grml-live.git
9 years agoCheck for failed updatebase and instsoft hook executions
Michael Prokop [Thu, 3 Jul 2014 14:03:04 +0000 (16:03 +0200)]
Check for failed updatebase and instsoft hook executions

9 years agoupdatebase.GRMLBASE: execute fcopy with -i flag to ignore non-matching files
Michael Prokop [Thu, 3 Jul 2014 13:33:01 +0000 (15:33 +0200)]
updatebase.GRMLBASE: execute fcopy with -i flag to ignore non-matching files

Otherwise when building testing/unstable we get:

| fcopy: no matching file for any class for etc/apt/preferences.d/wheezy-backports defined.

and fcopy fails to execute:

| updatebase.GRMLBASE  FAILED with exit code 1.

and causing the following '$ROOTCMD apt-key add /etc/apt/grml.key
to never get executed then.

9 years agoRelease new version 0.25.0 v0.25.0
Michael Prokop [Thu, 3 Jul 2014 11:16:17 +0000 (13:16 +0200)]
Release new version 0.25.0

9 years agoFixes to be able to build Grml based on Debian Wheezy
Krisztian VASAS [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:20:44 +0000 (12:20 +0200)]
Fixes to be able to build Grml based on Debian Wheezy

In Debian Wheezy initramfs-tools is 0.109, but the Grml kernel needs
at least 0.110. The backport contains the requested version.

9 years agoDon't use addons in GRUB if NO_ADDONS is set
Krisztian VASAS [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:20:43 +0000 (12:20 +0200)]
Don't use addons in GRUB if NO_ADDONS is set

9 years agoPossibility to give LIVE_CONF as env. variable
Krisztian VASAS [Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:20:42 +0000 (12:20 +0200)]
Possibility to give LIVE_CONF as env. variable

9 years agoNew cmdline option -S + env variable SCRIPTS_DIRECTORY to set script directory
Michael Prokop [Thu, 3 Jul 2014 10:58:46 +0000 (12:58 +0200)]
New cmdline option -S + env variable SCRIPTS_DIRECTORY to set script directory

This allows us to run grml-live from the Git repository without
having /usr/share/grml-live/scripts available.

Thanks: Krisztian VASAS <iron@ironiq.hu> for the initial patch

9 years ago21-usersetup: check for existing /bin/zsh inside the chroot
Michael Prokop [Fri, 20 Jun 2014 09:20:39 +0000 (11:20 +0200)]
21-usersetup: check for existing /bin/zsh inside the chroot

/bin/zsh usually points to /etc/alternatives/zsh, but if
/etc/alternatives/zsh doesn't exist on the *build* system,
the test for existing /bin/zsh fails, so we need to verify
the existence of /bin/zsh *inside* the chroot.

Thanks: Krisztian VASAS <iron@ironiq.hu> for reporting the problem
Acked-by: Alexander Wirt <formorer@grml.org>
9 years agoAdd 'rsync' to dependencies
Elias Probst [Wed, 28 May 2014 20:44:57 +0000 (22:44 +0200)]
Add 'rsync' to dependencies

Otherwise using a $CHROOT_INSTALL will result in a message like this:
```
/usr/sbin/grml-live: line 1150: rsync: command not found
```

9 years agoAdd falls positive privacy-breach-generic to lintian overrides
Michael Prokop [Mon, 26 May 2014 10:18:53 +0000 (12:18 +0200)]
Add falls positive privacy-breach-generic to lintian overrides

9 years agoRelease new version 0.24.0 v0.24.0
Michael Prokop [Mon, 26 May 2014 10:10:37 +0000 (12:10 +0200)]
Release new version 0.24.0

9 years agoFurther updates for syslinux v3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-4 support
Michael Prokop [Mon, 26 May 2014 10:03:29 +0000 (12:03 +0200)]
Further updates for syslinux v3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-4 support

We need to also include ldlinux.c32, libcom32.c32 and
libutil.c32, but only for syslinux versions >3:4.05+dfsg-6+deb8u1.

