Contents of /trunk/manual/debian/changelog

installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Document new pkgsel/include setting.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
    Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
  * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
  * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
  * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
  * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
  * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
    Some of the bigger changes include:
    - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
    - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
  * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
  * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
  * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
  * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
  * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
    Closes: #248067.

  [ Miroslav Kure ]
  * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
    Closes: #378651.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
    partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev

  [ Changwoo Ryu ]
  * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
    Closes: #381657.

  [ David Härdeman ]
  * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
    Closes: #386591.
  * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
  * Minor corrections reported by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.

 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:27:21 +0200

installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
    stuff.
  * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
    compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
  * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
  * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
    installer images.
  * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
    that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
  * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
  * chroot-install:
    - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
    - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
  * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
    configuration (closes: #309889).
  * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
  * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
    to Holger Wansing.
  * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
    Initially two have been defined:
    - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
    - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Document new preseed/run setting.
  * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
    and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
  * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
  * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
    parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.

  [ Martin Michlmayr ]
  * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
  * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
    has been dropped.

  [ Holger Levsen ]
  * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
    (closes: #364546).
  * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
    unsupported machines to the end.
  * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.

  [ Miroslav Kure ]
  * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
  * Update XOrg to 7.0.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
  * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
  * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
  * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
  * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
  * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.

 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200

installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
  * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
    preseeding.
  * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
  * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
  * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
    pkgsel.
  * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
    (syslog).
  * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
  * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
  * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Change default build to Etch.
  * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
  * Delete some obsolete entities.
  * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
  * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
    (closes: #360241).
  * Update appendix on chroot installs:
    - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
    - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
    make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
  * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
  * Document how to pick a particular interface with
    netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
    preseed file.
  * Remove obsolete substvar.
  * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
  * Update copyright date.
  * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
    it not working.
  * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
    and preseed 1.13.

  [ Martin Michlmayr ]
  * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
    NSLU2.
  * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
  * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
  * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
  * Mention NSLU2 download location.
  * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
  * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
  * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
  * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
  * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.

 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200

installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
  * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
  * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
  * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
    new appendix.
  * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
  * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
  * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
  * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
  * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.

 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100

installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low

  * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
    Closes: #334925
  * Register installed documents with doc-base.
  * Minor updates in English text and translations.

 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200

installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
    See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
    packages for each arch containing all translations.
  * Change package name to installation-guide.
  * Include translations already available on official website.

