1 casper (1.217) lucid; urgency=low
4 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Enable accessible login for the blindness
5 and braile accessibility profiles.
8 * Use egrep rather than 'grep -E' (LP: #512386).
11 * 15autologin: Add support for LXDM autologin (LP: #511976).
14 * Properly shut down debconf-communicate so that its database gets
15 written (LP: #518272).
17 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:25:53 +0000
19 casper (1.216) lucid; urgency=low
22 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
23 - Remove code to disable pulseaudio, as it is no longer needed, and
24 the supporting code in the pulseaudio package was removed a long time
26 - Set the default empathy theme to classic for blindness and braille
27 accessibility profiles.
30 * Speed up work around debconf-communicate. Replace several calls to
31 debconf-communicate with one persistent invocation followed by
33 * Disable guest account by rm'ing rather than waiting for dpkg to
36 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:41:57 -0800
38 casper (1.215) lucid; urgency=low
41 * Support multiple preseed file/urlarguments on the kernel commandline
42 rather than just selecting the last one and going with that.
43 * debian/control: Set Vcs-Bzr.
46 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/48enable_kubuntu_netbook and ubiquity-
47 hooks/48enable_kubuntu_netbook to enable Plasma Netbook workspace
48 for Kubuntu Netbook Remix
50 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:55:42 +0000
52 casper (1.214) lucid; urgency=low
54 * 15autologin: simplify the code with escape character evaluation
57 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:57:05 +0100
59 casper (1.213) lucid; urgency=low
61 * printf does not evaluate escape characters in the argument string.
63 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:02:12 +0000
65 casper (1.212) lucid; urgency=low
68 * debian/control: Add ${misc:Depends}.
69 * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes necessary).
72 * 15autologin: Use printf rather than echo -e, since its behaviour is
73 portable across shells.
76 * Remove scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_apparmor. Apparmor
77 2.3.1+bzr1312-0ubuntu3 and ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu26 now no-op when
78 they detect the live CD environment.
80 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:56:27 +0000
82 casper (1.211) lucid; urgency=low
84 * Readd scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin changes: derivatives have
85 now a custom.conf file and still need autologin in live version.
86 Merge with my previous fix proposed for sponsoring one week ago:
87 use echo -e to enable \n interpretation (/bin/sh is busybox ash
88 which behavior differs from vanilla ash interpretor) (LP: #500786)·
90 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:05:26 +0100
92 casper (1.210) lucid; urgency=low
94 [ Scott James Remnant ]
95 * Dropped Vcs-Bzr headers, pushed to lp:ubuntu/casper
96 * conf-hooks.d/casper: Changed to FRAMEBUFFER=y
99 * Source /scripts/casper-functions and /scripts/casper-helpers only after
100 processing 'prereqs' argument, to avoid lots of warnings with new
103 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:54:54 +0000
105 casper (1.209) lucid; urgency=low
107 * Revert the previous change to 15autologin and instead just make sure
108 custom.conf does not exist.
110 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:18:47 +0000
112 casper (1.208) lucid; urgency=low
115 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: sreadahead is no more, disable
119 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Don't erase /etc/gdm/custom.conf but
120 only append autologin on casper startup if needed. This avoids removing
121 default session set in this file for ubuntu derivatives which use GDM.
122 The script also check if the modification is already there for
123 persistent usb keys. (LP: #498971)
125 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:54:36 +0100
127 casper (1.207) lucid; urgency=low
129 * Drop 46_disable_services. It didn't need to be running on "all" systems
130 with casper installed. Mythbuntu systems will pull this in via a package
131 that is administerable via ~mythbuntu-dev.
133 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:29 -0600
135 casper (1.206) karmic; urgency=low
137 * Fix broken /cdrom writable test in 43disable_initramfs
140 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:49:15 +0100
142 casper (1.205) karmic; urgency=low
144 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Disable sreadahead on live CD
145 boot. Not only does it profile the live CD boot to no benefit, but it
146 also looks as if it may be responsible for breaking Wubi installs by
147 reading from partman's synchronisation FIFOs (LP: #439279).
149 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:02 +0100
151 casper (1.204) karmic; urgency=low
153 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
154 - .pulse_a11y_nostart -> pulse_a11y_nostart due to being in a system
155 directory, to completely match the change in pulseaudio, which I missed
158 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:29:07 +1100
160 casper (1.203) karmic; urgency=low
162 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
163 - Change .pulse_a11y_nostart location to /var/lib/pulseaudio, as per
164 the change in pulseaudio itself, to solve a race condition with volume
167 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:31:51 +1100
169 casper (1.202) karmic; urgency=low
171 * scripts/casper-bottom/46_disable_services:
172 - MythTV backend is now an upstart service, so rename it's conf file
173 in /etc/init, rather than using update-rc.d.
175 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:47:00 -0500
177 casper (1.201) karmic; urgency=low
180 * Don't prompt to eject the SD card on Babbage boards, since for now it's
181 reused as a quasi-boot-floppy (LP: #364273).
