/[d-i]/trunk/manual/debian/changelog
ViewVC logotype

Contents of /trunk/manual/debian/changelog

Parent Directory Parent Directory | Revision Log Revision Log


Revision 50443 - (show annotations) (download)
Wed Dec 12 21:28:23 2007 UTC (5 years, 5 months ago) by cjwatson
File size: 20030 byte(s)
* Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as
  well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages.
1 installation-guide (2007xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
2
3 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
4 * Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are
5 no longer supported.
6
7 [ Joey Hess ]
8 * Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny.
9
10 [ Frans Pop ]
11 * Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the
12 Russian PDF version.
13 * Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are
14 now loaded automatically.
15 * Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories.
16 Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894.
17 * Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons.
18 * Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which
19 the manual has translations.
20 * Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid".
21 * Document new location of graphical mini.iso images.
22 * Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed.
23
24 [ Joey Hess ]
25 * Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed.
26 * Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed.
27
28 [ Colin Watson ]
29 * Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter
30 information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17).
31 * Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer
32 supported.
33 * preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently.
34
35 [ Joey Hess ]
36 * Document clock-setup/ntp.
37
38 [ Frans Pop ]
39 * Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that
40 booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc.
41 * Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or
42 not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services.
43 * Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
44 * Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot
45 installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps
46 of a chroot install.
47 * Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated.
48
49 [ Joey Hess ]
50 * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
51 what it's name is.
52 * debian/rules: call dh_md5sums.
53 * Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed.
54
55 [ Colin Watson ]
56 * Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as
57 well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages.
58
59 -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:28:09 -0500
60
61 installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low
62
63 [ Frans Pop ]
64 * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
65 * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
66 Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
67 * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
68 * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
69 patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
70 * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
71
72 [ Joey Hess ]
73 * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
74 translations. Closes: #408408
75
76 [ Frans Pop ]
77 * welcome:
78 - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
79 - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
80 Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
81 * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
82 Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
83 * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
84 Closes: #408340.
85 * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
86 * appendix/preseed:
87 - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
88 real need to document it anymore
89 - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
90 - document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection
91 - document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror)
92 * Update base/standard system and task sizes.
93
94 [ Joey Hess ]
95 * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
96
97 [ Wouter Verhelst ]
98 * Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k
99 kernel hacker.
100
101 [ Frans Pop ]
102 * Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for
103 spotting the error. Closes: #413257.
104
105 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100
106
107 installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
108
109 * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again.
110 * Enable new Hungarian translation.
111
112 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
113
114 installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
115
116 [ Colin Watson ]
117 * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
118 * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
119 * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
120 (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
121 * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
122 Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
123
124 [ Frans Pop ]
125 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
126 Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
127 * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
128 * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
129 * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
130 * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
131 * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
132 Some of the bigger changes include:
133 - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
134 - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
135 * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
136 * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
137 * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
138 * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
139 * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
140 Closes: #248067.
141
142 [ Miroslav Kure ]
143 * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
144 Closes: #378651.
145
146 [ Joey Hess ]
147 * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
148 partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
149
150 [ Changwoo Ryu ]
151 * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
152 Closes: #381657.
153
154 [ David Härdeman ]
155 * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
156
157 [ Frans Pop ]
158 * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
159 Closes: #386591.
160 * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
161 * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
162 * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
163 * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
164 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
165 * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
166 * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
167 in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
168 * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
169 * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
170 * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
171 * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
172 * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
173 * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
174 * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
175 * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
176
177 [ Joey Hess ]
178 * Update for recent floppy changes.
179 * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
180 * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
181 trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
182 (See #393641)
183 * Update the installation report template to match current one in
184 installation-report.
185
186 [ Philip Hands ]
187 * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
188 bootloader's command line.
189
190 [ Joey Hess ]
191 * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
192 some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
193 * Document auto=true boot parameter.
194
195 [ Frans Pop ]
196 * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
197 * Document mouse/left boot parameter.
198 * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
199 intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
200 * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
201 * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
202 * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
203 * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
204 * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
205
206 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
207 * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
208 * Mention Intel IOP32x support.
209 * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
210
211 [ Frans Pop ]
212 * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
213 * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
214 Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
215 * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
216 for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
217 for his overview of issues.
218 * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
219 * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
220 * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
221 * Update of installed/download size of tasks.
222 * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
