1 casper (1.215) lucid; urgency=low
4 * Support multiple preseed file/urlarguments on the kernel commandline
5 rather than just selecting the last one and going with that.
6 * debian/control: Set Vcs-Bzr.
9 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/48enable_kubuntu_netbook and ubiquity-
10 hooks/48enable_kubuntu_netbook to enable Plasma Netbook workspace
11 for Kubuntu Netbook Remix
13 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:55:42 +0000
15 casper (1.214) lucid; urgency=low
17 * 15autologin: simplify the code with escape character evaluation
20 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:57:05 +0100
22 casper (1.213) lucid; urgency=low
24 * printf does not evaluate escape characters in the argument string.
26 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 11:02:12 +0000
28 casper (1.212) lucid; urgency=low
31 * debian/control: Add ${misc:Depends}.
32 * debian/control: Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes necessary).
35 * 15autologin: Use printf rather than echo -e, since its behaviour is
36 portable across shells.
39 * Remove scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_apparmor. Apparmor
40 2.3.1+bzr1312-0ubuntu3 and ifupdown 0.6.8ubuntu26 now no-op when
41 they detect the live CD environment.
43 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:56:27 +0000
45 casper (1.211) lucid; urgency=low
47 * Readd scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin changes: derivatives have
48 now a custom.conf file and still need autologin in live version.
49 Merge with my previous fix proposed for sponsoring one week ago:
50 use echo -e to enable \n interpretation (/bin/sh is busybox ash
51 which behavior differs from vanilla ash interpretor) (LP: #500786)·
53 -- Didier Roche <didrocks@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 20:05:26 +0100
55 casper (1.210) lucid; urgency=low
57 [ Scott James Remnant ]
58 * Dropped Vcs-Bzr headers, pushed to lp:ubuntu/casper
59 * conf-hooks.d/casper: Changed to FRAMEBUFFER=y
62 * Source /scripts/casper-functions and /scripts/casper-helpers only after
63 processing 'prereqs' argument, to avoid lots of warnings with new
66 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:54:54 +0000
68 casper (1.209) lucid; urgency=low
70 * Revert the previous change to 15autologin and instead just make sure
71 custom.conf does not exist.
73 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 11:18:47 +0000
75 casper (1.208) lucid; urgency=low
78 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: sreadahead is no more, disable
82 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Don't erase /etc/gdm/custom.conf but
83 only append autologin on casper startup if needed. This avoids removing
84 default session set in this file for ubuntu derivatives which use GDM.
85 The script also check if the modification is already there for
86 persistent usb keys. (LP: #498971)
88 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:54:36 +0100
90 casper (1.207) lucid; urgency=low
92 * Drop 46_disable_services. It didn't need to be running on "all" systems
93 with casper installed. Mythbuntu systems will pull this in via a package
94 that is administerable via ~mythbuntu-dev.
96 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:28:29 -0600
98 casper (1.206) karmic; urgency=low
100 * Fix broken /cdrom writable test in 43disable_initramfs
103 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:49:15 +0100
105 casper (1.205) karmic; urgency=low
107 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Disable sreadahead on live CD
108 boot. Not only does it profile the live CD boot to no benefit, but it
109 also looks as if it may be responsible for breaking Wubi installs by
110 reading from partman's synchronisation FIFOs (LP: #439279).
112 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:32:02 +0100
114 casper (1.204) karmic; urgency=low
116 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
117 - .pulse_a11y_nostart -> pulse_a11y_nostart due to being in a system
118 directory, to completely match the change in pulseaudio, which I missed
121 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:29:07 +1100
123 casper (1.203) karmic; urgency=low
125 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
126 - Change .pulse_a11y_nostart location to /var/lib/pulseaudio, as per
127 the change in pulseaudio itself, to solve a race condition with volume
130 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:31:51 +1100
132 casper (1.202) karmic; urgency=low
134 * scripts/casper-bottom/46_disable_services:
135 - MythTV backend is now an upstart service, so rename it's conf file
136 in /etc/init, rather than using update-rc.d.
138 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Sun, 11 Oct 2009 13:47:00 -0500
140 casper (1.201) karmic; urgency=low
143 * Don't prompt to eject the SD card on Babbage boards, since for now it's
144 reused as a quasi-boot-floppy (LP: #364273).
147 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: update to work for polkit-1
148 as well. Allow the live cd user to perform any action when at the
149 active console. (LP: #447141)
151 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:06:53 +0100
153 casper (1.200) karmic; urgency=low
155 * scripts/casper-bottom/20xconfig:
156 - Fix xforcevesa to generate a good failsafe xorg.conf (LP: #423969)
158 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:26:42 -0500
160 casper (1.199) karmic; urgency=low
163 * Scan device-mapper (RAID) devices for live filesystem (LP: #385305).
