06 -0700
160 casper (1.172) jaunty; urgency=low
162 * 43disable_updateinitramfs: The /cdrom mount has been moved to
163 /root/cdrom by the time this script runs, so check that instead.
165 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0100
167 casper (1.171) jaunty; urgency=low
169 * Set MP_QUIET to -q instead of -Q on Ubuntu as well, and not just for
170 Debian as the modprobe in the latest upstream release of module-init-tools
171 doesn't accept -Q anymore.
173 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0200
175 casper (1.170) jaunty; urgency=low
177 * is_nice_device(): allow devices with an ID_PATH of platform-mmc* as well
178 as used for instance for SD cards on the ARM iMX51 Babbage board;
181 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0200
183 casper (1.169) jaunty; urgency=low
185 * [ -w /cdrom ] turns out not to be a sufficient test for files under
186 /cdrom being writable; with busybox, it always returns true even for
187 read-only filesystems. Explicitly check for the read-only flag in mount
188 output to work around this.
189 * Fix where_is_mounted helper function to actually produce output (thanks,
190 Steve Dodd; LP: #346941).
191 * Add a comment to find_cow_device explaining why the choice of
192 filesystems is restricted (I asked for this comment in LP #230703 but it
193 apparently never got written).
195 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:05 +0100
197 casper (1.168) jaunty; urgency=low
199 * Fix writing of "$@" to diverted update-initramfs script (here-documents
200 perform parameter expansion unless the delimiter is quoted).
201 * Don't bring up a temporary network interface while fetching the preseed
202 file when netbooting, as that will disconnect our root filesystem
205 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:29 +0100
207 casper (1.167) jaunty; urgency=low
209 * Disable kwallet from KDE 4 in 34disable_kde_services
211 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:35 +0000
213 casper (1.166) jaunty; urgency=low
216 * Show the ubiquity icon in kourou (LP: #338730)
219 * Move examples.desktop to Desktop/ if it exists, as an alternative to
220 Examples (LP: #45489).
223 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
224 - Make the special case disabling of pulseaudio per user, and not system
226 - Also disable PulseAudio for the Braille profile.
227 - Fix incorrect paths when chowning files.
228 - Don't use /root for the ubiquity hook accessibility script, /target is
229 where the installed system is located.
230 - Remove laptop detect code. Its not currently working, and getting it to
231 work requires invasive changes.
232 - Only set pulseaudio settings and create the .orca directory if sed
233 packages are installed on the live filesystem and installed system.
234 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Copy orca settings to the installed system.
236 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:20 +1100
238 casper (1.165) jaunty; urgency=low
240 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
241 - When the blindness accessibility profile is chosen, create the .orca
242 directory in the live user's home directory. This seems to allow orca
243 to properly reload and use settings in the live session without needing
244 to be restarted. This is only needed for the blindness profile, due to
245 the other profiles that use orca already creating the .orca directory.
248 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:37:20 +1100
250 casper (1.164) jaunty; urgency=low
252 * Update 34disable_kde_services to not start
253 update-notifier-kde or plasma's contact plugin which uses akonadi
255 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:52 +0000
257 casper (1.163) jaunty; urgency=low
259 * 34disable_kwallet moved to 34disable_kde_services and disables
260 various services not needed by live CDs
262 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000
264 casper (1.162) jaunty; urgency=low
266 * If /cdrom is writable, call the diverted update-initramfs and copy
267 the resulting kernel and initrd to /cdrom/casper (LP: #292159).
269 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000
271 casper (1.161) jaunty; urgency=low
274 * Regenerate SSL certificate at boot so that it isn't the same for all
275 live CD users (LP: #337723).
277 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:21 +0000
279 casper (1.160) jaunty; urgency=low
281 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
282 - Adjust sudoers file to allow ORBIT_SOCKET_DIR, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE and
283 GTK_MODULES environment variables through to root, for v2, v3, and
284 braille profiles. This allows users to use administrative GTK/GNOME
285 applications executed by gksudo with accessibility tools like orca.
287 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +1100
289 casper (1.159) jaunty; urgency=low
291 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
292 - Disable pulseaudio for the blindness profile, as pulseaudio and espeak
293 and portaudio v19 do not play very well with each other, lots of
294 crackling, cut of speech. At least espeak via ALSA natively is usable,
295 and latency is relatively low.