While the modules are located in directory
/usr/lib/syslinux/modules/bios/ the main isolinux.bin file is in
either /usr/lib/ISOLINUX or /usr/lib/syslinux, so adjust code
accordingly.

9 years agoDo not fail in upgrade mode (-u) when configuration files have been modified
Michael Prokop [Mon, 26 May 2014 08:49:00 +0000 (10:49 +0200)]
Do not fail in upgrade mode (-u) when configuration files have been modified

Custom configuration files might be present and upgrading
packages might fail then:

| Setting up sudo (1.8.9p5-1) ...
|
| Configuration file '/etc/sudoers'
|  ==> File on system created by you or by a script.
|  ==> File also in package provided by package maintainer.
|    What would you like to do about it ?  Your options are:
|     Y or I  : install the package maintainer's version
|     N or O  : keep your currently-installed version
|       D     : show the differences between the versions
|       Z     : start a shell to examine the situation
|  The default action is to keep your current version.
| *** sudoers (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? dpkg: error processing package sudo (--configure):

9 years agoSW: move syslinux into GRMLBASE class, add pxelinux + isolinux
Michael Prokop [Fri, 23 May 2014 11:09:33 +0000 (13:09 +0200)]
SW: move syslinux into GRMLBASE class, add pxelinux + isolinux

Recent versions of syslinux (at least applies to v3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-4)
split the packages into isolinux, pxelinux, syslinux + syslinux-common.

9 years agoAdjust syslinux directories for syslinux v3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-4
Michael Prokop [Fri, 23 May 2014 11:07:50 +0000 (13:07 +0200)]
Adjust syslinux directories for syslinux v3:6.03~pre1+dfsg-4

Recent versions of syslinux no longer provide the files we have
been relying on in the syslinux package any longer but files have
been split into packages isolinux, pxelinux, syslinux + syslinux-common
with different directory names.

9 years agoSW: add iperf to GRML_FULL
Michael Prokop [Fri, 16 May 2014 09:45:04 +0000 (11:45 +0200)]
SW: add iperf to GRML_FULL

As suggested by Frank Terbeck <ft@grml.org>

9 years agoAdd more filesystems to modular GRUB2
Michael Schierl [Sat, 3 May 2014 13:05:52 +0000 (15:05 +0200)]
Add more filesystems to modular GRUB2

This fixes the bug described in http://bts.grml.org/grml/issue1306
that a grml2usb prepared medium cannot boot from (U)EFI.

Added a few more filesystems just in case somebody wants to use
grml2usb with a non-mainstream filesystem.

I am unable to reproduce the second bug in that issue, when dd-ing
the ISO to a USB device - this scenario works fine with the (U)EFI
implementation used by VirtualBox.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.23.3 v0.23.3
Michael Prokop [Sat, 19 Apr 2014 20:41:16 +0000 (22:41 +0200)]
Release new version 0.23.3

10 years agoProvide GRMLBASE script 49-sshd to adjust sshd configuration [Closes: issue1304]
Michael Prokop [Sat, 19 Apr 2014 15:00:30 +0000 (17:00 +0200)]
Provide GRMLBASE script 49-sshd to adjust sshd configuration [Closes: issue1304]

Providing the openssh-server/permit-root-login debconf option sadly
isn't enough to switch from "PermitRootLogin without-password"
to "PermitRootLogin yes", so we have to adjust the file on-the-fly.
(Let's try to avoid shipping the sshd configuration file for now,
to make sure the file works for all the Debian releases.)

While at it also disable UseDNS which speeds up login when DNS
is unconfigured/unavailable/broken.

