1 casper (1.211) lucid; urgency=low
3 * Readd scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin changes: derivatives have
4 now a custom.conf file and still need autologin in live version.
5 Merge with my previous fix proposed for sponsoring one week ago:
6 use echo -e to enable \n interpretation (/bin/sh is busybox ash
7 which behavior differs from vanilla ash interpretor) (LP: #500786)·
9 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:05:26 +0100
11 casper (1.210) lucid; urgency=low
13 [ Scott James Remnant ]
14 * Dropped Vcs-Bzr headers, pushed to lp:ubuntu/casper
15 * conf-hooks.d/casper: Changed to FRAMEBUFFER=y
18 * Source /scripts/casper-functions and /scripts/casper-helpers only after
19 processing 'prereqs' argument, to avoid lots of warnings with new
22 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:54:54 +0000
24 casper (1.209) lucid; urgency=low
26 * Revert the previous change to 15autologin and instead just make sure
27 custom.conf does not exist.
29 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:18:47 +0000
31 casper (1.208) lucid; urgency=low
34 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: sreadahead is no more, disable
38 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Don't erase /etc/gdm/custom.conf but
39 only append autologin on casper startup if needed. This avoids removing
40 default session set in this file for ubuntu derivatives which use GDM.
41 The script also check if the modification is already there for
42 persistent usb keys. (LP: #498971)
44 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:54:36 +0100
46 casper (1.207) lucid; urgency=low
48 * Drop 46_disable_services. It didn't need to be running on "all" systems
49 with casper installed. Mythbuntu systems will pull this in via a package
50 that is administerable via ~mythbuntu-dev.
52 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:29 -0600
54 casper (1.206) karmic; urgency=low
56 * Fix broken /cdrom writable test in 43disable_initramfs
59 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:49:15 +0100
61 casper (1.205) karmic; urgency=low
63 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Disable sreadahead on live CD
64 boot. Not only does it profile the live CD boot to no benefit, but it
65 also looks as if it may be responsible for breaking Wubi installs by
66 reading from partman's synchronisation FIFOs (LP: #439279).
68 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:02 +0100
70 casper (1.204) karmic; urgency=low
72 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
73 - .pulse_a11y_nostart -> pulse_a11y_nostart due to being in a system
74 directory, to completely match the change in pulseaudio, which I missed
77 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:29:07 +1100
79 casper (1.203) karmic; urgency=low
81 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
82 - Change .pulse_a11y_nostart location to /var/lib/pulseaudio, as per
83 the change in pulseaudio itself, to solve a race condition with volume
86 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:31:51 +1100
88 casper (1.202) karmic; urgency=low
90 * scripts/casper-bottom/46_disable_services:
91 - MythTV backend is now an upstart service, so rename it's conf file
92 in /etc/init, rather than using update-rc.d.
94 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:47:00 -0500
96 casper (1.201) karmic; urgency=low
99 * Don't prompt to eject the SD card on Babbage boards, since for now it's
100 reused as a quasi-boot-floppy (LP: #364273).
103 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: update to work for polkit-1
104 as well. Allow the live cd user to perform any action when at the
105 active console. (LP: #447141)
107 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:06:53 +0100
109 casper (1.200) karmic; urgency=low
111 * scripts/casper-bottom/20xconfig:
112 - Fix xforcevesa to generate a good failsafe xorg.conf (LP: #423969)
114 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:26:42 -0500
116 casper (1.199) karmic; urgency=low
119 * Scan device-mapper (RAID) devices for live filesystem (LP: #385305).
121 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:39:57 +0100
123 casper (1.198) karmic; urgency=low
125 * scripts/casper: Send PULSELOGO usplash command at startup. (LP: #438762)
127 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:07 +0200
129 casper (1.197) karmic; urgency=low
132 * Fix tty device name construction to work with new upstart (LP: #438678).
135 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: pass -L to getty and set term to vt100.
136 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: set +x...
138 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0100
140 casper (1.196) karmic; urgency=low
142 * Extend our hack that arranges to run setupcon after usplash exits to
143 cover the new Upstartified usplash as well.
145 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:36:55 +0100
147 casper (1.195) karmic; urgency=low
150 * add support for serialtty= cmdline option for debugging purposes in live
154 * Upstart moved /etc/event.d/ to /etc/init/; adjust shell provision on VTs
155 to match (LP: #434769).
157 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:52:32 +0100
159 casper (1.194) karmic; urgency=low
161 * Fix 47unr_ubiquity shell code to make slightly more sense.
162 * Tell mkinitramfs that casper needs usplash (LP: #434980).
164 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:29:21 +0100
166 casper (1.193) karmic; urgency=low
168 * Sync LSB headers in init script with desired behaviour: don't start
169 casper at boot, and stop after umountroot but before halt/reboot.
