1 casper (1.194) karmic; urgency=low
3 * Fix 47unr_ubiquity shell code to make slightly more sense.
4 * Tell mkinitramfs that casper needs usplash (LP: #434980).
6 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:29:21 +0100
8 casper (1.193) karmic; urgency=low
10 * Sync LSB headers in init script with desired behaviour: don't start
11 casper at boot, and stop after umountroot but before halt/reboot.
13 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:08:23 +0100
15 casper (1.192) karmic; urgency=low
18 * Upgrade to debhelper v7.
21 * Add 37kubuntu_netbook_installer_link to show ubiquity launcher
23 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Sep 2009 00:10:03 +0100
25 casper (1.191) karmic; urgency=low
27 * Slightly re-work 47unr_ubiquity, so that ubiquity doesn't keep getting
28 added to the favourites if persistence is used.·
30 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:35:00 +1000
32 casper (1.190) karmic; urgency=low
35 * Don't produce an invalid sed program when trying to remove an applet
36 which isn't in the panel (LP: #406188).
39 * do not remount filesystems that already have been probed when
40 searching for the livefs (LP: #424464)
41 * Fix quoting in try_snap (LP: #424742).
42 * Silence error messages for non-existent device nodes (LP: #425159).
44 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:10:53 +0100
46 casper (1.189) karmic; urgency=low
48 * In 10adduser fix path to ubiquity-kde.desktop file
50 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:54:41 +0100
52 casper (1.188) karmic; urgency=low
54 * Allow for platform-orion-ehci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device"
55 i.e. one which can host a livefs. This is the name of the USB device
56 driver on Marvell Dove boards.
58 -- Loïc Minier <loic.minier@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:16:21 +0200
60 casper (1.187) karmic; urgency=low
62 * Stop recommending unionfs-fuse, as we're using aufs again in Karmic.
64 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 12:07:14 +0100
66 casper (1.186) karmic; urgency=low
69 * Allow for platform-mxsdhci in ID_PATH to qualify as a "nice_device" i.e.
70 one which can host a livefs. This is the new name of this device in
71 2.6.31 kernels on Babbage i.MX51.
74 * Rename 47unr-ubiquity as 47unr_ubiquity, as scripts with dashes don't
75 get installed into the initramfs. (LP: #411616)
77 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:39:34 +1000
79 casper (1.185) karmic; urgency=low
81 * Actually set 47unr-ubiquity as executable.·
83 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:41:35 +1000
85 casper (1.184) karmic; urgency=low
88 * Apply the Ubuntu release version to the installer menu entries as well
92 * Fix disabling of apt-check (LP: #406191).
95 * Remove the UNR ubiquity .desktop hack in 10adduser.
96 * Set ubiquity as a UNR Favourite in 47unr-ubiquity.
98 -- Steve Kowalik <stevenk@ubuntu.com> Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:11:58 +0100
100 casper (1.183) karmic; urgency=low
102 * Remove erroneous /root prefix on the ubiquity desktop files in
105 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:02:34 +0100
107 casper (1.182) karmic; urgency=low
110 * Busybox sed does not preserve ownership, so chown after using it.
113 * Set AutomaticLogin=$USERNAME, not =ubuntu (thanks, arky; LP: #401321).
115 [ Mario Limonciello ]
116 * Add support for lzma type archives to casper-new-uuid.
118 -- Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com> Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:36:55 -0500
120 casper (1.181) karmic; urgency=low
122 * Insert a version number in the name field for ubiquity's desktop file
125 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:11:40 +0100
127 casper (1.180) karmic; urgency=low
130 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Minor consistency fixes.
133 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update for new gdm custom configuration
134 file (/etc/gdm/custom.conf). (LP: #395861)
136 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:40:00 +0200
138 casper (1.179) karmic; urgency=low
141 * If LIVE_MEDIA_PATH is set on the command line, record it in
142 /etc/casper.conf for the benefit of ubiquity.
145 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Update to work with new gdm.
147 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:51:57 +0200
149 casper (1.178) karmic; urgency=low
151 * Ensure that unionfs-fuse isn't killed by /etc/init.d/sendsigs on
152 shutdown (LP: #386010).
153 * Patches from "phl" (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-leledy), adjusted by
154 me, to fix snapshot resync:
155 - Avoid using cpio -u -d options if klibc cpio is in use (LP: #384059).
156 - Copy /etc/casper.conf into /root, otherwise we forget snapshot resync
157 settings (LP: #384061).
158 - Adjust the first field of *SNAP entries in casper.conf to be relative
159 to /cow, not /root (LP: #384066).
160 - Prefix $DEST with $MOUNTP in casper-snapshot (LP: #384068).
161 - /etc/init.d/casper is usually called with 'start', so handle that as
162 well as 'stop' to do snapshot resyncing and CD ejecting (LP: #384076).
163 * Fix casper-snapshot(1) syntax to avoid missing spaces between options
165 * Fix showmounts when used in conjunction with unionfs-fuse; read-only
166 filesystems need to be bind-mounted rather than move-mounted.
168 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:24:28 +0100
170 casper (1.177) karmic; urgency=low
172 * Port from Debian (thanks, Daniel Baumann):
173 - Added live-media-path as suggested by Jordi Pujol.
174 - Tail casper.log and show its messages during boot (thanks, Michal
175 Suchanek; LP: #363886).
177 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:10:59 +0100
179 casper (1.176) karmic; urgency=low
182 * Fix symlinking of anacron to /bin/true.
185 * Drop scripts/casper-bottom/38jockey_disable_check: Some drivers, like wl
186 or printer drivers, do need to be advertised in a live system. Jockey has
187 been fixed to not advertise video drivers automatically if the packages
188 aren't available (such as in the live system), and even if we should ever
189 put them back, it is easier to disable the notifications in jockey's
190 handlers instead of here. (LP: #381687)
192 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:05 +0200
194 casper (1.175) karmic; urgency=low
196 * Suppress error message if
197 /root/usr/share/applications/firefox-fav.desktop doesn't exist.
198 * Add unionfs-fuse support.
199 * Automatically fall back to unionfs-fuse if the default union filesystem
200 is not available but unionfs-fuse is.
202 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 24 May 2009 12:28:00 +0100
204 casper (1.174) karmic; urgency=low
206 * debian/control: Increase dependency on initramfs-tools to get the version
207 that uses blkid, depend on util-linux as well
208 * hooks/casper: No need to copy vol_id into the initramfs image.·
209 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Use blkid -o udev -p instead of vol_id,
210 there's probably a much cleaner way to check for RAID like this, but
211 this is the direct equivalent.
212 * scripts/casper-helpers (get_fstype): use a blkid call to get the type·
213 * scripts/casper-helpers (find_cow_device): use a blkid call to get the
216 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 12 May 2009 13:29:41 +0100
218 casper (1.173) jaunty; urgency=low
220 * Don't use head -n1 in where_is_mounted, we don't have head in the
221 initramfs. LP: #363038.
223 -- Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@ubuntu.com> Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:22:06 -0700
225 casper (1.172) jaunty; urgency=low
227 * 43disable_updateinitramfs: The /cdrom mount has been moved to
228 /root/cdrom by the time this script runs, so check that instead.
230 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:30:29 +0100
232 casper (1.171) jaunty; urgency=low
234 * Set MP_QUIET to -q instead of -Q on Ubuntu as well, and not just for
235 Debian as the modprobe in the latest upstream release of module-init-tools
236 doesn't accept -Q anymore.
238 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:31:40 +0200
240 casper (1.170) jaunty; urgency=low
242 * is_nice_device(): allow devices with an ID_PATH of platform-mmc* as well
243 as used for instance for SD cards on the ARM iMX51 Babbage board;
246 -- Loic Minier <lool@dooz.org> Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:34:01 +0200
248 casper (1.169) jaunty; urgency=low
250 * [ -w /cdrom ] turns out not to be a sufficient test for files under
251 /cdrom being writable; with busybox, it always returns true even for
252 read-only filesystems. Explicitly check for the read-only flag in mount
253 output to work around this.
254 * Fix where_is_mounted helper function to actually produce output (thanks,
255 Steve Dodd; LP: #346941).
256 * Add a comment to find_cow_device explaining why the choice of
257 filesystems is restricted (I asked for this comment in LP #230703 but it
258 apparently never got written).
260 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Apr 2009 01:47:05 +0100
262 casper (1.168) jaunty; urgency=low
264 * Fix writing of "$@" to diverted update-initramfs script (here-documents
265 perform parameter expansion unless the delimiter is quoted).
266 * Don't bring up a temporary network interface while fetching the preseed
267 file when netbooting, as that will disconnect our root filesystem
270 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:39:29 +0100
272 casper (1.167) jaunty; urgency=low
274 * Disable kwallet from KDE 4 in 34disable_kde_services
276 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:40:35 +0000
278 casper (1.166) jaunty; urgency=low
281 * Show the ubiquity icon in kourou (LP: #338730)
284 * Move examples.desktop to Desktop/ if it exists, as an alternative to
285 Examples (LP: #45489).
288 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
289 - Make the special case disabling of pulseaudio per user, and not system
291 - Also disable PulseAudio for the Braille profile.
292 - Fix incorrect paths when chowning files.
293 - Don't use /root for the ubiquity hook accessibility script, /target is
294 where the installed system is located.
295 - Remove laptop detect code. Its not currently working, and getting it to
296 work requires invasive changes.
297 - Only set pulseaudio settings and create the .orca directory if sed
298 packages are installed on the live filesystem and installed system.
299 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Copy orca settings to the installed system.
301 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:38:20 +1100
303 casper (1.165) jaunty; urgency=low
305 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
306 - When the blindness accessibility profile is chosen, create the .orca
307 directory in the live user's home directory. This seems to allow orca
308 to properly reload and use settings in the live session without needing
309 to be restarted. This is only needed for the blindness profile, due to
310 the other profiles that use orca already creating the .orca directory.
313 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Mar 2009 08:37:20 +1100
315 casper (1.164) jaunty; urgency=low
317 * Update 34disable_kde_services to not start
318 update-notifier-kde or plasma's contact plugin which uses akonadi
320 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:52 +0000
322 casper (1.163) jaunty; urgency=low
324 * 34disable_kwallet moved to 34disable_kde_services and disables
325 various services not needed by live CDs
327 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:33:13 +0000
329 casper (1.162) jaunty; urgency=low
331 * If /cdrom is writable, call the diverted update-initramfs and copy
332 the resulting kernel and initrd to /cdrom/casper (LP: #292159).
334 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:36:30 +0000
336 casper (1.161) jaunty; urgency=low
339 * Regenerate SSL certificate at boot so that it isn't the same for all
340 live CD users (LP: #337723).
