grml-debootstrap (0.34) unstable; urgency=low * Move the apt cache removal function to the end to avoid failure of grub installation. * Display executed debootstrap cmdline when running it. * Slightly improve checks for grub-install/update-grub and do no set full path to the binaries. -- Michael Prokop Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:30:19 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.33) unstable; urgency=low [ Michael Prokop ] * Do not provide the 'install bootloader into partition' feature in the interactive menu. * Install to directory: normalise the path to an absolute directory name. * remove cached debs to reduce diskpace during bootstrap (based on patch by gebi, thanks). * Fix sed usage for fall back to old behaviour in MBR handling. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.4 (no further changes). [ Ulrich Dangel ] * Support and enable per default --keyring option. [Closes: issue746] * Do not run MAKEDEV inside the chroot. * Adjusted umount handling in bailout() to work with set -e * Always execute install_policy_rcd in chroot [Closes: issue778] * Install signal handler to always cleanup chroot. * Replace /bin/true with true in chroot-script * Remove duplicate : in getopt definition. Caused wrong parameter handling. * Adjusted Filename comment in cmdlineopts.clp * Remove trailing whitespace from debian/rules * Switched order of including cmdlineopts.clp, first check local directory * Only set PARTITION=1 if target is a block device. * Apply patch by Tong Sun which addresses grml-debootstrap's parameter handling. Thanks! * Added unit tests for cmddlineopts.clp. [ Michael Gebetsroither ] * introduce --pre-scripts to be executed before chroot-scripts -- Michael Prokop Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:32:33 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.32) unstable; urgency=low * Drop support for old-stable/etch. * Simplify usage for grub handling, now it's just GRUB="/dev/sdX[#]". * Execute blockdev to reread partition table. * Replace vol_id command with blkid. * Drop deprecated sarge specific code. -- Michael Prokop Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:29:47 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.31) unstable; urgency=low * Adjust grub handling and install grub-pc package for supporting grub2. [Closes: issue747] * Use cdn.debian.net as default mirror. * Support config variable INSTALL_NOTES to catch information during installation which is reported at the end of the installation process. -- Michael Prokop Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:47:00 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.30) unstable; urgency=low [ Ulrich Dangel ] * Add cmdline option for specifying target architecture (--arch). Allows to specify target architecture i386 if running on an amd64 system. [Closes: issue658] [ Michael Prokop ] * Add according documentation for new --arch option. * Bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no further changes). -- Michael Prokop Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:15:46 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.29) unstable; urgency=low The "thanks to gebi for the bugreports and feedback" release. :) * Install busybox in kernel stage to be able to debug initramfs problems. * Check whether we are installing into a directory in stage mkfs so we don't skip if the target is already mounted. * Mention "default: lenny" instead of "default: stable" in help text as "stable" is invalid. * Use 'pri=0' as example for swap partition in /etc/fstab. * Do not adjust mydestination and myhostname in /etc/postfix/main.cf as mydestination defaults to "$myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, localhost", myhostname defaults to gethostname() and mydomain to localdomain. * Slightly improve wording of -t and -p options. * Do not try to create /etc/debootstrap if it already exists (which might be the case when installing to a directory). * Mention hostname in configuration check dialog. * Apply patch by Zoran Dzelajlija which addresses the partition calculation problem when installing to /dev/cciss/c0d0*. Thanks! * Use ls for locating /dev/md* devices instead of echo so we don't have '/dev/md*' in the interactive partition dialog. * Do not display mountpoint if we are using the default one. * Avoid duplicate 'Running ... on a directory, nothing to mount.' message. * Do not continue execution if provided mirror doesn't work. [Closes: issue711] * Bump Standard Version to 3.8.2 (no further changes). -- Michael Prokop Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:47:47 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.28) unstable; urgency=low * Work around the chpasswd problem. [Closes: issue692] Thanks to Ulrich Dangel for the patch! -- Michael Prokop Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:11:30 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.27) unstable; urgency=low * New features: - support setting Debian suite components (like main, contrib,...) through COMPONENTS so it's possible to use a simple 'main' mirror. - support setting aptitude/apt-get options through $DPKG_OPTIONS. - support selection of netinstall vs. local mirror in interactive menu * Bugfixes: - make sure to ignore /dev/md* devices if not using SW-RAID - do not fail in chrootmirror() when using $ISO variable. - change order of checkconfiguration() so we get the prompt/ display for checking configuration again. - Drop 'do not prompt for partition dialog if swraid has been configured already' which doesn't make any sense in most situations * Minor changes: - check for mounted target in mkfs() step already instead of mount_target() - use '.. to the debootstrap command' in description of --debopt - chroot-script: put installation of kernel before installing additional packages so installation of