171 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:23 +0100
173 casper (1.192) karmic; urgency=low
176 * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
179 * Add 37kubuntu_netbook_installer_link to show ubiquity launcher
181 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:10:03 +0100
183 casper (1.191) karmic; urgency=low
185 * Slightly re-work 47unr_ubiquity, so that ubiquity doesn't keep getting
186 added to the favourites if persistence is used.·
188 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:35:00 +1000
190 casper (1.190) karmic; urgency=low
193 * Don't produce an invalid sed program when trying to remove an applet
194 which isn't in the panel (LP: #406188).
197 * do not remount filesystems that already have been probed when
198 searching for the livefs (LP: #424464)
199 * Fix quoting in try_snap (LP: #424742).
200 * Silence error messages for non-existent device nodes (LP: #425159).
202 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:10:53 +0100
204 casper (1.189) karmic; urgency=low
206 * In 10adduser fix path to ubiquity-kde.desktop file
208 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:54:41 +0100
210 casper (1.188) karmic; urgency=low
212 * Allow for platform-orion-ehci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device"
213 i.e. one which can host a livefs. This is the name of the USB device
214 driver on Marvell Dove boards.
216 -- Loïc Minier <loic.minier@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:16:21 +0200
218 casper (1.187) karmic; urgency=low
220 * Stop recommending unionfs-fuse, as we're using aufs again in Karmic.
222 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:14 +0100
224 casper (1.186) karmic; urgency=low
227 * Allow for platform-mxsdhci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device" i.e.
228 one which can host a livefs. This is the new name of this device in
229 2.6.31 kernels on Babbage i.MX51.
232 * Rename 47unr-ubiquity as 47unr_ubiquity, as scripts with dashes don't
233 get installed into the initramfs. (LP: #411616)
235 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:39:34 +1000
237 casper (1.185) karmic; urgency=low
239 * Actually set 47unr-ubiquity as executable.·
241 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:41:35 +1000
243 casper (1.184) karmic; urgency=low
246 * Apply the Ubuntu release version to the installer menu entries as well
250 * Fix disabling of apt-check (LP: #406191).
253 * Remove the UNR ubiquity .desktop hack in 10adduser.
254 * Set ubiquity as a UNR Favourite in 47unr-ubiquity.
256 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:58 +0100
258 casper (1.183) karmic; urgency=low
260 * Remove erroneous /root prefix on the ubiquity desktop files in
263 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:34 +0100
265 casper (1.182) karmic; urgency=low
268 * Busybox sed does not preserve ownership, so chown after using it.
271 * Set AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME, not =ubuntu (thanks, arky; LP: #401321).
273 [ Mario Limonciello ]
274 * Add support for lzma type archives to casper-new-uuid.
276 -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0500
278 casper (1.181) karmic; urgency=low
280 * Insert a version number in the name field for ubiquity's desktop file
283 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100
285 casper (1.180) karmic; urgency=low
288 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Minor consistency fixes.
291 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update for new gdm custom configuration
292 file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). (LP: #395861)
294 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0200
296 casper (1.179) karmic; urgency=low
299 * If LIVE_MEDIA_PATH is set on the command line, record it in
300 /etc/casper.conf for the benefit of ubiquity.
303 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update to work with new gdm.
305 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:57 +0200
307 casper (1.178) karmic; urgency=low
309 * Ensure that unionfs-fuse isn't killed by /etc/init.d/sendsigs on
310 shutdown (LP: #386010).
311 * Patches from "phl" (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-leledy), adjusted by
312 me, to fix snapshot resync:
313 - Avoid using cpio -u -d options if klibc cpio is in use (LP: #384059).
314 - Copy /etc/casper.conf into /root, otherwise we forget snapshot resync
315 settings (LP: #384061).
316 - Adjust the first field of *SNAP entries in casper.conf to be relative
317 to /cow, not /root (LP: #384066).
318 - Prefix $DEST with $MOUNTP in casper-snapshot (LP: #384068).
319 - /etc/init.d/casper is usually called with 'start', so handle that as
320 well as 'stop' to do snapshot resyncing and CD ejecting (LP: #384076).
321 * Fix casper-snapshot(1) syntax to avoid missing spaces between options
323 * Fix showmounts when used in conjunction with unionfs-fuse; read-only
324 filesystems need to be bind-mounted rather than move-mounted.
326 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0100
328 casper (1.177) karmic; urgency=low
330 * Port from Debian (thanks, Daniel Baumann):
331 - Added live-media-path as suggested by Jordi Pujol.