342 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:39:21 +0000
344 casper (1.160) jaunty; urgency=low
346 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
347 - Adjust sudoers file to allow ORBIT_SOCKET_DIR, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE and
348 GTK_MODULES environment variables through to root, for v2, v3, and
349 braille profiles. This allows users to use administrative GTK/GNOME
350 applications executed by gksudo with accessibility tools like orca.
352 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +1100
354 casper (1.159) jaunty; urgency=low
356 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
357 - Disable pulseaudio for the blindness profile, as pulseaudio and espeak
358 and portaudio v19 do not play very well with each other, lots of
359 crackling, cut of speech. At least espeak via ALSA natively is usable,
360 and latency is relatively low.
362 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:03:06 +1100
364 casper (1.158) jaunty; urgency=low
366 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
367 - use laptop_detect function in blindness profile as well
369 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:07:17 +1100
371 casper (1.157) jaunty; urgency=low
374 * 10adduser: add Category=Favorites support for netbook-launcher
378 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility && ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
379 - Remove the fast user switch applet from the top panel, to re-enable
380 the logout/shutdown menu options in the system menu. This is done for
381 the speech and braille accessibility profiles. Requiring several
382 keyboard shortcuts to access something that is not entirely accessible
383 yet only makes things difficult for blind/vision impaired users, and is
384 likely to cause much confusion if sed menu entries are not present.
386 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:49:21 +1100
388 casper (1.156) jaunty; urgency=low
390 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
391 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
392 - If using a laptop, enable the laptop keyboard layout
393 - There is no longer a need to set gconf values as root in only-ubiquity
396 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:59:52 +0100
398 casper (1.155) jaunty; urgency=low
401 * Add myself to debian/copyright as an author, as I've done fairly
402 significant work on this.
403 * Eliminate casper-md5check's libm linkage; patch from "SurJector" who
404 points out that the automatic conversion is sufficient (LP: #293613).
405 * Restore showmounts/show-cow option (thanks, Carlo de Wolf and "probono";
406 LP: #159006, #290330).
409 * Add support for ext4.
411 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:14:00 +0000
413 casper (1.154) jaunty; urgency=low
416 * scripts/casper-bottom/02timezone:
417 - Remove as it's no longer needed and resets the timezone when
418 persistence is enabled (LP: #296855).
421 * Preseed console-setup/optionscode and console-setup/codesetcode to the
422 empty string on boot to avoid debris from the live filesystem build
423 process getting in the way of installation (LP: #94177).
425 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:44:45 +0000
427 casper (1.153) jaunty; urgency=low
429 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser:
430 - Create links for Mythbuntu items on the Desktop too.
431 - Don't show removable drives on Mythbuntu desktop
432 * scripts/casper-bottom/46disable_services:
433 - New script for disabling services unnecessary to Live
434 mode that should still start after being installed.
436 -- Mario Limonciello <superm1@ubuntu.com> Tue, 04 Nov 2008 01:25:59 -0600
438 casper (1.152) intrepid; urgency=low
440 * Use kde4rc now for accessibility profiles
442 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:44:54 +0100
444 casper (1.151) intrepid; urgency=low
446 * Force ubiquity to --automatic mode for ubuntu-mid
448 -- Emmet Hikory <persia@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:31:16 +0100
450 casper (1.150) intrepid; urgency=low
452 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser (really)
454 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:16:54 +0100
456 casper (1.149) intrepid; urgency=low
458 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
459 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
460 - Revert to using gconf keys for starting orca, as this is now what
461 orca does when the user chooses to automatically start orca from Orca's
463 - Explicitly set orca as the program to start up for magnification,
466 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:33:02 +1100
468 casper (1.148) intrepid; urgency=low
470 * Skip remounting read-only in try_mount as it's unnecessary and
471 breaks persistence. Thanks James Westby (LP: #274076).
473 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:09:57 -0400
475 casper (1.147) intrepid; urgency=low
477 * Fix path to Kubuntu help file in 10adduser
479 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:49:29 +0100
481 casper (1.146) intrepid; urgency=low
483 * Update About Kubuntu link in 10adduser for KDE 4
485 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:15 +0100
487 casper (1.145) intrepid; urgency=low
489 * 38disable_restricted_manager: Remove some obsolete l-r-m and
490 restricted-manager code, and rename the script to 38jockey_disable_check
491 to better reflect its purpose.
493 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:21:40 +0200
495 casper (1.144) intrepid; urgency=low
497 * Bump media detection timeout to a minute; thanks to Tormod Volden and
498 Steve Beattie for analysis (LP: #258432).
499 * Note that this changes (fixes?) the semantics of LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT due
500 to not using hex values in a for loop which aren't understood by test
501 -lt (thanks, Steve Beattie).
503 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:35:13 +0100
505 casper (1.143) intrepid; urgency=low
507 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
508 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change the way that orca is set to
509 automatically start. Orca can be started via a gconf key, however this
510 is not reflected in the orca UI, and doesn't easily allow the user to
511 prevent orca from autostarting on an installed system.
513 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:37:35 +1000
515 casper (1.142) intrepid; urgency=low
517 * Fix syntax error introduced by is_nice_device regex fix.
519 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:30:59 +0100
521 casper (1.141) intrepid; urgency=low
524 * Handle spaces in file names in md5sum.txt (LP: #251112).
527 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax in
528 preseed script; previously we only supported it in the keyboard script,
529 which confusingly doesn't deal with propagating console-setup/* preseeds
530 to the target filesystem (LP: #253749).
531 * Update to localechooser's new languagelist format.
534 * scripts/casper: don't scan floppy drives for livefs images (LP: #97306)
535 * scripts/casper: fix broken RE in is_nice_device() (LP: #250328)
536 * scripts/casper: properly use argument $1 in matches_uuid()
538 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:05 +0100
540 casper (1.140) intrepid; urgency=low
543 * Disable jockey as well as the old restricted-manager. While jockey does
544 do more than restricted-manager did, it also still uses a good chunk of
545 memory for a use case that's fairly limited on the live CD.
548 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
549 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
550 - Check that usr/bin/orca exists and is executable before creating user
553 -- Luke Yelavich <themuso@ubuntu.com> Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:23:41 +1000
555 casper (1.139) intrepid; urgency=low
557 * add compcache conf.d configuration for initramfs-tools
559 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:25:54 +0200
561 casper (1.138) intrepid; urgency=low
564 * use full path for vol_id in swap-on-raid detection (LP: #136804)
567 * 33enable_apport_crashes: Change the apport default file, not the
568 update-notifier gconf keys, to undo the corresponding change for disabling
569 apport right before the release.
570 * Add 45disable_guest_account: Purge the gdm-guest-session package from the
571 live system, since having guest sessions in a live session does not make
572 much sense. (See gdm-guest-login spec)
574 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:19:07 +0200
576 casper (1.137) intrepid; urgency=low
578 * Update scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin for KDM from KDE 4.
579 * Update 32disable_hibernation for KDE 4.
581 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:41:38 +0100
583 casper (1.136) intrepid; urgency=low
585 * Remove bad-and-wrong setting of PATH to include directories under /root;
586 now that grep links to more libraries than before, this broke a number
587 of things. Requires initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu5) because this
588 doesn't work with klibc chroot.
590 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0100
592 casper (1.135) intrepid; urgency=low
595 * Fix use of PREREQ instead of PREREQS in hooks/casper.
598 * Fix mount argument ordering for klibc mount.
600 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:34:26 +0100
602 casper (1.134) intrepid; urgency=low
605 * Do not use mode= when mounting /cow using persistent mode (LP: #219192).
608 * Support ?= (set value but don't mark as seen) preseeding syntax for
609 console-setup/* (LP: #64058).
611 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 23:52:41 +0100
613 casper (1.133) intrepid; urgency=low
616 * Do not use swap on RAID raw devices (LP: #136804)
619 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
621 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
622 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
623 corruption (LP: #230703).
625 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:34:58 -0400
627 casper (1.132ubuntu0.2) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
629 * Test if livemedia is a directory before trying to mount it as a
631 * Reverted changes to casper-helpers as requested by Mithrandir since
632 replaying the journal on a hibernated system would lead to file system
633 corruption (LP: #230703).
635 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:27:12 +0100
637 casper (1.132ubuntu0.1) hardy-proposed; urgency=low
639 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
640 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
643 -- Agostino Russo <agostino.russo@gmail.com> Thu, 15 May 2008 22:10:50 +0100
645 casper (1.132) intrepid; urgency=low
648 * Switch default unionfs implementation to aufs.
651 * Do not scan only vfat volumes when looking for cow devices (LP: #230703)
652 * Allow casper to use a squashfs filesystem within an arbitrary path (LP:
655 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 28 May 2008 15:01:30 -0400
657 casper (1.131) hardy; urgency=low
660 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility: Set gconf and orca config values as
661 root in automatic-ubiquity, only-ubiquity, and debug-ubiquity modes.
662 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Remove unneeded gconf call to disable esd.
665 * Ensure that the live CD user's Desktop directory is owned by them, not
666 by root (LP: #218576).
667 * Duplicate a chunk of console-setup logic into the keyboard script so
668 that we can deal with non-Latin keymaps and the like without having to
669 have gfxboot-theme-ubuntu help us; the previous approach broke other
670 uses of console-setup, and thus the alternate install CD (LP: #218754).
671 This should later be replaced by just running console-setup, and I'll
672 open another bug for this.
674 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:52:05 +0100
676 casper (1.130) hardy; urgency=low
678 * Handle use of debian-installer/language for locale selection
681 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:30:10 +0100
683 casper (1.129) hardy; urgency=low
685 * Add COPYING file with GPL text (LP: #211923).
686 * Add casper-new-uuid script to simplify UUID regeneration process,
687 contributed by Mario Limonciello of Dell (LP: #209847).
688 * Update casper-snapshot for genext2fs --reserved-blocks =>
689 --reserved-percentage option change (LP: #202048). Add a Breaks as the
690 most lightweight available method of documenting that we need genext2fs
693 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:45:47 +0100
695 casper (1.128) hardy; urgency=low
698 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
699 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
700 - Update gconf keys to ensure onboard actually gets loaded.
701 - Change ownership of created orca settings files to the user.
702 - Add extra bits to make orca settings actually work.
705 * Add mode=755 to the tmpfs mount that becomes / in the unionfs mount
706 so that / in the live filesystem does not end up with 777 permissions
710 * Make scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager executable
712 * Depend on uuid-runtime for uuidgen.
714 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:11:55 +0100
716 casper (1.127) hardy; urgency=low
718 * Leave spawning the noninteractive ubiquity frontend to its initscript.
