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commit 4431 and 4434 closes #392038
1 fai (3.2~beta7) unstable; urgency=low
2
3 * subroutines-linux: fix extra slash in path (closes: #428860),
4 jobsrunning(): ignore rcS process (closes: #425725)
5 during dirinstall call debootstrap if no base.tgz is found
6 * setup_harddisks: fix file system type of /proc
7 * fai.conf: make ssh and scp the default (closes: 309678 380085)
8 * fai-guide.sgml: fix description of classes used (closes: #329984),
9 change /usr/share/doc/fai to /usr/share/doc/fai-doc (closes: #387541),
10 fix an url, add documentation for dirinstall (closes: 390508)
11 * get-config-dir-svn: add support for svn url's without username
12 (closes: #415875)
13 * subroutines: copy disk_var.sh only if available (closes: #415880)
14 * savelog.LAST.source: add more patterns
15 * faimond: add options -p, -h, -b,
16 it can now call fai-boot (closes: #342477, #424608)
17 * faimond.1: update man pages to reflect the new options
18 * fai-savelog: use $LOGREMOTEDIR when saving to remote
19 (closes: #290371), do not set $HOSTNAME, should be set all the time
20 (closes: #429553, #429733)
21 * make-fai-nfsroot: add option -p (closes: #359323), move from
22 fai-kernels to plain Debian kernel using initrd (closes: #410940),
23 remove unused things since we have now write access to the nfsroot,
24 use mkdir -p, live-initramfs needs NFSROOT in .../live/filesystem.dir
25 * make-fai-nfsroot.conf:
26 remove the variable KERNELPACKAGE (closes: #416531)
27 * fcopy: set mode on file even no file was copied (closes: #360184)
28 * fai-chboot: $NFSROOT is defined in new location (closes: #408247)
29 * device2grub: fix pattern to support /dev/cciss and /dev/ida devices
30 (closes: #416381)
31 * conf/NFSROOT: add packages needed for new fai-cd technique, add plain
32 debian kernel package, add ext2resize, add and change arch specific
33 packages
34 * control: change dependencies from tetex to tetex or texlive, replace
35 Recommends of rsh-server with ssh (closes: #426093), add aptitude for
36 fai-server as Suggests, remove fai-kernels, add field XS-Vcs-Browser,
37 syslinux is only available on two architectures
38 * fai: do not remount / read only, do not call create_ramdisk, now we
39 use unionfs, remove HOST variable, only use HOSTNAME now, use mkdir
40 -p, export $action for 20hwdetect.source, call save_dmesg only during
41 initial installation, during dirinstall set
42 LOGDIR=/var/log/fai/dirinstall/$HOSTNAME (closes: 429553)
43 define FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP, FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPT for dirinstall
44 * move from mkinitrd-cd to live-initramfs to create a CD, use plain
45 Debian kernel
46 * menu.lst: remove unneeded options, add boot=live for new initrd,
47 remove root (cd), fix setting of hostname, instead of using ip=, we
48 now use hostname=
49 * create_resolv_conf: fix path, since we can now write on the whole
50 filesystem
51 * fai-cd: use plain Debian kernel with initrd and live-initramfs for
52 booting (closes: #401041),
53 add option -f, force removal of an existing ISO image
54 add option -k, this is for debugging
55 add option -n, do not create ISO image
56 use $NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir
57 * disk-info: do not include removable devices into list of disks
58 * fai-class: remove HOST variable, only use HOSTNAME now
59 do not set HOSTNAME from uname (closes: #431283)
60 * multiple files: add some patches fixing english text
61 (closes: #428857, #428858)
62 * 20-removable_media: fix path for floppy mount point (closes: #428859)
63 * fai.8: add option -u, --hostname (closes: #361559)
64 * add variable TFTPROOT (closes: #408271)
65 * fai-mirror:
66 use $NFSROOT/live/filesystem.dir
67 do not ask questions, add unauthenticated packages to the mirror
68 * 20hwdetect.source: do not execute 20hwdetect.source during dirinstall
69 * debconf/FAIBASE: autodetect most xorg parameters, (but not resolution)
70 * install_packages: add option -N, change option -t to -n,
71 add patch that AptPkg module is only used when
72 available and target system is Debian (closes: #422225), move code to
73 check_aptpkg(),
74 do execute Debian specific commands only when needed (closes: #392038)
75 * install_packages.8: add option -N, change option -t to -n
76
77 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:07:09 +0200
78
79 fai (3.1.8) unstable; urgency=medium
80
81 * conf/NFSROOT: remove unknow package name (closes: 407950)
82 * setup_harddisks: use C locale when calling mkreiserfs (closes: 413504)
83 * fai-mirror: add /usr/sbin to $PATH so a normal user can also call
84 this command (closes: 413466)