332 - Tail casper.log and show its messages during boot (thanks, Michal
333 Suchanek; LP: #363886).
335 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0100
337 casper (1.176) karmic; urgency=low
340 * Fix symlinking of anacron to /bin/true.
343 * Drop scripts/casper-bottom/38jockey_disable_check: Some drivers, like wl
344 or printer drivers, do need to be advertised in a live system. Jockey has
345 been fixed to not advertise video drivers automatically if the packages
346 aren't available (such as in the live system), and even if we should ever
347 put them back, it is easier to disable the notifications in jockey's
348 handlers instead of here. (LP: #381687)
350 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:05 +0200
352 casper (1.175) karmic; urgency=low
354 * Suppress error message if
355 /root/usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop doesn't exist.
356 * Add unionfs-fuse support.
357 * Automatically fall back to unionfs-fuse if the default union filesystem
358 is not available but unionfs-fuse is.
360 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:00 +0100
362 casper (1.174) karmic; urgency=low
364 * debian/control: Increase dependency on initramfs-tools to get the version
365 that uses blkid, depend on util-linux as well
366 * hooks/casper: No need to copy vol_id into the initramfs image.·
367 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Use blkid -o udev -p instead of vol_id,
368 there's probably a much cleaner way to check for RAID like this, but
369 this is the direct equivalent.
370 * scripts/casper-helpers (get_fstype): use a blkid call to get the type·
371 * scripts/casper-helpers (find_cow_device): use a blkid call to get the
374 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:41 +0100
376 casper (1.173) jaunty; urgency=low
378 * Don't use head -n1 in where_is_mounted, we don't have head in the
379 initramfs. LP: #363038.
381 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:22:06 -0700
383 casper (1.172) jaunty; urgency=low
385 * 43disable_updateinitramfs: The /cdrom mount has been moved to
386 /root/cdrom by the time this script runs, so check that instead.
388 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0100
390 casper (1.171) jaunty; urgency=low
392 * Set MP_QUIET to -q instead of -Q on Ubuntu as well, and not just for
393 Debian as the modprobe in the latest upstream release of module-init-tools
394 doesn't accept -Q anymore.
396 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0200
398 casper (1.170) jaunty; urgency=low
400 * is_nice_device(): allow devices with an ID_PATH of platform-mmc* as well
401 as used for instance for SD cards on the ARM iMX51 Babbage board;
404 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0200
406 casper (1.169) jaunty; urgency=low
408 * [ -w /cdrom ] turns out not to be a sufficient test for files under
409 /cdrom being writable; with busybox, it always returns true even for
410 read-only filesystems. Explicitly check for the read-only flag in mount
411 output to work around this.
412 * Fix where_is_mounted helper function to actually produce output (thanks,
413 Steve Dodd; LP: #346941).
414 * Add a comment to find_cow_device explaining why the choice of
415 filesystems is restricted (I asked for this comment in LP #230703 but it
416 apparently never got written).
418 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:05 +0100
420 casper (1.168) jaunty; urgency=low
422 * Fix writing of "$@" to diverted update-initramfs script (here-documents
423 perform parameter expansion unless the delimiter is quoted).
424 * Don't bring up a temporary network interface while fetching the preseed
425 file when netbooting, as that will disconnect our root filesystem
428 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:29 +0100
430 casper (1.167) jaunty; urgency=low
432 * Disable kwallet from KDE 4 in 34disable_kde_services
434 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:35 +0000
436 casper (1.166) jaunty; urgency=low
439 * Show the ubiquity icon in kourou (LP: #338730)
442 * Move examples.desktop to Desktop/ if it exists, as an alternative to
443 Examples (LP: #45489).
446 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
447 - Make the special case disabling of pulseaudio per user, and not system
449 - Also disable PulseAudio for the Braille profile.
450 - Fix incorrect paths when chowning files.
451 - Don't use /root for the ubiquity hook accessibility script, /target is
452 where the installed system is located.
453 - Remove laptop detect code. Its not currently working, and getting it to
454 work requires invasive changes.
455 - Only set pulseaudio settings and create the .orca directory if sed
456 packages are installed on the live filesystem and installed system.
457 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Copy orca settings to the installed system.
459 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:20 +1100
461 casper (1.165) jaunty; urgency=low
463 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
464 - When the blindness accessibility profile is chosen, create the .orca
465 directory in the live user's home directory. This seems to allow orca
466 to properly reload and use settings in the live session without needing
467 to be restarted. This is only needed for the blindness profile, due to
468 the other profiles that use orca already creating the .orca directory.
