1 casper (1.184) karmic; urgency=low
4 * Apply the Ubuntu release version to the installer menu entries as well
8 * Fix disabling of apt-check (LP: #406191).
11 * Remove the UNR ubiquity .desktop hack in 10adduser.
12 * Set ubiquity as a UNR Favourite in 47unr-ubiquity.
14 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:58 +0100
16 casper (1.183) karmic; urgency=low
18 * Remove erroneous /root prefix on the ubiquity desktop files in
21 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:34 +0100
23 casper (1.182) karmic; urgency=low
26 * Busybox sed does not preserve ownership, so chown after using it.
29 * Set AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME, not =ubuntu (thanks, arky; LP: #401321).
32 * Add support for lzma type archives to casper-new-uuid.
34 -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0500
36 casper (1.181) karmic; urgency=low
38 * Insert a version number in the name field for ubiquity's desktop file
41 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100
43 casper (1.180) karmic; urgency=low
46 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Minor consistency fixes.
49 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update for new gdm custom configuration
50 file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). (LP: #395861)
52 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0200
54 casper (1.179) karmic; urgency=low
57 * If LIVE_MEDIA_PATH is set on the command line, record it in
58 /etc/casper.conf for the benefit of ubiquity.
61 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update to work with new gdm.
63 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:57 +0200
65 casper (1.178) karmic; urgency=low
67 * Ensure that unionfs-fuse isn't killed by /etc/init.d/sendsigs on
68 shutdown (LP: #386010).
69 * Patches from "phl" (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-leledy), adjusted by
70 me, to fix snapshot resync:
71 - Avoid using cpio -u -d options if klibc cpio is in use (LP: #384059).
72 - Copy /etc/casper.conf into /root, otherwise we forget snapshot resync
73 settings (LP: #384061).
74 - Adjust the first field of *SNAP entries in casper.conf to be relative
75 to /cow, not /root (LP: #384066).
76 - Prefix $DEST with $MOUNTP in casper-snapshot (LP: #384068).
77 - /etc/init.d/casper is usually called with 'start', so handle that as
78 well as 'stop' to do snapshot resyncing and CD ejecting (LP: #384076).
79 * Fix casper-snapshot(1) syntax to avoid missing spaces between options
81 * Fix showmounts when used in conjunction with unionfs-fuse; read-only
82 filesystems need to be bind-mounted rather than move-mounted.
84 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0100
86 casper (1.177) karmic; urgency=low
88 * Port from Debian (thanks, Daniel Baumann):
89 - Added live-media-path as suggested by Jordi Pujol.
90 - Tail casper.log and show its messages during boot (thanks, Michal
91 Suchanek; LP: #363886).
93 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0100
95 casper (1.176) karmic; urgency=low
98 * Fix symlinking of anacron to /bin/true.
101 * Drop scripts/casper-bottom/38jockey_disable_check: Some drivers, like wl
102 or printer drivers, do need to be advertised in a live system. Jockey has
103 been fixed to not advertise video drivers automatically if the packages
104 aren't available (such as in the live system), and even if we should ever
105 put them back, it is easier to disable the notifications in jockey's
106 handlers instead of here. (LP: #381687)
108 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:05 +0200
110 casper (1.175) karmic; urgency=low
112 * Suppress error message if
113 /root/usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop doesn't exist.
114 * Add unionfs-fuse support.
115 * Automatically fall back to unionfs-fuse if the default union filesystem
116 is not available but unionfs-fuse is.
118 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:00 +0100
120 casper (1.174) karmic; urgency=low
122 * debian/control: Increase dependency on initramfs-tools to get the version
123 that uses blkid, depend on util-linux as well
124 * hooks/casper: No need to copy vol_id into the initramfs image.·
125 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Use blkid -o udev -p instead of vol_id,
126 there's probably a much cleaner way to check for RAID like this, but
127 this is the direct equivalent.
128 * scripts/casper-helpers (get_fstype): use a blkid call to get the type·
129 * scripts/casper-helpers (find_cow_device): use a blkid call to get the
132 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:41 +0100
134 casper (1.173) jaunty; urgency=low
136 * Don't use head -n1 in where_is_mounted, we don't have head in the
137 initramfs. LP: #363038.
139 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:22:06 -0700
141 casper (1.172) jaunty; urgency=low
143 * 43disable_updateinitramfs: The /cdrom mount has been moved to
144 /root/cdrom by the time this script runs, so check that instead.