 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200
1	fjp	39389	installation-guide (2006xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2
3	cjwatson	39390	[ Colin Watson ]
4			* Document new pkgsel/include setting.
5	fjp	39389
6	fjp	39463	[ Frans Pop ]
7			* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
8	fjp	39465	Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
9	fjp	39463	* Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
10			* Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
11	fjp	39464	* Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
12	fjp	39531	* Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
13	fjp	39552	* Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
14	fjp	39898	Some of the bigger changes include:
15			- Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
16			- Update information on setting up a RARP server.
17	fjp	39614	* Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
18	fjp	39868	* Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
19	fjp	39886	* Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
20			* Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
21	fjp	39894	* Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
22			Closes: #248067.
23	fjp	39389
24	fjp	39583	[ Miroslav Kure ]
25			* Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
26			Closes: #378651.
27
28	joeyh	39932	[ Joey Hess ]
29			* Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
30			partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
31	fjp	39463
32	fjp	40073	[ Changwoo Ryu ]
33			* Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
34			Closes: #381657.
35	joeyh	39932
36	joeyh	40459	[ David Härdeman ]
37	fjp	40542	* Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
38	fjp	40073
39	fjp	40542	[ Frans Pop ]
40			* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
41			Closes: #386591.
42	fjp	40811	* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
43			* Minor corrections reported by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
44	joeyh	40459
45	fjp	40811	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:27:21 +0200
46	fjp	40542
47	fjp	39376	installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
48	fjp	36729
49	fjp	36730	[ Joey Hess ]
50			* Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
51			stuff.
52			* Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
53			compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
54	fjp	36805	* Document new passwd/root-login setting.
55			* Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
56			installer images.
57			* Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
58			that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
59			* Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
60	fjp	36729
61	fjp	36732	[ Frans Pop ]
62			* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
63	fjp	36758	* chroot-install:
64			- add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
65			- make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
66			* Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
67			configuration (closes: #309889).
68	fjp	36805	* Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
69	fjp	36858	* Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
70			to Holger Wansing.
71	fjp	36879	* Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
72			Initially two have been defined:
73			- a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
74			- a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
75	fjp	36729
76	joeyh	37224	[ Joey Hess ]
77			* Document new preseed/run setting.
78	joeyh	37253	* Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
79			and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
80	joeyh	37295	* hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
81	joeyh	38231	* Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
82			parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
83	fjp	36732
84	fjp	38406	[ Frans Pop ]
85			* Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
86	joeyh	37224
87	tbm	38776	[ Martin Michlmayr ]
88			* The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
89	tbm	38777	* As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
90			has been dropped.
91	tbm	38776
92	h01ger-guest	38779	[ Holger Levsen ]
93	fjp	38869	* Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
94	fjp	38786	(closes: #364546).
95	fjp	38869	* Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
96	fjp	38786	unsupported machines to the end.
97			* Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
98	h01ger-guest	38779
99	fjp	38869	[ Miroslav Kure ]
100			* Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
101	fjp	39376	* Update XOrg to 7.0.
102	fjp	38406
103	fjp	39093	[ Frans Pop ]
104			* Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
105	fjp	39096	* Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
106	fjp	39252	* Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
107	fjp	39376	* arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
108			* Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
109			* Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
110	fjp	38869
111	fjp	39376	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
112	fjp	39093
113	fjp	36727	installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
114	fjp	33700
115	joeyh	33719	[ Joey Hess ]
116			* Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
117			* Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
118			preseeding.
119			* Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
120			* Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
121	fjp	33725	* Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
122	joeyh	33719	pkgsel.
123			* Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
124			(syslog).
125			* Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
126			* Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
127			* Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
128	fjp	33700
129	fjp	33725	[ Frans Pop ]
130			* Change default build to Etch.
131			* Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
132			* Delete some obsolete entities.
133	fjp	33772	* Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
134	fjp	36012	* Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
135			(closes: #360241).
136	fjp	34721	* Update appendix on chroot installs:
137			- mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
138			- comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
139	fjp	33700
140	cjwatson	33885	[ Colin Watson ]
141	cjwatson	33886	* Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
142			make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
143	cjwatson	33887	* Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
144	cjwatson	33890	* Document how to pick a particular interface with
145			netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
146			preseed file.
147	cjwatson	33893	* Remove obsolete substvar.
148	cjwatson	33940	* Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
149	cjwatson	33885
150	joeyh	34168	[ Joey Hess ]
151			* Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
152	joeyh	34719	* Update copyright date.
153	joeyh	35031	* It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
154			it not working.
155	joeyh	35032	* Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
156			and preseed 1.13.
157	fjp	34713
158	tbm	35300	[ Martin Michlmayr ]
159			* Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
160			NSLU2.
161	tbm	35301	* Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
162	tbm	35307	* Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
163	tbm	35308	* The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
164	tbm	35302	* Mention NSLU2 download location.
165	tbm	35309	* Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
166	tbm	35310	* Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
167	tbm	35300
168	fjp	36007	[ Frans Pop ]
169			* Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
170	fjp	36204	* Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
171	fjp	36727	* Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
172			* Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
173	joeyh	36167
174	fjp	36727	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
175
176	fjp	33677	installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
177	fjp	31851
178	joeyh	32251	[ Frans Pop ]
179	fjp	31851	* Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
180	fjp	33676	* Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
181	fjp	32424	* Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
182			* Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
183			new appendix.
184	fjp	32665	* Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
185	fjp	33605	* New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
186			* First release of Greek and Korean translations.
187	fjp	33680	* Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
188	fjp	33676	* Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
189	fjp	31851
190	joeyh	32251	[ Joey Hess ]
191			* Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
192	fjp	31851
193	fjp	33680	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
194	joeyh	32251
195	fjp	31686	installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
196	fjp	31625
197			* Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
198			Closes: #334925
199			* Register installed documents with doc-base.
200	fjp	31686	* Minor updates in English text and translations.
201	fjp	31625
202	fjp	31686	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
203	fjp	31625
204	fjp	31509	installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
205	joeyh	31240
206	fjp	31432	[ Joey Hess ]
207	joeyh	31240	* Split off from the debian-installer source package.
208	fjp	31249	See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
209	joeyh	31240
210	fjp	31432	[ Frans Pop ]
211			* Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
212			packages for each arch containing all translations.
213	fjp	31435	* Change package name to installation-guide.
214	fjp	31433	* Include translations already available on official website.
215	fjp	31432
216	fjp	31435	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200