grml-debootstrap.git
11 years agodm-mod: also check for device-mapper support using /proc/misc
Michael Prokop [Thu, 7 Jun 2012 19:02:54 +0000 (21:02 +0200)]
dm-mod: also check for device-mapper support using /proc/misc

As noted in http://gsocdebian.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/dm_mod/

11 years agodisplay architecture in checkconfiguration summary
Darshaka Pathirana [Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:25:49 +0000 (03:25 +0100)]
display architecture in checkconfiguration summary

+ also fixed minor typo
+ synced dialog and text output order (release, hostname, mirror)

11 years agodetect architecture before checkconfiguration
Darshaka Pathirana [Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:24:56 +0000 (03:24 +0100)]
detect architecture before checkconfiguration

11 years agoRelease new version 0.51 v0.51
Michael Prokop [Mon, 14 May 2012 16:22:35 +0000 (18:22 +0200)]
Release new version 0.51

11 years agoAdjust source code comment for --nopassword option
Michael Prokop [Mon, 14 May 2012 16:21:10 +0000 (18:21 +0200)]
Adjust source code comment for --nopassword option

11 years agoDisplay grml-debootstrap version information in configuration-check dialog
Michael Prokop [Mon, 14 May 2012 16:14:34 +0000 (18:14 +0200)]
Display grml-debootstrap version information in configuration-check dialog

11 years agoDisplay debootstrap.log if bootstrapping failed and log file isn't empty
Michael Prokop [Mon, 14 May 2012 16:09:28 +0000 (18:09 +0200)]
Display debootstrap.log if bootstrapping failed and log file isn't empty

This makes debugging failing bootstrapping easier...

11 years agoRemove chroot-script after execution
Michael Prokop [Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:07:24 +0000 (22:07 +0200)]
Remove chroot-script after execution

Restumbled upon it again during a discussion with Carsten Hey <carsten@debian.org>
regarding #670106

11 years agoRedirect eerror messages to stderr
Michael Prokop [Mon, 14 May 2012 14:36:28 +0000 (16:36 +0200)]
Redirect eerror messages to stderr

11 years agoDrop --insecure/SECURE option + instead depend on debian-archive-keyring
Michael Prokop [Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:19:06 +0000 (18:19 +0200)]
Drop --insecure/SECURE option + instead depend on debian-archive-keyring

When deploying Debian/squeeze from Debian/wheezy it fails with:

| Release signed by unknown key (key id AED4B06F473041FA)

and as Ubuntu provides grml-debootstrap in universe but its
/etc/apt/trusted.gpg doesn't include Debian's repos keys it also
fails there.  As soon as
/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg is available we
don't have to take care of it, so just drop the additional code
and deprecate the --insecure cmdline option and SECURE config
file option and instead depend on the debian-archive-keyring
package.

11 years agoVM feature: improve sed command line to replace root=... kernel option
Michael Prokop [Sun, 13 May 2012 16:02:57 +0000 (18:02 +0200)]
VM feature: improve sed command line to replace root=... kernel option

Quoting bugreport:

| [...] I found an issue which renders
| every preconfigured BOOTPARAMS for vmfiles useless.
|
| Near the end of grml-debootstrap the grub config is changed to boot in
| virtual environments. Unfortunately the whole line is replaced to
| root=/dev/sda1 and each parameter that was previously set is gone by
| then.
|
| See attached a diff that just replaces the root device string.

Thanks: Conny Seidel <conny.seidel@amd.com> for bugreport + patch

11 years agoRelease new version 0.50 v0.50
Michael Prokop [Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:04:36 +0000 (02:04 +0200)]
Release new version 0.50

11 years agoMake sure loop module is present [Closes: issue1155]
Michael Prokop [Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:01:38 +0000 (12:01 +0200)]
Make sure loop module is present [Closes: issue1155]

Thanks: Christian Hofstaedtler for the bugreport

11 years agoRemove the sysfs noauto entry from the installed fstab
Gregor Thill [Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:35:31 +0000 (21:35 +0200)]
Remove the sysfs noauto entry from the installed fstab

This entry causes udev not to be loaded on current Debian Wheezy.