165 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:39:57 +0100
167 casper (1.198) karmic; urgency=low
169 * scripts/casper: Send PULSELOGO usplash command at startup. (LP: #438762)
171 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:51:07 +0200
173 casper (1.197) karmic; urgency=low
176 * Fix tty device name construction to work with new upstart (LP: #438678).
179 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: pass -L to getty and set term to vt100.
180 * scripts/casper-bottom/22serialtty: set +x...
182 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:27:45 +0100
184 casper (1.196) karmic; urgency=low
186 * Extend our hack that arranges to run setupcon after usplash exits to
187 cover the new Upstartified usplash as well.
189 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:36:55 +0100
191 casper (1.195) karmic; urgency=low
194 * add support for serialtty= cmdline option for debugging purposes in live
198 * Upstart moved /etc/event.d/ to /etc/init/; adjust shell provision on VTs
199 to match (LP: #434769).
201 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:52:32 +0100
203 casper (1.194) karmic; urgency=low
205 * Fix 47unr_ubiquity shell code to make slightly more sense.
206 * Tell mkinitramfs that casper needs usplash (LP: #434980).
208 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:29:21 +0100
210 casper (1.193) karmic; urgency=low
212 * Sync LSB headers in init script with desired behaviour: don't start
213 casper at boot, and stop after umountroot but before halt/reboot.
215 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:23 +0100
217 casper (1.192) karmic; urgency=low
220 * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
223 * Add 37kubuntu_netbook_installer_link to show ubiquity launcher
225 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:10:03 +0100
227 casper (1.191) karmic; urgency=low
229 * Slightly re-work 47unr_ubiquity, so that ubiquity doesn't keep getting
230 added to the favourites if persistence is used.·
232 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:35:00 +1000
234 casper (1.190) karmic; urgency=low
237 * Don't produce an invalid sed program when trying to remove an applet
238 which isn't in the panel (LP: #406188).
241 * do not remount filesystems that already have been probed when
242 searching for the livefs (LP: #424464)
243 * Fix quoting in try_snap (LP: #424742).
244 * Silence error messages for non-existent device nodes (LP: #425159).
246 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:10:53 +0100
248 casper (1.189) karmic; urgency=low
250 * In 10adduser fix path to ubiquity-kde.desktop file
252 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:54:41 +0100
254 casper (1.188) karmic; urgency=low
256 * Allow for platform-orion-ehci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device"
257 i.e. one which can host a livefs. This is the name of the USB device
258 driver on Marvell Dove boards.
260 -- Loïc Minier <loic.minier@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:16:21 +0200
262 casper (1.187) karmic; urgency=low
264 * Stop recommending unionfs-fuse, as we're using aufs again in Karmic.
266 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:14 +0100
268 casper (1.186) karmic; urgency=low
271 * Allow for platform-mxsdhci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device" i.e.
272 one which can host a livefs. This is the new name of this device in
273 2.6.31 kernels on Babbage i.MX51.
276 * Rename 47unr-ubiquity as 47unr_ubiquity, as scripts with dashes don't
277 get installed into the initramfs. (LP: #411616)
279 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:39:34 +1000
281 casper (1.185) karmic; urgency=low
283 * Actually set 47unr-ubiquity as executable.·
285 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:41:35 +1000
287 casper (1.184) karmic; urgency=low
290 * Apply the Ubuntu release version to the installer menu entries as well
294 * Fix disabling of apt-check (LP: #406191).
297 * Remove the UNR ubiquity .desktop hack in 10adduser.
298 * Set ubiquity as a UNR Favourite in 47unr-ubiquity.
300 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:58 +0100
302 casper (1.183) karmic; urgency=low
304 * Remove erroneous /root prefix on the ubiquity desktop files in
307 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:34 +0100
309 casper (1.182) karmic; urgency=low
312 * Busybox sed does not preserve ownership, so chown after using it.
315 * Set AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME, not =ubuntu (thanks, arky; LP: #401321).
317 [ Mario Limonciello ]
318 * Add support for lzma type archives to casper-new-uuid.
320 -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0500
322 casper (1.181) karmic; urgency=low
324 * Insert a version number in the name field for ubiquity's desktop file
327 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100
329 casper (1.180) karmic; urgency=low
332 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Minor consistency fixes.
335 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update for new gdm custom configuration
336 file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). (LP: #395861)
338 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0200
340 casper (1.179) karmic; urgency=low
343 * If LIVE_MEDIA_PATH is set on the command line, record it in
344 /etc/casper.conf for the benefit of ubiquity.
347 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update to work with new gdm.
349 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:57 +0200
351 casper (1.178) karmic; urgency=low
353 * Ensure that unionfs-fuse isn't killed by /etc/init.d/sendsigs on
354 shutdown (LP: #386010).
355 * Patches from "phl" (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-leledy), adjusted by
356 me, to fix snapshot resync:
357 - Avoid using cpio -u -d options if klibc cpio is in use (LP: #384059).