184 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: update to work for polkit-1
185 as well. Allow the live cd user to perform any action when at the
186 active console. (LP: #447141)
188 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:06:53 +0100
190 casper (1.200) karmic; urgency=low
192 * scripts/casper-bottom/20xconfig:
193 - Fix xforcevesa to generate a good failsafe xorg.conf (LP: #423969)
195 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:26:42 -0500
197 casper (1.199) karmic; urgency=low
200 * Scan device-mapper (RAID) devices for live filesystem (LP: #385305).
202 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:39:57 +0100
204 casper (1.198) karmic; urgency=low
206 * scripts/casper: Send PULSELOGO usplash command at startup. (LP: #438762)
208 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:07 +0200
210 casper (1.197) karmic; urgency=low
213 * Fix tty device name construction to work with new upstart (LP: #438678).
216 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: pass -L to getty and set term to vt100.
217 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: set +x...
219 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0100
221 casper (1.196) karmic; urgency=low
223 * Extend our hack that arranges to run setupcon after usplash exits to
224 cover the new Upstartified usplash as well.
226 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:36:55 +0100
228 casper (1.195) karmic; urgency=low
231 * add support for serialtty= cmdline option for debugging purposes in live
235 * Upstart moved /etc/event.d/ to /etc/init/; adjust shell provision on VTs
236 to match (LP: #434769).
238 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:52:32 +0100
240 casper (1.194) karmic; urgency=low
242 * Fix 47unr_ubiquity shell code to make slightly more sense.
243 * Tell mkinitramfs that casper needs usplash (LP: #434980).
245 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:29:21 +0100
247 casper (1.193) karmic; urgency=low
249 * Sync LSB headers in init script with desired behaviour: don't start
250 casper at boot, and stop after umountroot but before halt/reboot.
252 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:23 +0100
254 casper (1.192) karmic; urgency=low
257 * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
260 * Add 37kubuntu_netbook_installer_link to show ubiquity launcher
262 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:10:03 +0100
264 casper (1.191) karmic; urgency=low
266 * Slightly re-work 47unr_ubiquity, so that ubiquity doesn't keep getting
267 added to the favourites if persistence is used.·
269 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:35:00 +1000
271 casper (1.190) karmic; urgency=low
274 * Don't produce an invalid sed program when trying to remove an applet
275 which isn't in the panel (LP: #406188).
278 * do not remount filesystems that already have been probed when
279 searching for the livefs (LP: #424464)
280 * Fix quoting in try_snap (LP: #424742).
281 * Silence error messages for non-existent device nodes (LP: #425159).
283 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:10:53 +0100
285 casper (1.189) karmic; urgency=low
287 * In 10adduser fix path to ubiquity-kde.desktop file
289 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:54:41 +0100
291 casper (1.188) karmic; urgency=low
293 * Allow for platform-orion-ehci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device"
294 i.e. one which can host a livefs. This is the name of the USB device
295 driver on Marvell Dove boards.
297 -- Loïc Minier <loic.minier@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:16:21 +0200
299 casper (1.187) karmic; urgency=low
301 * Stop recommending unionfs-fuse, as we're using aufs again in Karmic.
303 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:14 +0100
305 casper (1.186) karmic; urgency=low
308 * Allow for platform-mxsdhci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device" i.e.
309 one which can host a livefs. This is the new name of this device in
310 2.6.31 kernels on Babbage i.MX51.
313 * Rename 47unr-ubiquity as 47unr_ubiquity, as scripts with dashes don't
314 get installed into the initramfs. (LP: #411616)
316 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:39:34 +1000
318 casper (1.185) karmic; urgency=low
320 * Actually set 47unr-ubiquity as executable.·
322 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:41:35 +1000
324 casper (1.184) karmic; urgency=low
327 * Apply the Ubuntu release version to the installer menu entries as well
331 * Fix disabling of apt-check (LP: #406191).
334 * Remove the UNR ubiquity .desktop hack in 10adduser.
335 * Set ubiquity as a UNR Favourite in 47unr-ubiquity.
337 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:58 +0100
339 casper (1.183) karmic; urgency=low
341 * Remove erroneous /root prefix on the ubiquity desktop files in
344 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:34 +0100
346 casper (1.182) karmic; urgency=low
349 * Busybox sed does not preserve ownership, so chown after using it.
352 * Set AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME, not =ubuntu (thanks, arky; LP: #401321).
354 [ Mario Limonciello ]
355 * Add support for lzma type archives to casper-new-uuid.
357 -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0500
359 casper (1.181) karmic; urgency=low
361 * Insert a version number in the name field for ubiquity's desktop file
364 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100
366 casper (1.180) karmic; urgency=low
369 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Minor consistency fixes.
372 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update for new gdm custom configuration
373 file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). (LP: #395861)
375 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0200
377 casper (1.179) karmic; urgency=low
380 * If LIVE_MEDIA_PATH is set on the command line, record it in
381 /etc/casper.conf for the benefit of ubiquity.