146 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0100
148 casper (1.171) jaunty; urgency=low
150 * Set MP_QUIET to -q instead of -Q on Ubuntu as well, and not just for
151 Debian as the modprobe in the latest upstream release of module-init-tools
152 doesn't accept -Q anymore.
154 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0200
156 casper (1.170) jaunty; urgency=low
158 * is_nice_device(): allow devices with an ID_PATH of platform-mmc* as well
159 as used for instance for SD cards on the ARM iMX51 Babbage board;
162 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0200
164 casper (1.169) jaunty; urgency=low
166 * [ -w /cdrom ] turns out not to be a sufficient test for files under
167 /cdrom being writable; with busybox, it always returns true even for
168 read-only filesystems. Explicitly check for the read-only flag in mount
169 output to work around this.
170 * Fix where_is_mounted helper function to actually produce output (thanks,
171 Steve Dodd; LP: #346941).
172 * Add a comment to find_cow_device explaining why the choice of
173 filesystems is restricted (I asked for this comment in LP #230703 but it
174 apparently never got written).
176 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:05 +0100
178 casper (1.168) jaunty; urgency=low
180 * Fix writing of "$@" to diverted update-initramfs script (here-documents
181 perform parameter expansion unless the delimiter is quoted).
182 * Don't bring up a temporary network interface while fetching the preseed
183 file when netbooting, as that will disconnect our root filesystem
186 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:29 +0100
188 casper (1.167) jaunty; urgency=low
190 * Disable kwallet from KDE 4 in 34disable_kde_services
192 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:35 +0000
194 casper (1.166) jaunty; urgency=low
197 * Show the ubiquity icon in kourou (LP: #338730)
200 * Move examples.desktop to Desktop/ if it exists, as an alternative to
201 Examples (LP: #45489).
204 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
205 - Make the special case disabling of pulseaudio per user, and not system
207 - Also disable PulseAudio for the Braille profile.
208 - Fix incorrect paths when chowning files.
209 - Don't use /root for the ubiquity hook accessibility script, /target is
210 where the installed system is located.
211 - Remove laptop detect code. Its not currently working, and getting it to
212 work requires invasive changes.
213 - Only set pulseaudio settings and create the .orca directory if sed
214 packages are installed on the live filesystem and installed system.
215 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Copy orca settings to the installed system.
217 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:20 +1100
219 casper (1.165) jaunty; urgency=low
221 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
222 - When the blindness accessibility profile is chosen, create the .orca
223 directory in the live user's home directory. This seems to allow orca
224 to properly reload and use settings in the live session without needing
225 to be restarted. This is only needed for the blindness profile, due to
226 the other profiles that use orca already creating the .orca directory.
229 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:37:20 +1100
231 casper (1.164) jaunty; urgency=low
233 * Update 34disable_kde_services to not start
234 update-notifier-kde or plasma's contact plugin which uses akonadi
236 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:52 +0000
238 casper (1.163) jaunty; urgency=low
240 * 34disable_kwallet moved to 34disable_kde_services and disables
241 various services not needed by live CDs
243 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000
245 casper (1.162) jaunty; urgency=low
247 * If /cdrom is writable, call the diverted update-initramfs and copy
248 the resulting kernel and initrd to /cdrom/casper (LP: #292159).
250 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000
252 casper (1.161) jaunty; urgency=low
255 * Regenerate SSL certificate at boot so that it isn't the same for all
256 live CD users (LP: #337723).
258 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:21 +0000
260 casper (1.160) jaunty; urgency=low
262 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
263 - Adjust sudoers file to allow ORBIT_SOCKET_DIR, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE and
264 GTK_MODULES environment variables through to root, for v2, v3, and
265 braille profiles. This allows users to use administrative GTK/GNOME
266 applications executed by gksudo with accessibility tools like orca.
268 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +1100
270 casper (1.159) jaunty; urgency=low
272 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
273 - Disable pulseaudio for the blindness profile, as pulseaudio and espeak
274 and portaudio v19 do not play very well with each other, lots of
275 crackling, cut of speech. At least espeak via ALSA natively is usable,
276 and latency is relatively low.