297 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:06 +1100
299 casper (1.158) jaunty; urgency=low
301 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
302 - use laptop_detect function in blindness profile as well
304 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:07:17 +1100
306 casper (1.157) jaunty; urgency=low
309 * 10adduser: add Category=Favorites support for netbook-launcher
313 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
314 - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable
315 the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for
316 the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several
317 keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible
318 yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is
319 likely to cause much confusion if sed menu entries are not present.
321 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +1100
323 casper (1.156) jaunty; urgency=low
325 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
326 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
327 - If using a laptop, enable the laptop keyboard layout
328 - There is no longer a need to set gconf values as root in only-ubiquity
331 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:52 +0100
333 casper (1.155) jaunty; urgency=low
336 * Add myself to debian/copyright as an author, as I've done fairly
337 significant work on this.
338 * Eliminate casper-md5check's libm linkage; patch from "SurJector" who
339 points out that the automatic conversion is sufficient (LP: #293613).
340 * Restore showmounts/show-cow option (thanks, Carlo de Wolf and "probono";
341 LP: #159006, #290330).
344 * Add support for ext4.
346 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000
348 casper (1.154) jaunty; urgency=low
351 * scripts/casper-bottom/02timezone:
352 - Remove as it's no longer needed and resets the timezone when
353 persistence is enabled (LP: #296855).
356 * Preseed console-setup/optionscode and console-setup/codesetcode to the
357 empty string on boot to avoid debris from the live filesystem build
358 process getting in the way of installation (LP: #94177).
360 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:44:45 +0000
362 casper (1.153) jaunty; urgency=low
364 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser:
365 - Create links for Mythbuntu items on the Desktop too.
366 - Don't show removable drives on Mythbuntu desktop
367 * scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services:
368 - New script for disabling services unnecessary to Live
369 mode that should still start after being installed.
371 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:59 -0600
373 casper (1.152) intrepid; urgency=low
375 * Use kde4rc now for accessibility profiles
377 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:54 +0100
379 casper (1.151) intrepid; urgency=low
381 * Force ubiquity to --automatic mode for ubuntu-mid
383 -- Emmet Hikory <persia@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:31:16 +0100
385 casper (1.150) intrepid; urgency=low
387 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser (really)
389 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:54 +0100
391 casper (1.149) intrepid; urgency=low
393 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
394 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
395 - Revert to using gconf keys for starting orca, as this is now what
396 orca does when the user chooses to automatically start orca from Orca's
398 - Explicitly set orca as the program to start up for magnification,
401 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:02 +1100
403 casper (1.148) intrepid; urgency=low
405 * Skip remounting read-only in try_mount as it's unnecessary and
406 breaks persistence. Thanks James Westby (LP: #274076).
408 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
410 casper (1.147) intrepid; urgency=low
412 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser
414 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0100
416 casper (1.146) intrepid; urgency=low
418 * Update About Kubuntu link in 10adduser for KDE 4
420 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:15 +0100
422 casper (1.145) intrepid; urgency=low
424 * 38disable_restricted_manager: Remove some obsolete l-r-m and
425 restricted-manager code, and rename the script to 38jockey_disable_check
426 to better reflect its purpose.
428 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0200
430 casper (1.144) intrepid; urgency=low
432 * Bump media detection timeout to a minute; thanks to Tormod Volden and
433 Steve Beattie for analysis (LP: #258432).
434 * Note that this changes (fixes?) the semantics of LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT due
435 to not using hex values in a for loop which aren't understood by test
436 -lt (thanks, Steve Beattie).
438 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:13 +0100
440 casper (1.143) intrepid; urgency=low
442 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
443 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change the way that orca is set to
444 automatically start. Orca can be started via a gconf key, however this
445 is not reflected in the orca UI, and doesn't easily allow the user to
446 prevent orca from autostarting on an installed system.
448 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +1000
450 casper (1.142) intrepid; urgency=low
452 * Fix syntax error introduced by is_nice_device regex fix.
454 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:59 +0100
456 casper (1.141) intrepid; urgency=low
459 * Handle spaces in file names in md5sum.txt (LP: #251112).
462 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax in
463 preseed script; previously we only supported it in the keyboard script,
464 which confusingly doesn't deal with propagating console-setup/* preseeds
465 to the target filesystem (LP: #253749).
466 * Update to localechooser's new languagelist format.