358 - Copy /etc/casper.conf into /root, otherwise we forget snapshot resync
359 settings (LP: #384061).
360 - Adjust the first field of *SNAP entries in casper.conf to be relative
361 to /cow, not /root (LP: #384066).
362 - Prefix $DEST with $MOUNTP in casper-snapshot (LP: #384068).
363 - /etc/init.d/casper is usually called with 'start', so handle that as
364 well as 'stop' to do snapshot resyncing and CD ejecting (LP: #384076).
365 * Fix casper-snapshot(1) syntax to avoid missing spaces between options
367 * Fix showmounts when used in conjunction with unionfs-fuse; read-only
368 filesystems need to be bind-mounted rather than move-mounted.
370 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0100
372 casper (1.177) karmic; urgency=low
374 * Port from Debian (thanks, Daniel Baumann):
375 - Added live-media-path as suggested by Jordi Pujol.
376 - Tail casper.log and show its messages during boot (thanks, Michal
377 Suchanek; LP: #363886).
379 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0100
381 casper (1.176) karmic; urgency=low
384 * Fix symlinking of anacron to /bin/true.
387 * Drop scripts/casper-bottom/38jockey_disable_check: Some drivers, like wl
388 or printer drivers, do need to be advertised in a live system. Jockey has
389 been fixed to not advertise video drivers automatically if the packages
390 aren't available (such as in the live system), and even if we should ever
391 put them back, it is easier to disable the notifications in jockey's
392 handlers instead of here. (LP: #381687)
394 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:05 +0200
396 casper (1.175) karmic; urgency=low
398 * Suppress error message if
399 /root/usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop doesn't exist.
400 * Add unionfs-fuse support.
401 * Automatically fall back to unionfs-fuse if the default union filesystem
402 is not available but unionfs-fuse is.
404 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:00 +0100
406 casper (1.174) karmic; urgency=low
408 * debian/control: Increase dependency on initramfs-tools to get the version
409 that uses blkid, depend on util-linux as well
410 * hooks/casper: No need to copy vol_id into the initramfs image.·
411 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Use blkid -o udev -p instead of vol_id,
412 there's probably a much cleaner way to check for RAID like this, but
413 this is the direct equivalent.
414 * scripts/casper-helpers (get_fstype): use a blkid call to get the type·
415 * scripts/casper-helpers (find_cow_device): use a blkid call to get the
418 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:41 +0100
420 casper (1.173) jaunty; urgency=low
422 * Don't use head -n1 in where_is_mounted, we don't have head in the
423 initramfs. LP: #363038.
425 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:22:06 -0700
427 casper (1.172) jaunty; urgency=low
429 * 43disable_updateinitramfs: The /cdrom mount has been moved to
430 /root/cdrom by the time this script runs, so check that instead.
432 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0100
434 casper (1.171) jaunty; urgency=low
436 * Set MP_QUIET to -q instead of -Q on Ubuntu as well, and not just for
437 Debian as the modprobe in the latest upstream release of module-init-tools
438 doesn't accept -Q anymore.
440 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0200
442 casper (1.170) jaunty; urgency=low
444 * is_nice_device(): allow devices with an ID_PATH of platform-mmc* as well
445 as used for instance for SD cards on the ARM iMX51 Babbage board;
448 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0200
450 casper (1.169) jaunty; urgency=low
452 * [ -w /cdrom ] turns out not to be a sufficient test for files under
453 /cdrom being writable; with busybox, it always returns true even for
454 read-only filesystems. Explicitly check for the read-only flag in mount
455 output to work around this.
456 * Fix where_is_mounted helper function to actually produce output (thanks,
457 Steve Dodd; LP: #346941).
458 * Add a comment to find_cow_device explaining why the choice of
459 filesystems is restricted (I asked for this comment in LP #230703 but it
460 apparently never got written).
462 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:05 +0100
464 casper (1.168) jaunty; urgency=low
466 * Fix writing of "$@" to diverted update-initramfs script (here-documents
467 perform parameter expansion unless the delimiter is quoted).
468 * Don't bring up a temporary network interface while fetching the preseed
469 file when netbooting, as that will disconnect our root filesystem
472 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:29 +0100
474 casper (1.167) jaunty; urgency=low
476 * Disable kwallet from KDE 4 in 34disable_kde_services
478 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:35 +0000
480 casper (1.166) jaunty; urgency=low
483 * Show the ubiquity icon in kourou (LP: #338730)
486 * Move examples.desktop to Desktop/ if it exists, as an alternative to
487 Examples (LP: #45489).
490 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
491 - Make the special case disabling of pulseaudio per user, and not system
493 - Also disable PulseAudio for the Braille profile.
494 - Fix incorrect paths when chowning files.
495 - Don't use /root for the ubiquity hook accessibility script, /target is
496 where the installed system is located.
497 - Remove laptop detect code. Its not currently working, and getting it to
498 work requires invasive changes.