720 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:52:32 -0400
722 casper (1.126) hardy; urgency=low
724 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: Test for konqueror not kdesktop,
725 stops putting a broken icon on the Kubuntu KDE 4 desktop
727 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:42:31 +0000
729 casper (1.125) hardy; urgency=low
732 * Stop quoting Exec arguments in .desktop files. Apparently this used to
733 work but now the system conforms more strictly to the desktop entry
734 specification (LP: #204185).
737 * scripts/casper-bottom/15autologin: Enable auto-login for KDM-KDE4
739 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:20:17 +0000
741 casper (1.124) hardy; urgency=low
744 * Name generated snapshot images according to their type (LP: #202699).
747 * scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Remove erroneous blank line at
748 the start of PolicyKit.conf, since this is invalid XML. This broke
749 PolicyKit completely on the live system.
751 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:20:08 +0100
753 casper (1.123) hardy; urgency=low
755 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/44pk_allow_ubuntu: Allow PolicyKit privileges
756 without password to the default live session user. This avoids the need to
757 press Enter at the password prompt, which is quite confusing. Thanks to
758 MarioDebian! (LP: #201852)
760 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 17:26:37 +0100
762 casper (1.122) hardy; urgency=low
764 * Fix paths in About Kubuntu links
766 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:12:38 +0000
768 casper (1.121) hardy; urgency=low
770 * Use a link for About Kubuntu docs in Kubuntu-KDE4
772 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:57:50 +0000
774 casper (1.120) hardy; urgency=low
776 * Use dhclient directly instead of ifupdown for the url= kernel cmdline
777 argument so that we don't have to worry about the interfaces file
778 propagating to the installed system.
780 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:08:08 -0400
782 casper (1.119) hardy; urgency=low
785 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
786 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
787 - Disable compiz for screen reader and braille terminal accessibility
788 profiles. It is currently not possible to get feedback about open
789 windows when cycling through them using ALT + Tab with Compiz.
790 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Add braille terminal profile.
793 * Always set language in both /etc/default/locale and /etc/environment
794 (thanks, Sebastien Bacher).
796 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:21:42 +0000
798 casper (1.118) hardy; urgency=low
800 [ Julian Andres Klode, Colin Watson ]
801 * Use aufs instead of unionfs if union=aufs is given (LP: #187259).
803 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:00:36 +0000
805 casper (1.117) hardy; urgency=low
807 * Disable speech for magnifier and braille profiles again. Thanks
809 * esd is enabled by default, so the comment in 30accessibility is no
812 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:22 -0500
814 casper (1.116) hardy; urgency=low
816 * Fix setting orca options in 30accessibility.
817 * Remove gdm and kdm from init when using automatic-ubiquity and
818 only-ubiquity. The ubiquity initscript will take care of spawning
821 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:19:39 -0500
823 casper (1.115) hardy; urgency=low
825 * Add the user to the groups specified by user-setup-udeb.
827 -- Evan Dandrea <evand@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:08:33 +0000
829 casper (1.114) hardy; urgency=low
832 * casper-md5check: Close md5_file before exiting.
833 * Disable tracker-applet as well as trackerd, otherwise the former starts
835 * casper-snapshot: Fix argument parsing (thanks, Tormod Volden;
838 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:25:21 +0000
840 casper (1.113) hardy; urgency=low
843 * dpkg-divert away update-initramfs as it's useless on live CDs and
844 annoying when people install LVM and similar tools in order to rescue
845 a system. LP: #150188
848 * Adjust /etc/sudoers editing code so that it doesn't repeatedly add
849 "NOPASSWD:" in persistent mode (LP: #175159).
850 * Avoid ejecting the CD if booting from an ISO image rather than from a
851 physical CD (thanks, Agostino Russo; LP: #176014).
853 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:17:50 +0000
855 casper (1.112) hardy; urgency=low
857 * hooks/casper: no need to copy udevinfo into the initramfs, it's already
859 * scripts/casper: call udevadm with trigger and settle arguments
860 * scripts/casper-bottom/23networking: call udevadm with trigger and
862 * scripts/casper-helpers: call udevadm with info and settle arguments
864 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:00:29 +0000
866 casper (1.111) hardy; urgency=low
868 * Remove code to set the progress bar to throbbing, this now comes as
869 standard so we don't need to duplicate it or override things that
870 attempted to set progress. LP: #162397.
872 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:49:31 +0000
874 casper (1.110) gutsy; urgency=low
876 * Don't generate fglrx or the nvidia modules in the live session at boot;
877 we disable restricted-manager in the live session anyway so they aren't
878 straightforward to use (see #43706). Saves about 19 MB of memory.
880 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:28:29 +0100
882 casper (1.109) gutsy; urgency=low
884 * Cache the stty binary before ejecting the CD.
885 * Skip the CD eject prompt if 'noprompt' is on the kernel command line
887 * Try each of (e.g.) 2.6.22-13-generic, 2.6.22-13, and 2.6.22 in turn as
888 directory names for driver updates (LP: #122430).
890 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:24:43 +0100
892 casper (1.108) gutsy; urgency=low
894 * If CASPER_GENERATE_UUID is set, generate a random UUID in the initramfs,
895 and check it against the discovered medium (unless booting with the
896 ignore_uuid parameter). This allows live CD images to be safely copied
897 to the hard disk without causing problems when booting future live CDs
900 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:23:37 +0100
902 casper (1.107) gutsy; urgency=low
904 * Fix gconf keys for suspend and hibernate (thanks, Oliver Grawert;
906 * Enable suspend again since as far as I can see we no longer need to
907 probe DMI while figuring out whether to enable it (see #61535).
908 * Add a 'textonly' boot option to disable X (LP: #65818).
909 * Write the please-remove-CD message to /dev/console so that it works even
910 if usplash isn't running, and make sure to set /dev/console into a sane
911 state so that pressing Enter doesn't just result in ^M being displayed.
913 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:12:57 +0100
915 casper (1.106) gutsy; urgency=low
917 * Support preseed/early_command; code supplied here will be run using 'sh
918 -c' from casper-bottom, and can chroot to /root if needed (LP: #144845).
919 * Make sure we don't accidentally continue to boot if casper-md5check
921 * Clear out debconf database backup files after preseeding to save memory
923 * Mount everything as noatime to avoid unnecessary metadata writes.
925 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:27:52 +0100
927 casper (1.105) gutsy; urgency=low
929 * scripts/casper-bottom/36disable_trackerd: Disable trackerd in the live
930 session; it's not very useful in this context and it uses a fair bit of
933 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:25:50 +0100
935 casper (1.104) gutsy; urgency=low
937 * casper-md5check: Fall back to text output if opening the usplash FIFO
940 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:07:45 +0100
942 casper (1.103) gutsy; urgency=low
944 * Disable anacron harder so that it doesn't get started by battery events.
945 * Don't write out DHCP network interface stanzas if network-manager is
946 installed (LP: #139403).
948 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:52:21 +0100
950 casper (1.102) gutsy; urgency=low
952 * Rename 42disable_cups_apparmor to 42disable_apparmor and remove AppArmor's
953 rc.d startup links instead of just disabling the cups profile. AA profiles
954 will not generally work on the live system, so disabling it completely
955 allows us to ship more profiles without worrying any further.
958 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 08:37:50 +0200
960 casper (1.101) gutsy; urgency=low
962 * Add scripts/casper-bottom/42disable_cups_apparmor: Disable AppArmor
963 protection for cups on the live CD by switching the profiles to complain
964 mode. This is necessary until AppArmor works properly on stacked file
965 systems. (LP: #131976)
967 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:44:02 +0200
969 casper (1.100) gutsy; urgency=low
971 * scripts/casper-bottom/41apt_cdrom: Remove unnecessary /root/cdrom
972 mounting/unmounting code, which only serves to generate error messages
973 (scripts/casper-bottom/05mountpoints handles this already).
975 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:47:58 +0100
977 casper (1.99) gutsy; urgency=low
980 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
981 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
982 - Change gconf setting used to automatically start Orca (LP: #131808).
984 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:09:46 +0100
986 casper (1.98) gutsy; urgency=low
988 * Load /preseed.cfg if it exists in the initramfs.
990 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:18:27 +0100
992 casper (1.97) gutsy; urgency=low
994 * Fix paths in scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser and
995 scripts/casper-bottom/38disable_restricted_manager
997 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:26:33 +0100
999 casper (1.96) gutsy; urgency=low
1002 * Fix name and executability of timezone script.
1004 [ Jonathan Riddell ]
1005 * In 10adduser add About Kubuntu document to desktop and remove
1006 restricted-manager autostart files
1008 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:02 +0100
1010 casper (1.95) gutsy; urgency=low
1012 * Fix regex syntax error while looking for non-CD devices for driver
1014 * Fix ip= boot parameter, documented but not properly merged from Debian.
1017 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:03:41 +0100
1019 casper (1.94) gutsy; urgency=low
1022 * Hack around keyboard configuration not being done until after the keymap
1023 is set by having /etc/init.d/usplash reconfigure the console
1025 * Disable pam_lastlog on the console if doing autologin (LP: #126800).
1028 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1029 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1030 - Prevent gksu from grabbing keyboard focus for the v2, v3, and m1
1031 accessibility profiles. (LP: #67172)
1032 * Start Orca when a Braille device is configured from choosing the
1033 Braille option in the Accessibility menu. (Partially fixes Launchpad
1035 * Re-enable desktop sounds for the blindness accessibility profile, as
1036 eSpeak should be able to speak alongside audio playback.
1038 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:24:55 +0100
1040 casper (1.93) gutsy; urgency=low
1042 * revert gdm-cdd.conf handling for autologin to the chrooted code
1043 as we had it in feisty. not chrooting brings up problems with the
1044 alternatives system (dead symlinks) used for gdm-cdd.conf
1046 -- Oliver Grawert <ogra@ubuntu.com> Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0200
1048 casper (1.92) gutsy; urgency=low
1051 * Don't bother chrooting just to run test(1).
1054 * Added support for URL-based preseeding.
1055 * Added 'noninteractive' option that starts ubiquity in noninteractive
1058 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:23:51 +0100
1060 casper (1.91) gutsy; urgency=low
1062 * Fix Maintainer field (ubuntu-devel-discuss, not ubuntu-devel).
1063 * Remember to strip directories from paths when dealing with driver update
1064 .debs (LP: #120217).
1066 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:51:33 +0100
1068 casper (1.90) gutsy; urgency=low
1070 * Added to 22screensaver, to stop the screen automatically locking.