10 years agoSW: replace zd1211-firmware with firmware-zd1211
Michael Prokop [Sat, 19 Apr 2014 12:57:13 +0000 (14:57 +0200)]
SW: replace zd1211-firmware with firmware-zd1211

10 years agodebconf: enable permit-root-login for openssh-server package [Closes: issue1304]
Michael Prokop [Sat, 19 Apr 2014 12:52:12 +0000 (14:52 +0200)]
debconf: enable permit-root-login for openssh-server package [Closes: issue1304]

10 years agoDrop "forensic" boot option from Forensic Mode boot menu
Michael Prokop [Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:26:14 +0000 (11:26 +0200)]
Drop "forensic" boot option from Forensic Mode boot menu

The "forensic" kernel option (which corresponds to the "Forensic Mode"
boot menu entry) sets all the according boot options. If the "forensic"
boot option is used then grml-autoconfig raises a warning for wrong
usage, so let's avoid further confusion since "forensic" boot option
itself doesn't change anything.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.23.2 v0.23.2
Michael Prokop [Sat, 29 Mar 2014 16:32:05 +0000 (17:32 +0100)]
Release new version 0.23.2

10 years agoWork around regression in GRUB 2.00-22
Michael Schierl [Sat, 29 Mar 2014 12:34:28 +0000 (13:34 +0100)]
Work around regression in GRUB 2.00-22

Seems that Grub 2.00-22 cannot properly load a gzipped initrd file
with 'linux16' command (which is used to load the gzipped FreeDOS
memdisk image). As a workaround, mount the filesystem using the
'loopback' command (which transparently decompresses it) and then use
blocklist syntax to load the whole mounted filesystem as an initrd.

10 years agoMake sure to not leak any mdadm configurations from the build system
Michael Prokop [Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:33:52 +0000 (09:33 +0100)]
Make sure to not leak any mdadm configurations from the build system

We haven't run into this issue yet, though it was reported
on the debian-live mailing list:

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2014/03/msg00063.html

and we don't want to have anyone using grml-live run into it.

Thanks: Evgeni Golov for the pointer
Reviewed-by: Evgeni Golov
10 years agoRemove /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original during cleanup
Michael Prokop [Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:20:53 +0000 (09:20 +0100)]
Remove /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original during cleanup

This file provides the original content of the system where the
build is running from, there's no reason we ship this with
our ISOs.

Thanks: Evgeni Golov for the pointer

10 years agoMerge branch 'modular-grub' of https://github.com/schierlm/grml-live
Michael Prokop [Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:15:12 +0000 (09:15 +0100)]
Merge branch 'modular-grub' of https://github.com/schierlm/grml-live

10 years agoMake the GRUB images modular
Michael Schierl [Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:39:32 +0000 (20:39 +0100)]
Make the GRUB images modular

Now, both the i386-pc and the amd64 UEFI GRUB images are modular.
This means, that startup is faster and that all modules (even those
that cannot be embedded) can be used.

The embedded configfile has been simplified since conditionals are not
supported by the simple command parser of the rescue shell, without
sacrificing any functionality.

Also, the main build script now copies the *.mod and *.lst files for
UEFI GRUB to the ISO.

[My statement that the .lst files are no longer needed was wrong; at
least the command.lst is used for autoloading modules that have
different names than their commands.]

10 years agoAdd warning for running grml-live from git
Michael Schierl [Wed, 26 Mar 2014 19:31:45 +0000 (20:31 +0100)]
Add warning for running grml-live from git

If you do without setting GRML_FAI_CONFIG, it will not use your edited FAI
scripts, but the ones installed by default.

10 years agoRun wrap-and-sort -a on debian directory
Michael Prokop [Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:44:56 +0000 (19:44 +0100)]
Run wrap-and-sort -a on debian directory

10 years agoAdd bzip2 to depends, used for netboot package generation
Michael Prokop [Wed, 26 Mar 2014 18:42:36 +0000 (19:42 +0100)]
Add bzip2 to depends, used for netboot package generation

Thanks: Michael Schierl for the bugreport

10 years agoFix syntax error in "${BUILD_OUTPUT}"/boot/grub/i386-pc/ creation
Michael Prokop [Wed, 26 Mar 2014 17:13:33 +0000 (18:13 +0100)]
Fix syntax error in "${BUILD_OUTPUT}"/boot/grub/i386-pc/ creation

10 years agoInstall grub modules into /boot/grub/i386-pc [Testing: issue1297]
Michael Prokop [Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:41:11 +0000 (23:41 +0100)]
Install grub modules into /boot/grub/i386-pc [Testing: issue1297]

Otherwise for example Addons loaded via linux16 (e.g. memtest) fail
to boot because of:

| error: file `/boot/grub/i386-pc/linux16.mod' not found
| error: can't find command `linux16'.