471 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:37:20 +1100
473 casper (1.164) jaunty; urgency=low
475 * Update 34disable_kde_services to not start
476 update-notifier-kde or plasma's contact plugin which uses akonadi
478 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:52 +0000
480 casper (1.163) jaunty; urgency=low
482 * 34disable_kwallet moved to 34disable_kde_services and disables
483 various services not needed by live CDs
485 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000
487 casper (1.162) jaunty; urgency=low
489 * If /cdrom is writable, call the diverted update-initramfs and copy
490 the resulting kernel and initrd to /cdrom/casper (LP: #292159).
492 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000
494 casper (1.161) jaunty; urgency=low
497 * Regenerate SSL certificate at boot so that it isn't the same for all
498 live CD users (LP: #337723).
500 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:21 +0000
502 casper (1.160) jaunty; urgency=low
504 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
505 - Adjust sudoers file to allow ORBIT_SOCKET_DIR, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE and
506 GTK_MODULES environment variables through to root, for v2, v3, and
507 braille profiles. This allows users to use administrative GTK/GNOME
508 applications executed by gksudo with accessibility tools like orca.
510 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +1100
512 casper (1.159) jaunty; urgency=low
514 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
515 - Disable pulseaudio for the blindness profile, as pulseaudio and espeak
516 and portaudio v19 do not play very well with each other, lots of
517 crackling, cut of speech. At least espeak via ALSA natively is usable,
518 and latency is relatively low.
520 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:06 +1100
522 casper (1.158) jaunty; urgency=low
524 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
525 - use laptop_detect function in blindness profile as well
527 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:07:17 +1100
529 casper (1.157) jaunty; urgency=low
532 * 10adduser: add Category=Favorites support for netbook-launcher
536 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
537 - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable
538 the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for
539 the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several
540 keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible
541 yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is
542 likely to cause much confusion if sed menu entries are not present.
544 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +1100
546 casper (1.156) jaunty; urgency=low
548 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
549 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
550 - If using a laptop, enable the laptop keyboard layout
551 - There is no longer a need to set gconf values as root in only-ubiquity
554 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:52 +0100
556 casper (1.155) jaunty; urgency=low
559 * Add myself to debian/copyright as an author, as I've done fairly
560 significant work on this.
561 * Eliminate casper-md5check's libm linkage; patch from "SurJector" who
562 points out that the automatic conversion is sufficient (LP: #293613).
563 * Restore showmounts/show-cow option (thanks, Carlo de Wolf and "probono";
564 LP: #159006, #290330).
567 * Add support for ext4.
569 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000
571 casper (1.154) jaunty; urgency=low
574 * scripts/casper-bottom/02timezone:
575 - Remove as it's no longer needed and resets the timezone when
576 persistence is enabled (LP: #296855).
579 * Preseed console-setup/optionscode and console-setup/codesetcode to the
580 empty string on boot to avoid debris from the live filesystem build
581 process getting in the way of installation (LP: #94177).
583 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:44:45 +0000
585 casper (1.153) jaunty; urgency=low
587 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser:
588 - Create links for Mythbuntu items on the Desktop too.
589 - Don't show removable drives on Mythbuntu desktop
590 * scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services:
591 - New script for disabling services unnecessary to Live
592 mode that should still start after being installed.
594 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:59 -0600
596 casper (1.152) intrepid; urgency=low
598 * Use kde4rc now for accessibility profiles
600 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:54 +0100
602 casper (1.151) intrepid; urgency=low
604 * Force ubiquity to --automatic mode for ubuntu-mid
606 -- Emmet Hikory <persia@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:31:16 +0100
608 casper (1.150) intrepid; urgency=low
610 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser (really)
612 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:54 +0100
614 casper (1.149) intrepid; urgency=low
616 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
617 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
618 - Revert to using gconf keys for starting orca, as this is now what
619 orca does when the user chooses to automatically start orca from Orca's
621 - Explicitly set orca as the program to start up for magnification,
624 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:02 +1100
626 casper (1.148) intrepid; urgency=low
628 * Skip remounting read-only in try_mount as it's unnecessary and
629 breaks persistence. Thanks James Westby (LP: #274076).
631 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
633 casper (1.147) intrepid; urgency=low
635 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser
637 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0100
639 casper (1.146) intrepid; urgency=low
641 * Update About Kubuntu link in 10adduser for KDE 4
643 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:15 +0100
645 casper (1.145) intrepid; urgency=low
647 * 38disable_restricted_manager: Remove some obsolete l-r-m and
648 restricted-manager code, and rename the script to 38jockey_disable_check
649 to better reflect its purpose.
651 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0200
653 casper (1.144) intrepid; urgency=low
655 * Bump media detection timeout to a minute; thanks to Tormod Volden and
656 Steve Beattie for analysis (LP: #258432).
657 * Note that this changes (fixes?) the semantics of LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT due
658 to not using hex values in a for loop which aren't understood by test
659 -lt (thanks, Steve Beattie).