1071 Fixes LP: #13497 for kubuntu as well.
1073 -- Sarah Hobbs <hobbsee@ubuntu.com> Thu, 07 Jun 2007 00:50:42 +1000
1075 casper (1.89) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1077 * Update Maintainer field to reflect reality; this package is no longer
1080 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:56:46 +0200
1082 casper (1.88) gutsy; urgency=low
1084 * Add default values for root_persistence, home_persistence,
1085 root_snapshot_label, and home_snapshot_label, and parse the persistent
1086 command-line option, which went missing in the last merge from Debian.
1087 This goes some way towards LP #84591 but doesn't quite fix it for me
1088 since the USB stick inexplicably doesn't appear until a little too late.
1089 * Use 'losetup -f' instead of walking /sys/block/loop*. Requires
1090 busybox-initramfs 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3.
1091 * Install temporary workaround for /dev/loop* breakage in post-2.6.21
1092 kernels (LP: #118561).
1094 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:26:59 +0100
1096 casper (1.87) feisty; urgency=low
1099 * Improve language at end of MD5 check (LP: #100088).
1102 * Add casper-bottom/33enable_apport_crashes: Enable apport crash
1103 notifications. They are disabled now by default in the installed system
1104 for the final release.
1106 -- Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:31:50 +0200
1108 casper (1.86) feisty; urgency=low
1111 * scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility &
1112 ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility:
1113 - Point to new settings file for gnome-orca, as package was changed
1114 from python-support to pycentral. (LP: #91868)
1116 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Apr 2007 16:42:54 +0100
1118 casper (1.85) feisty; urgency=low
1120 * Stop disabling nvidia and fglrx drivers. LP: #94359
1122 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Apr 2007 13:16:46 +0200
1124 casper (1.84) feisty; urgency=low
1127 * scripts/casper-bottom/13swap: Call /bin/dd not dd so it
1128 correctly detects and uses existing swap partitions (LP: #62868)
1131 * Make sure that we are settled before trying to set up netbooting.
1133 * Bind-mount /dev too, when configuring X, this should make it easier
1134 for X to be correctly configured on a lot of systems.
1135 * Add /root/lib and /root/usr/lib to /etc/ld.so.conf in the initramfs.
1136 * Add any sources on the CD to APT using apt-cdrom.
1137 * Set the time zone to UTC. LP: #13782
1138 * Fix deletion of checkroot script. LP: #66585.
1141 * Fix error message if do_netmount fails (LP: #95134).
1143 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:37:58 +0200
1145 casper (1.83) feisty; urgency=low
1147 * Fix usplash version in Conflicts.
1148 * Add XS-Vcs-Bzr field to debian/control.
1149 * scripts/casper-bottom/25configure_init: Support for "respawn COMMAND"
1150 has been dropped from upstart jobs; cope with /etc/event.d/tty* using
1151 "respawn" plus "exec COMMAND" now instead (LP: #92928).
1153 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:44:22 +0000
1155 casper (1.82) feisty; urgency=low
1158 * Depends on eject package, and copy it into initramfs.
1159 * Add log_wait_msg function to use usplash_write INPUTENTER.
1160 * Conflict with usplash older than the one that fixes INPUTENTER.
1161 * Add driver-updates hooks.
1164 * Fix more leftover /live_media wreckage (LP: #84592).
1165 * Add a ubiquity hook to install driver-updates on the target system.
1167 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:19:48 +0000
1169 casper (1.81+debian-4) unstable; urgency=low
1171 * Added patch from Serkan Sakar <serkan.sakar@gmx.net> to allow local keymap
1172 for use with encryption.
1174 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:04:00 +0200
1176 casper (1.81+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1178 * Added depends to eject.
1179 * Removed recommends to live-package.
1181 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 21 Mar 2007 00:30:00 +0100
1183 casper (1.81+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1186 * Applied patch from Sebastian Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr> to
1187 add support for filesystem images encrypted with loop-aes.
1190 * Added a "quickreboot" boot parameter, that prevent casper to eject the
1191 media, useful for remote rebooting of a casper system, thanks to
1192 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> for the patch.
1194 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Feb 2007 17:26:58 +0100
1196 casper (1.81+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1198 * New upstream release.
1199 * Some cleaning and renaming involved because most of the debian-only code
1200 was merged in ubuntu sources, then back here.
1201 * Extended manpage, thanks to Alex Owen <r.alex.owen@gmail.com> and
1202 Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> (Closes: #409980).
1203 * Included a slightly reworked and bug fixed version of "Allow specific
1204 ordering of images" by Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com> with a new boot
1205 parameter: module=NAME.
1207 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:21:01 +0100
1209 casper (1.81) feisty; urgency=low
1211 * Merge in Debian's changes.
1213 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:39:30 +0100
1215 casper (1.80) feisty; urgency=low
1217 * scripts/casper-bottom/31disable_update_notifier: Allow update-notifier
1218 to run for crash report handling, but disable its apt-check hook.
1220 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:11:06 +0000
1222 casper (1.79+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1224 * Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1225 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1227 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 4 Feb 2007 20:12:08 +0100
1229 casper (1.79+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1231 * It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1232 * Fixed LIVEMEDIA_TIMEOUT values (Closes: #409300).
1233 Thanks for both to Jonathan Hall <flimzy@flimzy.com>.
1235 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sat, 3 Feb 2007 18:29:20 +0100
1237 casper (1.79+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1239 * New Upstream release.
1240 * Reverted: "Mount the first squashfs as /rofs."
1242 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:12:34 +0100
1244 casper (1.79) feisty; urgency=low
1247 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility: Change /root to /target in
1248 kderc_addtoprefixes (thanks, Jani Monoses).
1249 * Call udevsettle after udevtrigger (thanks, Matthias Urlichs; LP:
1251 * Send casper-reconfigure error messages to stderr rather than stdout to
1252 avoid interfering with debconf.
1255 * ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility, scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1256 Fix v2 option to start orca in magnifier not speech mode.
1257 Add v1, v2, v3, m1 and m2 Xubuntu options
1260 * Apply patch from Luka Renko to support kde-guidance-powermanager and
1261 ksmserver instead of klaptoprc as the latter is no longer used.
1263 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:37:30 +0100
1265 casper (1.78) edgy; urgency=low
1267 * Mount the first squashfs as /rofs. Breaks showmounts and won't work
1268 properly with stacked filesystems, but works around a kernel oops with
1269 multiply-mounted squashfses for Edgy.
1271 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:46:05 +0100
1273 casper (1.77+debian-7) testing; urgency=medium
1275 * Backported two 1 line fixes (both serious bugs) from casper-1.79+debian-1
1276 and casper-1.79+debian-3:
1277 - It now depends also on "file" (Closes: #409308).
1278 - Fix DEFCONSOLE for autoserial console, thanks to
1279 "Alex Owen" <r.alex.owen@gmail.com>.
1281 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:19:46 +0100
1283 casper (1.77+debian-6) unstable; urgency=medium
1285 * Improved snapshots features (even still experimental).
1286 * Added "live-media-offset=BYTES" boot param, to enable "hiding"
1287 feature, thanks to Sebastien Raveau <sebastien.raveau@epita.fr>.
1288 * Now it creates /etc/resolv.conf if netbooted.
1290 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:43:30 +0100
1292 casper (1.77+debian-5) unstable; urgency=low
1294 * Fixed preseeding locale and keyboard's variant and options.
1295 * Reorganized scans of /proc/cmdline.
1296 * Improved manpages, thanks to Oliver Osburg for syntax corrections.
1297 * Added "nopersistent" boot option to disable the "persistent" boot param.
1298 * Added "xdebconf" boot option, that uses xdebconfigurator on the
1299 rootfs to configure X (experimental).
1301 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 20 Nov 2006 22:12:18 +0100
1303 casper (1.77+debian-4) unstable; urgency=medium
1305 * Removed -phigh from casper-reconfigure, not needed anymore.
1306 * Fixed netboot /etc/network/interfaces generation, thanks to Hadar
1308 * Fixed X keyboard setup. Thanks to <ascii_77@yahoo.fr> for the idea.
1309 * Fixed keyboard setup.
1310 * Allow commandline-device to show up late, thanks to Bas Wijnen
1311 <wijnen@debian.org> for the code and the care (Closes: #397320).
1312 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1315 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 19:00:29 +0100
1317 casper (1.77+debian-3) unstable; urgency=medium
1319 * Fixed "todisk=" parsing.
1320 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1323 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:15:56 +0100
1325 casper (1.77+debian-2) unstable; urgency=medium
1328 * Improved snapshotting (but still experimental).
1329 * Renamed "host=" boot parameter to "hostname=" and shell variable "HOST" to
1330 "HOSTNAME" for consistence, with linux and with username/USERNAME, as
1331 requested by many people.
1332 * Fixed a "keyb=" typo.
1333 * Added dependence on lsb-base (used by init-script and
1335 * Removed DM support (obsolete).
1336 * Changed a bit locale and keyboard handling.
1337 * Fixed locale generation.
1338 * Urgency is set to medium to try reaching Etch with important
1342 * Really lowered usplash conflicts since Debian doesn't has 0.4.
1344 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:06:48 +0100
1346 casper (1.77+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1348 * New upstream release.
1349 * Added snapshot persistence feature (copy on boot, sync on reboot) via
1350 different ways: squashfs, cpio.gz, and block device filesystems.
1351 * Added boot parameter "live-media=<device>" to force trying to boot from
1353 * Added support for "todisk=<device>" to copy the live media to a
1354 device filesystem, subsequent boots could use "live-media=<device>".
1355 * Slightly polished locales and keyboards handling.
1356 * Extendend manpages.
1357 * Readded a missing "sleep 1", reworked how live_media is detected,
1358 thanks to Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> for the reports.
1359 (Closes: #394308, #394554).
1360 * Reworked casper-getty system, thanks to Alex Owen (Closes: #394686).
1361 * Postint now rebuild all initramfs.
1362 * Casper now Recommends also squashfs-tools and genext2fs, maybe
1363 needed by casper-snapshot.
1364 * Lowered usplash requirements, since usplash 0.4 is not in debian
1367 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 22 Oct 2006 20:25:38 +0200
1369 casper (1.77) edgy; urgency=low
1371 * Honour console-setup/modelcode preseeding. Needed for Malone #66719,
1374 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:39 +0100
1376 casper (1.76) edgy; urgency=low
1379 * Copy access=m2 accessibility changes into the corresponding ubiquity
1381 * Remove spurious quoting from accessibility script.
1382 * Clear console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode if they
1383 aren't supplied on the command line.
1386 * scripts/casper-bottom/35fix_language_selector:
1387 - run fontconfig-voodoo if available to make sure that we have
1388 optimal fontconfig settings for the CJK languages (lp: #49334)
1390 [ Henrik Nilsen Omma ]
1391 * Fix a few accessibility items that were out of date, changing
1392 gnopernicus -> orca and gok -> onboard (the gok entry was missing some
1393 brackets as well; patch from Malone #58836, closes: Malone #65861).