Thanks: Michael Schierl

10 years agoSW: replace lynx with lynx-cur
Michael Prokop [Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:10:26 +0000 (09:10 +0100)]
SW: replace lynx with lynx-cur

lynx is a transitional package pointing to lynx-cur

Thanks: Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>

10 years agoSW: drop libertas-firmware from GRMLBASE
Michael Prokop [Tue, 25 Mar 2014 08:08:52 +0000 (09:08 +0100)]
SW: drop libertas-firmware from GRMLBASE

It's a transitional package for firmware-libertas which we
already have on our list.

Thanks: Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>

10 years agoname the correct, non-deprecated, persistence label first
Evgeni Golov [Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:21:59 +0000 (07:21 +0100)]
name the correct, non-deprecated, persistence label first

10 years agoRelease new version 0.23.1 v0.23.1
Michael Prokop [Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:44:08 +0000 (10:44 +0100)]
Release new version 0.23.1

10 years agoSW: drop recover, abandoned upstream
Michael Prokop [Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:54:16 +0000 (08:54 +0100)]
SW: drop recover, abandoned upstream

See Debian's #735858 for further details.

10 years agoRework script which checks for uninstallable packages
Michael Prokop [Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:49:37 +0000 (08:49 +0100)]
Rework script which checks for uninstallable packages

While older versions of dpkg reported:

| No packages found matching ${package}.

newer ones report:

| dpkg-query: no packages found matching ${package}

Newer versions of dpkg also seem to mix stdout and stderr
(looking like buffering problems?), so the result is unreliable
for us. Therefore split handling of stdout and stderr output.

This fixes the problem that the junit output wasn't
really adequate anymore lately.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.23.0 v0.23.0
Michael Prokop [Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:24:36 +0000 (16:24 +0100)]
Release new version 0.23.0

10 years agoEnable fbdev for vmwgfx kernel driver [Testing: issue1280]
Michael Prokop [Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:04:37 +0000 (09:04 +0100)]
Enable fbdev for vmwgfx kernel driver [Testing: issue1280]

This is supposed to fix the display issue on
VMware ESXi 5.5, vSphere 5.0 and 5.5 etc where
boot hangs after "Waiting for /dev/" but it's
actually just the display that's hanging.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=714929
for further information.

Thanks: Andreas Gredler <jimmy@grml.org>

10 years agoSW: remove ufsutils from GRML_{SMALL,MEDIUM,FULL,XL}
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:19:44 +0000 (12:19 +0100)]
SW: remove ufsutils from GRML_{SMALL,MEDIUM,FULL,XL}

ufsutils is kfreebsd*-only nowadays

10 years agoMove return code check of FAI-run before wrinting to /etc of live system
Michael Prokop [Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:14:34 +0000 (12:14 +0100)]
Move return code check of FAI-run before wrinting to /etc of live system

If the underlying file system is mounted without suid or dev
permissions we otherwise try to write to the live system
even though FAI run failed to execute.

10 years agoSW: replace transitional package ifenslave-2.6 with ifenslave
Michael Prokop [Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:49:17 +0000 (17:49 +0100)]
SW: replace transitional package ifenslave-2.6 with ifenslave

10 years agoRename "readonly" boot option to "read-only", renamed in live-boot
Michael Prokop [Thu, 6 Feb 2014 08:12:31 +0000 (09:12 +0100)]
Rename "readonly" boot option to "read-only", renamed in live-boot

Upstream broke the "readonly" boot option by renaming
it to "read-only" in live-boot.git commit 5d6acf56. :(

10 years ago33-aptsetup: adopt snapshot.debian.org code for http.debian.net
Michael Prokop [Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:56:10 +0000 (15:56 +0100)]
33-aptsetup: adopt snapshot.debian.org code for http.debian.net