Closes: #670074

11 years agodocs: mention http://archive.debian.org/debian/ for lenny release
Michael Prokop [Fri, 20 Apr 2012 10:03:21 +0000 (12:03 +0200)]
docs: mention archive.debian.org/debian/ for lenny release

12 years agoRelease new version 0.49 v0.49
Michael Prokop [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:44:46 +0000 (14:44 +0100)]
Release new version 0.49

12 years agoUpdate years of copyright
Michael Prokop [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:43:41 +0000 (14:43 +0100)]
Update years of copyright

12 years agoBump Standards-Version to 3.9.3
Michael Prokop [Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:43:15 +0000 (14:43 +0100)]
Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3

12 years agoRun unmount of chroot's /dev twice
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:33:52 +0000 (13:33 +0100)]
Run unmount of chroot's /dev twice

Closes: #657023
Thanks: Michael Hanke <mih@debian.org> for reporting and testing

12 years agoTry to load dm-mod kernel module if kpartx fails
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:29:40 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
Try to load dm-mod kernel module if kpartx fails

dm-mod isn't loaded OOTB on plain Debian/squeeze installations,
don't annoy the user...

12 years agoVM installation: also check for parted executable
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:29:13 +0000 (11:29 +0100)]
VM installation: also check for parted executable

12 years agoCheck for dialog executeable only when using interactive mode
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:28:48 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
Check for dialog executeable only when using interactive mode

12 years agoSlightly improve bailout and cleanup functions to better catch errors
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:28:21 +0000 (11:28 +0100)]
Slightly improve bailout and cleanup functions to better catch errors

12 years agoWording: since->because
Michael Prokop [Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:44:18 +0000 (13:44 +0100)]
Wording: since->because

12 years agogrub_install: slightly change message if grub is not installed
Michael Prokop [Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:35:58 +0000 (13:35 +0100)]
grub_install: slightly change message if grub is not installed

If using the VM install feature then grub is installed in
main grml-debootstrap script instead of the chroot script.
So don't confuse people too much with "not installing grub"
and later actually installing grub...

12 years agoRework cleanup process
Michael Prokop [Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:15:49 +0000 (13:15 +0100)]
Rework cleanup process

12 years agoRun upgrade procedure by default (disable via UPGRADE_SYSTEM config)
Michael Prokop [Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:26:52 +0000 (18:26 +0100)]
Run upgrade procedure by default (disable via UPGRADE_SYSTEM config)

12 years agoRelease new version 0.48 v0.48
Michael Prokop [Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:14:06 +0000 (18:14 +0100)]
Release new version 0.48

12 years agoAdd dialog to Recommends
Christian Hofstaedtler [Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:59:54 +0000 (00:59 +0100)]
Add dialog to Recommends

As the interactive frontend does not work without dialog, we should at
least recommend installing it.

12 years agomake sure grub-pc is installed when grub option is used
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:16:56 +0000 (00:16 +0200)]
make sure grub-pc is installed when grub option is used

12 years agomake sure chroot variables are quoted
Michael Prokop [Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:05:40 +0000 (02:05 +0200)]
make sure chroot variables are quoted

Otherwise something like:

  TUNE2FS=tune2fs -c0 -i0

might result in /etc/debootstrap/variables in the chroot.

12 years agodrop enabled config variables from config file and use defaults
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:50:39 +0000 (23:50 +0200)]
drop enabled config variables from config file and use defaults

It was a bad design decision to provide default settings in
the configuration file. Let's clean this up.

Thanks: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org> for review and improvements.

12 years agodisable filesystem check by default
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:49:11 +0000 (22:49 +0200)]
disable filesystem check by default

Shouldn't be necessary anymore (thanks for testing, Jimmy).
Since it's annoying and we noticed many users disable it
anyway let's try to not use it by default.