1395 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:20:15 +0100
1397 casper (1.75) edgy; urgency=low
1399 * Turn on accessibility in "Motor Difficulties - pointing devices" which
1400 makes onboard start properly. closes: Malone: #65861.
1402 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:12:10 +0200
1404 casper (1.74) edgy; urgency=low
1407 * Sync up ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility with
1408 scripts/casper-bottom/30accessibility fixing spelling errors and
1409 enabling accessibility in KDE.
1412 * Fix check for presence of gconf2 (closes: Malone #58836).
1414 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:18:00 +0100
1416 casper (1.73) edgy; urgency=low
1418 * Never run install-keymap or preseed debian-installer/keymap if
1419 console-setup is detected, even if console-setup wasn't explicitly
1420 preseeded. Contributes to Malone #60067.
1422 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 01:56:20 +0100
1424 casper (1.72) edgy; urgency=low
1426 * Force suspend and hibernate both off, since reconfiguring
1427 gnome-power-manager kills usplash here. Fixes Malone: #61535
1430 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Oct 2006 14:22:23 +0200
1432 casper (1.71+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1434 * New upstream release.
1435 * Added experimental casper-snapshot script and manpage.
1436 * Tagged for debtags project.
1438 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:04:54 +0200
1440 casper (1.71) edgy; urgency=low
1442 * Use TEXT-URGENT in shutdown script to make sure we display the "please
1443 remove disc and press enter" text. Malone: #61533
1444 * Increase usplash timeout since "TIMEOUT 0" no longer means "spin
1446 * Don't move-mount all the squashfs-es into / since that confuses mono
1447 (and some other apps too). Malone: #62756
1448 * Disable kwallet by default. Malone: #47743
1449 * Add -n to language selector to make it not whine about
1450 not-fully-installed langpacks. Malone. #37568
1451 * Override definition of log_end_msg in casper-functions. Make sure all
1452 casper-bottom scripts use this.
1453 * Pulsate bar in casper-top and casper-bottom. Malone: #61535
1455 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:52:06 +0200
1457 casper (1.70) edgy; urgency=low
1459 * Check for new file= alias as well as preseed/file= (closes: Malone
1462 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Oct 2006 08:59:53 +0100
1464 casper (1.69) edgy; urgency=low
1467 * Use grep -E in scripts/casper. Malone: #57620
1468 * Fix syntax error in accessibility script
1471 * Run 'sh -n' over everything in build target to avoid future syntax
1473 * Fix check for /etc/default/console-setup (closes: Malone #62775).
1475 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:58:19 +0100
1477 casper (1.68+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1479 * Really add casper manpage (Closes: #389867).
1480 * Lintian cleanness reached.
1482 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:36:29 +0200
1484 casper (1.68+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1486 * Changed "staticip=" boot param to just "ip=".
1487 * Added a manpage for casper.
1488 * Lintian cleanings.
1490 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:45:21 +0200
1492 casper (1.68+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1494 * New upstream release.
1495 * Added static network configuration support.
1496 * Fixed gnome-screensaver-lock differences between ubuntu.
1497 * username, host, and userfullname are now also settable
1498 via kernel parameters.
1500 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 8 Sep 2006 11:26:02 +0200
1502 casper (1.68) edgy; urgency=low
1504 * Honour console-setup/layoutcode and console-setup/variantcode preseeding
1505 (closes: Malone #61573).
1507 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 16:09:53 +0100
1509 casper (1.67) edgy; urgency=low
1511 * Make sure to write xorg.conf md5sum to the installed system, not the
1512 live system in ubiquity-hooks/20xconfig
1513 * Implement support for setting KDE's accessibility options too, thanks
1514 to Jonathan Riddell for the patch.
1515 * Use usplash's TEXT-URGENT for important messages when doing md5 checks
1516 * Fix flashing of progress bar on 32 bit arches
1518 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Aug 2006 14:34:57 +0200
1520 casper (1.66+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1522 * Added "magic" to make it work seamlessy also on ubuntu systems.
1523 * Default user password now "live".
1525 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 1 Sep 2006 17:18:07 +0200
1527 casper (1.66) edgy; urgency=low
1529 * Fix use of db_get in ubiquity accessibility hook.
1530 * Use sudo instead of su to get to the live session user from the
1531 initramfs or to the newly-installed user from ubiquity. su's argument
1532 handling has changed so that the previous code no longer worked, and su
1533 was never all that good for arguments containing spaces anyway.
1535 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Sep 2006 15:46:55 +0100
1537 casper (1.65+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1539 * New upstream release.
1540 * Re-included ubiquity sources since it is here anyway in diff.gz.
1541 * Included remote getty patch from Alex Owen (enable it with "casper-getty"
1542 as kernel parameter).
1544 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Thu, 17 Aug 2006 14:06:10 +0200
1546 casper (1.65) edgy; urgency=low
1548 * Update to call udevsettle/udevtrigger instead of udevplug
1550 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:37:58 +0200
1552 casper (1.64) edgy; urgency=low
1554 * Fix moving of squashfs mount points so that /proc/mounts in the
1555 installed system refers to them correctly (closes: Malone #55019). As a
1556 bonus, this lets us mount them on subdirectories of /casper/ right from
1558 * Treat locale= as equivalent to debian-installer/locale= (closes: Malone
1560 * Fix ubiquity-hooks/30accessibility not to use log_end_msg, and to chroot
1561 to /target instead of /root (closes: Malone #53277).
1563 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:00:22 +0100
1565 casper (1.63+debian-3) unstable; urgency=low
1567 * Really do not try to eject cd if netbooted.
1568 * Fixed unionfs ro param in case of nfs netboot (Closes: 383346).
1570 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Wed, 16 Aug 2006 20:10:11 +0200
1572 casper (1.63+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1574 * Working netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1575 * Polished kernel parameters parsing a bit.
1577 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:52:14 +0200
1579 casper (1.63+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1582 * New upstream release.
1583 * Fixed upstream changelog.
1584 * Really fixed the user password issue, now really "debian".
1585 * Reincluded casper-md5ckeck in debian/rules and 05mountpoints in
1586 script/casper-bottom.
1587 * Rewrote netboot support now will support all types of rootfs file images
1588 (not only plain dirs) like cd/dvd one.
1589 * Included a fix for USB by Davide Natalini <davide.natalini@studio.unibo.it>
1590 * Included support for plain directory as RO rootfs.
1591 * Removed xfs support (not implemented in make-live, maybe useless).
1594 * Added NFS netboot support (Closes: #380506).
1595 * Fixed /etc/inittab editing (Closes: #380488).
1596 * Do not try to eject cd if netbooted (Closes: #380502).
1599 * Minor debian/rules reordering.
1600 * Changed "Section:" from "admin" to "misc".
1602 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Sun, 30 Jul 2006 19:10:23 +0200
1604 casper (1.63) edgy; urgency=low
1607 * Change "Live CD user" to "live session user" in the adduser script.
1609 * Wait for persistent devices for 30 seconds, not 1500.
1610 * Make sure that readahead-list is installed before chmod -x'ing it.
1611 * Only disable l-r-m and anacron if they are installed.
1612 * Make sure laptop-detect is installed before trying to call it.
1613 * Do not install init script from the initramfs any more. It should
1614 have rc.d links already in the squashfs.
1615 * Minor build system fixes.
1616 * Only copy devmapper relevant files if devmapper is installed.
1617 * Remove ubuntu-specific branding from the default casper.
1618 * Install default configuration file and make it end up in the
1620 * Get rid of CD references and replace with medium or other appropriate
1622 * Add stacked file system support
1625 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1626 * Updated 14locales to latest debian policy.
1629 * USB devices can have ID_PATH with pci-*-usb, too.
1631 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:20:51 +0200
1633 casper (1.61+debian-2) unstable; urgency=low
1635 * Set password for user to 'debian'.
1637 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:56:00 +0200
1639 casper (1.61+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1642 * Rebuild tarball without debian directory.
1643 * Using dpatch for upstream modifications.
1644 * Added patch for proper GDM autologin from Arnaud Cornet
1645 <arnaud.cornet@gmail.com>.
1648 * New upstream release (Resynced with 1.61, bzr 258).
1649 * Usb discover patch from Malcom Gilles <live@ouabain.org>.
1651 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:34:59 +0200
1653 casper (1.61) edgy; urgency=low
1655 * Move PATH setting to top of casper script to avoid silliness where
1656 PATH isn't correctly set.
1658 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:53:59 +0200
1660 casper (1.60) edgy; urgency=low
1662 * Change start symlinks to kill symlinks for anacron, to avoid it being
1663 started by invoke-rc.d and similar.
1664 * Rearrange source package.
1665 * Redo how the init script works and require it to be installed in the
1667 * Bump version number to be higher than Debian's so we don't
1670 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 31 May 2006 00:01:40 +0200
1672 casper (1.59+debian-1) unstable; urgency=low
1675 * Upload to unstable (Closes: #354539).
1678 * Added possibility to set locale on chroot, not only at runtime.
1679 * Removed "persistent" wait.
1680 * Fixed persistence lock and added "homepersistence" boot parameter.
1681 * Updated locales handling to latest debian policy.
1684 -- Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> Thu, 22 Jun 2006 06:21:00 +0200
1686 casper (1.59+debian-0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
1688 * Added "toram" boot parameter.
1689 * Extendend fs support to ext2 and xfs file image.
1690 * Changed debian-inexistant "-Q" modprobe option with "-q".
1691 * Removed ubiquity code.
1692 * USERNAME and HOST defaulted to "debian".
1693 * Preliminary netboot (cifs) patch by
1694 "Jason D. Clinton" <me@jasonclinton.com>
1695 * Lowered dependence of dmsetup code (now only Suggests).
1696 * Checks for replacing "udevplug" (ubuntu-only) with "udevtrigger".
1697 * Reworked xorg and anacron patches from
1698 Frederic Lehobey <Frederic.Lehobey@free.fr>.
1699 * scripts/casper-bottom/10adduser: configuring only the $USERNAME for sudo
1700 instead of group 'admin'.
1702 -- Marco Amadori <marco.amadori@gmail.com> Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:01:48 +0200
1704 casper (1.58) dapper; urgency=low
1706 * Really rename properly, without dirname.
1708 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Tue, 30 May 2006 22:47:04 +0100
1710 casper (1.57) dapper; urgency=low
1712 * Rename the anacron rc.d/S* symlinks to K*, instead of removing them.