kernel doesn't fail if the kernel directory exists already * Debian Package: - bump Standard Version to 3.8.1 (no further changes). -- Michael Prokop Fri, 08 May 2009 17:57:57 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.26) unstable; urgency=low * Do not use UUID on SW-RAID. * Add /dev/md* to partition list. If /dev/md* is already configured we don't want to re-run the SW-RAID setup but instead just install on /dev/md*. -- Michael Prokop Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:47:53 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.25) unstable; urgency=low * Use configuration $RELEASE as well as default in interactive setup script. * Provide $MNTPOINT as environment variable for usage inside /etc/debootstrap/scripts/. -- Michael Prokop Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:37:46 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.24) unstable; urgency=low * Update documentation. * Use configuration of $MIRROR, $HOSTNAME as defaults in interactive setup script. * Add initial support for Debian/squeeze and drop sarge instead. * Update VCS*-headers and long description of Debian package. * Move asciidoc, docbook-xsl, xsltproc to Build-Depends-Indep. * Drop $CHROOTMIRROR variable, instead use $MIRROR for debootstrap as well as inside the chroot. * Provide $MNTPOINT as environment variable for usage inside /etc/debootstrap/scripts/. -- Michael Prokop Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:15:32 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.23) unstable; urgency=low The "hey, rocking - we get patches via git" release. * Improve look'n'feel of partition error dialog. * Improve documentation regarding installation of bootloader when using directories as installation target. Thanks Tong Sun! [Closes: issue539] * Copy /etc/debootstrap/[s]bin as well to the chroot if they are present. Suggestion by Tong Sun - thanks! [Closes: issue540] * Apply several patches by Tong Sun (thanks!): - allow symlinks when coping existing files to chroot. - pre-seed packages using /etc/debootstrap/debconf-selections [Closes: issue518] - support DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for passing extra parameters to the debootstrap command - support KEEP_SRC_LIST to allow user to provide their own apt sources.list from /etc/debootstrap/etc/apt/sources.list - provide cmdline processing in separate script - added the '-d, --confdir=path' option - added "--nodebootstrap": Skip debootstrap, only do configuration to the target - add -v, --verbose: Increase verbosity - do not create stage file at finalize() * Edit /etc/network/interfaces as well if the file exists already, we definitely need at least a loopback interface. * Adjust postfix configuration: - modify hostname related options in /etc/postfix/main.cf - listen on loopback interface by default (thanks for suggestion, gebi) * Unify the --bootappend option, it's not --boot_append (thanks for the hint, Tong Sun). * Support execution of further scripts via options --scripts and --chroot-scripts. * Drop locales from RECONFIGURE list (thanks for hint, Tong Sun). [Closes: issue560] -- Michael Prokop Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:29:30 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.22) unstable; urgency=low * Display meaningful information when no partitions could be found. -- Michael Prokop Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:46:20 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.21) unstable; urgency=low * Make sure it works on target directories also if they are *not* mounted separately. Thanks for reporting, Tong. -- Michael Prokop Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:19:05 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.20) unstable; urgency=low * Use root=UUID=... by default if possible to avoid possible race conditions with libata vs. pata. * Fix setting hostname via interface. * Provide interface in dialog for setting root password. -- Michael Prokop Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:02:43 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.19) unstable; urgency=low * Use dialog with --separate-output option to make sure mdadm receives correct quoting for the RAID devices. -- Michael Prokop Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:36:12 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.18) unstable; urgency=low The "development sponsored by Sipwise GmbH" release. * Provide interactive configuration dialog. * Initial support for SW-RAID. * Use stages based on target information, this gives us the possibility to run multiple instance of grml-debootstrap. [Closes: issue510] * Use policy-rc.d inside chroot to avoid startup of daemons. [Closes: issue509] * Do not activate /sys by default anymore in /etc/fstab. * Copy /etc/network/interfaces from running system to target installation. * Setting password via passwd does not work, use chpaswd instead. * Remove stages after successful execution. [Closes: issue513] * Make sure the configuration file inside the chroot provides the same configuration as specified on the cmdline (thanks gebi for reporting). * Copy system's /etc/hosts to the target system. * Move stages to /var/cache/grml-debootstrap (thanks for the idea, gebi). * Install devices using our own device tarball instead of running MAKEDEV (which is just an ungly fork bomb). * Install MTA postfix by default to avoid installation of unwanted packages like citadel in lenny. * Allow use of comments in file /etc/debootstrap/packages. * Replace initrd-tools with initramfs-tools. * Run aptitude with --without-recommends option. * Run grub-install using --no-floppy, as requested by gebi. * Support setting hostname via cmdline. * Close issue in grml's BTS which showed up during development in hg: Fix handling of config file inside chroot, thanks for spotting, gebi! [Closes: issue512] * Update debian/ to make lintian happy. -- Michael Prokop Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:01:14 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.17) unstable; urgency=low * Support "-r" option as well as "--release" as being documented. Thanks for reporting, Jens Kubieziel. -- Michael Prokop Wed, 26 Mar 2008 22:44:06 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.16) unstable; urgency=low * Drop the second passwd call. -- Michael Prokop Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:10:54 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.15) unstable; urgency=low * Make sure the passwd command succeeds. Thanks, Wolfgang Karall! [Closes: issue363] -- Michael Prokop Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:30:37 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.14) unstable; urgency=low * Make sure variable ISO is unset variable if not used. Thanks for the bugreport, Darsha! [Closes: issue352] -- Michael Prokop Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:16:15 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.13) unstable; urgency=low * Fix manpage handling of xsltproc. -- Michael Prokop Thu, 06 Dec 2007 23:47:09 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.12) unstable; urgency=low * Fixed some typos in the manpage. Thanks for the patch, Alexander 'Stone' Steinböck! -- Michael Prokop Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:16:03 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.11) unstable; urgency=low * Better inform user about already executed stages. [Closes: issue299] -- Michael Prokop Sat, 6 Oct 2007 18:03:16 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.10) unstable; urgency=low * Add console-common to /etc/debootstrap/packages. Thanks for the feature request, Thorsten Strusch! * Support option -i/--iso: now it's possible to install packages from a normal Debian ISO. Thanks for the idea and the basic instructions to Thorsten Strusch! http://www.thorstenstrusch.de/software/debian-linux/ -- Michael Prokop Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:13:32 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.9) unstable; urgency=low [ Alexander Wirt ] * Add support for EXTRAPACKAGES that can be dropped in /etc/debootstrap/extrapackages * Add boot_append option to manpage * Manpage reformatted [ Michael Prokop ] * Support grml-repository and installation of grml-kernel via GRMLREPOS and GRMLPACKAGES. * Use stage logic inside chroot-script as well. * Activate zsh completion. * Rewrote interfaces() code for handling of /etc/network/interfaces. Thanks for the pointer, formorer. * Make sure stopping a service inside chroot-script does not fail chroot-script itself. -- Michael Prokop Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:23:19 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.8) unstable; urgency=low * Add BOOT_APPEND option for kernel appendline -- Alexander Wirt Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:19:06 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.7) unstable; urgency=low * Support setting some variables via cmdline. * Support full automatic installation via debian2hd. * Change logic of function execution and improved error handling in some functions. * Use aptitude instead of apt-get in chroot-script, but only if it's available. * Use DEBIAN_FRONTEND='noninteractive' so we avoid unnecessary questions when installing. (Thanks, formorer!) * Added additional check to grub code for running sed on /boot/grub/menu.lst. * Updated TODO file. * Use asciidoc for manpage generation. * Added basic zsh-completion (thanks, ft!), but do not install it yet. We have to adjust $fpath in grml-etc-core first. -- Michael Prokop Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:57:29 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.6) unstable; urgency=low * Support Debian release with codename 'lenny'. Depend on debootstrap/cdebootstrap versions supporting lenny therefore. * Split all the code into separate functions. * Export LANG=C and LC_ALL=C as we don't have the locales inside the chroot when running grml-debootstrap. (Just a cosmetic change as there aren't any errors but warning messages from dpkg.) * Always assume architecture of the running system (overwriting via $ARCH is still supported of course). * Write variables from grml-debootstrap to /etc/debootstrap/variables and provide it to chroot-script. * Support stages. [Closes: issue151] -- Michael Prokop Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:35:21 +0200 grml-debootstrap (0.5) unstable; urgency=low * Changed Architecture from any to all. -- Michael Prokop Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:58:53 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.4) unstable; urgency=low * Support installation into directory. -- Michael Prokop Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:00:38 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.3) unstable; urgency=low * Initial support for $ARCH. * Added function for clean exit (using trap). -- Michael Prokop Fri, 10 Nov 2006 00:51:09 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.2) unstable; urgency=low * Support Sarge and Sid as "$RELEASE"s as well. * Added 'debootstrap | cdebootstrap' and grml-etc-core to depends. * Added support for: - cdebootstrap [broken for sarge as $RELEASE, see #390510] - setting hostname via /etc/hostname - /etc/kernel-img.conf - support setting locales through /etc/debootstrap/locale.gen * Added ssh, mdadm and lvm2 to default package list. * Rewrote kernel package version handling (removed from package list to be able to support sarge as well). -- Michael Prokop Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:05:19 +0100 grml-debootstrap (0.1) unstable; urgency=low * Initial release. -- Michael Prokop Fri, 3 Nov 2006 01:10:52 +0100