Changelog
debian-installer (20080522ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low
* Bump hd-media image size to 800MB so that Ubuntu ISO images fit on them
(LP: #225402).
* Resynchronise with Debian. Remaining changes:
- Ubuntu branding of various kinds.
- Use Ubuntu kernels. Various tweaks for different udeb splits.
- Fetch distribution name and version number from lsb_release.
- Use the full version number in image directories.
- Build-depend on belocs-locales-bin.
- Various boot screen text adjustments.
- Add cli boot options.
- Add memtest boot option.
- Add live CD boot screens.
- Adjust memory size recommendations.
- Document pci=noacpi.
- Add translatable boot screen text for gfxboot. Adjust existing text to
refer to gfxboot UI where appropriate.
- Use ubuntu-keyring-udeb (and gpgv-udeb) instead of the Debian archive
keyring.
- Switch all images to initramfs.
- Add netboot images suitable for USB memory sticks.
- Remove floppy support, since it never used to work with 2.6. (This may
be fixed in the future.)
- Disable GTK frontend.
- Add kickseed-common and initrd-kickseed to all images containing
preseed-common and initrd-preseed.
- Add nfs-modules to all netboot images except powerpc, for Kickstart.
- kbd-chooser -> console-setup.
- Include keymap decision tree in all.utf.
- Replace cdebconf-newt-entropy with cdebconf-newt-detect-keys in
EXTRAUDEBS.
- Add bootchart-udeb to all images.
- Add hdparm-udeb to cdrom images.
- Add nic-firmware to netboot images and scsi-firmware to cdrom and
hd-media images.
- Make scsi-firmware optional.
- Add oem-config-check to all images.
- Ship elilo configuration on i386 for Intel-based Macs.
- Use mkvmlinuz's fallback object files on powerpc rather than relying
on the kernel's.
- Use ${RAMDISK_SIZE} in sparc's silo.conf rather than a hardcoded size.
- Add input-modules to the sparc netboot image.
- Remove auto-install/ai-choosers targets, at least for now.
- Switch i386 builds to the -generic kernel flavour.
- Add a new netboot/386 build for i386 that uses the -386 kernel
flavour.
- Publish separate kernel and initrd for sparc64 netboot.
* Backport from trunk:
- Test OMIT_WIN32_LOADER in arch_cd_info_dir and arch_miniiso targets as
well as arch_boot.
* Don't use win32-loader on Ubuntu.
* Set default suite to intrepid.
* Replace the splash image with a converted copy of the one we use for
gfxboot, which fits better with vesamenu.
* Adjust vesamenu margin to accommodate our menu item names.
* Move to 2.6.26-1 kernels.
* Temporarily disable netboot/386 for now; we don't seem to have the
pieces needed to build it.
debian-installer (20080522) unstable; urgency=low
[ Stephen R. Marenka ]
* Add atari keymaps to pkg-lists for m68k.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Lenny will be version 5.0.
* Improve consistency between x86 syslinux bootmethod help screens.
* Add nic-usb-modules to netboot images for x86 and ia64.
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Update to 2.6.24-1 kernel (i386, mipsel, arm, armel and amd64).
[ Robert Millan ]
* Add images for the versatile platform (armel).
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Activate the images for the MIPS Malta platform (mips and mipsel),
thanks Aurelien Jarno.
* Remove the QEMU flavour on mips and mipsel since it's replaced
by Malta.
* Update mips to 2.6.24-1.
* Use initramfs rather than cramfs on Cobalt since the initrd is too
large.
* Use initramfs on MIPS Malta.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Remove dropped cdrom-modules kernel udebs from package list for i386,
amd64 and alpha.
* Update to 2.6.24-1 kernel for alpha, hppa, ia64, powerpc, s390 and sparc.
* Remove wireless-tools from package lists as it's not required to configure
wireless networking.
* Remove Alastair McKinstry and Joshua Kwan as Uploaders with many thanks
for their past contributions.