384 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update to work with new gdm.
386 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:57 +0200
388 casper (1.178) karmic; urgency=low
390 * Ensure that unionfs-fuse isn't killed by /etc/init.d/sendsigs on
391 shutdown (LP: #386010).
392 * Patches from "phl" (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-leledy), adjusted by
393 me, to fix snapshot resync:
394 - Avoid using cpio -u -d options if klibc cpio is in use (LP: #384059).
395 - Copy /etc/casper.conf into /root, otherwise we forget snapshot resync
396 settings (LP: #384061).
397 - Adjust the first field of *SNAP entries in casper.conf to be relative
398 to /cow, not /root (LP: #384066).
399 - Prefix $DEST with $MOUNTP in casper-snapshot (LP: #384068).
400 - /etc/init.d/casper is usually called with 'start', so handle that as
401 well as 'stop' to do snapshot resyncing and CD ejecting (LP: #384076).
402 * Fix casper-snapshot(1) syntax to avoid missing spaces between options
404 * Fix showmounts when used in conjunction with unionfs-fuse; read-only
405 filesystems need to be bind-mounted rather than move-mounted.
407 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0100
409 casper (1.177) karmic; urgency=low
411 * Port from Debian (thanks, Daniel Baumann):
412 - Added live-media-path as suggested by Jordi Pujol.
413 - Tail casper.log and show its messages during boot (thanks, Michal
414 Suchanek; LP: #363886).
416 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0100
418 casper (1.176) karmic; urgency=low
421 * Fix symlinking of anacron to /bin/true.
424 * Drop scripts/casper-bottom/38jockey_disable_check: Some drivers, like wl
425 or printer drivers, do need to be advertised in a live system. Jockey has
426 been fixed to not advertise video drivers automatically if the packages
427 aren't available (such as in the live system), and even if we should ever
428 put them back, it is easier to disable the notifications in jockey's
429 handlers instead of here. (LP: #381687)
431 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:05 +0200
433 casper (1.175) karmic; urgency=low
435 * Suppress error message if
436 /root/usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop doesn't exist.
437 * Add unionfs-fuse support.
438 * Automatically fall back to unionfs-fuse if the default union filesystem
439 is not available but unionfs-fuse is.
441 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:00 +0100
443 casper (1.174) karmic; urgency=low
445 * debian/control: Increase dependency on initramfs-tools to get the version
446 that uses blkid, depend on util-linux as well
447 * hooks/casper: No need to copy vol_id into the initramfs image.·
448 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Use blkid -o udev -p instead of vol_id,
449 there's probably a much cleaner way to check for RAID like this, but
450 this is the direct equivalent.
451 * scripts/casper-helpers (get_fstype): use a blkid call to get the type·
452 * scripts/casper-helpers (find_cow_device): use a blkid call to get the
455 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:41 +0100
457 casper (1.173) jaunty; urgency=low
459 * Don't use head -n1 in where_is_mounted, we don't have head in the
460 initramfs. LP: #363038.
462 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:22:06 -0700
464 casper (1.172) jaunty; urgency=low
466 * 43disable_updateinitramfs: The /cdrom mount has been moved to
467 /root/cdrom by the time this script runs, so check that instead.
469 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0100
471 casper (1.171) jaunty; urgency=low
473 * Set MP_QUIET to -q instead of -Q on Ubuntu as well, and not just for
474 Debian as the modprobe in the latest upstream release of module-init-tools
475 doesn't accept -Q anymore.
477 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0200
479 casper (1.170) jaunty; urgency=low
481 * is_nice_device(): allow devices with an ID_PATH of platform-mmc* as well
482 as used for instance for SD cards on the ARM iMX51 Babbage board;
485 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0200
487 casper (1.169) jaunty; urgency=low
489 * [ -w /cdrom ] turns out not to be a sufficient test for files under
490 /cdrom being writable; with busybox, it always returns true even for
491 read-only filesystems. Explicitly check for the read-only flag in mount
492 output to work around this.
493 * Fix where_is_mounted helper function to actually produce output (thanks,
494 Steve Dodd; LP: #346941).
495 * Add a comment to find_cow_device explaining why the choice of
496 filesystems is restricted (I asked for this comment in LP #230703 but it
497 apparently never got written).
499 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:05 +0100
501 casper (1.168) jaunty; urgency=low
503 * Fix writing of "$@" to diverted update-initramfs script (here-documents
504 perform parameter expansion unless the delimiter is quoted).
505 * Don't bring up a temporary network interface while fetching the preseed
506 file when netbooting, as that will disconnect our root filesystem
509 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:29 +0100
511 casper (1.167) jaunty; urgency=low
513 * Disable kwallet from KDE 4 in 34disable_kde_services
515 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:35 +0000
517 casper (1.166) jaunty; urgency=low
520 * Show the ubiquity icon in kourou (LP: #338730)
523 * Move examples.desktop to Desktop/ if it exists, as an alternative to
524 Examples (LP: #45489).
527 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
528 - Make the special case disabling of pulseaudio per user, and not system
530 - Also disable PulseAudio for the Braille profile.