12 years agoupdate release table (drop etch, add wheezy)
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:44:37 +0000 (22:44 +0200)]
update release table (drop etch, add wheezy)

12 years agodocs: improve option formating, minor typo fixes
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:31:06 +0000 (22:31 +0200)]
docs: improve option formating, minor typo fixes

12 years agoclarify usage of --arch option
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:17:55 +0000 (22:17 +0200)]
clarify usage of --arch option

12 years agosupport --grmlrepos command line option
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 18:27:13 +0000 (20:27 +0200)]
support --grmlrepos command line option

12 years agovim modeline: set shiftwidth to a less insane value
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:04:27 +0000 (19:04 +0200)]
vim modeline: set shiftwidth to a less insane value

12 years agodo not run fsck when deploying virtual machine
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:33:31 +0000 (18:33 +0200)]
do not run fsck when deploying virtual machine

When running filesystem check on the loopback device
of the virtual machine we get something like:

| fsck.ext3: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/mapper/loop1p1

since the loopback device has been removed already.
Since fsck shouldn't be necessary at all let's just
skip it when building VMs.

12 years agoSupport --nopassword option to not prompt for the root password
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:45:13 +0000 (17:45 +0200)]
Support --nopassword option to not prompt for the root password

12 years agochroot-script: clarify error message iff packages is not available + send it to stderr
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:15:05 +0000 (17:15 +0200)]
chroot-script: clarify error message iff packages is not available + send it to stderr

12 years agoclarify usage text of --packages option
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:14:39 +0000 (17:14 +0200)]
clarify usage text of --packages option

12 years agoFix debian/copyright to point to GPL-2 license
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:37:36 +0000 (00:37 +0200)]
Fix debian/copyright to point to GPL-2 license

This solves lintian P: copyright-refers-to-symlink-license.

12 years agoReworded package Description a tiny bit
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:33:57 +0000 (00:33 +0200)]
Reworded package Description a tiny bit

12 years agoSwitch to source format 3.0 (native)
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:31:58 +0000 (00:31 +0200)]
Switch to source format 3.0 (native)

This solves lintian I: missing-debian-source-format. As this is a native
package, this only has upsides.

12 years agoInstall bootgrub.mksh 0755
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:29:32 +0000 (00:29 +0200)]
Install bootgrub.mksh 0755

This solves lintian W: script-not-executable, and I don't see why
we shouldn't install bootgrub.mksh +x.

12 years agoReformat NEWS.Debian
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 28 Aug 2011 22:27:45 +0000 (00:27 +0200)]
Reformat NEWS.Debian

This solves lintian I: debian-news-entry-uses-asterisk

12 years agochroot-script: be more verbose about steps executed in chrootmirror().
Michael Prokop [Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:05:52 +0000 (15:05 +0200)]
chroot-script: be more verbose about steps executed in chrootmirror().

12 years agochroot-script: de-duplicate code WRT security mirror.
Michael Prokop [Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:01:13 +0000 (15:01 +0200)]
chroot-script: de-duplicate code WRT security mirror.

12 years agoReleasing new version 0.47. v0.47
Michael Prokop [Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:05:23 +0000 (18:05 +0200)]
Releasing new version 0.47.

12 years agobailout on dialog cancellation
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:02:35 +0000 (21:02 +0200)]
bailout on dialog cancellation

12 years agofix ported eend function return value
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:19:49 +0000 (21:19 +0200)]
fix ported eend function return value

12 years agoDepend on gawk, as we're using that
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:52:44 +0000 (20:52 +0200)]
Depend on gawk, as we're using that

12 years agoUpdate package description
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:26:17 +0000 (13:26 +0200)]
Update package description

12 years agoFix lintian warning debian-rules-missing-recommended-target
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:04:34 +0000 (12:04 +0200)]
Fix lintian warning debian-rules-missing-recommended-target

12 years agoPrepare control file for targetting Debian
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:55:33 +0000 (11:55 +0200)]
Prepare control file for targetting Debian

12 years agoUpdate copyright file based on git log
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:55:23 +0000 (11:55 +0200)]
Update copyright file based on git log

12 years agoFix vim syntax folding issue with missing }}}.
Michael Prokop [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:54:14 +0000 (13:54 +0200)]
Fix vim syntax folding issue with missing }}}.

12 years agoDrop "set -e" from the scripts.
Michael Prokop [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:51:57 +0000 (13:51 +0200)]
Drop "set -e" from the scripts.