499 - Only set pulseaudio settings and create the .orca directory if sed
500 packages are installed on the live filesystem and installed system.
501 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Copy orca settings to the installed system.
503 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:20 +1100
505 casper (1.165) jaunty; urgency=low
507 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
508 - When the blindness accessibility profile is chosen, create the .orca
509 directory in the live user's home directory. This seems to allow orca
510 to properly reload and use settings in the live session without needing
511 to be restarted. This is only needed for the blindness profile, due to
512 the other profiles that use orca already creating the .orca directory.
515 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:37:20 +1100
517 casper (1.164) jaunty; urgency=low
519 * Update 34disable_kde_services to not start
520 update-notifier-kde or plasma's contact plugin which uses akonadi
522 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:52 +0000
524 casper (1.163) jaunty; urgency=low
526 * 34disable_kwallet moved to 34disable_kde_services and disables
527 various services not needed by live CDs
529 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000
531 casper (1.162) jaunty; urgency=low
533 * If /cdrom is writable, call the diverted update-initramfs and copy
534 the resulting kernel and initrd to /cdrom/casper (LP: #292159).
536 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000
538 casper (1.161) jaunty; urgency=low
541 * Regenerate SSL certificate at boot so that it isn't the same for all
542 live CD users (LP: #337723).
544 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:21 +0000
546 casper (1.160) jaunty; urgency=low
548 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
549 - Adjust sudoers file to allow ORBIT_SOCKET_DIR, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE and
550 GTK_MODULES environment variables through to root, for v2, v3, and
551 braille profiles. This allows users to use administrative GTK/GNOME
552 applications executed by gksudo with accessibility tools like orca.
554 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +1100
556 casper (1.159) jaunty; urgency=low
558 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
559 - Disable pulseaudio for the blindness profile, as pulseaudio and espeak
560 and portaudio v19 do not play very well with each other, lots of
561 crackling, cut of speech. At least espeak via ALSA natively is usable,
562 and latency is relatively low.
564 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:06 +1100
566 casper (1.158) jaunty; urgency=low
568 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
569 - use laptop_detect function in blindness profile as well
571 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:07:17 +1100
573 casper (1.157) jaunty; urgency=low
576 * 10adduser: add Category=Favorites support for netbook-launcher
580 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
581 - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable
582 the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for
583 the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several
584 keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible
585 yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is
586 likely to cause much confusion if sed menu entries are not present.
588 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +1100
590 casper (1.156) jaunty; urgency=low
592 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
593 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
594 - If using a laptop, enable the laptop keyboard layout
595 - There is no longer a need to set gconf values as root in only-ubiquity
598 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:52 +0100
600 casper (1.155) jaunty; urgency=low
603 * Add myself to debian/copyright as an author, as I've done fairly
604 significant work on this.
605 * Eliminate casper-md5check's libm linkage; patch from "SurJector" who
606 points out that the automatic conversion is sufficient (LP: #293613).
607 * Restore showmounts/show-cow option (thanks, Carlo de Wolf and "probono";
608 LP: #159006, #290330).
611 * Add support for ext4.
613 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000
615 casper (1.154) jaunty; urgency=low
618 * scripts/casper-bottom/02timezone:
619 - Remove as it's no longer needed and resets the timezone when
620 persistence is enabled (LP: #296855).
623 * Preseed console-setup/optionscode and console-setup/codesetcode to the
624 empty string on boot to avoid debris from the live filesystem build
625 process getting in the way of installation (LP: #94177).
627 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:44:45 +0000
629 casper (1.153) jaunty; urgency=low
631 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser:
632 - Create links for Mythbuntu items on the Desktop too.
633 - Don't show removable drives on Mythbuntu desktop
634 * scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services:
635 - New script for disabling services unnecessary to Live
636 mode that should still start after being installed.
638 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:59 -0600
640 casper (1.152) intrepid; urgency=low
642 * Use kde4rc now for accessibility profiles
644 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:54 +0100
646 casper (1.151) intrepid; urgency=low
648 * Force ubiquity to --automatic mode for ubuntu-mid
650 -- Emmet Hikory <persia@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:31:16 +0100
652 casper (1.150) intrepid; urgency=low
654 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser (really)
656 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:54 +0100
658 casper (1.149) intrepid; urgency=low
660 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
661 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
662 - Revert to using gconf keys for starting orca, as this is now what
663 orca does when the user chooses to automatically start orca from Orca's
665 - Explicitly set orca as the program to start up for magnification,
668 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:02 +1100
670 casper (1.148) intrepid; urgency=low
672 * Skip remounting read-only in try_mount as it's unnecessary and
673 breaks persistence. Thanks James Westby (LP: #274076).