531 - Fix incorrect paths when chowning files.
532 - Don't use /root for the ubiquity hook accessibility script, /target is
533 where the installed system is located.
534 - Remove laptop detect code. Its not currently working, and getting it to
535 work requires invasive changes.
536 - Only set pulseaudio settings and create the .orca directory if sed
537 packages are installed on the live filesystem and installed system.
538 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Copy orca settings to the installed system.
540 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:20 +1100
542 casper (1.165) jaunty; urgency=low
544 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
545 - When the blindness accessibility profile is chosen, create the .orca
546 directory in the live user's home directory. This seems to allow orca
547 to properly reload and use settings in the live session without needing
548 to be restarted. This is only needed for the blindness profile, due to
549 the other profiles that use orca already creating the .orca directory.
552 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:37:20 +1100
554 casper (1.164) jaunty; urgency=low
556 * Update 34disable_kde_services to not start
557 update-notifier-kde or plasma's contact plugin which uses akonadi
559 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:52 +0000
561 casper (1.163) jaunty; urgency=low
563 * 34disable_kwallet moved to 34disable_kde_services and disables
564 various services not needed by live CDs
566 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000
568 casper (1.162) jaunty; urgency=low
570 * If /cdrom is writable, call the diverted update-initramfs and copy
571 the resulting kernel and initrd to /cdrom/casper (LP: #292159).
573 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000
575 casper (1.161) jaunty; urgency=low
578 * Regenerate SSL certificate at boot so that it isn't the same for all
579 live CD users (LP: #337723).
581 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:21 +0000
583 casper (1.160) jaunty; urgency=low
585 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
586 - Adjust sudoers file to allow ORBIT_SOCKET_DIR, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE and
587 GTK_MODULES environment variables through to root, for v2, v3, and
588 braille profiles. This allows users to use administrative GTK/GNOME
589 applications executed by gksudo with accessibility tools like orca.
591 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +1100
593 casper (1.159) jaunty; urgency=low
595 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
596 - Disable pulseaudio for the blindness profile, as pulseaudio and espeak
597 and portaudio v19 do not play very well with each other, lots of
598 crackling, cut of speech. At least espeak via ALSA natively is usable,
599 and latency is relatively low.
601 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:06 +1100
603 casper (1.158) jaunty; urgency=low
605 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
606 - use laptop_detect function in blindness profile as well
608 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:07:17 +1100
610 casper (1.157) jaunty; urgency=low
613 * 10adduser: add Category=Favorites support for netbook-launcher
617 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
618 - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable
619 the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for
620 the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several
621 keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible
622 yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is
623 likely to cause much confusion if sed menu entries are not present.
625 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +1100
627 casper (1.156) jaunty; urgency=low
629 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
630 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
631 - If using a laptop, enable the laptop keyboard layout
632 - There is no longer a need to set gconf values as root in only-ubiquity
635 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:52 +0100
637 casper (1.155) jaunty; urgency=low
640 * Add myself to debian/copyright as an author, as I've done fairly
641 significant work on this.
642 * Eliminate casper-md5check's libm linkage; patch from "SurJector" who
643 points out that the automatic conversion is sufficient (LP: #293613).
644 * Restore showmounts/show-cow option (thanks, Carlo de Wolf and "probono";
645 LP: #159006, #290330).
648 * Add support for ext4.
650 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000
652 casper (1.154) jaunty; urgency=low
655 * scripts/casper-bottom/02timezone:
656 - Remove as it's no longer needed and resets the timezone when
657 persistence is enabled (LP: #296855).
660 * Preseed console-setup/optionscode and console-setup/codesetcode to the
661 empty string on boot to avoid debris from the live filesystem build
662 process getting in the way of installation (LP: #94177).
664 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:44:45 +0000
666 casper (1.153) jaunty; urgency=low
668 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser:
669 - Create links for Mythbuntu items on the Desktop too.
670 - Don't show removable drives on Mythbuntu desktop
671 * scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services:
672 - New script for disabling services unnecessary to Live
673 mode that should still start after being installed.
675 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:59 -0600
677 casper (1.152) intrepid; urgency=low
679 * Use kde4rc now for accessibility profiles
681 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:54 +0100
683 casper (1.151) intrepid; urgency=low
685 * Force ubiquity to --automatic mode for ubuntu-mid
687 -- Emmet Hikory <persia@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:31:16 +0100
689 casper (1.150) intrepid; urgency=low
691 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser (really)
693 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:54 +0100
695 casper (1.149) intrepid; urgency=low
697 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
698 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
699 - Revert to using gconf keys for starting orca, as this is now what
700 orca does when the user chooses to automatically start orca from Orca's
702 - Explicitly set orca as the program to start up for magnification,
705 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:02 +1100
707 casper (1.148) intrepid; urgency=low
709 * Skip remounting read-only in try_mount as it's unnecessary and
710 breaks persistence. Thanks James Westby (LP: #274076).