278 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:06 +1100
280 casper (1.158) jaunty; urgency=low
282 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
283 - use laptop_detect function in blindness profile as well
285 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:07:17 +1100
287 casper (1.157) jaunty; urgency=low
290 * 10adduser: add Category=Favorites support for netbook-launcher
294 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
295 - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable
296 the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for
297 the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several
298 keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible
299 yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is
300 likely to cause much confusion if sed menu entries are not present.
302 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +1100
304 casper (1.156) jaunty; urgency=low
306 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
307 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
308 - If using a laptop, enable the laptop keyboard layout
309 - There is no longer a need to set gconf values as root in only-ubiquity
312 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:52 +0100
314 casper (1.155) jaunty; urgency=low
317 * Add myself to debian/copyright as an author, as I've done fairly
318 significant work on this.
319 * Eliminate casper-md5check's libm linkage; patch from "SurJector" who
320 points out that the automatic conversion is sufficient (LP: #293613).
321 * Restore showmounts/show-cow option (thanks, Carlo de Wolf and "probono";
322 LP: #159006, #290330).
325 * Add support for ext4.
327 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000
329 casper (1.154) jaunty; urgency=low
332 * scripts/casper-bottom/02timezone:
333 - Remove as it's no longer needed and resets the timezone when
334 persistence is enabled (LP: #296855).
337 * Preseed console-setup/optionscode and console-setup/codesetcode to the
338 empty string on boot to avoid debris from the live filesystem build
339 process getting in the way of installation (LP: #94177).
341 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:44:45 +0000
343 casper (1.153) jaunty; urgency=low
345 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser:
346 - Create links for Mythbuntu items on the Desktop too.
347 - Don't show removable drives on Mythbuntu desktop
348 * scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services:
349 - New script for disabling services unnecessary to Live
350 mode that should still start after being installed.
352 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:59 -0600
354 casper (1.152) intrepid; urgency=low
356 * Use kde4rc now for accessibility profiles
358 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:54 +0100
360 casper (1.151) intrepid; urgency=low
362 * Force ubiquity to --automatic mode for ubuntu-mid
364 -- Emmet Hikory <persia@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:31:16 +0100
366 casper (1.150) intrepid; urgency=low
368 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser (really)
370 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:54 +0100
372 casper (1.149) intrepid; urgency=low
374 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
375 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
376 - Revert to using gconf keys for starting orca, as this is now what
377 orca does when the user chooses to automatically start orca from Orca's
379 - Explicitly set orca as the program to start up for magnification,
382 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:02 +1100
384 casper (1.148) intrepid; urgency=low
386 * Skip remounting read-only in try_mount as it's unnecessary and
387 breaks persistence. Thanks James Westby (LP: #274076).
389 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
391 casper (1.147) intrepid; urgency=low
393 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser
395 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0100
397 casper (1.146) intrepid; urgency=low
399 * Update About Kubuntu link in 10adduser for KDE 4
401 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:15 +0100
403 casper (1.145) intrepid; urgency=low
405 * 38disable_restricted_manager: Remove some obsolete l-r-m and
406 restricted-manager code, and rename the script to 38jockey_disable_check
407 to better reflect its purpose.
409 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0200
411 casper (1.144) intrepid; urgency=low
413 * Bump media detection timeout to a minute; thanks to Tormod Volden and
414 Steve Beattie for analysis (LP: #258432).
415 * Note that this changes (fixes?) the semantics of LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT due
416 to not using hex values in a for loop which aren't understood by test
417 -lt (thanks, Steve Beattie).
419 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:13 +0100
421 casper (1.143) intrepid; urgency=low
423 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
424 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change the way that orca is set to
425 automatically start. Orca can be started via a gconf key, however this
426 is not reflected in the orca UI, and doesn't easily allow the user to
427 prevent orca from autostarting on an installed system.
429 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +1000
431 casper (1.142) intrepid; urgency=low
433 * Fix syntax error introduced by is_nice_device regex fix.
435 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:59 +0100
437 casper (1.141) intrepid; urgency=low
440 * Handle spaces in file names in md5sum.txt (LP: #251112).
443 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax in
444 preseed script; previously we only supported it in the keyboard script,
445 which confusingly doesn't deal with propagating console-setup/* preseeds
446 to the target filesystem (LP: #253749).
447 * Update to localechooser's new languagelist format.