675 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
677 casper (1.147) intrepid; urgency=low
679 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser
681 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0100
683 casper (1.146) intrepid; urgency=low
685 * Update About Kubuntu link in 10adduser for KDE 4
687 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:15 +0100
689 casper (1.145) intrepid; urgency=low
691 * 38disable_restricted_manager: Remove some obsolete l-r-m and
692 restricted-manager code, and rename the script to 38jockey_disable_check
693 to better reflect its purpose.
695 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0200
697 casper (1.144) intrepid; urgency=low
699 * Bump media detection timeout to a minute; thanks to Tormod Volden and
700 Steve Beattie for analysis (LP: #258432).
701 * Note that this changes (fixes?) the semantics of LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT due
702 to not using hex values in a for loop which aren't understood by test
703 -lt (thanks, Steve Beattie).
705 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:13 +0100
707 casper (1.143) intrepid; urgency=low
709 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
710 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change the way that orca is set to
711 automatically start. Orca can be started via a gconf key, however this
712 is not reflected in the orca UI, and doesn't easily allow the user to
713 prevent orca from autostarting on an installed system.
715 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +1000
717 casper (1.142) intrepid; urgency=low
719 * Fix syntax error introduced by is_nice_device regex fix.
721 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:59 +0100
723 casper (1.141) intrepid; urgency=low
726 * Handle spaces in file names in md5sum.txt (LP: #251112).
729 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax in
730 preseed script; previously we only supported it in the keyboard script,
731 which confusingly doesn't deal with propagating console-setup/* preseeds
732 to the target filesystem (LP: #253749).
733 * Update to localechooser's new languagelist format.
736 * scripts/casper: don't scan floppy drives for livefs images (LP: #97306)
737 * scripts/casper: fix broken RE in is_nice_device() (LP: #250328)
738 * scripts/casper: properly use argument $1 in matches_uuid()
740 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:05 +0100
742 casper (1.140) intrepid; urgency=low
745 * Disable jockey as well as the old restricted-manager. While jockey does
746 do more than restricted-manager did, it also still uses a good chunk of
747 memory for a use case that's fairly limited on the live CD.
750 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
751 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
752 - Check that usr/bin/orca exists and is executable before creating user
755 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:23:41 +1000
757 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
759 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
761 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
763 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
766 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
769 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
770 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
771 apport right before the release.
772 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
773 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
774 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
776 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
778 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
780 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
781 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
783 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
785 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
787 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
788 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
789 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
790 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
792 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
794 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
797 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
800 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
802 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
804 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
807 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
810 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
811 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
813 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
815 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
818 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
821 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
823 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
824 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
825 corruption (LP: #230703).
827 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
829 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
831 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
833 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
834 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
835 corruption (LP: #230703).
837 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
839 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
841 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
842 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
845 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
847 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
850 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
853 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
854 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
857 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
859 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
862 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
863 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
864 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
867 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
868 by root (LP: #218576).
869 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
870 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
871 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
872 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
873 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
874 open another bug for this.
876 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
878 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
880 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
883 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
885 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
887 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
888 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
889 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
890 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
891 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
892 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
895 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
897 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
900 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
901 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
902 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
903 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
904 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
907 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
908 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
912 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
914 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
916 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
918 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
920 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
922 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
924 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
926 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
927 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
929 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
931 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
934 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
935 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
936 specification (LP: #204185).
939 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
941 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
943 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
946 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
949 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
950 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
951 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
953 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
955 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
957 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
958 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
959 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
960 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
962 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
964 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
966 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
968 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
970 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
972 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
974 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
976 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
978 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
979 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
980 propagating to the installed system.
982 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
984 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
987 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
988 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
989 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
990 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
991 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
992 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
995 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
996 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
998 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
1000 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
1002 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
1003 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
1005 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
1007 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
1009 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
1011 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
1014 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
1016 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
1018 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
1019 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
1020 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
1023 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
1025 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
1027 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
1029 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
1031 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
1034 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
1035 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
1037 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
1040 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
1042 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
1045 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
1046 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
1047 a system. LP: #150188
1050 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
1051 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
1052 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
1053 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
1055 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
1057 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
1059 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
1060 there inside udevadm
1061 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
1062 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
1064 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
1066 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
1068 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
1070 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
1071 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
1072 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
1074 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
1076 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
1078 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
1079 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
1080 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
1082 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
1084 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
1086 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
1087 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
1089 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
1090 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
1092 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
1094 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
1096 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
1097 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
1098 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
1099 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
1102 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
1104 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
1106 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
1108 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
1109 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
1110 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
1111 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
1112 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
1113 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
1115 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
1117 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
1119 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
1120 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
1121 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
1123 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
1125 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
1127 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
1129 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
1131 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
1132 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
1135 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
1137 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
1139 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
1140 fails (LP: #131209).
1142 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
1144 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
1146 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
1147 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
1148 installed (LP: #139403).