712 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
714 casper (1.147) intrepid; urgency=low
716 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser
718 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0100
720 casper (1.146) intrepid; urgency=low
722 * Update About Kubuntu link in 10adduser for KDE 4
724 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:15 +0100
726 casper (1.145) intrepid; urgency=low
728 * 38disable_restricted_manager: Remove some obsolete l-r-m and
729 restricted-manager code, and rename the script to 38jockey_disable_check
730 to better reflect its purpose.
732 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0200
734 casper (1.144) intrepid; urgency=low
736 * Bump media detection timeout to a minute; thanks to Tormod Volden and
737 Steve Beattie for analysis (LP: #258432).
738 * Note that this changes (fixes?) the semantics of LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT due
739 to not using hex values in a for loop which aren't understood by test
740 -lt (thanks, Steve Beattie).
742 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:13 +0100
744 casper (1.143) intrepid; urgency=low
746 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
747 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change the way that orca is set to
748 automatically start. Orca can be started via a gconf key, however this
749 is not reflected in the orca UI, and doesn't easily allow the user to
750 prevent orca from autostarting on an installed system.
752 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +1000
754 casper (1.142) intrepid; urgency=low
756 * Fix syntax error introduced by is_nice_device regex fix.
758 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:59 +0100
760 casper (1.141) intrepid; urgency=low
763 * Handle spaces in file names in md5sum.txt (LP: #251112).
766 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax in
767 preseed script; previously we only supported it in the keyboard script,
768 which confusingly doesn't deal with propagating console-setup/* preseeds
769 to the target filesystem (LP: #253749).
770 * Update to localechooser's new languagelist format.
773 * scripts/casper: don't scan floppy drives for livefs images (LP: #97306)
774 * scripts/casper: fix broken RE in is_nice_device() (LP: #250328)
775 * scripts/casper: properly use argument $1 in matches_uuid()
777 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:05 +0100
779 casper (1.140) intrepid; urgency=low
782 * Disable jockey as well as the old restricted-manager. While jockey does
783 do more than restricted-manager did, it also still uses a good chunk of
784 memory for a use case that's fairly limited on the live CD.
787 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
788 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
789 - Check that usr/bin/orca exists and is executable before creating user
792 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:23:41 +1000
794 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
796 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
798 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
800 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
803 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
806 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
807 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
808 apport right before the release.
809 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
810 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
811 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
813 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
815 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
817 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
818 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
820 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
822 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
824 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
825 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
826 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
827 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
829 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
831 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
834 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
837 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
839 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
841 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
844 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
847 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
848 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
850 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
852 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
855 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
858 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
860 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
861 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
862 corruption (LP: #230703).
864 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
866 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
868 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
870 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
871 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
872 corruption (LP: #230703).
874 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
876 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
878 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
879 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
882 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
884 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
887 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
890 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
891 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
894 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
896 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
899 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
900 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
901 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
904 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
905 by root (LP: #218576).
906 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
907 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
908 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
909 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
910 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
911 open another bug for this.
913 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
915 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
917 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
920 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
922 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
924 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
925 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
926 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
927 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
928 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
929 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
932 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
934 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
937 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
938 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
939 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
940 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
941 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
944 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
945 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
949 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
951 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
953 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
955 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
957 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
959 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
961 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
963 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
964 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
966 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
968 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
971 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
972 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
973 specification (LP: #204185).
976 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
978 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
980 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
983 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
986 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
987 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
988 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
990 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
992 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
994 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
995 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
996 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
997 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
999 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
1001 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
1003 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
1005 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
1007 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
1009 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
1011 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
1013 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
1015 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
1016 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
1017 propagating to the installed system.
1019 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
1021 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
1024 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1025 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1026 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
1027 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
1028 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
1029 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
1032 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
1033 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
1035 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
1037 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
1039 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
1040 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
1042 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
1044 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
1046 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
1048 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
1051 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
1053 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
1055 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
1056 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
1057 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
1060 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
1062 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
1064 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
1066 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
1068 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
1071 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
1072 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
1074 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
1077 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
1079 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
1082 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
1083 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
1084 a system. LP: #150188
1087 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
1088 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
1089 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
1090 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
1092 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
1094 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
1096 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
1097 there inside udevadm
1098 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
1099 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
1101 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
1103 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
1105 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
1107 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
1108 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
1109 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
1111 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
1113 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
1115 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
1116 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
1117 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
1119 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
1121 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
1123 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
1124 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
1126 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
1127 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
1129 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
1131 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
1133 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
1134 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
1135 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
1136 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
1139 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
1141 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
1143 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
1145 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
1146 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
1147 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
1148 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
1149 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
1150 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
1152 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
1154 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
1156 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
1157 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
1158 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
1160 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
1162 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
1164 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
1166 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
1168 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
1169 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
1172 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
1174 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
1176 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
1177 fails (LP: #131209).