661 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:13 +0100
663 casper (1.143) intrepid; urgency=low
665 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
666 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change the way that orca is set to
667 automatically start. Orca can be started via a gconf key, however this
668 is not reflected in the orca UI, and doesn't easily allow the user to
669 prevent orca from autostarting on an installed system.
671 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +1000
673 casper (1.142) intrepid; urgency=low
675 * Fix syntax error introduced by is_nice_device regex fix.
677 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:59 +0100
679 casper (1.141) intrepid; urgency=low
682 * Handle spaces in file names in md5sum.txt (LP: #251112).
685 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax in
686 preseed script; previously we only supported it in the keyboard script,
687 which confusingly doesn't deal with propagating console-setup/* preseeds
688 to the target filesystem (LP: #253749).
689 * Update to localechooser's new languagelist format.
692 * scripts/casper: don't scan floppy drives for livefs images (LP: #97306)
693 * scripts/casper: fix broken RE in is_nice_device() (LP: #250328)
694 * scripts/casper: properly use argument $1 in matches_uuid()
696 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:05 +0100
698 casper (1.140) intrepid; urgency=low
701 * Disable jockey as well as the old restricted-manager. While jockey does
702 do more than restricted-manager did, it also still uses a good chunk of
703 memory for a use case that's fairly limited on the live CD.
706 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
707 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
708 - Check that usr/bin/orca exists and is executable before creating user
711 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:23:41 +1000
713 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
715 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
717 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
719 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
722 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
725 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
726 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
727 apport right before the release.
728 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
729 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
730 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
732 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
734 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
736 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
737 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
739 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
741 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
743 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
744 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
745 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
746 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
748 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
750 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
753 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
756 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
758 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
760 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
763 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
766 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
767 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
769 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
771 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
774 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
777 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
779 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
780 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
781 corruption (LP: #230703).
783 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
785 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
787 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
789 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
790 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
791 corruption (LP: #230703).
793 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
795 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
797 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
798 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
801 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
803 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
806 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
809 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
810 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
813 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
815 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
818 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
819 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
820 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
823 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
824 by root (LP: #218576).
825 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
826 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
827 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
828 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
829 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
830 open another bug for this.
832 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
834 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
836 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
839 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
841 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
843 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
844 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
845 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
846 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
847 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
848 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
851 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
853 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
856 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
857 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
858 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
859 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
860 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
863 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
864 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
868 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
870 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
872 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
874 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
876 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
878 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
880 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
882 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
883 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
885 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
887 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
890 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
891 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
892 specification (LP: #204185).
895 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
897 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
899 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
902 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
905 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
906 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
907 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
909 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
911 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
913 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
914 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
915 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
916 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
918 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
920 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
922 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
924 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
926 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
928 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
930 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
932 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
934 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
935 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
936 propagating to the installed system.
938 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
940 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
943 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
944 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
945 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
946 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
947 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
948 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
951 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
952 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
954 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
956 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
958 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
959 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
961 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
963 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
965 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
967 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
970 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
972 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
974 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
975 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
976 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
979 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
981 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
983 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
985 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
987 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
990 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
991 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
993 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
996 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
998 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
1001 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
1002 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
1003 a system. LP: #150188
1006 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
1007 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
1008 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
1009 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
1011 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
1013 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
1015 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
1016 there inside udevadm
1017 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
1018 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
1020 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
1022 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
1024 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
1026 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
1027 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
1028 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
1030 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
1032 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
1034 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
1035 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
1036 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
1038 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
1040 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
1042 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
1043 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
1045 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
1046 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
1048 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
1050 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
1052 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
1053 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
1054 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
1055 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
1058 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
1060 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
1062 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
1064 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
1065 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
1066 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
1067 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
1068 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
1069 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
1071 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
1073 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
1075 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
1076 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
1077 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
1079 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
1081 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
1083 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
1085 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
1087 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
1088 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
1091 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
1093 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
1095 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
1096 fails (LP: #131209).
1098 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
1100 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
1102 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
1103 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
1104 installed (LP: #139403).
1106 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
1108 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
1110 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
1111 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
1112 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
1113 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
1116 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
1118 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
1120 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
1121 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
1122 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
1123 systems. (LP: #131976)
1125 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
1127 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
1129 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
1130 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
1131 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
1133 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
1135 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
1138 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1139 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1140 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
1142 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
1144 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
1146 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
1148 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
1150 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
1152 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
1153 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
1155 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
1157 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
1160 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
1162 [ Jonathan Riddell ]
1163 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
1164 restricted-manager autostart files
1166 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
1168 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
1170 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
1172 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
1175 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
1177 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
1180 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
1181 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
1183 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
1186 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1187 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1188 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
1189 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
1190 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
1191 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
1193 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
1194 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
1196 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
1198 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
1200 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
1201 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
1202 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
1204 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
1206 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
1209 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
1212 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
1213 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
1216 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
1218 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
1220 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
1221 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
1222 .debs (LP: #120217).