10 years ago98-clean-chroot: get rid of /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.old in RELEASE class
Michael Prokop [Tue, 4 Feb 2014 07:52:45 +0000 (08:52 +0100)]
98-clean-chroot: get rid of /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates.old in RELEASE class

10 years agoRelease new version 0.22.1 v0.22.1
Michael Prokop [Mon, 3 Feb 2014 15:21:33 +0000 (16:21 +0100)]
Release new version 0.22.1

10 years agoForce bootlocal* files to be executables
Michael Prokop [Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:38:04 +0000 (17:38 +0100)]
Force bootlocal* files to be executables

If the files have the wrong permissions on the filesystem
they are useless on the live system.

10 years agoRemove DEBIAN_STABLE file regarding wheezy-backports
Michael Prokop [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 19:25:07 +0000 (20:25 +0100)]
Remove DEBIAN_STABLE file regarding wheezy-backports

linux-base isn't available in wheezy-backports as of today
and the initramfs-tools dependency should be resolvable by
aptitude anyway, so let's try getting rid of this workaround.

Thanks: Andras Korn

10 years agozsh completion: update list of Debian suites
Michael Prokop [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 19:20:45 +0000 (20:20 +0100)]
zsh completion: update list of Debian suites

10 years agogrml-live.conf: adjust debootstrap cmdline for Debian/wheezy
Michael Prokop [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 19:20:35 +0000 (20:20 +0100)]
grml-live.conf: adjust debootstrap cmdline for Debian/wheezy

10 years agogrml-live.conf: adjust SUITE comment for new defaults
Michael Prokop [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 19:19:14 +0000 (20:19 +0100)]
grml-live.conf: adjust SUITE comment for new defaults

10 years agoUpdate DEBIAN_STABLE for wheezy as current stable release
Michael Prokop [Sun, 5 Jan 2014 19:15:41 +0000 (20:15 +0100)]
Update DEBIAN_STABLE for wheezy as current stable release

10 years agoRelease new version 0.22.0 v0.22.0
Michael Prokop [Tue, 24 Dec 2013 12:14:11 +0000 (13:14 +0100)]
Release new version 0.22.0

10 years agoSW: add nocache to GRML_FULL
Michael Prokop [Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:42:32 +0000 (11:42 +0100)]
SW: add nocache to GRML_FULL

10 years agoGRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: do not execute apt-get update
Michael Prokop [Wed, 18 Dec 2013 20:34:29 +0000 (21:34 +0100)]
GRMLBASE/98-clean-chroot: do not execute apt-get update

There should be no point in running the apt-get update
command at this place.

10 years agoRELEASE/98-clean-chroot: remove /var/lib/apt/lists/*Translation* files
Michael Prokop [Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:41:43 +0000 (12:41 +0100)]
RELEASE/98-clean-chroot: remove /var/lib/apt/lists/*Translation* files

This saves some further space on the ISO.

10 years agoBump Standards-Version to 3.9.5
Michael Prokop [Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:54:35 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.5

10 years agoSW: add dump to GRML_FULL [Closes: issue1288]
Michael Prokop [Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:54:17 +0000 (11:54 +0100)]
SW: add dump to GRML_FULL [Closes: issue1288]

10 years agoSwitch from cdn.debian.net to http.debian.net
Michael Prokop [Wed, 11 Dec 2013 10:53:57 +0000 (11:53 +0100)]
Switch from cdn.debian.net to http.debian.net

Let's see whether it works nowadays, we hit:

| W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/cdn.debian.net_debian_dists_sid_main_source_Sources  Hash Sum mismatch
| W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/cdn.debian.net_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages  Hash Sum mismatch
| W: Failed to fetch bzip2:/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/cdn.debian.net_debian_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation-en  Hash Sum mismatch

in today's automated builds, so it's worth a try...