1179 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
1181 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
1183 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
1184 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
1185 installed (LP: #139403).
1187 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
1189 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
1191 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
1192 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
1193 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
1194 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
1197 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
1199 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
1201 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
1202 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
1203 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
1204 systems. (LP: #131976)
1206 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
1208 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
1210 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
1211 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
1212 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
1214 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
1216 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
1219 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1220 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1221 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
1223 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
1225 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
1227 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
1229 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
1231 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
1233 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
1234 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
1236 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
1238 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
1241 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
1243 [ Jonathan Riddell ]
1244 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
1245 restricted-manager autostart files
1247 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
1249 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
1251 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
1253 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
1256 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
1258 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
1261 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
1262 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
1264 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
1267 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1268 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1269 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
1270 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
1271 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
1272 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
1274 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
1275 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
1277 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
1279 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
1281 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
1282 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
1283 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
1285 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
1287 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
1290 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
1293 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
1294 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
1297 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
1299 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
1301 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
1302 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
1303 .debs (LP: #120217).
1305 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
1307 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
1309 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
1310 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
1312 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
1314 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1316 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
1319 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
1321 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
1323 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
1324 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
1325 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
1326 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
1327 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
1328 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
1329 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
1330 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
1331 kernels (LP: #118561).
1333 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
1335 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
1338 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
1341 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
1342 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
1343 for the final release.
1345 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
1347 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
1350 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1351 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1352 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
1353 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
1355 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
1357 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
1359 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
1361 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
1363 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
1366 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
1367 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
1370 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
1372 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
1373 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
1374 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
1375 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
1376 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
1377 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
1380 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
1382 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
1384 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
1386 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
1387 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
1388 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
1389 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
1390 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
1392 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
1394 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
1397 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
1398 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
1399 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
1400 * Add driver-updates hooks.
1403 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
1404 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
1406 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
1408 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
1410 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
1411 for use with encryption.
1413 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
1415 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1417 * Added depends to eject.
1418 * Removed recommends to live-package.
1420 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
1422 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1425 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
1426 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
1429 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
1430 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
1431 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
1433 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
1435 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * New upstream release.
1438 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
1439 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
1440 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
1441 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
1442 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
1443 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
1444 parameter: module=NAME.
1446 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
1448 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
1450 * Merge in Debian's changes.
1452 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
1454 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
1456 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
1457 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
1459 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
1461 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1463 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1464 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1466 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
1468 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1470 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1471 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
1472 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
1474 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
1476 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1478 * New Upstream release.
1479 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
1481 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
1483 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
1486 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
1487 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
1488 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
1490 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
1491 avoid interfering with debconf.
1494 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1495 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
1496 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
1499 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
1500 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
1502 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
1504 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
1506 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
1507 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
1508 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
1510 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
1512 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
1514 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
1515 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
1516 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1517 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1518 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1520 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
1522 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
1524 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
1525 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
1526 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
1527 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
1529 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
1531 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
1533 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
1534 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
1535 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
1536 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
1537 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
1538 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
1540 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
1542 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
1544 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
1545 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
1547 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
1548 * Fixed keyboard setup.
1549 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
1550 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
1551 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1554 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
1556 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
1558 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
1559 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1562 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
1564 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
1567 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
1568 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
1569 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
1570 requested by many people.
1571 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
1572 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
1574 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
1575 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
1576 * Fixed locale generation.
1577 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1581 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
1583 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
1585 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1587 * New upstream release.
1588 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
1589 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
1590 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
1592 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
1593 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
1594 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
1595 * Extendend manpages.
1596 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
1597 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
1598 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
1599 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
1600 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
1601 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
1602 needed by casper-snapshot.
1603 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
1606 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
1608 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
1610 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
1613 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
1615 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
1618 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
1620 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
1621 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
1622 aren't supplied on the command line.
1625 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
1626 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
1627 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
1629 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
1630 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
1631 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
1632 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
1634 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
1636 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
1638 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
1639 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
1641 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
1643 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
1646 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
1647 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
1648 enabling accessibility in KDE.
1651 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
1653 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
1655 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
1657 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
1658 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
1659 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
1661 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
1663 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
1665 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
1666 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
1669 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
1671 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1673 * New upstream release.
1674 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
1675 * Tagged for debtags project.
1677 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
1679 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
1681 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
1682 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
1683 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
1685 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
1686 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
1687 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
1688 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
1689 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
1690 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
1691 casper-bottom scripts use this.
1692 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
1694 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
1696 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
1698 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
1701 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
1703 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
1706 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
1707 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
1710 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
1712 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
1714 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
1716 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1718 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
1719 * Lintian cleanness reached.
1721 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
1723 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
1726 * Added a manpage for casper.
1727 * Lintian cleanings.
1729 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
1731 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1733 * New upstream release.
1734 * Added static network configuration support.
1735 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
1736 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
1737 via kernel parameters.
