Contents of /trunk/manual/debian/changelog

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

  [ Colin Watson ]
  * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
  * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
  * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
    (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
  * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
    Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).

  [ 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.
  * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
  * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
  * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
  * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
  * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
    in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
  * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
  * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
  * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
  * Minor corrections reported by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
  * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
  * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
  * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
  * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Update for recent floppy changes.
  * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
  * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
    trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
    (See #393641)
  * Update the installation report template to match current one in
    installation-report.

  [ Philip Hands ]
  * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
    bootloader's command line.

  [ Joey Hess ]
  * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
    some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
  * Document auto=true boot parameter.

  [ Frans Pop ]
  * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
  * Document mouse/left boot parameter.

 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:36:17 +0100

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	cjwatson	41451	* Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
6	cjwatson	41452	* Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
7			(https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
8	cjwatson	41453	* Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
9			Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
10	fjp	39389
11	fjp	39463	[ Frans Pop ]
12			* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
13	fjp	39465	Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
14	fjp	39463	* Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
15			* Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
16	fjp	39464	* Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
17	fjp	39531	* Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
18	fjp	39552	* Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
19	fjp	39898	Some of the bigger changes include:
20			- Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
21			- Update information on setting up a RARP server.
22	fjp	39614	* Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
23	fjp	39868	* Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
24	fjp	39886	* Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
25			* Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
26	fjp	39894	* Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
27			Closes: #248067.
28	fjp	39389
29	fjp	39583	[ Miroslav Kure ]
30			* Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
31			Closes: #378651.
32
33	joeyh	39932	[ Joey Hess ]
34			* Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
35			partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
36	fjp	39463
37	fjp	40073	[ Changwoo Ryu ]
38			* Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
39			Closes: #381657.
40	joeyh	39932
41	joeyh	40459	[ David Härdeman ]
42	fjp	40542	* Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
43	fjp	40073
44	fjp	40542	[ Frans Pop ]
45			* Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
46			Closes: #386591.
47	fjp	40811	* Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
48			* Minor corrections reported by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
49	fjp	40875	* Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
50	fjp	40980	* Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
51			* Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
52	fjp	41499	* Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
53	fjp	41551	* Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
54			in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
55	fjp	41585	* Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
56	fjp	41836	* Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
57	fjp	42357	* buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
58	fjp	42036	* Minor corrections reported by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
59	fjp	42300	* Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
60	fjp	42301	* New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
61	fjp	42485	* Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
62	fjp	42551	* Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
63	joeyh	40459
64	joeyh	41808	[ Joey Hess ]
65			* Update for recent floppy changes.
66	joeyh	41850	* Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
67			* Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
68			trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
69			(See #393641)
70	joeyh	42283	* Update the installation report template to match current one in
71			installation-report.
72	fjp	40542
73	philh	42295	[ Philip Hands ]
74	fjp	42296	* Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
75			bootloader's command line.
76	joeyh	41808
77	joeyh	42364	[ Joey Hess ]
78			* Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
79			some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
80	joeyh	42370	* Document auto=true boot parameter.
81	philh	42295
82	fjp	42824	[ Frans Pop ]
83			* Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
84			* Document mouse/left boot parameter.
85	joeyh	42364
86	fjp	42824	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 22 Nov 2006 21:36:17 +0100
87
88	fjp	39376	installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
89	fjp	36729
90	fjp	36730	[ Joey Hess ]
91			* Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
92			stuff.
93			* Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
94			compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
95	fjp	36805	* Document new passwd/root-login setting.
96			* Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
97			installer images.
98			* Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
99			that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
100			* Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
101	fjp	36729
102	fjp	36732	[ Frans Pop ]
103			* Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
104	fjp	36758	* chroot-install:
105			- add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
106			- make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
