1 casper (1.69) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
3 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
5 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:54:57 +0200
7 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
9 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
10 (closes: Malone #61573).
12 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
14 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
16 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
17 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
18 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
19 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
20 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
21 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
23 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
25 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
27 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
28 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
29 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
30 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
31 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
33 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
35 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
37 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
39 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
41 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
43 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
44 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
45 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
47 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
49 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
50 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
52 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
54 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
57 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
59 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
60 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
61 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
62 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
63 * Minor build system fixes.
64 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
65 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
68 * Add stacked file system support
71 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
72 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
73 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
74 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
75 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
76 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate.
79 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
81 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
83 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
85 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
86 PATH isn't correctly set.
88 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
90 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
92 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
93 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
94 * Rearrange source package.
95 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
97 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
100 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
102 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
104 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
106 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
108 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
110 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
111 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
112 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
114 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
116 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
118 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
120 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
121 CD/DVD has been ejected.
123 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
125 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
127 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
130 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
132 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
135 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
139 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
141 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
143 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
146 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
150 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
153 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
155 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
157 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
160 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
162 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
165 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
166 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
167 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
170 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
172 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
173 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
174 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
175 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
176 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
177 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
179 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
180 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
183 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
184 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
185 scripts. Malone #43860
186 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
187 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
189 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
190 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
192 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
194 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
197 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
198 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
200 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
201 for the v1 accessibility profile.
202 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
203 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
204 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
207 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
209 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
210 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
211 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
214 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
216 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
218 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
220 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
222 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
224 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
226 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
227 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
230 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
232 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
235 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
236 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
237 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
238 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
239 gnome-panel-data is installed.
240 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
241 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
243 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
244 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
245 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
246 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
249 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
251 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
253 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
255 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
256 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
257 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
258 ubiquity-casper to match.
260 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
262 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
265 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
269 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
271 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
273 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
275 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
276 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
277 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
278 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
280 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
282 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
284 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
285 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
287 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
289 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
292 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
293 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
294 in the relevant packages.
297 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
298 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
299 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
300 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
303 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
305 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
307 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
308 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
310 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
312 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
314 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
315 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
317 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
318 check. (Malone: #29203)
319 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
321 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
323 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
326 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
330 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
331 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
332 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
334 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
336 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
338 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
340 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
342 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
344 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
345 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
346 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
347 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
349 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
351 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
354 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
355 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
356 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
359 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
361 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
363 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
365 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
366 debconf-set-selections.
368 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
370 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
373 * Add initial accessibility support framework
375 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
377 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
379 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
381 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
382 actually look in the right place.
383 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
385 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
387 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
389 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
391 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
393 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
396 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
398 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
399 into the right place. Malone #20978
402 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
405 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
407 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
409 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
411 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
412 * Set up the right console keymap.
414 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
416 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
419 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
420 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
421 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
423 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
424 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
425 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
430 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
432 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
433 casper in the installed system.
435 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
437 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
439 * Depend on user-setup
440 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
441 be copied into the initramfs.
443 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
445 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
447 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
449 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
451 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
453 * Add persistency support
454 * Usplash integration
456 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
458 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
460 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
462 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
464 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
466 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
467 working in shell variables.
468 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
469 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
471 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
473 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
475 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
478 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
480 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
482 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
484 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
487 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
489 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
491 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
492 list of supported locales.