1224 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
1226 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
1228 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
1229 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
1231 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
1233 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1235 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
1238 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
1240 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
1242 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
1243 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
1244 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
1245 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
1246 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
1247 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
1248 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
1249 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
1250 kernels (LP: #118561).
1252 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
1254 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
1257 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
1260 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
1261 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
1262 for the final release.
1264 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
1266 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
1269 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1270 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1271 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
1272 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
1274 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
1276 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
1278 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
1280 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
1282 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
1285 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
1286 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
1289 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
1291 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
1292 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
1293 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
1294 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
1295 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
1296 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
1299 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
1301 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
1303 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
1305 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
1306 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
1307 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
1308 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
1309 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
1311 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
1313 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
1316 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
1317 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
1318 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
1319 * Add driver-updates hooks.
1322 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
1323 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
1325 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
1327 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
1329 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
1330 for use with encryption.
1332 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
1334 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1336 * Added depends to eject.
1337 * Removed recommends to live-package.
1339 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
1341 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1344 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
1345 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
1348 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
1349 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
1350 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
1352 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
1354 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1356 * New upstream release.
1357 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
1358 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
1359 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
1360 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
1361 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
1362 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
1363 parameter: module=NAME.
1365 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
1367 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
1369 * Merge in Debian's changes.
1371 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
1373 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
1375 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
1376 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
1378 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
1380 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1382 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1383 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1385 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
1387 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1389 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1390 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
1391 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
1393 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
1395 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1397 * New Upstream release.
1398 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
1400 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
1402 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
1405 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
1406 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
1407 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
1409 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
1410 avoid interfering with debconf.
1413 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1414 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
1415 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
1418 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
1419 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
1421 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
1423 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
1425 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
1426 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
1427 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
1429 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
1431 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
1433 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
1434 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
1435 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1436 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1437 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1439 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
1441 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
1443 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
1444 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
1445 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
1446 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
1448 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
1450 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
1452 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
1453 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
1454 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
1455 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
1456 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
1457 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
1459 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
1461 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
1463 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
1464 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
1466 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
1467 * Fixed keyboard setup.
1468 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
1469 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
1470 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1473 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
1475 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
1477 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
1478 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1481 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
1483 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
1486 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
1487 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
1488 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
1489 requested by many people.
1490 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
1491 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
1493 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
1494 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
1495 * Fixed locale generation.
1496 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1500 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
1502 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
1504 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1506 * New upstream release.
1507 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
1508 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
1509 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
1511 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
1512 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
1513 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
1514 * Extendend manpages.
1515 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
1516 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
1517 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
1518 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
1519 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
1520 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
1521 needed by casper-snapshot.
1522 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
1525 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
1527 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
1529 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
1532 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
1534 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
1537 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
1539 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
1540 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
1541 aren't supplied on the command line.
1544 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
1545 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
1546 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
1548 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
1549 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
1550 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
1551 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
1553 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
1555 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
1557 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
1558 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
1560 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
1562 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
1565 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
1566 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
1567 enabling accessibility in KDE.
1570 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
1572 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
1574 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
1576 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
1577 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
1578 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
1580 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
1582 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
1584 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
1585 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
1588 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
1590 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1592 * New upstream release.
1593 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
1594 * Tagged for debtags project.
1596 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
1598 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
1600 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
1601 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
1602 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
1604 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
1605 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
1606 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
1607 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
1608 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
1609 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
1610 casper-bottom scripts use this.
1611 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
1613 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
1615 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
1617 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
1620 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
1622 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
1625 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
1626 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
1629 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
1631 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
1633 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
1635 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1637 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
1638 * Lintian cleanness reached.
1640 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
1642 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1644 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
1645 * Added a manpage for casper.
1646 * Lintian cleanings.
1648 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
1650 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1652 * New upstream release.
1653 * Added static network configuration support.
1654 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
1655 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
1656 via kernel parameters.
1658 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
1660 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
1662 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
1663 (closes: Malone #61573).
1665 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
1667 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
1669 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
1670 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
1671 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
1672 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
1673 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
1674 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
1676 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
1678 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1680 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
1681 * Default user password now "live".
1683 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
1685 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
1687 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
1688 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
1689 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
1690 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
1691 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
1693 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
1695 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1697 * New upstream release.
1698 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
1699 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
1700 as kernel parameter).