1739 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
1741 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
1743 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
1744 (closes: Malone #61573).
1746 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
1748 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
1750 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
1751 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
1752 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
1753 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
1754 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
1755 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
1757 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
1759 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1761 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
1762 * Default user password now "live".
1764 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
1766 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
1768 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
1769 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
1770 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
1771 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
1772 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
1774 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
1776 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1778 * New upstream release.
1779 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
1780 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
1781 as kernel parameter).
1783 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
1785 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
1787 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
1789 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
1791 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1793 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1794 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1795 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1797 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1799 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1800 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1802 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1804 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1806 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1807 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1809 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1811 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1813 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1814 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1816 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1818 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1821 * New upstream release.
1822 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1823 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1824 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1825 script/casper-bottom.
1826 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1827 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1828 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1829 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1830 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1833 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1834 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1835 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1838 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1839 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1841 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1843 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1846 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1848 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1849 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1850 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1851 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1852 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1853 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1854 * Minor build system fixes.
1855 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1856 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1857 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1859 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1861 * Add stacked file system support
1864 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1865 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1868 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1870 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1872 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1874 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1876 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1878 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1881 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1882 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1883 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1884 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1887 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1888 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1890 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1892 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1894 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1895 PATH isn't correctly set.
1897 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1899 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1901 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1902 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1903 * Rearrange source package.
1904 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1906 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1909 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1911 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1914 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1917 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1918 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1919 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1920 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1923 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1925 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1927 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1928 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1929 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1930 * Removed ubiquity code.
1931 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1932 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1933 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1934 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1935 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1936 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1937 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1938 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1939 instead of group 'admin'.
1941 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1943 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1945 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1947 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1949 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1951 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1952 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1953 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1955 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1957 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1959 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1961 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1962 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1964 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
1966 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
1968 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
1971 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
1973 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
1976 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
1980 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
1982 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
1984 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
1987 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
1991 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
1994 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
1996 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
1998 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
2001 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
2003 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
2006 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
2007 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
2008 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
2011 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
2013 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
2014 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
2015 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
2016 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
2017 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
2018 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
2020 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
2021 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
2024 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
2025 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
2026 scripts. Malone #43860
2027 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
2028 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
2030 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
2031 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
2033 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
2035 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
2038 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
2039 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
2041 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
2042 for the v1 accessibility profile.
2043 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
2044 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
2045 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
2048 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
2050 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
2051 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
2052 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
2055 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
2057 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
2059 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
2061 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
2063 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
2065 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
2067 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
2068 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
2071 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
2073 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
2076 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
2077 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
2078 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
2079 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
2080 gnome-panel-data is installed.
2081 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
2082 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
2084 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
2085 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
2086 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
2087 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
2090 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
2092 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
2094 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
2096 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
2097 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
2098 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
2099 ubiquity-casper to match.
2101 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
2103 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
2106 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
2110 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
2112 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
2114 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
2116 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
2117 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
2118 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
2119 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
2121 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
2123 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
2125 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
2126 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
2128 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
2130 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
2133 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
2134 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
2135 in the relevant packages.
2138 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
2139 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
2140 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
2141 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
2144 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
2146 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
2148 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
2149 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
2151 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
2153 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
2155 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
2156 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
2157 trigger unionfs bugs
2158 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
2159 check. (Malone: #29203)
2160 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
2162 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
2164 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
2167 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
2171 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
2172 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
2173 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
2175 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
2177 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
2179 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
2181 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
2183 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
2185 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
2186 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
2187 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
2188 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
2190 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
2192 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
2195 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
2196 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
2197 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
2200 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
2202 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
2204 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
2206 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
2207 debconf-set-selections.
2209 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
2211 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
2214 * Add initial accessibility support framework
2216 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
2218 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
2220 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
2222 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
2223 actually look in the right place.
2224 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
2226 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
2228 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
2230 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
2232 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
2234 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
2237 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
2239 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
2240 into the right place. Malone #20978
2243 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
2246 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
2248 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
2250 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
2252 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
2253 * Set up the right console keymap.
2255 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
2257 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
2260 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
2261 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2262 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
2264 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2265 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
2266 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
2271 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
2273 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
2274 casper in the installed system.
2276 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
2278 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
2280 * Depend on user-setup
2281 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
2282 be copied into the initramfs.
2284 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
2286 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
2288 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
2290 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
2292 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
2294 * Add persistency support
2295 * Usplash integration
2297 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
2299 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
2301 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
2303 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
2305 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
2307 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
2308 working in shell variables.
2309 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
2310 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
2312 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
2314 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
2316 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
2319 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
2321 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
2323 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
2325 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
2328 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
2330 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
2332 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
2333 list of supported locales.