1713 Because otherwise pbbuttonsd decides that starting anacron on the
1714 LiveCD would be a clever thing to do.
1716 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 24 May 2006 23:06:04 +0100
1718 casper (1.56) dapper; urgency=low
1720 * Hopefully work a bit better when checking DVDs on 32 bit
1722 * Do an explicit read from /dev/console when waiting for keypress after
1723 CD/DVD has been ejected.
1725 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 16:43:03 +0200
1727 casper (1.55) dapper; urgency=low
1729 * Reconfigure gnome-power-manager when doing live installations.
1732 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 May 2006 11:16:46 +0200
1734 casper (1.54) dapper; urgency=low
1737 * Set large print fonts for the v1 accessibility profile. Closes
1741 * Fix preseed/file handling (closes: Malone #43683).
1743 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 18 May 2006 19:36:24 +0200
1745 casper (1.53) dapper; urgency=low
1748 * Disable fglrx and nvidida drivers by default. Somewhat addresses
1752 * Pass all command-line preseed arguments (other than preseed/file) to
1755 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 May 2006 10:14:36 +0200
1757 casper (1.52) dapper; urgency=low
1759 * Export the path in casper-reconfigure so X and friends actually have
1762 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 21:04:11 +0200
1764 casper (1.51) dapper; urgency=low
1767 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1768 - Removed stale reference to acessx_applet.
1769 - Fix some typos for gconf values that had to be set as lists.
1772 * Pass debian-installer/locale to /root's debconf db (closes: Malone
1774 * Identify ourselves as casper when communicating with debconf.
1775 * Factor out preseeding code into casper-preseed; this knows that it only
1776 needs to register a question if it fails to set it, which saves memory
1777 by avoiding debconf having to rewrite templates.dat.
1778 * Preseed kbd-chooser/method as well as debian-installer/keymap, so that
1779 kbd-chooser run from ubiquity picks up the selected keyboard (closes:
1781 * Use new dpkg-reconfigure --no-reload option (debconf 1.4.72ubuntu6) to
1782 avoid needlessly rewriting templates.dat.
1785 * Add ... to the end of all usplash messages. Malone #43856
1786 * Add maybe_break casper-bottom to allow breaking before running bottom
1787 scripts. Malone #43860
1788 * Don't show the name of the live cd user that's added.
1789 * Mount COW filesystem if show-cow is present on the kernel command line.
1791 * Disable the Kubuntu update notifier too. Malone #43806
1792 * Disable hibernation and enable sleep where appropriate. Malone #23882
1794 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 11 May 2006 12:11:08 +0200
1796 casper (1.50) dapper; urgency=low
1799 * Fixed some typos, and added missing settings to some accessibility
1800 profiles, as they were either not working properly, or at all. Malone:
1802 * Removed the desktop wallpaper, and changed the background colour to gray
1803 for the v1 accessibility profile.
1804 * Set the whiteglass mouse theme for the v1 accessibility profile.
1805 * Moved the gconftool-2 -s flag to individual gct calls, to allow for future
1806 use of gconftool-2 flags that are incompatible with -s.
1809 * Allow custom HOST, USERNAME, USERFULLNAME. Malone: #42118
1811 - debian/casper.dir: Add examples dir
1812 - debian/casper.conf: Explain briefly how to use new variables
1813 - debian/rules: Install casper.conf as example_conf_casper
1816 * Stylistic changes to Daniele's changes.
1818 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 2 May 2006 14:12:31 +0200
1820 casper (1.49) dapper; urgency=low
1822 * Also look for hardware named wlan*
1824 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:37:13 +0100
1826 casper (1.48) dapper; urgency=low
1828 * Write /etc/network/interfaces entries for eth0, eth1, eth2, ath0 and
1829 wlan0 if there's no hardware detected for them; as it may be plugged
1832 -- Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com> Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:31:38 +0100
1834 casper (1.47) dapper; urgency=low
1837 * Turn on debugging of the X config.
1838 * Log to a file which gets copied to /var/log/casper.log. Malone: #39895
1839 * Only pick UTF-8 locales. Malone: #40178
1840 * Use correct /root rather than /target for seeing what version of
1841 gnome-panel-data is installed.
1842 * Make festival (and probably some other apps) happier by using
1843 127.0.1.1 for our ubuntu hostname and 127.0.0.1 just resolves to
1845 * Make casper-md5check read from tty8 since it wants to get keypresses
1846 from the active console (where usplash runs). Malone: #40490.
1847 * Copy /etc/modules when installing with ubiquity. Malone: #40311
1848 * /etc/gdm/gdm-cdd.conf can be a symlink. Cope with that. Malone: #40767
1851 * ubiquity-casper conflicts/replaces espresso-casper.
1853 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 24 Apr 2006 09:41:14 +0200
1855 casper (1.46) dapper; urgency=low
1857 * Use debian-installer/dummy for preseeding rather than espresso/dummy,
1858 since the latter was removed in espresso 0.99.38.
1859 * espresso is being renamed to ubiquity. Rename espresso-casper to
1860 ubiquity-casper to match.
1862 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:52:48 +0100
1864 casper (1.45) dapper; urgency=low
1867 * [share/shutdown] Disable the usplash timeout and wrap the prompt to two
1871 * Use devmapper for ia64, hppa and sparc.
1873 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:36:49 +0200
1875 casper (1.44) dapper; urgency=low
1877 * Reset the timeout after casper-premount has run so we're sure that the
1878 timeout is what we want it to be. Udev seems to change it too.
1879 * Remove a few set -x commands to make the boot slightly less verbose.
1880 * Fix 10adduser to actually install the correct icons for espresso.
1882 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:20:53 +0200
1884 casper (1.43) dapper; urgency=low
1886 * Copy espresso-kdeui.desktop file to user's desktop
1887 Branch at http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/bzr/casper/trunk/
1889 -- Jonathan Riddell <jriddell@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:37:49 +0100
1891 casper (1.42) dapper; urgency=low
1894 * casper-bottom/30accessibility:
1895 - Removed some settings from accessibility profiles as these are now
1896 in the relevant packages.
1899 * Make sure to call gconftool as the right user. Malone #38408
1900 * Write an entry for / in fstab. Hopefully fixes Malone #34330
1901 * Change gdm-cdd.conf if it exists, not gdm.conf. Malone #37467
1902 * Really disable update-notifier, this time by removing the correct
1905 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:43:24 +0200
1907 casper (1.41) dapper; urgency=low
1909 * Don't mkdir then install -D, just install -D (this should prevent
1910 ~ubuntu/Desktop being owned by root)
1912 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:52:42 +0200
1914 casper (1.40) dapper; urgency=low
1916 * Add snd_powermac to /etc/modules on ppc. (Malone: #27862)
1917 * Use chmod -x instead of mv to disable readahead in order to not
1918 trigger unionfs bugs
1919 * Reboot the system when a key is pressed at the end of the integrity
1920 check. (Malone: #29203)
1921 * Use usplash_write too when doing shutdown. (Malone: #34537)
1923 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:09:49 +0200
1925 casper (1.39) dapper; urgency=low
1928 * Disable update-notifier by default, as it won't make much sense for
1932 * Clear out user-setup questions from the debconf database after creating
1933 the live CD user, to avoid confusing espresso into offering "Ubuntu
1934 LiveCD user" as the user's default full name.
1936 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:38:39 +0100
1938 casper (1.38) dapper; urgency=low
1940 * Disable readahead since it breaks too much with squashfs and unionfs.
1942 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 9 Mar 2006 09:43:39 +0100
1944 casper (1.37) dapper; urgency=low
1946 * Add support for having the squashfs directly on a device, thanks to
1947 Paul Sladen for idea and a patch.
1948 * If a directory "Examples" exists in ~ after we've run adduser, move it
1949 to the Desktop subdirectory for greater visibility.
1951 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Sat, 4 Mar 2006 11:55:50 +0100
1953 casper (1.36) dapper; urgency=low
1956 * Fix typo in find_cow_device so block devices didn't work at all.
1957 Malone #31639. Thanks to Richard Nemec for the catch.
1958 * Update accessibility framework, thanks to Luke Yelavich.
1961 * Move the /cdrom mount into the new root filesystem.
1963 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 1 Mar 2006 11:13:54 +0100
1965 casper (1.35) dapper; urgency=low
1967 * Check for preseed/file= in /proc/cmdline and feed any given file to
1968 debconf-set-selections.
1970 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 17:32:02 +0000
1972 casper (1.34) dapper; urgency=low
1975 * Add initial accessibility support framework
1977 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:36:07 +0100
1979 casper (1.33) dapper; urgency=low
1981 * Make sure Desktop and the espresso-$ui.desktop is owned by the Ubuntu
1983 * Fix check for rc6.d/S90reboot at the bottom of 25configure_init to
1984 actually look in the right place.
1985 * Make me the maintainer of the package.
1987 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 20 Feb 2006 09:49:02 +0100
1989 casper (1.32) dapper; urgency=low
1991 * Fix copying of /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop.
1993 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Feb 2006 16:47:15 +0000
1995 casper (1.31) dapper; urgency=low
1998 * Print message about rebooting the system when the md5 check is
2000 * Just have one copy of the casper shutdown scripts and symlink those
2001 into the right place. Malone #20978
2004 * Copy /usr/share/applications/espresso-gtkui.desktop to the live CD
2007 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:52:16 +0100
2009 casper (1.30) dapper; urgency=low
2011 * Set a blank password for the ubuntu user. This hopefully resolves
2013 * Pass keyboard layout information to xserver-xorg in the "new" scheme.
2014 * Set up the right console keymap.
2016 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:48:14 +0100
2018 casper (1.29) dapper; urgency=low
2021 * Fix typo in 22gnome_panel_data
2022 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2023 * Add support for putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on
2025 * Configure all detected network interfaces.
2026 * Allow putting the live filesystem image on a VFAT volume
2027 * Allow putting the persistent storage in a loopback file on a VFAT
2032 * Change casper-reconfigure to take the target root filesystem as its
2034 * Add espresso-casper package with hooks to repeat some things done by
2035 casper in the installed system.
2037 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:25:45 +0100
2039 casper (1.28) dapper; urgency=low
2041 * Depend on user-setup
2042 * First shot at IEEE1394 support. Add sbp2 and ohci1394 as modules to
2043 be copied into the initramfs.
2045 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 16 Jan 2006 22:06:35 +0100
2047 casper (1.27) dapper; urgency=low
2049 * Try using unionfs on ppc again
2051 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:55:19 +0100
2053 casper (1.26) dapper; urgency=low
2055 * Add persistency support
2056 * Usplash integration
2058 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:53:54 +0100
2060 casper (1.25) dapper; urgency=low
2062 * Make /rofs available to in the target system.