10 years agoRelease new version 0.21.6 v0.21.6
Michael Prokop [Thu, 7 Nov 2013 09:19:38 +0000 (10:19 +0100)]
Release new version 0.21.6

10 years agoUpdate list of supported Debian suites/releases and related docs
Michael Prokop [Wed, 23 Oct 2013 13:48:45 +0000 (15:48 +0200)]
Update list of supported Debian suites/releases and related docs

10 years agoSW: add tcplay to GRML_FULL [Closes: issue1282]
Michael Prokop [Tue, 8 Oct 2013 09:09:47 +0000 (11:09 +0200)]
SW: add tcplay to GRML_FULL [Closes: issue1282]

Thanks: Raoul for the suggestion

10 years agogrml-cheatcodes.txt: document passwd and encpasswd boot options
Michael Prokop [Sat, 5 Oct 2013 16:52:25 +0000 (18:52 +0200)]
grml-cheatcodes.txt: document passwd and encpasswd boot options

10 years agoRelease new version 0.21.5 v0.21.5
Michael Prokop [Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:59:03 +0000 (12:59 +0200)]
Release new version 0.21.5

10 years agoDrop trailing dot in 'Boot from next boot device'
Michael Prokop [Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:57:57 +0000 (12:57 +0200)]
Drop trailing dot in 'Boot from next boot device'

This was inconsistent with all the other entries.

Thanks: Andreas Gredler for noticing

10 years agoFix check for presence of pxelinux.0 file
Michael Prokop [Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:54:29 +0000 (09:54 +0200)]
Fix check for presence of pxelinux.0 file

This worked only on for build systems where /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
was present on the build system itself. :)

10 years agoscripts/generate_netboot_package.sh: add closing brace to error message
Michael Prokop [Tue, 10 Sep 2013 13:52:32 +0000 (15:52 +0200)]
scripts/generate_netboot_package.sh: add closing brace to error message

10 years agoRelease new version 0.21.4 v0.21.4
Michael Prokop [Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:25:05 +0000 (13:25 +0200)]
Release new version 0.21.4

10 years agoExecute freshclam only if class FRESHCLAM is set
Michael Prokop [Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:33:15 +0000 (10:33 +0200)]
Execute freshclam only if class FRESHCLAM is set

A current grml-full daily ISO has ~360MB without freshclam data,
including freshclam data it has ~429MB - this isn't worth the disk space,
especially as you're interested in up2date definitions anyway and
freshclam can be executed on the live ISO then.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.21.3 v0.21.3
Michael Prokop [Mon, 9 Sep 2013 21:45:55 +0000 (23:45 +0200)]
Release new version 0.21.3

10 years agoSW: add clonezilla to GRML_FULL
Michael Prokop [Fri, 6 Sep 2013 13:33:01 +0000 (15:33 +0200)]
SW: add clonezilla to GRML_FULL

Thanks to ludinator for the suggestion.

Acked-by: Alexander Wirt <formorer@grml.org>
Acked-by: Evgeni Golov <evgeni@grml.org>
Acked-by: Frank Terbeck <ft@grml.org>
10 years agoSW: add nwipe to GRML_SMALL
Michael Prokop [Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:51:20 +0000 (11:51 +0200)]
SW: add nwipe to GRML_SMALL

Acked-by: Alexander Wirt <formorer@grml.org>
10 years agoSW: add nwipe to GRML_FULL
Michael Prokop [Fri, 6 Sep 2013 09:49:25 +0000 (11:49 +0200)]
SW: add nwipe to GRML_FULL

Thanks to ludinator for the suggestion.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.21.2 v0.21.2
Michael Prokop [Wed, 4 Sep 2013 15:11:58 +0000 (17:11 +0200)]
Release new version 0.21.2

10 years agoSW: add xz-utils to GRMLBASE
Michael Prokop [Wed, 28 Aug 2013 09:13:59 +0000 (11:13 +0200)]
SW: add xz-utils to GRMLBASE

We use compress=xz inside
/etc/grml/fai/config/files/etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/xz-compress/GRMLBASE
so we always need to have xz-utils present.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.21.1 v0.21.1
Michael Prokop [Wed, 14 Aug 2013 11:59:20 +0000 (13:59 +0200)]
Release new version 0.21.1