12 years agoDon't depend on grml-etc-core
Christian Hofstaedtler [Tue, 26 Jul 2011 08:36:25 +0000 (10:36 +0200)]
Don't depend on grml-etc-core

Internalized some functions from lsb-functions, script-functions
in simplified versions.

12 years agoUse /bin/bash for tests instead of /bin/zsh
Ulrich Dangel [Tue, 31 May 2011 07:21:20 +0000 (09:21 +0200)]
Use /bin/bash for tests instead of /bin/zsh

12 years agoRelease new version 0.46. v0.46
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 May 2011 21:28:16 +0000 (23:28 +0200)]
Release new version 0.46.

Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
12 years agoBump Standards-Version to 3.9.2.
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 May 2011 21:31:31 +0000 (23:31 +0200)]
Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2.

Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
12 years agoConsequently use eerror for displaying error messages.
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 May 2011 21:11:55 +0000 (23:11 +0200)]
Consequently use eerror for displaying error messages.

12 years agoSupport --force option to skip user acknowledgement and do not prompt for user input.
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 May 2011 21:05:19 +0000 (23:05 +0200)]
Support --force option to skip user acknowledgement and do not prompt for user input.

12 years agoSupport --vmfile and --vmsize command line options for deploying a virtual machine.
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 May 2011 16:55:06 +0000 (18:55 +0200)]
Support --vmfile and --vmsize command line options for deploying a virtual machine.

Using the --vmfile option sets up a virtual machine instead of
deploying Debian to a block device or directory.

The --vmsize option configures the size of the virtual disk file
that's being deployed.

Thanks to Thorsten Glaser for help with installing Grub accordingly.

12 years agoUpdate package description and documentation to reflect squeeze as current stable...
Michael Prokop [Mon, 30 May 2011 16:53:06 +0000 (18:53 +0200)]
Update package description and documentation to reflect squeeze as current stable release.

12 years agoRelease new version 0.45. v0.45
Michael Prokop [Sat, 14 May 2011 01:16:18 +0000 (03:16 +0200)]
Release new version 0.45.

Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
12 years agoBe quiet when checking for package precense.
Michael Prokop [Sat, 14 May 2011 01:15:32 +0000 (03:15 +0200)]
Be quiet when checking for package precense.

12 years agoImprove installed-check for packages that should be reconfigured.
Michael Prokop [Wed, 4 May 2011 11:17:01 +0000 (13:17 +0200)]
Improve installed-check for packages that should be reconfigured.

13 years agoInstall os-prober by default.
Michael Prokop [Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:03:34 +0000 (15:03 +0200)]
Install os-prober by default.

If os-prober isn't installed grub doesn't detect the non-Debian
operating systems. os-prober does all the necessary magic, so
let's install it by default.

13 years agoRelease new version 0.44 v0.44
Michael Prokop [Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:31:18 +0000 (12:31 +0100)]
Release new version 0.44

13 years agoIntegrate Debian/squeeze and Debian/wheezy proberly.
Michael Prokop [Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:18:41 +0000 (12:18 +0100)]
Integrate Debian/squeeze and Debian/wheezy proberly.

13 years agoAdd security.debian.org to sources.list (except for unstable/sid). [Closes: issue967]
Michael Prokop [Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:17:25 +0000 (11:17 +0100)]
Add security.debian.org to sources.list (except for unstable/sid). [Closes: issue967]

Signed-off-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
13 years agoadd lsb-release to package list
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:14:34 +0000 (18:14 +0100)]
add lsb-release to package list

Signed-off-by: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org>
Acked-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
13 years agoadd rsync to package list
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:14:19 +0000 (18:14 +0100)]
add rsync to package list

Signed-off-by: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org>
Acked-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
13 years agoturn off Install-Recommends for our apt-get calls
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:13:53 +0000 (18:13 +0100)]
turn off Install-Recommends for our apt-get calls

Signed-off-by: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org>
Acked-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
13 years agoInstall (non-free) firmware for Linux kernel
Christian Hofstaedtler [Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:06:46 +0000 (18:06 +0100)]
Install (non-free) firmware for Linux kernel

Signed-off-by: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@grml.org>
Acked-by: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
13 years agoRelease new version 0.43. v0.43
Michael Prokop [Sat, 8 Jan 2011 00:33:34 +0000 (01:33 +0100)]
Release new version 0.43.