2064 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:25:12 +0100
2066 casper (1.24) dapper; urgency=low
2068 * For debconf-communicate, use a here-doc rather than trying to have \n
2069 working in shell variables.
2070 * The usplash fifo has moved, update paths accordingly. Also conflict
2071 with the old usplash and depend on new enough initramfs-tools.
2073 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:20:37 +0100
2075 casper (1.23) dapper; urgency=low
2077 * Move the building to binary-dep, since we're an arch: any package
2080 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:37:31 +0100
2082 casper (1.22) dapper; urgency=low
2084 * Bunch debconf-communicate commands together to speed up the boot a
2086 * Add integrity checker, this is compiled code, so casper is now arch:
2089 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Wed, 4 Jan 2006 12:56:13 +0100
2091 casper (1.21) dapper; urgency=low
2093 * If locale is unset, use en_US.UTF8, not whatever comes first in the
2094 list of supported locales.
2095 * Generate locale and set the locale in /etc/environment
2096 * Use user-setup to create the user, rather than doing it ourselves.
2097 * Various cleanups and fixes, such as making debconf-communicate silent
2098 * Disable checkroot when booting
2100 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:00:25 +0100
2102 casper (1.20) dapper; urgency=low
2104 * Remove a large bunch of debugging output
2105 * Depend on dmsetup so the hook script can copy in that
2106 * Handle both squashfs and cloop images, with run-time detection
2107 * Use devmapper + cloop on powerpc, not unionfs, since unionfs is a
2109 * Make sure we have both SCSI and IDE CDROM modules available in the
2111 * Do some initial keyboard setup handling so X will, at least in some
2112 cases, have a chance of giving the user a sane keymap.
2114 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Dec 2005 14:23:13 +0100
2116 casper (1.19) dapper; urgency=low
2118 * Switch to initramfs, so casper only survives in spirit
2119 * Use unionfs instead of a writeable devmapper snapshot
2120 * Remove all debconfiscation, since we're an initramfs script now
2121 * Make the postinst call update-initramfs -u
2122 * Mount the CD read-only explicitly
2123 * Make udevinfo silent if the device is not found.
2125 -- Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@ubuntu.com> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:22:45 +0100
2127 casper (1.18) breezy; urgency=low
2129 * Update translations from Rosetta: Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian,
2130 Brazilian Portuguese.
2132 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:05:02 +0100
2134 casper (1.17) breezy; urgency=low
2136 * Set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock if gnome-screensaver is installed
2138 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:24:35 -0700
2140 casper (1.16) breezy; urgency=low
2142 * Install a fake script in /lib/debian-installer.d/S72menu-exit after
2143 pivoting that just calls sleep, to prevent scary console messages as d-i
2144 tries to exit without its root filesystem.
2146 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:28:06 +0100
2148 casper (1.15) breezy; urgency=low
2150 * Neutralize branding in startup message
2151 * Use clear in addition to reset, in hopes of concealing error messages on
2152 the console from d-i's death throes
2154 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 9 Sep 2005 11:24:14 -0700
2156 casper (1.14) breezy; urgency=low
2158 * Set RUNNING_UNDER_GDM=yes in the user's environment to stop xscreensaver
2159 locking the screen (Ubuntu #7150).
2161 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 13:37:00 +0100
2163 casper (1.13) breezy; urgency=low
2165 * Use reset, rather than clear, to clean up after the colored dialogs on vt1
2167 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:09:45 -0700
2169 casper (1.12) breezy; urgency=low
2171 * Kill bterm after pivoting so that we can use vt1 rather than vt2,
2172 thereby avoiding a fight between gdm and the X server (closes: Ubuntu
2175 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:48:40 +0100
2177 casper (1.11) breezy; urgency=low
2179 * Remove debugging code which crept into 1.10
2180 * Revert changes to casper-udeb.postinst which were intended for
2181 starting usplash earlier (pre-1.10)
2183 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:43:03 -0700
2185 casper (1.10) breezy; urgency=low
2187 * Instead of starting usplash directly, create an init script which will
2188 start it later (after the new init), to avoid it being killed by
2191 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 20:26:58 -0700
2193 casper (1.9) breezy; urgency=low
2195 * Remember to re-run 30copy-dev from 94usplash, in order to preserve the
2196 device nodes clobbered by udev
2197 * Redirect stdin of /etc/init.d/udev from /dev/console, to avoid
2198 incredibly obnoxious 60-second sleep because it thinks we're
2201 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:30:38 -0700
2203 casper (1.8) breezy; urgency=low
2205 * Add usplash support
2207 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:30:57 -0700
2209 casper (1.7) breezy; urgency=low
2211 * Set DEBUG_XORG_PACKAGE=yes when reconfiguring xserver-xorg. The
2212 output is only written to post.log and isn't visible to the user, and
2213 can be invaluable for debugging
2215 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 22 Aug 2005 10:25:38 -0700
2217 casper (1.6) breezy; urgency=low
2219 * Use debconf-copydb again (thanks, Tollef)
2220 * Rename pre.d/20xconfig to pre.d/20prexconfig so that it is distinct from
2221 post.d/20xconfig for purposes of the progress bar (no text for it; it's
2224 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:55:24 -0700
2226 casper (1.5) breezy; urgency=low
2228 * Call MAKEDEV console in post.d/20xconfig as a workaround for bug
2231 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 16 Aug 2005 15:24:06 -0700
2233 casper (1.4) breezy; urgency=low
2235 * Revert to the old debconf hack; the debconf-copydb approach needs more
2238 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:48:11 -0700
2240 casper (1.3) breezy; urgency=low
2242 * Revert unintentional release of experimental unionfs code in 1.2
2244 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:19:50 -0700
2246 casper (1.2) breezy; urgency=low
2248 * Fix debconf-copydb regex in 20xconfig
2250 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:07:46 -0700
2252 casper (1.1) breezy; urgency=low
2254 * Cope with xserver-xorg's rename of force_keyboard_detection to
2257 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 4 Jul 2005 02:52:07 -0700
2259 casper (1.0) breezy; urgency=low
2261 * Version number bump (we've been through a stable Ubuntu release, after
2263 * Rename pre.d/10snapshot to post.d/10filesystem, as it is about to
2265 * Seed xserver-xorg/force_keyboard_detection to true in 20xconfig, so as
2266 to cause the keyboard layout to (continue to) be autodetected based on
2269 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:21:54 -0700
2271 casper (0.65) breezy; urgency=low
2273 * As a performance optimization, only reconfigure gnome-panel-data if
2275 * Disable the "lock screen" menu item (Ubuntu bug#7150)
2277 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 8 Jun 2005 16:02:14 -0700
2279 casper (0.64) breezy; urgency=low
2281 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--debconf-copydb--0
2282 - Use debconf-copydb rather than our temporary hack
2284 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 31 May 2005 12:08:51 -0700
2286 casper (0.63) breezy; urgency=low
2288 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--cdebconf-info--0
2289 - Update for cdebconf 0.75: use db_info rather than db_x_setbacktitle.
2291 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 20:59:58 -0700
2293 casper (0.62) hoary; urgency=low
2295 * Updated translations from
2296 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (nb)
2298 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 09:01:02 -0700
2300 casper (0.61) hoary; urgency=low
2302 * Updated translations from
2303 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (el, es, ro)
2305 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 5 Apr 2005 08:06:51 -0700
2307 casper (0.60) hoary; urgency=low
2309 * Updated translations from
2310 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (hu, id, pl)
2312 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:26:21 -0800
2314 casper (0.59) hoary; urgency=low
2316 * Updated translations from
2317 colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 (de, pt_BR)
2319 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:51:17 -0800
2321 casper (0.58) hoary; urgency=low
2323 * Remove postfix shutdown links, as well as startup, to avoid an ugly error
2325 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:24:03 -0800
2327 casper (0.57) hoary; urgency=low
2329 * Merge colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--translations--0 up to
2331 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid_again for noninteractive network setup, +new
2332 in netcfg 1.08ubuntu3 [colin.watson@canonical.com--2005/casper--netcfg--0]
2334 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 08:33:46 -0800
2336 casper (0.56) hoary; urgency=low
2338 * Suppress error output from eject
2339 * Remind the user to close the CD tray if they have one (Ubuntu #6668)
2340 * Add arch-build target to debian/rules
2342 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Mar 2005 10:21:41 -0800
2344 casper (0.55) hoary; urgency=low
2346 * Remove the hack introduced in 0.54, xorg 6.8.2-5 should be fixed
2348 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:11:05 -0800
2350 casper (0.54) hoary; urgency=low
2352 * Temporarily set RECONFIGURE=true when reconfiguring xserver-xorg, to work
2353 around a bug introduced in 6.8.2-3
2355 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 16 Mar 2005 15:08:45 -0800
2357 casper (0.53) hoary; urgency=low
2359 * Provide target-base-system (i.e. base system installed in /target, also
2360 provided by base-installer).
2362 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:01:53 +0000
2364 casper (0.52) hoary; urgency=low
2366 * Arrange for $LANG to be set after pivot_root, so that (e.g.)
2367 xserver-xorg can use it to infer the keymap (Ubuntu #7138)
2369 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 12 Mar 2005 02:10:59 -0800
2371 casper (0.51) hoary; urgency=low
2373 * Disable kpersonalizer startup on first login
2375 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 5 Mar 2005 13:47:13 -0800
2377 casper (0.50) hoary; urgency=low
2379 * Add support for configuring kdm autologin
2380 * Rename 15gdm-autologin to 15autologin, and the corresponding debconf template
2381 * Remove obsolete XORG_FORCE_PROBE from 20xconfig
2383 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:37:31 -0800
2385 casper (0.49) hoary; urgency=low
2387 * Fix 20xconfig harder
2389 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:20:03 -0800
2391 casper (0.48) hoary; urgency=low
2393 * Source confmodule in 20xconfig
2395 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 21:02:35 -0800
2397 casper (0.47) hoary; urgency=low
2399 * Copy over the value of debian-installer/keymap into the target system,
2400 to allow the new logic in xserver-xorg.config to work
2402 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Mar 2005 20:45:38 -0800
2404 casper (0.46) hoary; urgency=low
2406 * Lock the live user's password entirely. Since the user is now
2407 automagically logged in, continuously, both on the console and in X,
2408 their password is irrelevant.