469 * scripts/casper: don't scan floppy drives for livefs images (LP: #97306)
470 * scripts/casper: fix broken RE in is_nice_device() (LP: #250328)
471 * scripts/casper: properly use argument $1 in matches_uuid()
473 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:05 +0100
475 casper (1.140) intrepid; urgency=low
478 * Disable jockey as well as the old restricted-manager. While jockey does
479 do more than restricted-manager did, it also still uses a good chunk of
480 memory for a use case that's fairly limited on the live CD.
483 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
484 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
485 - Check that usr/bin/orca exists and is executable before creating user
488 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:23:41 +1000
490 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
492 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
494 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
496 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
499 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
502 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
503 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
504 apport right before the release.
505 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
506 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
507 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
509 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
511 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
513 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
514 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
516 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
518 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
520 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
521 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
522 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
523 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
525 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
527 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
530 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
533 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
535 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
537 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
540 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
543 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
544 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
546 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
548 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
551 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
554 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
556 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
557 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
558 corruption (LP: #230703).
560 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
562 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
564 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
566 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
567 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
568 corruption (LP: #230703).
570 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
572 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
574 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
575 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
578 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
580 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
583 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
586 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
587 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
590 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
592 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
595 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
596 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
597 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
600 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
601 by root (LP: #218576).
602 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
603 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
604 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
605 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
606 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
607 open another bug for this.
609 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
611 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
613 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
616 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
618 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
620 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
621 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
622 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
623 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
624 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
625 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
628 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
630 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
633 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
634 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
635 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
636 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
637 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
640 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
641 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
645 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
647 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
649 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
651 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
653 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
655 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
657 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
659 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
660 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
662 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
664 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
667 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
668 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
669 specification (LP: #204185).
672 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
674 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
676 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
679 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
682 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
683 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
684 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
686 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
688 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
690 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
691 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
692 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
693 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
695 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
697 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
699 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
701 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
703 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
705 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
707 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
709 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
711 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
712 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
713 propagating to the installed system.
715 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
717 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
720 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
721 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
722 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
723 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
724 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
725 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
728 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
729 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
731 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
733 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
735 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
736 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
738 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
740 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
742 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
744 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
747 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
749 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
751 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
752 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
753 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
756 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
758 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
760 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
762 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
764 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
767 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
768 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
770 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
773 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
775 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
778 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
779 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
780 a system. LP: #150188
783 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
784 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
785 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
786 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
788 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
790 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
792 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
794 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
795 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
797 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
799 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
801 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
803 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
804 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
805 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
807 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
809 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
811 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
812 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
813 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
815 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
817 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
819 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
820 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
822 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
823 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
825 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
827 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
829 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
830 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
831 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
832 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
835 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
837 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
839 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
841 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
842 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
843 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
844 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
845 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
846 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
848 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
850 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
852 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
853 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
854 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
856 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
858 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
860 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
862 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
864 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
865 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
868 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
870 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
872 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
875 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
877 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
879 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
880 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
881 installed (LP: #139403).
883 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
885 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
887 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
888 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
889 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
890 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
893 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
895 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
897 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
898 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
899 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
900 systems. (LP: #131976)
902 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
904 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
906 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
907 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
908 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
910 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
912 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
915 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
916 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
917 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
919 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
921 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
923 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
925 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
927 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
929 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
930 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
932 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
934 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
937 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
940 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
941 restricted-manager autostart files
943 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
945 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
947 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
949 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
952 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
954 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
957 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
958 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
960 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
963 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
964 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
965 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
966 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
967 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
968 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
970 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
971 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
973 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
975 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
977 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
978 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
979 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
981 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
983 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
986 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
989 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
990 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
993 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
995 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
997 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
998 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
1001 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
1003 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
1005 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
1006 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
1008 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
1010 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1012 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
1015 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
1017 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
1019 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
1020 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
1021 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
1022 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
1023 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
1024 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
1025 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
1026 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
1027 kernels (LP: #118561).
1029 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
1031 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
1034 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
1037 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
1038 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
1039 for the final release.
1041 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
1043 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
1046 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1047 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1048 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
1049 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
1051 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
1053 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
1055 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
1057 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
1059 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
1062 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
1063 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
1066 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
1068 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
1069 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
1070 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
1071 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
1072 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
1073 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
1076 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
1078 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
1080 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
1082 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
1083 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
1084 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
1085 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
1086 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
1088 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
1090 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
1093 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
1094 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
1095 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
1096 * Add driver-updates hooks.