223 * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
224 when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
225 * bookinfo:
226 - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
227 * hardware:
228 - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
229 - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
230 Closes: #389516.
231 - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
232 - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
233 - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
234 and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
235 * preparing:
236 - Clean out ancient hardware issues.
237 * boot-installer/parameters:
238 - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
239 - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
240 - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
241 * boot-installer/trouble:
242 - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
243 Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
244 - Add a note that installation reports will be published.
245 * install-methods:
246 - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
247 the "supports-dhcp" condition.
248 - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
249 - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
250 - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
251 Closes: #342076.
252 * using-d-i:
253 - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
254 Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
255 * boot-new:
256 - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
257 debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
258 - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
259 - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
260 - Mention documentation packages.
261 - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
262 problems.
263 * post-install:
264 - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
265 automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
266 - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
267 exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
268 * appendix/preseed:
269 - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
270 Closes: #397923.
271 * appendix/chroot-install:
272 - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
273
274 [ Frans Pop ]
275 * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
276 release targeted at Etch will be next week.
277 * Add and enable amd64 architecture.
278 * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
279 * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
280 not yet complete.
281 * Enable Finnish translation.
282
283 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
284
285 installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
286
287 [ Joey Hess ]
288 * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
289 stuff.
290 * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
291 compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
292 * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
293 * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
294 installer images.
295 * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
296 that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
297 * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
298
299 [ Frans Pop ]
300 * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
301 * chroot-install:
302 - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
303 - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
304 * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
305 configuration (closes: #309889).
306 * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
307 * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
308 to Holger Wansing.
309 * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
310 Initially two have been defined:
311 - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
312 - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
313
314 [ Joey Hess ]
315 * Document new preseed/run setting.
316 * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
317 and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
318 * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
319 * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
320 parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
321
322 [ Frans Pop ]
323 * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
324
325 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
326 * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
327 * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
328 has been dropped.
329
330 [ Holger Levsen ]
331 * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
332 (closes: #364546).
333 * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
334 unsupported machines to the end.
335 * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
336
337 [ Miroslav Kure ]
338 * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
339 * Update XOrg to 7.0.
340
341 [ Frans Pop ]
342 * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
343 * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
344 * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
345 * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
346 * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
347 * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
348
349 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
350
351 installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
352
353 [ Joey Hess ]
354 * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
355 * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
356 preseeding.
357 * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
358 * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
359 * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
360 pkgsel.
361 * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
362 (syslog).
363 * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
364 * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
365 * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
366
367 [ Frans Pop ]
368 * Change default build to Etch.
369 * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
370 * Delete some obsolete entities.
371 * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
372 * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
373 (closes: #360241).
374 * Update appendix on chroot installs:
375 - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
376 - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
377
378 [ Colin Watson ]
379 * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
380 make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
381 * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
382 * Document how to pick a particular interface with
383 netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
384 preseed file.
385 * Remove obsolete substvar.
386 * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
387
388 [ Joey Hess ]
389 * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
390 * Update copyright date.
391 * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
392 it not working.
393 * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
394 and preseed 1.13.
395
396 [ Martin Michlmayr ]
397 * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
398 NSLU2.
399 * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
400 * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
401 * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
402 * Mention NSLU2 download location.
403 * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
404 * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
405
406 [ Frans Pop ]
407 * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
408 * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
409 * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
410 * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
411
412 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
413
414 installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
415
416 [ Frans Pop ]
417 * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
418 * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
419 * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
420 * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
421 new appendix.
422 * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
423 * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
424 * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
425 * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
426 * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
427
428 [ Joey Hess ]
429 * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
430
431 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
432
433 installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
434
435 * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
436 Closes: #334925
437 * Register installed documents with doc-base.
438 * Minor updates in English text and translations.
439
440 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
441
442 installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
443
444 [ Joey Hess ]
445 * Split off from the debian-installer source package.
446 See the changelog for debian-installer for older changelog entries.
447
448 [ Frans Pop ]
449 * Change over to building arch all packages in section doc. Build separate
450 packages for each arch containing all translations.
451 * Change package name to installation-guide.
452 * Include translations already available on official website.
453
454 -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org> Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:12:35 +0200

  ViewVC Help
Powered by ViewVC 1.1.5