1702 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
1704 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
1706 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
1708 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
1710 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1712 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1713 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1714 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1716 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1718 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1719 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1721 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1723 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1725 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1726 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1728 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1730 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1732 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1733 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1735 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1737 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1740 * New upstream release.
1741 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1742 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1743 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1744 script/casper-bottom.
1745 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1746 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1747 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1748 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1749 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1752 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1753 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1754 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1757 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1758 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1760 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1762 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1765 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1767 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1768 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1769 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1770 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1771 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1772 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1773 * Minor build system fixes.
1774 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1775 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1776 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1778 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1780 * Add stacked file system support
1783 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1784 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1787 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1789 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1791 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1793 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1795 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1797 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1800 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1801 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1802 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1803 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1806 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1807 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1809 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1811 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1813 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1814 PATH isn't correctly set.
1816 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1818 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1820 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1821 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1822 * Rearrange source package.
1823 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1825 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1828 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1830 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1833 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1836 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1837 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1838 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1839 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1842 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1844 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1846 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1847 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1848 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1849 * Removed ubiquity code.
1850 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1851 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1852 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1853 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1854 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1855 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1856 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1857 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1858 instead of group 'admin'.
1860 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1862 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1864 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1866 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1868 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1870 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1871 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1872 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1874 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1876 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1878 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1880 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1881 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1883 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
1885 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
1887 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
1890 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
1892 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
1895 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
1899 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
1901 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
1903 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
1906 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
1910 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
1913 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
1915 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
1917 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
1920 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
1922 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
1925 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1926 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
1927 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
1930 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
1932 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
1933 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
1934 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
1935 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
1936 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
1937 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
1939 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
1940 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
1943 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
1944 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
1945 scripts. Malone #43860
1946 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
1947 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
1949 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
1950 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
1952 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
1954 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
1957 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
1958 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
1960 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
1961 for the v1 accessibility profile.
1962 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
1963 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
1964 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
1967 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
1969 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
1970 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
1971 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
1974 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
1976 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
1978 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
1980 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
1982 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
1984 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
1986 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
1987 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
1990 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
1992 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
1995 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
1996 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
1997 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
1998 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
1999 gnome-panel-data is installed.
2000 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
2001 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
2003 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
2004 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
2005 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
2006 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
2009 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
2011 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
2013 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
2015 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
2016 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
2017 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
2018 ubiquity-casper to match.
2020 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
2022 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
2025 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
2029 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
2031 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
2033 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
2035 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
2036 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
2037 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
2038 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
2040 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
2042 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
2044 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
2045 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
2047 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
2049 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
2052 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
2053 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
2054 in the relevant packages.
2057 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
2058 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
2059 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
2060 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
2063 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
2065 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
2067 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
2068 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
2070 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
2072 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
2074 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
2075 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
2076 trigger unionfs bugs
2077 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
2078 check. (Malone: #29203)
2079 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
2081 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
2083 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
2086 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
2090 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
2091 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
2092 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
2094 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
2096 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
2098 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
2100 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
2102 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
2104 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
2105 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
2106 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
2107 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
2109 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
2111 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
2114 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
2115 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
2116 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
2119 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
2121 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
2123 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
2125 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
2126 debconf-set-selections.
2128 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
2130 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
2133 * Add initial accessibility support framework
2135 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
2137 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
2139 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
2141 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
2142 actually look in the right place.
2143 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
2145 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
2147 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
2149 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
2151 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
2153 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
2156 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
2158 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
2159 into the right place. Malone #20978
2162 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
2165 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
2167 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
2169 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
2171 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
2172 * Set up the right console keymap.
2174 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
2176 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
2179 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
2180 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2181 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
2183 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2184 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
2185 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
2190 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
2192 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
2193 casper in the installed system.
2195 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
2197 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
2199 * Depend on user-setup
2200 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
2201 be copied into the initramfs.
2203 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
2205 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
2207 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
2209 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
2211 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
2213 * Add persistency support
2214 * Usplash integration
2216 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
2218 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
2220 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
2222 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
2224 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
2226 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
2227 working in shell variables.
2228 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
2229 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
2231 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
2233 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
2235 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
2238 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
2240 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
2242 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
2244 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
2247 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
2249 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
2251 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
2252 list of supported locales.