450 * scripts/casper: don't scan floppy drives for livefs images (LP: #97306)
451 * scripts/casper: fix broken RE in is_nice_device() (LP: #250328)
452 * scripts/casper: properly use argument $1 in matches_uuid()
454 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:05 +0100
456 casper (1.140) intrepid; urgency=low
459 * Disable jockey as well as the old restricted-manager. While jockey does
460 do more than restricted-manager did, it also still uses a good chunk of
461 memory for a use case that's fairly limited on the live CD.
464 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
465 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
466 - Check that usr/bin/orca exists and is executable before creating user
469 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:23:41 +1000
471 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
473 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
475 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
477 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
480 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
483 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
484 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
485 apport right before the release.
486 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
487 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
488 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
490 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
492 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
494 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
495 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
497 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
499 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
501 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
502 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
503 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
504 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
506 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
508 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
511 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
514 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
516 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
518 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
521 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
524 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
525 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
527 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
529 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
532 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
535 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
537 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
538 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
539 corruption (LP: #230703).
541 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
543 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
545 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
547 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
548 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
549 corruption (LP: #230703).
551 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
553 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
555 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
556 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
559 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
561 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
564 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
567 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
568 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
571 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
573 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
576 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
577 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
578 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
581 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
582 by root (LP: #218576).
583 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
584 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
585 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
586 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
587 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
588 open another bug for this.
590 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
592 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
594 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
597 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
599 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
601 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
602 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
603 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
604 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
605 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
606 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
609 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
611 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
614 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
615 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
616 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
617 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
618 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
621 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
622 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
626 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
628 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
630 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
632 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
634 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
636 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
638 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
640 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
641 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
643 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
645 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
648 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
649 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
650 specification (LP: #204185).
653 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
655 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
657 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
660 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
663 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
664 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
665 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
667 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
669 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
671 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
672 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
673 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
674 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
676 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
678 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
680 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
682 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
684 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
686 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
688 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
690 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
692 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
693 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
694 propagating to the installed system.
696 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
698 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
701 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
702 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
703 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
704 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
705 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
706 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
709 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
710 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
712 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
714 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
716 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
717 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
719 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
721 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
723 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
725 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
728 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
730 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
732 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
733 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
734 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
737 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
739 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
741 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
743 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
745 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
748 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
749 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
751 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
754 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
756 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
759 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
760 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
761 a system. LP: #150188
764 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
765 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
766 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
767 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
769 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
771 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
773 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
775 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
776 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
778 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
780 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
782 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
784 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
785 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
786 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
788 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
790 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
792 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
793 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
794 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
796 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
798 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
800 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
801 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
803 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
804 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
806 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
808 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
810 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
811 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
812 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
813 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
816 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
818 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
820 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
822 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
823 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
824 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
825 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
826 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
827 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
829 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
831 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
833 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
834 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
835 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
837 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
839 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
841 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
843 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
845 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
846 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
849 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
851 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
853 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
856 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
858 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
860 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
861 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
862 installed (LP: #139403).
864 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
866 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
868 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
869 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
870 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
871 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
874 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
876 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
878 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
879 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
880 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
881 systems. (LP: #131976)
883 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
885 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
887 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
888 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
889 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
891 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
893 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
896 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
897 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
898 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
900 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
902 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
904 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
906 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
908 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
910 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
911 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
913 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
915 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
918 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
921 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
922 restricted-manager autostart files
924 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
926 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
928 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
930 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
933 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
935 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
938 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
939 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
941 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
944 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
945 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
946 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
947 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
948 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
949 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
951 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
952 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
954 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
956 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
958 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
959 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
960 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
962 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
964 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
967 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
970 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
971 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
974 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
976 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
978 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
979 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
982 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
984 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
986 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
987 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
989 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
991 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
993 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
996 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
998 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
1000 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
1001 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
1002 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
1003 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
1004 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
1005 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
1006 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
1007 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
1008 kernels (LP: #118561).
1010 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
1012 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
1015 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
1018 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
1019 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
1020 for the final release.
1022 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
1024 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
1027 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1028 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1029 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
1030 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
1032 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
1034 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
1036 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
1038 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
1040 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
1043 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
1044 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
1047 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
1049 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
1050 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
1051 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
1052 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
1053 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
1054 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
1057 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
1059 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
1061 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
1063 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
1064 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
1065 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
1066 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
1067 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
1069 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
1071 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
1074 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
1075 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
1076 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
1077 * Add driver-updates hooks.