13 years agoAutomatically reboot after 10 seconds of inactivity after succesfully finishing autom...
Michael Prokop [Sat, 8 Jan 2011 00:29:00 +0000 (01:29 +0100)]
Automatically reboot after 10 seconds of inactivity after succesfully finishing automatic installation.

Thanks for the suggestion, Christian.

13 years agoRelease new version 0.42. v0.42
Michael Prokop [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:54:24 +0000 (15:54 +0100)]
Release new version 0.42.

13 years agoMakefile: drop uniq/sed/... workarounds for broken docbook-xsl (1.71.0.dfsg.1-1).
Michael Prokop [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:54:05 +0000 (15:54 +0100)]
Makefile: drop uniq/sed/... workarounds for broken docbook-xsl (1.71.0.dfsg.1-1).

13 years agoMove grub_install from grml-debootstrap to chroot-script.
Michael Prokop [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:50:52 +0000 (15:50 +0100)]
Move grub_install from grml-debootstrap to chroot-script.

13 years agogrml-debootstrap.8.txt: Add Squeeze as alternative recommendation as suite.
Michael Prokop [Tue, 28 Dec 2010 13:41:24 +0000 (14:41 +0100)]
grml-debootstrap.8.txt: Add Squeeze as alternative recommendation as suite.

13 years agoRelease new version 0.41. v0.41
Michael Prokop [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:56:07 +0000 (14:56 +0100)]
Release new version 0.41.

13 years agoImprove check4root.
Michael Prokop [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:18:23 +0000 (15:18 +0100)]
Improve check4root.

13 years agoImprove check4root message WRT usage instructions.
Michael Prokop [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:14:43 +0000 (15:14 +0100)]
Improve check4root message WRT usage instructions.

13 years agoFix --help parsing.
Michael Prokop [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:12:27 +0000 (15:12 +0100)]
Fix --help parsing.

13 years agoRun grml-debootstrap under bash.
Michael Prokop [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:00:58 +0000 (15:00 +0100)]
Run grml-debootstrap under bash.

13 years agoDynamically calculate version number using the Debian package version.
Michael Prokop [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:55:13 +0000 (14:55 +0100)]
Dynamically calculate version number using the Debian package version.

13 years agoUse /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.list for grml-repos, retrieve grml-debian-keyring...
Michael Prokop [Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:52:13 +0000 (14:52 +0100)]
Use /etc/apt/sources.list.d/grml.list for grml-repos, retrieve grml-debian-keyring package if possible

Closes: issue867

13 years agoBump version number in script and release version 0.40. v0.40
Michael Prokop [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:28:15 +0000 (16:28 +0200)]
Bump version number in script and release version 0.40.

13 years agomdraids for lenny need to use metadata format 0.90
Christian Hofstaedtler [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:11:19 +0000 (16:11 +0200)]
mdraids for lenny need to use metadata format 0.90

13 years agoRelease new version 0.39. v0.39
Michael Prokop [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:51:42 +0000 (14:51 +0200)]
Release new version 0.39.

13 years agoBump Standards-Version to 3.9.1.
Michael Prokop [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:52:24 +0000 (14:52 +0200)]
Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.1.

13 years agoremove bashism "read -s" from chroot-script
Christian Hofstaedtler [Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:17:57 +0000 (14:17 +0200)]
remove bashism "read -s" from chroot-script

chroot-script runs in target, which might very well use dash, which
doesn't have "read -s". Patch based on mira's recommendations.

13 years agoUpdate version number.
Michael Prokop [Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:44:58 +0000 (11:44 +0200)]
Update version number.

13 years agoUpdate changelog.
Michael Prokop [Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:44:33 +0000 (11:44 +0200)]
Update changelog.

13 years agoremove 'umount -a' in bailout()
Tong Sun [Tue, 8 Jun 2010 21:50:52 +0000 (17:50 -0400)]
remove 'umount -a' in bailout()

see http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue806

13 years agoRelease version 0.38. v0.38
Michael Prokop [Thu, 27 May 2010 22:45:50 +0000 (00:45 +0200)]
Release version 0.38.