2253 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
2254 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
2255 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
2256 * Disable checkroot when booting
2258 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
2260 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
2262 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
2263 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
2264 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
2265 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
2267 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
2269 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
2270 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
2272 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
2274 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
2276 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
2277 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
2278 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
2279 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
2280 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
2281 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
2283 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
2285 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
2287 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
2288 Brazilian Portuguese.
2290 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
2292 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
2294 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
2296 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
2298 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
2300 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
2301 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
2302 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
2304 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
2306 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
2308 * Neutralize branding in startup message
2309 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
2310 the console from d-i's death throes
2312 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
2314 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
2316 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
2317 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
2319 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
2321 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
2323 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
2325 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
2327 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
2329 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
2330 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
2333 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
2335 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
2337 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
2338 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
2339 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
2341 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
2343 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
2345 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
2346 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
2349 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
2351 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
2353 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
2354 device nodes clobbered by udev
2355 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
2356 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
2359 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
2361 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
2363 * Add usplash support
2365 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
2367 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
2369 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
2370 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
2371 can be invaluable for debugging
2373 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
2375 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
2377 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
2378 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
2379 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
2382 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
2384 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
2386 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
2389 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
2391 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
2393 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
2396 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
2398 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
2400 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
2402 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
2404 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
2406 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
2408 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
2410 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
2412 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
2415 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
2417 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
2419 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
2421 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
2423 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
2424 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
2427 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
2429 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
2431 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
2433 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
2435 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
2437 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
2439 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
2440 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
2442 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
2444 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
2446 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
2447 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
2449 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
2451 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
2453 * Updated translations from
2454 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
2456 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
2458 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
2460 * Updated translations from
2461 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
2463 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
2465 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
2467 * Updated translations from
2468 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
2470 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
2472 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
2474 * Updated translations from
2475 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
2477 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
2479 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
2481 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
2483 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
2485 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
2487 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
2489 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
2490 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
2492 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
2494 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
2496 * Suppress error output from eject
2497 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
2498 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
2500 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
2502 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
2504 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
2506 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
2508 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
2510 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
2511 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
2513 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
2515 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
2517 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
2518 provided by base-installer).
2520 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
2522 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
2524 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
2525 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
2527 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
2529 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
2531 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
2533 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
2535 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
2537 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
2538 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
2539 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
2541 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
2543 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
2545 * Fix 20xconfig harder
2547 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
2549 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
2551 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
2553 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
2555 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
2557 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
2558 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
2560 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
2562 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
2564 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
2565 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
2566 their password is irrelevant.
2568 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
2570 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
2572 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
2573 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
2575 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
2577 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
2579 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
2580 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
2581 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
2582 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
2583 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
2584 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
2586 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
2588 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
2590 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
2591 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
2593 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
2595 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
2597 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
2598 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
2599 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
2600 already a (different) debian/compat.
2602 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
2604 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
2606 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
2608 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
2610 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
2612 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
2614 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
2616 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
2618 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
2620 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
2622 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
2624 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
2625 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
2626 mounted using devfs names
2627 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
2628 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
2629 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
2632 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
2634 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
2636 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
2638 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
2640 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
2642 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
2643 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
2646 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
2648 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
2650 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
2651 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
2652 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
2653 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
2656 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
2658 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
2660 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
2661 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
2663 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
2664 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
2666 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
2668 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
2670 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
2672 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
2674 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
2676 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
2677 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
2678 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
2679 create progress bar text for them
2680 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
2682 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
2684 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
2686 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
2688 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
2690 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
2692 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
2695 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
2697 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
2699 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
2702 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
2704 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
2706 * Suppress network configuration questions
2708 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
2709 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
2710 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2712 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2713 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2716 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2718 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2720 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2721 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2722 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2723 - Corresponding progress template
2724 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2725 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2726 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2729 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2731 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2733 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2735 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2737 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2739 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2740 what is and is not a kernel thread
2742 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2744 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2746 * Add a backtitle properly
2748 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2750 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2754 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2756 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2758 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2760 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2762 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2764 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2765 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2768 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2770 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2772 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2775 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2777 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2780 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2782 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2784 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2786 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2788 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2790 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2792 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2793 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2794 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2795 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2796 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2797 questions from being asked
2799 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2801 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2803 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2804 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2806 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2808 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2810 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2813 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2815 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2817 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2819 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2821 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2823 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2825 * Remove some unused templates
2827 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2829 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2831 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2832 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2833 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2836 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2838 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2840 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2841 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2843 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2844 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2846 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2848 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2850 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2851 during reboot or shutdown
2853 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2855 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2857 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2859 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2861 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2863 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2864 readable menu item text
2865 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2867 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2869 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2870 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2872 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2874 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2876 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2878 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2880 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2882 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
2884 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
2886 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
2888 * Attempt to configure X
2889 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
2890 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
2891 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
2892 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
2893 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
2894 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
2895 elsewhere, but for now...)
2897 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
2899 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
2901 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
2903 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
2905 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
2907 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
2908 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
2909 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
2910 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
2912 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
2914 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
2916 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
2917 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
2918 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
2919 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
2920 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
2921 * Add a progress bar
2922 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
2924 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
2926 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
2930 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800