1099 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
1100 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
1102 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
1104 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
1106 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
1107 for use with encryption.
1109 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
1111 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1113 * Added depends to eject.
1114 * Removed recommends to live-package.
1116 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
1118 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1121 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
1122 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
1125 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
1126 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
1127 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
1129 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
1131 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1133 * New upstream release.
1134 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
1135 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
1136 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
1137 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
1138 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
1139 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
1140 parameter: module=NAME.
1142 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
1144 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
1146 * Merge in Debian's changes.
1148 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
1150 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
1152 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
1153 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
1155 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
1157 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1159 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1160 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1162 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
1164 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1166 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1167 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
1168 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
1170 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
1172 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1174 * New Upstream release.
1175 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
1177 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
1179 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
1182 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
1183 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
1184 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
1186 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
1187 avoid interfering with debconf.
1190 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1191 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
1192 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
1195 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
1196 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
1198 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
1200 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
1202 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
1203 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
1204 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
1206 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
1208 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
1210 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
1211 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
1212 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1213 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1214 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1216 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
1218 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
1220 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
1221 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
1222 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
1223 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
1225 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
1227 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
1229 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
1230 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
1231 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
1232 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
1233 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
1234 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
1236 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
1238 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
1240 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
1241 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
1243 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
1244 * Fixed keyboard setup.
1245 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
1246 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
1247 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1250 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
1252 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
1254 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
1255 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1258 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
1260 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
1263 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
1264 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
1265 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
1266 requested by many people.
1267 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
1268 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
1270 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
1271 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
1272 * Fixed locale generation.
1273 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1277 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
1279 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
1281 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1283 * New upstream release.
1284 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
1285 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
1286 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
1288 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
1289 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
1290 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
1291 * Extendend manpages.
1292 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
1293 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
1294 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
1295 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
1296 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
1297 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
1298 needed by casper-snapshot.
1299 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
1302 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
1304 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
1306 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
1309 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
1311 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
1314 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
1316 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
1317 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
1318 aren't supplied on the command line.
1321 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
1322 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
1323 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
1325 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
1326 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
1327 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
1328 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
1330 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
1332 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
1334 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
1335 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
1337 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
1339 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
1342 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
1343 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
1344 enabling accessibility in KDE.
1347 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
1349 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
1351 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
1353 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
1354 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
1355 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
1357 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
1359 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
1361 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
1362 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
1365 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
1367 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1369 * New upstream release.
1370 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
1371 * Tagged for debtags project.
1373 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
1375 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
1377 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
1378 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
1379 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
1381 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
1382 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
1383 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
1384 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
1385 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
1386 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
1387 casper-bottom scripts use this.
1388 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
1390 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
1392 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
1394 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
1397 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
1399 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
1402 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
1403 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
1406 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
1408 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
1410 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
1412 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1414 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
1415 * Lintian cleanness reached.
1417 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
1419 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1421 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
1422 * Added a manpage for casper.
1423 * Lintian cleanings.
1425 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
1427 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1429 * New upstream release.
1430 * Added static network configuration support.
1431 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
1432 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
1433 via kernel parameters.
1435 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
1437 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
1439 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
1440 (closes: Malone #61573).
1442 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
1444 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
1446 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
1447 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
1448 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
1449 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
1450 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
1451 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
1453 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
1455 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1457 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
1458 * Default user password now "live".
1460 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
1462 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
1464 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
1465 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
1466 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
1467 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
1468 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
1470 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
1472 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1474 * New upstream release.
1475 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
1476 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
1477 as kernel parameter).
1479 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
1481 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
1483 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
1485 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
1487 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1489 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1490 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1491 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1493 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1495 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1496 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1498 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1500 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1502 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1503 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1505 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1507 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1509 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1510 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1512 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1514 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1517 * New upstream release.
1518 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1519 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1520 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1521 script/casper-bottom.
1522 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1523 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1524 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1525 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1526 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1529 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1530 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1531 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1534 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1535 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1537 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1539 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1542 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1544 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1545 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1546 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1547 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1548 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1549 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1550 * Minor build system fixes.
1551 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1552 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1553 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1555 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1557 * Add stacked file system support
1560 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1561 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1564 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1566 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1568 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1570 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1572 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1574 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1577 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1578 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1579 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1580 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1583 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1584 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1586 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1588 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1590 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1591 PATH isn't correctly set.