[ Joey Hess ]
* The i386 root floppy has been changed to a bare gzipped cpio file,
null-paddded to the end of the floppy. This needs rootskel-bootfloppy
version 1.60.
* Use syslinux's vesamenu for all x86 images except the boot floppy.
* Split up syslinux config files.
* Note that the pxelinux config file for serial terminals has been dropped,
at least for now, since the split config files made it too difficult to
set up.
* Note that this needs debian-cd changes to change its code for
merging syslinux configs when producing i386+amd64 CDs.
* Document the irqpoll boot parameter. Closes: #477988
[ Frans Pop ]
* For official builds, include a file with translation status information in
images to allow localechooser can warn users for incomplete translations.
A current status file should be generated before every upload.
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Use genisoimage instead of mkisofs.
* Disable i386 floppy image since 2.6.24 kernel image is too big to fit
on a floppy.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Include both version number and codename as release identification.
* Add a version.info file inside netboot tarballs. Closes: #475774.
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Add cdebconf-text-entropy to common EXTRAUDEBS variable and
cdebconf-gtk-entropy on all gtk images.
debian-installer (20080227) unstable; urgency=low
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Disable the Netwinder image for now since it's too large.
debian-installer (20080224) unstable; urgency=low
[ Steve Langasek ]
* Drop obsolete boot args from alpha netboot images.
* Switch alpha cdrom images from initrd to initramfs (untested, but should
work).
[ Joey Hess ]
* Changes to target lenny.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Drop build dependency on modutils (only needed for 2.4 kernels).
* Excluding non-us for sources.list.udeb should no longer be needed; add
exclusion for volatile.debian.{org,net}.
* x86: document parameters to disable ACPI and USB on F6 isolinux help screen.
* Switch i386, amd64, sparc and s/390 to 2.6.20-1.
* Don't include usb-discover in images as USB modules should be loaded
automatically now.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Don't try to mount devfs if $(TREE)/etc/udev exists.
* Remove apparently-stray test for /dev/tty that broke tree_umount target
for udev builds.
* Run the demo in the C.UTF-8 locale.
* Correct partman-auto-recipe.txt's descriptions of the $defaultignore,
$lvmignore, and $lvmok specifiers to include the $.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Remove rpc images because RiscPC machines are no longer supported.
* Remove DECstation images because these machines are no longer supported.
* Switch mips, mipsel and arm to 2.6.20-1.
* Cobalt: don't turn the serial console on explicitly since this will
kill Qube 2700 boxen and it's on by default on those machines with
a serial console anyway.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Exclude pciutils-udeb from the i386 root floppy as it's out of space
again thanks to libc etc bloat and we can do without lspci.
Closes: #420078
[ dann frazier ]
* Update ia64 to 2.6.20 - omit scsi-common-modules udev since these modules
have been merged into the scsi-modules udeb
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Switch arm, mips and mipsel to 2.6.21-1.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Switch i386, amd64, alpha and s390 to 2.6.21-1.
* Include the default release for the target system and the release from
which to retrieve udebs in images. The first makes it unnecessary to
hardcode the default release in choose-mirror and the last ensures
consistency between udebs included in the initrd and udebs retrieved
during the installation. See #424640 and #426303.
Requires net-retriever 1.18.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Stop including KEYRING onto initrds. Needs base-installer 1.80 and
net-retriever 1.17, which use the udeb, and debian-archive-keyring-udeb
2007.02.19-0.1.
* No need to unset KEYRING for floppies anymore. Closes: #423265.
* Work around upx-ucl-beta bug #426747.
* Exclude core-modules from i386 driver floppies, it's available on the root
floppy.
[ Stephen R. Marenka ]
* m68k: Drop all non-at keymaps, except amiga, since we only support 2.6.
* m68k: Add -at keymaps explicitly to atari floppy.
* m68k: Add -amiga keymaps explicitly to pkg-lists.
* m68k: Punt the remainder INITRD22 stuff and simplify the rest.