1080 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
1081 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
1083 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
1085 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
1087 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
1088 for use with encryption.
1090 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
1092 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1094 * Added depends to eject.
1095 * Removed recommends to live-package.
1097 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
1099 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1102 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
1103 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
1106 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
1107 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
1108 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
1110 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
1112 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1114 * New upstream release.
1115 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
1116 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
1117 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
1118 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
1119 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
1120 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
1121 parameter: module=NAME.
1123 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
1125 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
1127 * Merge in Debian's changes.
1129 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
1131 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
1133 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
1134 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
1136 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
1138 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1140 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1141 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1143 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
1145 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1147 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1148 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
1149 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
1151 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
1153 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1155 * New Upstream release.
1156 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
1158 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
1160 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
1163 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
1164 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
1165 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
1167 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
1168 avoid interfering with debconf.
1171 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1172 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
1173 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
1176 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
1177 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
1179 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
1181 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
1183 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
1184 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
1185 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
1187 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
1189 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
1191 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
1192 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
1193 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1194 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1195 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1197 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
1199 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
1201 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
1202 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
1203 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
1204 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
1206 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
1208 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
1210 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
1211 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
1212 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
1213 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
1214 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
1215 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
1217 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
1219 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
1221 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
1222 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
1224 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
1225 * Fixed keyboard setup.
1226 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
1227 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
1228 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1231 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
1233 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
1235 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
1236 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1239 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
1241 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
1244 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
1245 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
1246 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
1247 requested by many people.
1248 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
1249 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
1251 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
1252 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
1253 * Fixed locale generation.
1254 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1258 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
1260 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
1262 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1264 * New upstream release.
1265 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
1266 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
1267 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
1269 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
1270 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
1271 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
1272 * Extendend manpages.
1273 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
1274 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
1275 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
1276 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
1277 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
1278 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
1279 needed by casper-snapshot.
1280 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
1283 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
1285 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
1287 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
1290 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
1292 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
1295 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
1297 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
1298 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
1299 aren't supplied on the command line.
1302 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
1303 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
1304 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
1306 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
1307 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
1308 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
1309 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
1311 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
1313 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
1315 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
1316 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
1318 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
1320 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
1323 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
1324 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
1325 enabling accessibility in KDE.
1328 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
1330 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
1332 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
1334 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
1335 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
1336 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
1338 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
1340 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
1342 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
1343 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
1346 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
1348 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1350 * New upstream release.
1351 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
1352 * Tagged for debtags project.
1354 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
1356 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
1358 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
1359 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
1360 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
1362 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
1363 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
1364 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
1365 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
1366 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
1367 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
1368 casper-bottom scripts use this.
1369 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
1371 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
1373 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
1375 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
1378 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
1380 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
1383 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
1384 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
1387 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
1389 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
1391 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
1393 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1395 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
1396 * Lintian cleanness reached.
1398 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
1400 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1402 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
1403 * Added a manpage for casper.
1404 * Lintian cleanings.
1406 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
1408 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * New upstream release.
1411 * Added static network configuration support.
1412 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
1413 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
1414 via kernel parameters.
1416 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
1418 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
1420 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
1421 (closes: Malone #61573).
1423 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
1425 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
1427 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
1428 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
1429 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
1430 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
1431 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
1432 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
1434 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
1436 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1438 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
1439 * Default user password now "live".
1441 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
1443 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
1445 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
1446 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
1447 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
1448 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
1449 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
1451 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
1453 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1455 * New upstream release.
1456 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
1457 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
1458 as kernel parameter).
1460 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
1462 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
1464 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
1466 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
1468 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1470 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1471 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1472 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1474 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1476 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1477 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1479 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1481 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1483 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1484 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1486 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1488 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1490 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1491 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1493 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1495 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1498 * New upstream release.
1499 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1500 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1501 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1502 script/casper-bottom.
1503 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1504 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1505 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1506 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1507 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1510 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1511 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1512 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1515 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1516 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1518 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1520 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1523 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1525 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1526 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1527 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1528 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1529 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1530 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1531 * Minor build system fixes.
1532 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1533 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1534 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1536 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1538 * Add stacked file system support
1541 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1542 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1545 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1547 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1549 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1551 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1553 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1555 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1558 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1559 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1560 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1561 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1564 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1565 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1567 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1569 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1571 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1572 PATH isn't correctly set.