1150 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
1152 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
1154 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
1155 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
1156 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
1157 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
1160 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
1162 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
1164 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
1165 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
1166 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
1167 systems. (LP: #131976)
1169 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
1171 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
1173 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
1174 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
1175 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
1177 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
1179 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
1182 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1183 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1184 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
1186 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
1188 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
1190 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
1192 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
1194 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
1196 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
1197 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
1199 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
1201 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
1204 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
1206 [ Jonathan Riddell ]
1207 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
1208 restricted-manager autostart files
1210 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
1212 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
1214 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
1216 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
1219 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
1221 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
1224 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
1225 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
1227 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
1230 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1231 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1232 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
1233 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
1234 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
1235 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
1237 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
1238 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
1240 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
1242 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
1244 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
1245 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
1246 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
1248 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
1250 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
1253 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
1256 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
1257 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
1260 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
1262 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
1264 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
1265 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
1266 .debs (LP: #120217).
1268 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
1270 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
1272 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
1273 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
1275 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
1277 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1279 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
1282 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
1284 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
1286 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
1287 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
1288 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
1289 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
1290 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
1291 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
1292 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
1293 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
1294 kernels (LP: #118561).
1296 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
1298 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
1301 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
1304 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
1305 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
1306 for the final release.
1308 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
1310 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
1313 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1314 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1315 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
1316 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
1318 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
1320 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
1322 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
1324 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
1326 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
1329 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
1330 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
1333 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
1335 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
1336 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
1337 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
1338 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
1339 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
1340 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
1343 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
1345 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
1347 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
1349 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
1350 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
1351 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
1352 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
1353 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
1355 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
1357 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
1360 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
1361 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
1362 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
1363 * Add driver-updates hooks.
1366 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
1367 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
1369 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
1371 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
1373 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
1374 for use with encryption.
1376 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
1378 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1380 * Added depends to eject.
1381 * Removed recommends to live-package.
1383 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
1385 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1388 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
1389 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
1392 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
1393 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
1394 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
1396 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
1398 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1400 * New upstream release.
1401 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
1402 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
1403 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
1404 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
1405 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
1406 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
1407 parameter: module=NAME.
1409 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
1411 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
1413 * Merge in Debian's changes.
1415 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
1417 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
1419 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
1420 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
1422 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
1424 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1426 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1427 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1429 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
1431 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1433 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1434 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
1435 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
1437 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
1439 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1441 * New Upstream release.
1442 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
1444 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
1446 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
1449 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
1450 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
1451 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
1453 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
1454 avoid interfering with debconf.
1457 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1458 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
1459 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
1462 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
1463 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
1465 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
1467 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
1469 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
1470 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
1471 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
1473 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
1475 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
1477 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
1478 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
1479 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1480 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1481 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1483 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
1485 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
1487 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
1488 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
1489 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
1490 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
1492 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
1494 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
1496 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
1497 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
1498 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
1499 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
1500 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
1501 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
1503 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
1505 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
1507 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
1508 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
1510 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
1511 * Fixed keyboard setup.
1512 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
1513 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
1514 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1517 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
1519 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
1521 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
1522 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1525 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
1527 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
1530 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
1531 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
1532 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
1533 requested by many people.
1534 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
1535 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
1537 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
1538 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
1539 * Fixed locale generation.
1540 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1544 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
1546 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
1548 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1550 * New upstream release.
1551 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
1552 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
1553 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
1555 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
1556 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
1557 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
1558 * Extendend manpages.
1559 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
1560 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
1561 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
1562 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
1563 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
1564 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
1565 needed by casper-snapshot.
1566 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
1569 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
1571 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
1573 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
1576 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
1578 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
1581 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
1583 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
1584 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
1585 aren't supplied on the command line.
1588 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
1589 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
1590 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
1592 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
1593 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
1594 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
1595 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
1597 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
1599 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
1601 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
1602 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
1604 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
1606 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
1609 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
1610 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
1611 enabling accessibility in KDE.
1614 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
1616 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
1618 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
1620 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
1621 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
1622 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
1624 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
1626 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
1628 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
1629 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
1632 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
1634 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1636 * New upstream release.
1637 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
1638 * Tagged for debtags project.
1640 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
1642 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
1644 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
1645 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
1646 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
1648 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
1649 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
1650 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
1651 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
1652 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
1653 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
1654 casper-bottom scripts use this.
1655 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
1657 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
1659 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
1661 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
1664 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
1666 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
1669 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
1670 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
1673 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
1675 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
1677 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
1679 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1681 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
1682 * Lintian cleanness reached.
1684 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
1686 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1688 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
1689 * Added a manpage for casper.
1690 * Lintian cleanings.
1692 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
1694 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1696 * New upstream release.
1697 * Added static network configuration support.
1698 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
1699 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
1700 via kernel parameters.
1702 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
1704 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
1706 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
1707 (closes: Malone #61573).