* Switch m68k to 2.6.21-1.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Use BASEVERSION variable for powerpc to avoid needing to modify the kernel
version for each flavor separately.
* G-I for i386 is now also affected by the VT switching issue that earlier
affected only amd64 (#373253). Include libgcc_s.so.1 to work around this.
* For i386 and amd64, add the 'quiet' kernel boot option for all boot
methods except expert mode. This reduces the amount of output to the
console to only a few messages before the first D-I dialog is displayed.
* Drop build dependency on mkisofs for s390 as we don't need it there.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Changes to support new wireless nic modules udeb.
* Switch i386 to have 3 net-drivers floppies. The second one now contains
wireless, usb, and pcmcia drivers, while the third contains
nic-extra-modules.
* Set APT::Install-Recommends=false in get-packages as a preventive measure
to avoid getting recommended udebs when apt later defaults to installing
recommends. (Mostly a no-op as there are very few udeb recommends
currently.)
[ Frans Pop ]
* Increase build dependency on mklibs to version 0.1.23; needed to avoid
build failures or broken images after post-Etch toolchain changes.
* Switch alpha, amd64, arm, i386, m68k, mips, mipsel and s390 to 2.6.21-2.
* Get rid of hardcoded kernel versions in boot configuration files for mips
and mipsel; rename bootscreen-subst to bootvars-subst to reflect this
somewhat more general use of this script.
* Drop compatibility symlink to old location of the graphical mini.iso.
* Switch ia64 to 2.6.21-2.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Switch to dhcp3-client-udeb.
* Remove ugly workaround for apex filename transition, long over.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Remove support for sparc32 as it is no longer supported for Lenny.
* Simplify build structure for sparc.
* Switch sparc, powerpc and hppa to 2.6.21-2.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Remove pcmcia-cs-udeb from ads_cf image, as it's no longer in Debian.
* Remove old "linux" syslinux label for x86, it was replaced by "install".
* Convert mips/arcboot.conf to use "install" and not "linux" as the label as
well.
* Apply patch from Václav Ovsík adding a NETBOOT_DI_DIR variable.
[ Davide Viti ]
* Switch g-i as to use ttf-dejavu for rendering Georgian text
[ Christian Perrier ]
* Replace the build dependency on grep-dctrl (transition package) by dctrl-tools
[ Joey Hess ]
* Call dh_md5sums.
[ Robert Millan ]
* Integrate win32-loader utility. (Closes: #412922)
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Fix the bootvars-subst call on mips so the actual kernel version will be
used.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Change f8.txt to document tasksel/desktop.
[ Jérémy Bobbio ]
* Add support for apt_preferences(5) files (preferences.{deb,udeb}.local) to
ease development when packages are broken in unstable.
[ Bastian Blank ]
* Support coming cdebconf frontend changes.
* Bump build dependency for mklibs.
[ Otavio Salvador ]
* Switch alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc,
s390 and sparc to 2.6.22-2.
* Load config/local by last so we can override previously set options.
* Support setting an extra udeb to be included exporting the EXTRAS
environment variable.
* Allow DEBIAN_VERSION to be overriden using environment variable.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Disable builds for PowerPC PReP images as there are no prep kernels
available.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Switch i386 to 2.6.22-3.
[ Martin Michlmayr ]
* Switch all other architectures to 2.6.22-3.
* Use mklibs-copy rather than mklibs on mips and mipsel for now since
the latter doesn't work.
[ Colin Watson ]
* Move Frans' d-i internals manual from doc/talks/d-i_debconf6/ to
doc/devel/internals/, and build it by default.
[ Joey Hess ]
* Switch from upx-ucl-beta to upx-ucl, now that it's out of beta.
* Avoid using sources.list.d when downloading udebs. Closes: #459612
[ Aurelien Jarno ]
* Add support for MIPS Malta platform, but keep it disabled for now.
[ Frans Pop ]
* Add build dependency on libgcc1 for i386 also as we include libgcc_s for
graphical installer images.
-- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:46:07 +0100