2334 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
2335 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
2336 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
2337 * Disable checkroot when booting
2339 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
2341 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
2343 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
2344 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
2345 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
2346 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
2348 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
2350 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
2351 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
2353 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
2355 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
2357 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
2358 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
2359 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
2360 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
2361 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
2362 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
2364 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
2366 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
2368 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
2369 Brazilian Portuguese.
2371 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
2373 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
2375 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
2377 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
2379 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
2381 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
2382 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
2383 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
2385 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
2387 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
2389 * Neutralize branding in startup message
2390 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
2391 the console from d-i's death throes
2393 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
2395 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
2397 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
2398 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
2400 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
2402 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
2404 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
2406 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
2408 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
2410 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
2411 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
2414 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
2416 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
2418 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
2419 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
2420 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
2422 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
2424 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
2426 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
2427 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
2430 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
2432 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
2434 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
2435 device nodes clobbered by udev
2436 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
2437 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
2440 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
2442 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
2444 * Add usplash support
2446 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
2448 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
2450 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
2451 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
2452 can be invaluable for debugging
2454 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
2456 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
2458 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
2459 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
2460 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
2463 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
2465 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
2467 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
2470 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
2472 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
2474 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
2477 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
2479 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
2481 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
2483 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
2485 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
2487 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
2489 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
2491 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
2493 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
2496 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
2498 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
2500 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
2502 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
2504 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
2505 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
2508 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
2510 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
2512 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
2514 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
2516 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
2518 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
2520 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
2521 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
2523 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
2525 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
2527 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
2528 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
2530 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
2532 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
2534 * Updated translations from
2535 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
2537 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
2539 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
2541 * Updated translations from
2542 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
2544 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
2546 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
2548 * Updated translations from
2549 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
2551 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
2553 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
2555 * Updated translations from
2556 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
2558 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
2560 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
2562 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
2564 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
2566 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
2568 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
2570 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
2571 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
2573 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
2575 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
2577 * Suppress error output from eject
2578 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
2579 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
2581 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
2583 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
2585 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
2587 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
2589 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
2591 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
2592 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
2594 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
2596 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
2598 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
2599 provided by base-installer).
2601 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
2603 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
2605 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
2606 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
2608 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
2610 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
2612 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
2614 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
2616 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
2618 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
2619 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
2620 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
2622 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
2624 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
2626 * Fix 20xconfig harder
2628 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
2630 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
2632 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
2634 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
2636 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
2638 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
2639 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
2641 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
2643 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
2645 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
2646 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
2647 their password is irrelevant.
2649 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
2651 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
2653 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
2654 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
2656 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
2658 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
2660 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
2661 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
2662 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
2663 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
2664 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
2665 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
2667 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
2669 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
2671 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
2672 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
2674 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
2676 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
2678 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
2679 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
2680 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
2681 already a (different) debian/compat.
2683 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
2685 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
2687 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
2689 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
2691 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
2693 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
2695 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
2697 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
2699 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
2701 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
2703 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
2705 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
2706 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
2707 mounted using devfs names
2708 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
2709 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
2710 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
2713 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
2715 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
2717 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
2719 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
2721 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
2723 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
2724 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
2727 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
2729 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
2731 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
2732 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
2733 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
2734 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
2737 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
2739 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
2741 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
2742 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
2744 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
2745 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
2747 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
2749 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
2751 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
2753 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
2755 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
2757 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
2758 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
2759 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
2760 create progress bar text for them
2761 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
2763 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
2765 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
2767 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
2769 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
2771 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
2773 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
2776 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
2778 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
2780 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
2783 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
2785 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
2787 * Suppress network configuration questions
2789 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
2790 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
2791 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2793 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2794 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2797 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2799 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2801 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2802 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2803 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2804 - Corresponding progress template
2805 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2806 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2807 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2810 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2812 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2814 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2816 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2818 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2820 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2821 what is and is not a kernel thread
2823 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2825 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2827 * Add a backtitle properly
2829 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2831 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2835 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2837 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2839 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2841 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2843 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2845 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2846 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2849 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2851 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2853 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2856 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2858 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2861 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2863 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2865 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2867 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2869 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2871 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2873 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2874 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2875 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2876 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2877 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2878 questions from being asked
2880 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2882 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2884 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2885 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2887 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2889 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2891 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2894 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2896 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2898 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2900 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2902 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2904 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2906 * Remove some unused templates
2908 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2910 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2912 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2913 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2914 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2917 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2919 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2921 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2922 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2924 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2925 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2927 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2929 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2931 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2932 during reboot or shutdown
2934 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2936 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2938 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2940 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2942 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2944 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2945 readable menu item text
2946 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2948 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2950 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2951 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2953 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2955 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2957 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2959 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2961 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2963 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
2965 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
2967 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
2969 * Attempt to configure X
2970 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
2971 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
2972 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
2973 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
2974 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
2975 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
2976 elsewhere, but for now...)
2978 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
2980 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
2982 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
2984 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
2986 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
2988 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
2989 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
2990 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
2991 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
2993 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
2995 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
2997 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
2998 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
2999 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
3000 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
3001 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
3002 * Add a progress bar
3003 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
3005 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
3007 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
3011 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800