1709 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
1711 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
1713 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
1714 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
1715 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
1716 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
1717 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
1718 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
1720 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
1722 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1724 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
1725 * Default user password now "live".
1727 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
1729 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
1731 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
1732 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
1733 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
1734 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
1735 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
1737 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
1739 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1741 * New upstream release.
1742 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
1743 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
1744 as kernel parameter).
1746 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
1748 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
1750 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
1752 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
1754 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1756 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1757 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1758 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1760 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1762 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1763 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1765 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1767 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1769 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1770 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1772 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1774 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1776 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1777 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1779 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1781 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1784 * New upstream release.
1785 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1786 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1787 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1788 script/casper-bottom.
1789 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1790 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1791 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1792 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1793 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1796 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1797 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1798 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1801 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1802 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1804 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1806 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1809 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1811 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1812 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1813 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1814 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1815 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1816 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1817 * Minor build system fixes.
1818 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1819 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1820 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1822 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1824 * Add stacked file system support
1827 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1828 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1831 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1833 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1835 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1837 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1839 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1841 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1844 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1845 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1846 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1847 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1850 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1851 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1853 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1855 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1857 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1858 PATH isn't correctly set.
1860 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1862 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1864 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1865 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1866 * Rearrange source package.
1867 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1869 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1872 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1874 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1877 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1880 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1881 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1882 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1883 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1886 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1888 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1890 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1891 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1892 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1893 * Removed ubiquity code.
1894 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1895 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1896 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1897 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1898 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1899 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1900 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1901 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1902 instead of group 'admin'.
1904 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1906 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1908 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1910 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1912 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1914 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1915 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1916 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1918 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1920 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1922 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1924 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1925 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1927 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
1929 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
1931 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
1934 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
1936 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
1939 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
1943 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
1945 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
1947 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
1950 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
1954 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
1957 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
1959 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
1961 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
1964 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
1966 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
1969 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1970 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
1971 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
1974 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
1976 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
1977 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
1978 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
1979 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
1980 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
1981 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
1983 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
1984 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
1987 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
1988 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
1989 scripts. Malone #43860
1990 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
1991 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
1993 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
1994 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
1996 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
1998 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
2001 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
2002 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
2004 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
2005 for the v1 accessibility profile.
2006 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
2007 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
2008 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
2011 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
2013 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
2014 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
2015 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
2018 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
2020 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
2022 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
2024 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
2026 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
2028 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
2030 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
2031 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
2034 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
2036 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
2039 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
2040 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
2041 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
2042 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
2043 gnome-panel-data is installed.
2044 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
2045 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
2047 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
2048 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
2049 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
2050 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
2053 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
2055 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
2057 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
2059 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
2060 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
2061 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
2062 ubiquity-casper to match.
2064 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
2066 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
2069 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
2073 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
2075 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
2077 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
2079 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
2080 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
2081 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
2082 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
2084 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
2086 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
2088 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
2089 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
2091 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
2093 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
2096 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
2097 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
2098 in the relevant packages.
2101 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
2102 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
2103 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
2104 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
2107 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
2109 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
2111 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
2112 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
2114 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
2116 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
2118 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
2119 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
2120 trigger unionfs bugs
2121 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
2122 check. (Malone: #29203)
2123 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
2125 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
2127 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
2130 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
2134 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
2135 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
2136 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
2138 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
2140 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
2142 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
2144 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
2146 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
2148 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
2149 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
2150 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
2151 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
2153 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
2155 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
2158 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
2159 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
2160 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
2163 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
2165 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
2167 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
2169 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
2170 debconf-set-selections.
2172 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
2174 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
2177 * Add initial accessibility support framework
2179 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
2181 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
2183 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
2185 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
2186 actually look in the right place.
2187 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
2189 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
2191 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
2193 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
2195 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
2197 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
2200 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
2202 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
2203 into the right place. Malone #20978
2206 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
2209 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
2211 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
2213 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
2215 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
2216 * Set up the right console keymap.
2218 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
2220 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
2223 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
2224 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2225 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
2227 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2228 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
2229 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
2234 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
2236 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
2237 casper in the installed system.
2239 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
2241 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
2243 * Depend on user-setup
2244 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
2245 be copied into the initramfs.
2247 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
2249 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
2251 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
2253 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
2255 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
2257 * Add persistency support
2258 * Usplash integration
2260 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
2262 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
2264 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
2266 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
2268 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
2270 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
2271 working in shell variables.
2272 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
2273 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
2275 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
2277 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
2279 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
2282 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
2284 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
2286 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
2288 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
2291 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
2293 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
2295 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
2296 list of supported locales.