1593 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1595 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1597 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1598 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1599 * Rearrange source package.
1600 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1602 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1605 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1607 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1610 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1613 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1614 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1615 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1616 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1619 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1621 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1623 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1624 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1625 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1626 * Removed ubiquity code.
1627 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1628 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1629 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1630 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1631 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1632 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1633 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1634 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1635 instead of group 'admin'.
1637 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1639 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1641 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1643 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1645 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1647 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1648 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1649 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1651 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1653 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1655 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1657 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1658 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1660 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
1662 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
1664 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
1667 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
1669 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
1672 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
1676 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
1678 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
1680 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
1683 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
1687 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
1690 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
1692 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
1694 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
1697 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
1699 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
1702 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1703 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
1704 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
1707 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
1709 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
1710 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
1711 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
1712 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
1713 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
1714 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
1716 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
1717 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
1720 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
1721 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
1722 scripts. Malone #43860
1723 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
1724 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
1726 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
1727 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
1729 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
1731 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
1734 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
1735 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
1737 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
1738 for the v1 accessibility profile.
1739 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
1740 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
1741 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
1744 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
1746 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
1747 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
1748 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
1751 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
1753 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
1755 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
1757 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
1759 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
1761 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
1763 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
1764 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
1767 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
1769 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
1772 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
1773 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
1774 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
1775 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
1776 gnome-panel-data is installed.
1777 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
1778 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
1780 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
1781 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
1782 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
1783 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
1786 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
1788 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
1790 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
1792 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
1793 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
1794 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
1795 ubiquity-casper to match.
1797 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
1799 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
1802 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
1806 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
1808 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
1810 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
1812 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
1813 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
1814 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
1815 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
1817 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
1819 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
1821 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
1822 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
1824 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
1826 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
1829 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1830 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
1831 in the relevant packages.
1834 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
1835 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
1836 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
1837 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
1840 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
1842 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
1844 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
1845 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
1847 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
1849 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
1851 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
1852 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
1853 trigger unionfs bugs
1854 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
1855 check. (Malone: #29203)
1856 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
1858 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
1860 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
1863 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
1867 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
1868 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
1869 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
1871 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
1873 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
1875 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
1877 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
1879 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
1881 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
1882 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
1883 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
1884 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
1886 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
1888 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
1891 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
1892 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
1893 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
1896 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
1898 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
1900 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
1902 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
1903 debconf-set-selections.
1905 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
1907 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
1910 * Add initial accessibility support framework
1912 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
1914 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
1916 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
1918 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
1919 actually look in the right place.
1920 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
1922 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
1924 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
1926 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
1928 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
1930 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
1933 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
1935 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
1936 into the right place. Malone #20978
1939 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
1942 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
1944 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
1946 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
1948 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
1949 * Set up the right console keymap.
1951 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
1953 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
1956 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
1957 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1958 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
1960 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1961 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
1962 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
1967 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
1969 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
1970 casper in the installed system.
1972 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
1974 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
1976 * Depend on user-setup
1977 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
1978 be copied into the initramfs.
1980 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
1982 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
1984 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
1986 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
1988 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
1990 * Add persistency support
1991 * Usplash integration
1993 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
1995 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
1997 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
1999 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
2001 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
2003 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
2004 working in shell variables.
2005 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
2006 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
2008 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
2010 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
2012 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
2015 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
2017 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
2019 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
2021 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
2024 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
2026 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
2028 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
2029 list of supported locales.