2410 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 28 Feb 2005 08:31:13 -0800
2412 casper (0.45) hoary; urgency=low
2414 * Enable TimedLogin in gdm, so that if the user logs out, they are
2415 automatically logged back in after a few seconds (Ubuntu #6667)
2417 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 16:06:16 -0800
2419 casper (0.44) hoary; urgency=low
2421 * Configure init to spawn shells on virtual consoles, rather than login
2422 prompts (Ubuntu #6666)
2423 * Skip X configuration if a serial console is in use
2424 * Set the live user's password to be blank, rather than "ubuntu". This
2425 is, paradoxically, more secure if the user decides to install
2426 openssh-server, since empty passwords are disallowed by default
2428 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:40:15 -0800
2430 casper (0.43) hoary; urgency=low
2432 * Override localechooser progress bar text to be more appropriate for the
2433 live CD (closes: Ubuntu #6664).
2435 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000
2437 casper (0.42) hoary; urgency=low
2439 * Preseed netcfg/no_interfaces, to avoid prompt when no network interfaces
2440 can be configured (closes: Ubuntu #6107).
2441 * Remove redundant DH_COMPAT setting in debian/rules, since there's
2442 already a (different) debian/compat.
2444 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:43:43 +0000
2446 casper (0.41) hoary; urgency=low
2448 * Cope with change in default /etc/sudoers (admin group).
2450 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:14:30 +0000
2452 casper (0.40) hoary; urgency=low
2454 * Copy /dev/tts to the live system as well as /dev/vc, for serial console.
2456 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Mon, 21 Feb 2005 19:03:54 +0000
2458 casper (0.39) hoary; urgency=low
2460 * Fix reboot operation (cache the reboot binary)
2462 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 20:51:08 -0800
2464 casper (0.38) hoary; urgency=low
2466 * Eject the CD during shutdown/reboot
2467 - Awful hack to copy /dev/cdroms to the live system, because the CD is
2468 mounted using devfs names
2469 - Add /usr/share/casper/shutdown script to casper-udeb
2470 - Copy /usr/share/casper/shutdown to /etc/rc[06].d in 25configure-init
2471 * Remove caspermon binary package, inadvertently enabled (not even
2474 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:43:56 -0800
2476 casper (0.37) hoary; urgency=low
2478 * Fix casper-udeb/runlevel template
2480 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:37:43 -0800
2482 casper (0.36) hoary; urgency=low
2484 * Rename post.d/25disable-init-scripts to 25configure-init
2485 * Add casper-udeb/runlevel, to allow the default runlevel
2488 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:14:16 -0800
2490 casper (0.35) hoary; urgency=low
2492 * Preseed netcfg/wireless_essid
2493 * Remove obsolete confmodule load from pre.d/12fstab
2494 * Don't mount a tmpfs on /var/run; it doesn't save a huge amount of
2495 snapshot space, and packages expect their directories there to be
2498 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Mon, 7 Feb 2005 15:46:52 -0800
2500 casper (0.34) hoary; urgency=low
2502 * Use casper-reconfigure in 10adduser as well
2503 * Add post.d/93save-logs to save copies of the bootstrap logs to
2505 * Stop reconfiguring fontconfig; it insists on rebuilding the entire
2506 font cache, and the only benefit was to unable subpixel hints
2508 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 2 Feb 2005 10:42:19 -0800
2510 casper (0.33) hoary; urgency=low
2512 * Re-upload to fix borked source package
2514 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:21:07 -0800
2516 casper (0.32) hoary; urgency=low
2518 * Factor out debconf hackery into casper-reconfigure
2519 * Mount sysfs earlier, so we don't need to mess with it in 20xconfig
2520 * Break 22simple-reconfig into 22fontconfig and 22gnome-panel-data, and
2521 create progress bar text for them
2522 * Preseed netcfg/dhcp_failed, to avoid a prompt when DHCP fails
2524 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 14:03:36 -0800
2526 casper (0.31) hoary; urgency=low
2528 * Clear tty2 and print a nice message, before signalling init
2530 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:15:44 -0800
2532 casper (0.30) hoary; urgency=low
2534 * Reconfigure fontconfig, to enable subpixel rendering based on the
2537 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:21:49 -0800
2539 casper (0.29) hoary; urgency=low
2541 * Fix the problem described in 0.28 by preseeding a default for
2544 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:04:03 -0800
2546 casper (0.28) hoary; urgency=low
2548 * Suppress network configuration questions
2550 - The goal is to make a reasonable effort to configure one interface
2551 automatically, but if that is not possible, fall back to no
2552 configuration. We aren't quite there yet.
2554 - If we fail to resolve our IP into a hostname using DNS, netcfg seems
2555 to fall back to an empty value, rather than the default in the
2558 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:55:35 -0800
2560 casper (0.27) hoary; urgency=low
2562 * Add post.d/22simple-reconfig
2563 - Reconfigure gnome-panel-data if it is installed, to set up the GNOME
2564 session based on whether the system is a laptop
2565 - Corresponding progress template
2566 - mount /proc earlier (needed for, e.g. laptop-detect)
2567 * Warn about screen blanking in X configuration progress message
2568 * Simplify post.d/20xconfig and pre.d/13swap a bit
2571 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 22 Jan 2005 15:56:49 -0800
2573 casper (0.26) hoary; urgency=low
2575 * Set NOPASSWD in /etc/sudoers for the initial user
2577 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:53:49 -0800
2579 casper (0.25) hoary; urgency=low
2581 * mount /proc before signalling init, as it now uses /proc to determine
2582 what is and is not a kernel thread
2584 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0800
2586 casper (0.24) hoary; urgency=low
2588 * Add a backtitle properly
2590 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:07:19 -0800
2592 casper (0.23) hoary; urgency=low
2596 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 09:02:01 -0800
2598 casper (0.22) hoary; urgency=low
2600 * Search for swap on SCSI disks as well as IDE
2602 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:27:09 -0800
2604 casper (0.21) unstable; urgency=low
2606 * Cosmetic changes to debconf templates
2607 * Fix 10adduser to register debconf questions before setting their
2610 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:14:20 -0800
2612 casper (0.20) hoary; urgency=low
2614 * Remove legacy symlinks from casper/pre.d; they are now contained in
2617 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:22:33 -0800
2619 casper (0.19) hoary; urgency=low
2622 * casper-udeb Depends: md-modules
2624 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Wed, 19 Jan 2005 11:23:51 -0800
2626 casper (0.18) hoary; urgency=low
2628 * Enable new adduser code, using db_fset ... seen to suppress the questions
2630 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:06:48 -0800
2632 casper (0.17) hoary; urgency=low
2634 * Convert snapshot setup to use debconf instead of hardcoded parameters
2635 * Remove obselete-before-being-used username template
2636 * Convert post.d/10adduser to use debconf passthrough to the passwd package,
2637 and thus share its user-adding code rather than duplicating it.
2638 - But don't enable it yet, since we need to find a way to prevent its
2639 questions from being asked
2641 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:04:48 -0800
2643 casper (0.16) hoary; urgency=low
2645 * casper-udeb Depends: casper-check, harddrive-detection
2646 * Automatically find and enable swap devices
2648 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 11:23:48 -0800
2650 casper (0.15) hoary; urgency=low
2652 * Set anna/standard_modules to false at startup to suppress unnecessary
2655 -- Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com> Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:41:00 +0000
2657 casper (0.14) hoary; urgency=low
2659 * Enable X autoconfiguration(!)
2661 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Sat, 15 Jan 2005 02:19:58 -0800
2663 casper (0.13) hoary; urgency=low
2665 * Rename templates so that they are named after the {pre,post}.d hook
2667 * Remove some unused templates
2669 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:11:02 -0800
2671 casper (0.12) hoary; urgency=low
2673 * Add debconf templates for various things that we currently hardcode.
2674 Not actually used yet due to need for testing, but having the
2675 templates present greatly simplifies testing the remaining integration
2678 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@ubuntu.com> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 20:32:39 -0800
2680 casper (0.11) hoary; urgency=low
2682 * Update post.d/20xconfig to use debconf passthrough to cdebconf
2683 (requires debconf 1.4.42 and cdebconf 0.75), but leave it disabled for
2685 * Create /etc/fstab in the target (this also seems to solve the problem
2686 with noatime disappearing, and so should reduce snapshot utilization)
2688 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:25:36 -0800
2690 casper (0.10) hoary; urgency=low
2692 * Remove rc?.d/K??hwclock.sh links, to avoid changing the system clock
2693 during reboot or shutdown
2695 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Thu, 13 Jan 2005 18:13:31 -0800
2697 casper (0.9) hoary; urgency=low
2699 * Fix gdm autologin configuration (broken in 0.8)
2701 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 10:52:05 -0800
2703 casper (0.8) hoary; urgency=low
2705 * Add debian-installer/casper-udeb/title template, to specify more
2706 readable menu item text
2707 * Create /usr/lib/casper/{pre,post}.d and move all of our internal logic
2709 * Create temporary symlinks in pre.d for the prebaseconfig.d items we
2711 * Convert errors into proper error dialogs
2712 * Make some pre.d scripts idempotent, for ease of testing
2714 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:59:35 -0800
2716 casper (0.7) hoary; urgency=low
2718 * Disable X configuration temporarily; need to resolve debconf issues
2720 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:14:43 -0800
2722 casper (0.6) hoary; urgency=low
2724 * Allow "modprobe ext2" to fail; apparently it's sometimes compiled in
2726 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:12:28 -0800
2728 casper (0.5) hoary; urgency=low
2730 * Attempt to configure X
2731 - This doesn't work very well yet (PCI BusID doesn't seem to get
2732 updated, for example), so we still don't start gdm by default)
2733 * Conditionalize some of the configuration code, so we automatically do
2734 the right thing if gdm or X isn't installed
2735 * Add German translation from Andreas Mueller
2736 * modprobe ext2, to let powerpc work (this should probably happen
2737 elsewhere, but for now...)
2739 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:49:56 -0800
2741 casper (0.4) hoary; urgency=low
2743 * Mount tmpfs on /tmp and /var/run, should save many writes to the snapshot
2745 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:35:26 -0800
2747 casper (0.3) hoary; urgency=low
2749 * Disable anacron and postfix startup
2750 * Don't cripple /bin/apt-install in d-i (this was a workaround to
2751 prevent d-i from installing packages which should have been present in
2752 the filesystem image anyway, but weren't)
2754 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 18:10:55 -0800
2756 casper (0.2) hoary; urgency=low
2758 * Use mount --move to move the cdrom mount point, so that we can unmount
2759 /initrd and free up the memory used by d-i
2760 * Use /dev/ram1 rather than /dev/ram0 for the COW stuff, since /dev/ram0
2761 is used for initrds and we want to avoid confusion
2762 * Organize casper-udeb.postinst into shell functions
2763 * Add a progress bar
2764 * Add a debian/compat file (version 4)
2766 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> Fri, 7 Jan 2005 08:01:21 -0800
2768 casper (0.1) hoary; urgency=low
2772 -- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@canonical.com> Wed, 5 Jan 2005 14:30:28 -0800