2297 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
2298 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
2299 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
2300 * Disable checkroot when booting
2302 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
2304 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
2306 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
2307 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
2308 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
2309 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
2311 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
2313 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
2314 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
2316 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
2318 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
2320 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
2321 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
2322 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
2323 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
2324 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
2325 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
2327 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
2329 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
2331 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
2332 Brazilian Portuguese.
2334 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
2336 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
2338 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
2340 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
2342 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
2344 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
2345 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
2346 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
2348 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
2350 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
2352 * Neutralize branding in startup message
2353 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
2354 the console from d-i's death throes
2356 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
2358 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
2360 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
2361 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
2363 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
2365 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
2367 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
2369 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
2371 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
2373 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
2374 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
2377 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
2379 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
2381 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
2382 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
2383 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
2385 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
2387 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
2389 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
2390 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
2393 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
2395 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
2397 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
2398 device nodes clobbered by udev
2399 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
2400 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
2403 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
2405 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
2407 * Add usplash support
2409 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
2411 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
2413 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
2414 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
2415 can be invaluable for debugging
2417 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
2419 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
2421 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
2422 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
2423 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
2426 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
2428 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
2430 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
2433 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
2435 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
2437 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
2440 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
2442 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
2444 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
2446 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
2448 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
2450 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
2452 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
2454 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
2456 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
2459 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
2461 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
2463 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
2465 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
2467 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
2468 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
2471 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
2473 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
2475 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
2477 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
2479 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
2481 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
2483 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
2484 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
2486 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
2488 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
2490 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
2491 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
2493 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
2495 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
2497 * Updated translations from
2498 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
2500 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
2502 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
2504 * Updated translations from
2505 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
2507 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
2509 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
2511 * Updated translations from
2512 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
2514 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
2516 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
2518 * Updated translations from
2519 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
2521 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
2523 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
2525 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
2527 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
2529 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
2531 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
2533 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
2534 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
2536 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
2538 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
2540 * Suppress error output from eject
2541 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
2542 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
2544 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
2546 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
2548 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
2550 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
2552 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
2554 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
2555 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
2557 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
2559 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
2561 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
2562 provided by base-installer).
2564 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
2566 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
2568 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
2569 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
2571 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
2573 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
2575 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
2577 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
2579 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
2581 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
2582 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
2583 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
2585 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
2587 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
2589 * Fix 20xconfig harder
2591 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
2593 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
2595 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
2597 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
2599 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
2601 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
2602 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
2604 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
2606 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
2608 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
2609 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
2610 their password is irrelevant.
2612 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
2614 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
2616 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
2617 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
2619 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
2621 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
2623 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
2624 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
2625 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
2626 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
2627 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
2628 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
2630 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
2632 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
2634 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
2635 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
2637 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
2639 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
2641 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
2642 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
2643 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
2644 already a (different) debian/compat.
2646 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
2648 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
2650 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
2652 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
2654 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
2656 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
2658 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
2660 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
2662 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
2664 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
2666 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
2668 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
2669 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
2670 mounted using devfs names
2671 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
2672 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
2673 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
2676 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
2678 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
2680 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
2682 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
2684 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
2686 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
2687 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
2690 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
2692 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
2694 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
2695 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
2696 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
2697 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
2700 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
2702 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
2704 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
2705 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
2707 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
2708 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
2710 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
2712 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
2714 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
2716 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
2718 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
2720 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
2721 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
2722 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
2723 create progress bar text for them
2724 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
2726 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
2728 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
2730 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
2732 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
2734 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
2736 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
2739 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
2741 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
2743 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
2746 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
2748 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
2750 * Suppress network configuration questions
2752 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
2753 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
2754 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2756 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2757 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2760 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2762 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2764 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2765 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2766 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2767 - Corresponding progress template
2768 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2769 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2770 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2773 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2775 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2777 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2779 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2781 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2783 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2784 what is and is not a kernel thread
2786 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2788 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2790 * Add a backtitle properly
2792 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2794 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2798 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2800 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2802 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2804 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2806 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2808 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2809 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2812 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2814 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2816 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2819 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2821 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2824 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2826 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2828 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2830 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2832 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2834 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2836 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2837 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2838 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2839 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2840 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2841 questions from being asked
2843 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2845 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2847 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2848 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2850 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2852 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2854 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2857 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2859 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2861 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2863 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2865 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2867 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2869 * Remove some unused templates
2871 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2873 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2875 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2876 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2877 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2880 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2882 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2884 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2885 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2887 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2888 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2890 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2892 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2894 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2895 during reboot or shutdown
2897 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2899 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2901 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2903 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2905 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2907 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2908 readable menu item text
2909 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2911 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2913 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2914 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2916 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2918 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2920 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2922 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2924 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2926 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
2928 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
2930 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
2932 * Attempt to configure X
2933 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
2934 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
2935 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
2936 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
2937 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
2938 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
2939 elsewhere, but for now...)
2941 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
2943 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
2945 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
2947 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
2949 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
2951 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
2952 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
2953 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
2954 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
2956 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
2958 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
2960 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
2961 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
2962 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
2963 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
2964 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
2965 * Add a progress bar
2966 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
2968 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
2970 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
2974 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800