10 years agodocs: use wheezy and http.debian.net in base.tgz instructions
Michael Prokop [Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:31:45 +0000 (09:31 +0200)]
docs: use wheezy and http.debian.net in base.tgz instructions

10 years agotemplates: Use lowercase 'timeout' command in syslinux configuration
Michael Prokop [Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:59:09 +0000 (00:59 +0200)]
templates: Use lowercase 'timeout' command in syslinux configuration

Related to issue1262 in Grml's BTS.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.21.0 v0.21.0
Michael Prokop [Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:47:18 +0000 (00:47 +0200)]
Release new version 0.21.0

10 years agoSW: drop febootstrap from GRML_FULL
Michael Prokop [Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:39:04 +0000 (00:39 +0200)]
SW: drop febootstrap from GRML_FULL

While febootstrap was a "tool for bootstrapping a Fedora system
(like Debian debootstrap)" until and including the squeeze
release, starting with wheezy it's a "tool for building supermin
appliances" (actually being a transitional package, depending on
package supermin). It's actually a rewrite of febootstrap but
with its present feature set it doesn't seem to be of any use for
Grml.

10 years agoSW: replace epdfview with xpdf in GRML_FULL
Michael Prokop [Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:32:43 +0000 (00:32 +0200)]
SW: replace epdfview with xpdf in GRML_FULL

epdfview is unmaintained and abandonned upstream, see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710550

xpdf with ~5500kB disk space is quite small and useful
for the average user (as compared to zathura and mupdf
which have no buttons)

10 years agoDEBORPHAN/98-clean-chroot: be more verbose about executed steps
Michael Prokop [Wed, 5 Jun 2013 18:40:44 +0000 (20:40 +0200)]
DEBORPHAN/98-clean-chroot: be more verbose about executed steps

10 years agoRevert "Avoid file-rc being considered for removal by deborphan"
Michael Prokop [Wed, 5 Jun 2013 18:36:40 +0000 (20:36 +0200)]
Revert "Avoid file-rc being considered for removal by deborphan"

This reverts commit f565065789c9c28146a9acd2efe5a5a1d2b0d2fb.

Looks like it's not deborphan which removes file-rc but
file-rc gets removed earlier and is just purged through
the DEBORPHAN/98-clean-chroot script.

10 years agoAvoid file-rc being considered for removal by deborphan
Michael Prokop [Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:44:49 +0000 (19:44 +0200)]
Avoid file-rc being considered for removal by deborphan

For whatever reason deborphan seems to consider file-rc
being available for removal since a few days:

| =====   shell: DEBORPHAN/98-clean-chroot   =====
| [...]
| (Reading database ... 24676 files and directories currently installed.)
| Removing file-rc ...
| Purging configuration files for file-rc ...
| Please purge /var/backups/rc.* manually.
| DEBORPHAN/98-clean-chroot OK.

10 years agoUse UTC as default TIMEZONE
Michael Prokop [Mon, 3 Jun 2013 11:19:43 +0000 (13:19 +0200)]
Use UTC as default TIMEZONE

Related to issue1261

10 years agoSW: Add puppet to GRML_FULL
Ulrich Dangel [Fri, 31 May 2013 15:43:38 +0000 (17:43 +0200)]
SW: Add puppet to GRML_FULL

Shipping puppet in GRML_FULL allows to use puppet receipes for system management out of the box.

Closes #11 at github

10 years agoSW: Drop makedev from all GRML_* classes
Michael Prokop [Wed, 29 May 2013 15:45:09 +0000 (17:45 +0200)]
SW: Drop makedev from all GRML_* classes

