1 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
3 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
4 for use with encryption.
6 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
8 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
10 * Added depends to eject.
11 * Removed recommends to live-package.
13 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
15 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
18 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
19 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
22 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
23 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
24 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
26 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
28 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
30 * New upstream release.
31 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
32 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
33 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
34 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
35 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
36 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
37 parameter: module=NAME.
39 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
41 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
43 * Merge in Debian's changes.
45 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
47 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
49 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
50 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
52 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
54 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
56 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
57 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
59 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
61 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
63 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
64 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
65 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
67 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
69 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
71 * New Upstream release.
72 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
74 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
76 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
79 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
80 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
81 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
83 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
84 avoid interfering with debconf.
87 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
88 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
89 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
92 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
93 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
95 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
97 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
99 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
100 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
101 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
103 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
105 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
107 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
108 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
109 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
110 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
111 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
113 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
115 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
117 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
118 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
119 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
120 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
122 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
124 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
126 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
127 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
128 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
129 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
130 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
131 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
133 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
135 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
137 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
138 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
140 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
141 * Fixed keyboard setup.
142 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
143 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
144 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
147 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
149 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
151 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
152 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
155 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
157 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
160 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
161 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
162 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
163 requested by many people.
164 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
165 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
167 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
168 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
169 * Fixed locale generation.
170 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
174 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
176 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
178 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
180 * New upstream release.
181 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
182 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
183 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
185 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
186 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
187 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
188 * Extendend manpages.
189 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
190 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
191 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
192 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
193 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
194 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
195 needed by casper-snapshot.
196 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
199 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
201 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
203 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
206 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
208 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
211 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
213 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
214 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
215 aren't supplied on the command line.
218 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
219 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
220 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
222 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
223 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
224 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
225 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
227 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
229 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
231 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
232 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
234 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
236 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
239 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
240 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
241 enabling accessibility in KDE.
244 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
246 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
248 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
250 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
251 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
252 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
254 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
256 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
258 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
259 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
262 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
264 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
266 * New upstream release.
267 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
268 * Tagged for debtags project.
270 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
272 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
274 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
275 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
276 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
278 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
279 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
280 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
281 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
282 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
283 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
284 casper-bottom scripts use this.
285 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
287 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
289 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
291 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
294 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
296 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
299 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
300 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
303 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
305 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
307 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
309 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
311 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
312 * Lintian cleanness reached.
314 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
316 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
318 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
319 * Added a manpage for casper.
322 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
324 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
326 * New upstream release.
327 * Added static network configuration support.
328 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
329 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
330 via kernel parameters.
332 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
334 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
336 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
337 (closes: Malone #61573).
339 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
341 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
343 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
344 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
345 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
346 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
347 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
348 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
350 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
352 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
354 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
355 * Default user password now "live".
357 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
359 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
361 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
362 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
363 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
364 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
365 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
367 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
369 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
371 * New upstream release.
372 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
373 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
374 as kernel parameter).
376 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
378 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
380 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
382 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
384 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
386 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
387 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
388 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
390 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
392 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
393 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
395 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
397 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
399 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
400 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
402 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
404 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
406 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
407 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
409 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
411 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
414 * New upstream release.
415 * Fixed upstream changelog.
416 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
417 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
418 script/casper-bottom.
419 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
420 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
421 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
422 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
423 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
426 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
427 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
428 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
431 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
432 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
434 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
436 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
439 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
441 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
442 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
443 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
444 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
445 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
446 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
447 * Minor build system fixes.
448 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
449 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
450 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
452 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
454 * Add stacked file system support
457 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
458 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
461 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
463 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
465 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
467 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
469 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
471 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
474 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
475 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
476 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
477 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
480 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
481 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
482 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
484 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
486 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
487 PATH isn't correctly set.
489 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
491 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
493 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
494 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
495 * Rearrange source package.
496 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
498 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
501 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
503 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
506 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
509 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
510 * Removed "persistent" wait.
511 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
512 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
515 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
517 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
519 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
520 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
521 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
522 * Removed ubiquity code.