493 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
494 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
495 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
496 * Disable checkroot when booting
498 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
500 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
502 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
503 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
504 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
505 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
507 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
509 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
510 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
512 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
514 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
516 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
517 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
518 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
519 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
520 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
521 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
523 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
525 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
527 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
528 Brazilian Portuguese.
530 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
532 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
534 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
536 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
538 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
540 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
541 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
542 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
544 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
546 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
548 * Neutralize branding in startup message
549 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
550 the console from d-i's death throes
552 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
554 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
556 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
557 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
559 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
561 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
563 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
565 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
567 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
569 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
570 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
573 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
575 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
577 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
578 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
579 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
581 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
583 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
585 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
586 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
589 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
591 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
593 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
594 device nodes clobbered by udev
595 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
596 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
599 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
601 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
603 * Add usplash support
605 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
607 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
609 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
610 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
611 can be invaluable for debugging
613 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
615 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
617 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
618 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
619 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
622 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
624 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
626 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
629 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
631 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
633 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
636 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
638 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
640 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
642 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
644 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
646 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
648 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
650 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
652 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
655 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
657 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
659 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
661 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
663 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
664 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
667 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
669 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
671 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
673 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
675 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
677 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
679 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
680 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
682 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
684 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
686 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
687 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
689 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
691 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
693 * Updated translations from
694 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
696 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
698 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
700 * Updated translations from
701 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
703 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
705 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
707 * Updated translations from
708 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
710 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
712 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
714 * Updated translations from
715 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
717 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
719 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
721 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
723 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
725 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
727 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
729 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
730 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
732 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
734 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
736 * Suppress error output from eject
737 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
738 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
740 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
742 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
744 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
746 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
748 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
750 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
751 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
753 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
755 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
757 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
758 provided by base-installer).
760 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
762 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
764 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
765 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
767 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
769 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
771 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
773 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
775 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
777 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
778 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
779 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
781 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
783 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
785 * Fix 20xconfig harder
787 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
789 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
791 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
793 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
795 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
797 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
798 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
800 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
802 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
804 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
805 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
806 their password is irrelevant.
808 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
810 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
812 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
813 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
815 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
817 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
819 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
820 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
821 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
822 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
823 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
824 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
826 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
828 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
830 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
831 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
833 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
835 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
837 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
838 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
839 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
840 already a (different) debian/compat.
842 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
844 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
846 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
848 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
850 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
852 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
854 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
856 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
858 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
860 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
862 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
864 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
865 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
866 mounted using devfs names
867 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
868 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
869 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
872 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
874 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
876 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
878 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
880 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
882 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
883 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
886 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
888 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
890 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
891 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
892 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
893 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
896 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
898 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
900 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
901 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
903 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
904 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
906 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
908 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
910 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
912 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
914 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
916 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
917 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
918 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
919 create progress bar text for them
920 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
922 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
924 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
926 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
928 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
930 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
932 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
935 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
937 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
939 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
942 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
944 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
946 * Suppress network configuration questions
948 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
949 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
950 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
952 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
953 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
956 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
958 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
960 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
961 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
962 session based on whether the system is a laptop
963 - Corresponding progress template
964 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
965 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
966 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
969 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
971 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
973 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
975 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
977 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
979 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
980 what is and is not a kernel thread
982 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
984 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
986 * Add a backtitle properly
988 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
990 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
994 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
996 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
998 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
1000 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
1002 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1004 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
1005 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
1008 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
1010 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
1012 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
1015 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
1017 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
1020 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
1022 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
1024 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
1026 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
1028 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
1030 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
1032 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
1033 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
1034 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
1035 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
1036 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
1037 questions from being asked
1039 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
1041 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
1043 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
1044 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
1046 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
1048 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
1050 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
1053 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
1055 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
1057 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
1059 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
1061 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
1063 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
1065 * Remove some unused templates
1067 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
1069 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
1071 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
1072 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
1073 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
1076 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
1078 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
1080 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
1081 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
1083 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
1084 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
1086 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
1088 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
1090 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
1091 during reboot or shutdown
1093 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
1095 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
1097 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
1099 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
1101 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
1103 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
1104 readable menu item text
1105 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
1107 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
1109 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
1110 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
1112 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
1114 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
1116 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
1118 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
1120 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
1122 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
1124 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
1126 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
1128 * Attempt to configure X
1129 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
1130 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
1131 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
1132 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
1133 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
1134 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
1135 elsewhere, but for now...)
1137 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
1139 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
1141 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
1143 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
1145 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
1147 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
1148 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
1149 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
1150 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
1152 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
1154 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
1156 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
1157 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
1158 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
1159 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
1160 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
1161 * Add a progress bar
1162 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
1164 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
1166 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
1170 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800