2030 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
2031 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
2032 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
2033 * Disable checkroot when booting
2035 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
2037 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
2039 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
2040 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
2041 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
2042 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
2044 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
2046 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
2047 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
2049 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
2051 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
2053 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
2054 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
2055 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
2056 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
2057 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
2058 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
2060 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
2062 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
2064 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
2065 Brazilian Portuguese.
2067 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
2069 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
2071 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
2073 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
2075 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
2077 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
2078 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
2079 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
2081 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
2083 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
2085 * Neutralize branding in startup message
2086 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
2087 the console from d-i's death throes
2089 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
2091 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
2093 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
2094 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
2096 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
2098 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
2100 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
2102 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
2104 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
2106 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
2107 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
2110 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
2112 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
2114 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
2115 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
2116 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
2118 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
2120 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
2122 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
2123 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
2126 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
2128 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
2130 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
2131 device nodes clobbered by udev
2132 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
2133 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
2136 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
2138 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
2140 * Add usplash support
2142 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
2144 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
2146 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
2147 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
2148 can be invaluable for debugging
2150 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
2152 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
2154 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
2155 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
2156 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
2159 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
2161 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
2163 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
2166 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
2168 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
2170 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
2173 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
2175 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
2177 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
2179 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
2181 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
2183 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
2185 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
2187 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
2189 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
2192 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
2194 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
2196 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
2198 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
2200 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
2201 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
2204 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
2206 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
2208 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
2210 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
2212 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
2214 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
2216 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
2217 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
2219 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
2221 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
2223 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
2224 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
2226 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
2228 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
2230 * Updated translations from
2231 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
2233 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
2235 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
2237 * Updated translations from
2238 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
2240 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
2242 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
2244 * Updated translations from
2245 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
2247 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
2249 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
2251 * Updated translations from
2252 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
2254 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
2256 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
2258 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
2260 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
2262 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
2264 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
2266 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
2267 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
2269 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
2271 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
2273 * Suppress error output from eject
2274 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
2275 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
2277 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
2279 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
2281 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
2283 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
2285 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
2287 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
2288 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
2290 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
2292 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
2294 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
2295 provided by base-installer).
2297 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
2299 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
2301 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
2302 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
2304 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
2306 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
2308 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
2310 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
2312 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
2314 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
2315 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
2316 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
2318 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
2320 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
2322 * Fix 20xconfig harder
2324 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
2326 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
2328 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
2330 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
2332 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
2334 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
2335 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
2337 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
2339 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
2341 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
2342 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
2343 their password is irrelevant.
2345 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
2347 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
2349 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
2350 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
2352 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
2354 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
2356 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
2357 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
2358 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
2359 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
2360 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
2361 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
2363 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
2365 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
2367 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
2368 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
2370 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
2372 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
2374 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
2375 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
2376 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
2377 already a (different) debian/compat.
2379 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
2381 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
2383 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
2385 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
2387 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
2389 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
2391 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
2393 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
2395 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
2397 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
2399 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
2401 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
2402 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
2403 mounted using devfs names
2404 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
2405 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
2406 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
2409 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
2411 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
2413 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
2415 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
2417 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
2419 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
2420 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
2423 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
2425 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
2427 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
2428 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
2429 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
2430 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
2433 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
2435 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
2437 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
2438 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
2440 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
2441 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
2443 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
2445 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
2447 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
2449 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
2451 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
2453 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
2454 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
2455 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
2456 create progress bar text for them
2457 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
2459 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
2461 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
2463 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
2465 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
2467 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
2469 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
2472 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
2474 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
2476 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
2479 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
2481 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
2483 * Suppress network configuration questions
2485 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
2486 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
2487 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2489 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2490 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2493 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2495 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2497 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2498 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2499 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2500 - Corresponding progress template
2501 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2502 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2503 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2506 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2508 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2510 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2512 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2514 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2516 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2517 what is and is not a kernel thread
2519 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2521 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2523 * Add a backtitle properly
2525 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2527 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2531 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2533 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2535 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2537 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2539 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2541 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2542 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2545 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2547 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2549 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2552 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2554 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2557 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2559 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2561 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2563 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2565 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2567 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2569 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2570 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2571 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2572 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2573 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2574 questions from being asked
2576 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2578 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2580 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2581 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2583 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2585 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2587 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2590 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2592 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2594 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2596 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2598 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2600 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2602 * Remove some unused templates
2604 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2606 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2608 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2609 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2610 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2613 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2615 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2617 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2618 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2620 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2621 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2623 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2625 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2627 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2628 during reboot or shutdown
2630 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2632 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2634 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2636 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2638 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2640 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2641 readable menu item text
2642 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2644 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2646 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2647 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2649 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2651 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2653 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2655 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2657 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2659 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
2661 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
2663 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
2665 * Attempt to configure X
2666 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
2667 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
2668 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
2669 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
2670 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
2671 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
2672 elsewhere, but for now...)
2674 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
2676 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
2678 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
2680 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
2682 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
2684 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
2685 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
2686 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
2687 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
2689 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
2691 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
2693 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
2694 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
2695 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
2696 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
2697 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
2698 * Add a progress bar
2699 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
2701 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
2703 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
2707 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800