1574 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1576 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1578 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1579 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1580 * Rearrange source package.
1581 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1583 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1586 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1588 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1591 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1594 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1595 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1596 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1597 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1600 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1602 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1604 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1605 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1606 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1607 * Removed ubiquity code.
1608 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1609 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1610 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1611 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1612 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1613 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1614 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1615 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1616 instead of group 'admin'.
1618 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1620 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1622 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1624 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1626 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1628 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1629 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1630 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1632 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1634 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1636 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1638 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1639 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1641 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
1643 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
1645 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
1648 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
1650 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
1653 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
1657 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
1659 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
1661 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
1664 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
1668 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
1671 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
1673 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
1675 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
1678 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
1680 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
1683 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1684 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
1685 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
1688 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
1690 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
1691 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
1692 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
1693 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
1694 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
1695 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
1697 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
1698 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
1701 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
1702 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
1703 scripts. Malone #43860
1704 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
1705 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
1707 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
1708 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
1710 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
1712 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
1715 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
1716 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
1718 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
1719 for the v1 accessibility profile.
1720 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
1721 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
1722 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
1725 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
1727 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
1728 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
1729 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
1732 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
1734 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
1736 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
1738 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
1740 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
1742 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
1744 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
1745 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
1748 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
1750 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
1753 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
1754 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
1755 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
1756 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
1757 gnome-panel-data is installed.
1758 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
1759 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
1761 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
1762 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
1763 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
1764 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
1767 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
1769 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
1771 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
1773 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
1774 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
1775 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
1776 ubiquity-casper to match.
1778 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
1780 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
1783 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
1787 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
1789 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
1791 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
1793 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
1794 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
1795 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
1796 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
1798 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
1800 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
1802 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
1803 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
1805 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
1807 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
1810 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1811 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
1812 in the relevant packages.
1815 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
1816 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
1817 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
1818 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
1821 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
1823 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
1825 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
1826 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
1828 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
1830 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
1832 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
1833 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
1834 trigger unionfs bugs
1835 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
1836 check. (Malone: #29203)
1837 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
1839 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
1841 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
1844 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
1848 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
1849 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
1850 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
1852 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
1854 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
1856 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
1858 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
1860 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
1862 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
1863 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
1864 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
1865 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
1867 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
1869 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
1872 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
1873 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
1874 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
1877 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
1879 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
1881 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
1883 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
1884 debconf-set-selections.
1886 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
1888 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
1891 * Add initial accessibility support framework
1893 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
1895 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
1897 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
1899 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
1900 actually look in the right place.
1901 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
1903 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
1905 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
1907 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
1909 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
1911 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
1914 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
1916 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
1917 into the right place. Malone #20978
1920 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
1923 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
1925 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
1927 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
1929 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
1930 * Set up the right console keymap.
1932 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
1934 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
1937 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
1938 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1939 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
1941 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
1942 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
1943 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
1948 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
1950 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
1951 casper in the installed system.
1953 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
1955 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
1957 * Depend on user-setup
1958 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
1959 be copied into the initramfs.
1961 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
1963 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
1965 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
1967 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
1969 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
1971 * Add persistency support
1972 * Usplash integration
1974 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
1976 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
1978 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
1980 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
1982 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
1984 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
1985 working in shell variables.
1986 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
1987 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
1989 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
1991 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
1993 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
1996 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
1998 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
2000 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
2002 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
2005 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
2007 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
2009 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
2010 list of supported locales.