523 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
524 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
525 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
526 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
527 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
528 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
529 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
530 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
531 instead of group 'admin'.
533 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
535 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
537 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
539 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
541 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
543 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
544 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
545 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
547 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
549 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
551 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
553 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
554 CD/DVD has been ejected.
556 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
558 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
560 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
563 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
565 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
568 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
572 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
574 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
576 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
579 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
583 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
586 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
588 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
590 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
593 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
595 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
598 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
599 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
600 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
603 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
605 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
606 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
607 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
608 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
609 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
610 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
612 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
613 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
616 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
617 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
618 scripts. Malone #43860
619 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
620 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
622 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
623 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
625 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
627 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
630 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
631 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
633 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
634 for the v1 accessibility profile.
635 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
636 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
637 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
640 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
642 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
643 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
644 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
647 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
649 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
651 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
653 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
655 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
657 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
659 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
660 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
663 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
665 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
668 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
669 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
670 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
671 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
672 gnome-panel-data is installed.
673 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
674 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
676 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
677 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
678 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
679 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
682 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
684 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
686 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
688 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
689 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
690 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
691 ubiquity-casper to match.
693 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
695 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
698 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
702 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
704 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
706 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
708 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
709 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
710 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
711 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
713 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
715 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
717 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
718 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
720 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
722 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
725 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
726 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
727 in the relevant packages.
730 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
731 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
732 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
733 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
736 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
738 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
740 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
741 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
743 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
745 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
747 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
748 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
750 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
751 check. (Malone: #29203)
752 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
754 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
756 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
759 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
763 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
764 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
765 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
767 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
769 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
771 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
773 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
775 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
777 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
778 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
779 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
780 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
782 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
784 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
787 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
788 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
789 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
792 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
794 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
796 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
798 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
799 debconf-set-selections.
801 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
803 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
806 * Add initial accessibility support framework
808 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
810 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
812 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
814 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
815 actually look in the right place.
816 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
818 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
820 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
822 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
824 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
826 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
829 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
831 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
832 into the right place. Malone #20978
835 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
838 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
840 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
842 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
844 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
845 * Set up the right console keymap.
847 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
849 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
852 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
853 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
854 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
856 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
857 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
858 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
863 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
865 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
866 casper in the installed system.
868 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
870 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
872 * Depend on user-setup
873 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
874 be copied into the initramfs.
876 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
878 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
880 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
882 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
884 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
886 * Add persistency support
887 * Usplash integration
889 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
891 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
893 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
895 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
897 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
899 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
900 working in shell variables.
901 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
902 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
904 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
906 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
908 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
911 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
913 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
915 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
917 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
920 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
922 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
924 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
925 list of supported locales.
926 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
927 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
928 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
929 * Disable checkroot when booting
931 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
933 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
935 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
936 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
937 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
938 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
940 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
942 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
943 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
945 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
947 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
949 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
950 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
951 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
952 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
953 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
954 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
956 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
958 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
960 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
961 Brazilian Portuguese.
963 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
965 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
967 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
969 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
971 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
973 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
974 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
975 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
977 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
979 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
981 * Neutralize branding in startup message
982 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
983 the console from d-i's death throes
985 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
987 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
989 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
990 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
992 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
994 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
996 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
998 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
1000 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
1002 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
1003 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
1006 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
1008 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
1010 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
1011 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
1012 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
1014 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
1016 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
1018 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
1019 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
1022 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
1024 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
1026 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
1027 device nodes clobbered by udev
1028 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
1029 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
1032 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
1034 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
1036 * Add usplash support
1038 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
1040 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
1042 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
1043 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
1044 can be invaluable for debugging
1046 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
1048 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
1050 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
1051 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
1052 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
1055 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
1057 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
1059 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
1062 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
1064 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
1066 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
1069 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
1071 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
1073 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
1075 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
1077 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
1079 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
1081 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
1083 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
1085 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
1088 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
1090 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
1092 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
1094 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
1096 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
1097 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
1100 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
1102 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
1104 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
1106 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
1108 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
1110 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
1112 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
1113 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
1115 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
1117 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
1119 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
1120 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
1122 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
1124 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
1126 * Updated translations from
1127 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
1129 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
1131 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
1133 * Updated translations from
1134 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
1136 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
1138 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
1140 * Updated translations from
1141 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
1143 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
1145 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
1147 * Updated translations from
1148 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
1150 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
1152 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
1154 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
1156 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
1158 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
1160 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
1162 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
1163 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
1165 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
1167 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
1169 * Suppress error output from eject
1170 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
1171 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
1173 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
1175 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
1177 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
1179 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
1181 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
1183 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
1184 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
1186 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
1188 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
1190 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
1191 provided by base-installer).