We once again run into this annoying behaviour of the fuse package:

| Setting up makedev (2.3.1-92) ...
| /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
| /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
| /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
| Setting up fuse (2.9.2-2) ...
| Creating fuse group...
| Adding group `fuse' (GID 104) ...
| Done.
| Creating fuse device...
| /run/udev or .udevdb or .udev presence implies active udev.  Aborting MAKEDEV invocation.
| chown: cannot access '/dev/fuse': No such file or directory
| dpkg: error processing fuse (--configure):
|  subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

as reported in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=696055

The bind mounted /dev in the chroot seems to cause makedev to not execute
anything, while /var/lib/dpkg/info/fuse.postinst uses the following code:

| [...]
|                 if [ ! -d /run/udev ]
|                 then
|                         if [ -x /sbin/MAKEDEV ]
|                         then
|                                 echo "Creating fuse device..."
|
|                                 cd /dev
|                                 MAKEDEV fuse
|                                 chown root:fuse /dev/fuse
|                                 chmod 0660 /dev/fuse
|                         else
|                                 echo "MAKEDEV not installed, skipping device node creation."
|                         fi
|                 else
| [...]

So let's try to get rid of the deprecated makedev package.

10 years agoRelease new version 0.20.2 v0.20.2
Michael Prokop [Mon, 20 May 2013 21:46:13 +0000 (23:46 +0200)]
Release new version 0.20.2

10 years agoGRMLBASE/45-grub-images: fix typo from previous commit
Michael Prokop [Mon, 20 May 2013 21:34:15 +0000 (23:34 +0200)]
GRMLBASE/45-grub-images: fix typo from previous commit

Don't commit on your free day...

Git-Dch: ignore

10 years agoGRMLBASE/45-grub-images: drop raid.mod from static module list
Michael Prokop [Mon, 20 May 2013 21:32:22 +0000 (23:32 +0200)]
GRMLBASE/45-grub-images: drop raid.mod from static module list

Related to previous commit (be660305).

10 years agoGRMLBASE/45-grub-images: adapt script for renamed raid.mod file
Michael Prokop [Mon, 20 May 2013 17:26:45 +0000 (19:26 +0200)]
GRMLBASE/45-grub-images: adapt script for renamed raid.mod file

Up until (and including) grub version 1.99-27.1 it's called
raid.mod, starting with grub version 2.00-14 the raid.mod
file no longer exists.

Fixes:

| =====   shell: GRMLBASE/45-grub-images   =====
| grub-mkimage: error: cannot stat `/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/raid.mod': No such file or directory.
| GRMLBASE/45-grub-images FAILED with exit code 1.

Thanks: Jordan Uggla for the feedback

11 years agogrml-live-remaster: check for /remaster before using it, mount-bind /run and /dev...
Michael Prokop [Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:33:45 +0000 (12:33 +0100)]
grml-live-remaster: check for /remaster before using it, mount-bind /run and /dev/pts, create filesystem.module [Closes: issue1241]

Thanks: Moritz Molle for the initial patch

11 years agoRelease new version 0.20.1 v0.20.1
Michael Prokop [Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:15:47 +0000 (12:15 +0100)]
Release new version 0.20.1

11 years agoSW: add genisoimage to GRML_FULL
Michael Prokop [Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:00:13 +0000 (12:00 +0100)]
SW: add genisoimage to GRML_FULL

Required at least by grml-live-remaster (which is neither very
stable nor beautiful but anyway useful in certain situations, so
make its usage at least as easy as possible).

Thanks: Charles A. Hewson <cahewson@eskimo.com> for the bug report
Acked-by: Alexander Wirt <formorer@grml.org>
11 years agogrml-cheatcodes: adjust live image path for new live-boot default
Michael Prokop [Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:56:30 +0000 (11:56 +0100)]
grml-cheatcodes: adjust live image path for new live-boot default

11 years agoisolinux boot splashes: adjust path to grml-cheatcodes.txt
Michael Prokop [Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:52:38 +0000 (11:52 +0100)]
isolinux boot splashes: adjust path to grml-cheatcodes.txt

11 years agoAdopt grml-live-remaster for live-boot's new /lib/live/mount/medium/
Michael Prokop [Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:52:04 +0000 (11:52 +0100)]
Adopt grml-live-remaster for live-boot's new /lib/live/mount/medium/

11 years agoRelease new version 0.20.0 v0.20.0
Michael Prokop [Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:39:44 +0000 (13:39 +0100)]
Release new version 0.20.0