2011 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
2012 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
2013 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
2014 * Disable checkroot when booting
2016 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
2018 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
2020 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
2021 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
2022 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
2023 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
2025 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
2027 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
2028 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
2030 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
2032 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
2034 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
2035 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
2036 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
2037 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
2038 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
2039 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
2041 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
2043 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
2045 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
2046 Brazilian Portuguese.
2048 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
2050 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
2052 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
2054 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
2056 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
2058 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
2059 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
2060 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
2062 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
2064 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
2066 * Neutralize branding in startup message
2067 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
2068 the console from d-i's death throes
2070 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
2072 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
2074 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
2075 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
2077 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
2079 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
2081 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
2083 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
2085 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
2087 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
2088 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
2091 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
2093 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
2095 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
2096 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
2097 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
2099 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
2101 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
2103 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
2104 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
2107 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
2109 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
2111 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
2112 device nodes clobbered by udev
2113 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
2114 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
2117 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
2119 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
2121 * Add usplash support
2123 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
2125 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
2127 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
2128 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
2129 can be invaluable for debugging
2131 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
2133 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
2135 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
2136 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
2137 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
2140 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
2142 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
2144 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
2147 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
2149 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
2151 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
2154 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
2156 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
2158 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
2160 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
2162 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
2164 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
2166 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
2168 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
2170 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
2173 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
2175 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
2177 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
2179 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
2181 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
2182 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
2185 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
2187 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
2189 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
2191 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
2193 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
2195 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
2197 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
2198 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
2200 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
2202 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
2204 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
2205 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
2207 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
2209 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
2211 * Updated translations from
2212 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
2214 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
2216 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
2218 * Updated translations from
2219 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
2221 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
2223 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
2225 * Updated translations from
2226 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
2228 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
2230 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
2232 * Updated translations from
2233 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
2235 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
2237 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
2239 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
2241 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
2243 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
2245 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
2247 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
2248 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
2250 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
2252 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
2254 * Suppress error output from eject
2255 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
2256 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
2258 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
2260 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
2262 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
2264 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
2266 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
2268 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
2269 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
2271 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
2273 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
2275 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
2276 provided by base-installer).
2278 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
2280 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
2282 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
2283 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
2285 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
2287 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
2289 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
2291 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
2293 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
2295 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
2296 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
2297 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
2299 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
2301 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
2303 * Fix 20xconfig harder
2305 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
2307 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
2309 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
2311 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
2313 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
2315 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
2316 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
2318 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
2320 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
2322 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
2323 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
2324 their password is irrelevant.
2326 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
2328 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
2330 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
2331 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
2333 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
2335 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
2337 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
2338 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
2339 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
2340 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
2341 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
2342 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
2344 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
2346 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
2348 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
2349 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
2351 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
2353 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
2355 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
2356 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
2357 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
2358 already a (different) debian/compat.
2360 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
2362 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
2364 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
2366 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
2368 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
2370 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
2372 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
2374 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
2376 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
2378 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
2380 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
2382 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
2383 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
2384 mounted using devfs names
2385 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
2386 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
2387 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
2390 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
2392 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
2394 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
2396 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
2398 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
2400 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
2401 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
2404 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
2406 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
2408 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
2409 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
2410 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
2411 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
2414 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
2416 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
2418 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
2419 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
2421 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
2422 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
2424 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
2426 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
2428 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
2430 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
2432 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
2434 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
2435 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
2436 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
2437 create progress bar text for them
2438 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
2440 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
2442 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
2444 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
2446 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
2448 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
2450 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
2453 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
2455 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
2457 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
2460 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
2462 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
2464 * Suppress network configuration questions
2466 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
2467 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
2468 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2470 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2471 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2474 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2476 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2478 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2479 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2480 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2481 - Corresponding progress template
2482 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2483 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2484 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2487 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2489 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2491 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2493 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2495 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2497 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2498 what is and is not a kernel thread
2500 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2502 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2504 * Add a backtitle properly
2506 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2508 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2512 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2514 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2516 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2518 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2520 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2522 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2523 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2526 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2528 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2530 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2533 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2535 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2538 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2540 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2542 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2544 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2546 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2548 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2550 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2551 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2552 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2553 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2554 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2555 questions from being asked
2557 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2559 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2561 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2562 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2564 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2566 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2568 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2571 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2573 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2575 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2577 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2579 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2581 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2583 * Remove some unused templates
2585 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2587 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2589 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2590 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2591 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2594 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2596 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2598 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2599 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2601 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2602 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2604 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2606 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2608 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2609 during reboot or shutdown
2611 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2613 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2615 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2617 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2619 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2621 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2622 readable menu item text
2623 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2625 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2627 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2628 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2630 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2632 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2634 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2636 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2638 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2640 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
2642 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
2644 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
2646 * Attempt to configure X
2647 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
2648 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
2649 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
2650 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
2651 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
2652 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
2653 elsewhere, but for now...)
2655 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
2657 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
2659 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
2661 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
2663 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
2665 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
2666 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
2667 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
2668 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
2670 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
2672 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
2674 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
2675 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
2676 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
2677 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
2678 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
2679 * Add a progress bar
2680 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
2682 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
2684 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
2688 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800