1193 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
1195 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
1197 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
1198 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
1200 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
1202 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
1204 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
1206 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
1208 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
1210 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
1211 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
1212 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
1214 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
1216 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
1218 * Fix 20xconfig harder
1220 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
1222 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
1224 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
1226 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
1228 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
1230 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
1231 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
1233 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
1235 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
1237 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
1238 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
1239 their password is irrelevant.
1241 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
1243 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
1245 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
1246 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
1248 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
1250 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
1252 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
1253 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
1254 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
1255 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
1256 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
1257 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
1259 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
1261 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
1263 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
1264 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
1266 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
1268 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
1270 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
1271 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
1272 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
1273 already a (different) debian/compat.
1275 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
1277 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
1279 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
1281 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
1283 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
1285 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
1287 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
1289 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
1291 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
1293 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
1295 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
1297 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
1298 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
1299 mounted using devfs names
1300 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
1301 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
1302 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
1305 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
1307 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
1309 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
1311 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
1313 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
1315 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
1316 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
1319 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
1321 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
1323 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
1324 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
1325 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
1326 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
1329 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
1331 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
1333 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
1334 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
1336 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
1337 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
1339 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
1341 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
1343 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
1345 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
1347 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
1349 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
1350 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
1351 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
1352 create progress bar text for them
1353 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
1355 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
1357 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
1359 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
1361 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
1363 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
1365 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
1368 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
1370 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
1372 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
1375 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
1377 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
1379 * Suppress network configuration questions
1381 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
1382 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
1383 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
1385 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
1386 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
1389 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
1391 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
1393 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
1394 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
1395 session based on whether the system is a laptop
1396 - Corresponding progress template
1397 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
1398 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
1399 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
1402 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
1404 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
1406 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
1408 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
1410 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
1412 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
1413 what is and is not a kernel thread
1415 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
1417 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
1419 * Add a backtitle properly
1421 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
1423 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
1427 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
1429 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
1431 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
1433 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
1435 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
1437 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
1438 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
1441 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
1443 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
1445 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
1448 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
1450 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
1453 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
1455 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
1457 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
1459 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
1461 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
1463 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
1465 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
1466 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
1467 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
1468 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
1469 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
1470 questions from being asked
1472 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
1474 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
1476 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
1477 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
1479 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
1481 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
1483 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
1486 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
1488 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
1490 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
1492 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
1494 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
1496 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
1498 * Remove some unused templates
1500 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
1502 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
1504 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
1505 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
1506 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
1509 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
1511 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
1513 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
1514 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
1516 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
1517 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
1519 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
1521 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
1523 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
1524 during reboot or shutdown
1526 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
1528 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
1530 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
1532 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
1534 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
1536 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
1537 readable menu item text
1538 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
1540 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
1542 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
1543 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
1545 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
1547 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
1549 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
1551 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
1553 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
1555 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
1557 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
1559 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
1561 * Attempt to configure X
1562 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
1563 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
1564 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
1565 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
1566 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
1567 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
1568 elsewhere, but for now...)
1570 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
1572 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
1574 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
1576 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
1578 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
1580 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
1581 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
1582 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
1583 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
1585 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
1587 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
1589 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
1590 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
1591 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
1592 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
1593 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
1594 * Add a progress bar
1595 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
1597 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
1599 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
1603 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800