107			* Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
108			configuration (closes: #309889).
109	fjp	36805	* Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
110	fjp	36858	* Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
111			to Holger Wansing.
112	fjp	36879	* Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
113			Initially two have been defined:
114			- a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
115			- a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
116	fjp	36729
117	joeyh	37224	[ Joey Hess ]
118			* Document new preseed/run setting.
119	joeyh	37253	* Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
120			and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
121	joeyh	37295	* hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
122	joeyh	38231	* Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
123			parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
124	fjp	36732
125	fjp	38406	[ Frans Pop ]
126			* Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
127	joeyh	37224
128	tbm	38776	[ Martin Michlmayr ]
129			* The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
130	tbm	38777	* As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
131			has been dropped.
132	tbm	38776
133	h01ger-guest	38779	[ Holger Levsen ]
134	fjp	38869	* Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
135	fjp	38786	(closes: #364546).
136	fjp	38869	* Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
137	fjp	38786	unsupported machines to the end.
138			* Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
139	h01ger-guest	38779
140	fjp	38869	[ Miroslav Kure ]
141			* Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
142	fjp	39376	* Update XOrg to 7.0.
143	fjp	38406
144	fjp	39093	[ Frans Pop ]
145			* Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
146	fjp	39096	* Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
147	fjp	39252	* Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
148	fjp	39376	* arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
149			* Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
150			* Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
151	fjp	38869
152	fjp	39376	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
153	fjp	39093
154	fjp	36727	installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
155	fjp	33700
156	joeyh	33719	[ Joey Hess ]
157			* Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
158			* Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
159			preseeding.
160			* Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
161			* Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
162	fjp	33725	* Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
163	joeyh	33719	pkgsel.
164			* Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
165			(syslog).
166			* Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
167			* Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
168			* Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
169	fjp	33700
170	fjp	33725	[ Frans Pop ]
171			* Change default build to Etch.
172			* Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
173			* Delete some obsolete entities.
174	fjp	33772	* Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
175	fjp	36012	* Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
176			(closes: #360241).
177	fjp	34721	* Update appendix on chroot installs:
178			- mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
179			- comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
180	fjp	33700
181	cjwatson	33885	[ Colin Watson ]
182	cjwatson	33886	* Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
183			make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
184	cjwatson	33887	* Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
185	cjwatson	33890	* Document how to pick a particular interface with
186			netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
187			preseed file.
188	cjwatson	33893	* Remove obsolete substvar.
189	cjwatson	33940	* Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
190	cjwatson	33885
191	joeyh	34168	[ Joey Hess ]
192			* Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
193	joeyh	34719	* Update copyright date.
194	joeyh	35031	* It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
195			it not working.
196	joeyh	35032	* Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
197			and preseed 1.13.
198	fjp	34713
199	tbm	35300	[ Martin Michlmayr ]
200			* Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
201			NSLU2.
202	tbm	35301	* Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
203	tbm	35307	* Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
204	tbm	35308	* The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
205	tbm	35302	* Mention NSLU2 download location.
206	tbm	35309	* Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
207	tbm	35310	* Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
208	tbm	35300
209	fjp	36007	[ Frans Pop ]
210			* Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
211	fjp	36204	* Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
212	fjp	36727	* Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
213			* Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
214	joeyh	36167
215	fjp	36727	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
216
217	fjp	33677	installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
218	fjp	31851
219	joeyh	32251	[ Frans Pop ]
220	fjp	31851	* Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
221	fjp	33676	* Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
222	fjp	32424	* Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
223			* Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
224			new appendix.
225	fjp	32665	* Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
226	fjp	33605	* New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
227			* First release of Greek and Korean translations.
228	fjp	33680	* Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
229	fjp	33676	* Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
230	fjp	31851
231	joeyh	32251	[ Joey Hess ]
232			* Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
233	fjp	31851
234	fjp	33680	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
235	joeyh	32251
236	fjp	31686	installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
237	fjp	31625
238			* Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
239			Closes: #334925
240			* Register installed documents with doc-base.
241	fjp	31686	* Minor updates in English text and translations.
242	fjp	31625
243	fjp	31686	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
244	fjp	31625
245	fjp	31509	installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
246	joeyh	31240
247	fjp	31432	[ Joey Hess ]
248	joeyh	31240	* Split off from the debian-installer source package.
249	fjp	31249	See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
250	joeyh	31240
251	fjp	31432	[ Frans Pop ]
252			* Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
253			packages for each arch containing all translations.
254	fjp	31435	* Change package name to installation-guide.
255	fjp	31433	* Include translations already available on official website.
256	fjp	31432
257	fjp	31435	-- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200