85 * simple/package_config/GERMAN: fix wrong package name
86 * lib/subroutines: replace >>/dev/stderr with >&2
87
88 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:39:56 +0100
89
90 fai (3.1.7) unstable; urgency=medium
91
92 * subroutines: ifclass() should append to stderr (closes: #409059)
93 * examples/simple/, lib/fai-mount-disk, lib/mount2dir: use bash for
94 shell scripts (closes: #410084)
95 * fix typo in bug number of older changelog entry
96 * install_packages.8: add info for variable MAXPACKAGES
97
98 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:11:29 +0100
99
100 fai (3.1.6) unstable; urgency=high
101
102 * fix important and grave bugs
103 * fai-setup: do not fail (and exit) if $loguserhome is not writeable for
104 root (closes: #407947)
105 * fai-class: fix syntax error (closes: #408153)
106
107 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 23 Jan 2007 23:49:33 +0100
108
109 fai (3.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
110
111 * make-fai-nfsroot: remove copying of *.pub files (closes: #406334)
112 * fai-debconf: add template when create tmp file, remove also old
113 tmp files (closes: #406336)
114 * fai: add missing parameter to --long options (closes: #406125)
115 * fai-classs: set hostname from -u as intended (closes: #406125)
116 * scripts/FAISERVER/10-conffiles: fix wrong path (closes: #406500)
117 * README: update year from 2006 to 2007
118
119 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:57:12 +0100
120
121 fai (3.1.4) unstable; urgency=medium
122
123 * these are only document changes and a one liner for setup_harddisks
124 * fix default examples. A change in the xorg package dependencies broke
125 the default FAI example installation (closes: #405435)
126 * remove xlockmore package from example (closes: #405433)
127 * setup_harddisks: add support for mountig existing NTFS partitions
128 (closes: #404187)
129
130 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 4 Jan 2007 15:30:42 +0100
131
132 fai (3.1.3) unstable; urgency=medium
133
134 * fai-savelog: fix a security tagged bug, make local copy of LOGDIR only
135 readable for root and group adm (closes: #402644)
136 * fai: add missing shift command (closes: #402588)
137 * fai.8: improve dirinstall info (closes: #402294)
138 * package_config/FAIBASE: add packages, this is only a documentation
139 change
140
141 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sun, 17 Dec 2006 17:40:54 +0100
142
143 fai (3.1.2) unstable; urgency=high
144
145 * use new fai kernel version 2.6.18
146 * control: add Vcs-Svn control field (closes: #399561)
147 * conf/NFSROOT: remove package hwtools, which do not exists any more
148 * fai-chboot: exit if file cannot be written, tmpfile was not always
149 removed
150 * make-fai-bootfloppy: remove sit interfaces from list of network
151 devices (closes: #400521), print error if it can't write to floppy
152 device (closes: #400522)
153 * fcopy: tmpfile was not always removed
154 * mount2dir: use noatime when mounting local file systems
155 * lib/subroutines-linux: change comment
156 * fix typo in changelog
157 * fai-server.postinst: change message (closes: #400324)
158
159 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:04:51 +0100
160
161 fai (3.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
162
163 * control: remove mkinitrd-cd from Recemmends: and Suggests:
164 * make-fai-nfsroot: add missing option h to getopt, fix typo, test if
165 $cfdir is already set (closes: #394884), no code change, reorder code
166 so a normal user gets help whem using -h,--help
167 * faireboot: fix file name to variables.log
168 * fai-chboot: fix several bugs for listing options, option -p expects an
169 argument, fix for -c behaviour (closes: #389905)
170 * fai-chboot.8: minor document fixes
171 * fai-mirror.1: fix example (closes: #390520)
172 * fcopy: remove temporary file after use
173 * fai: start udev before creating /dev/shm/network, remove set +a for
174 dirinstall, so $fai_rundate will be exported (closes: #390373)
175 * subroutines: umount config dir at the end of softupdate action,
176 cd back to old directory, convert FAI_ROOT to absolute path if doing
177 dirinstall (closes: #390346), die() only calls bash when
178 FAI_ACTION=install, add -i to bash call (closes: #362252)
179 * subroutines-linux: check exit status of get-config-dir
180 * get-config-dir: replace die call with echo and exit statement, add
181 error message
182 * get-config-dir-cvs: fixed regular expression as 'expr' automatically
183 anchors to the beginning
184 * LAST/50-misc: /sbin/unconfigured.sh is not used any more
185 * ainsl.8: explain ^ and $ treatment in more detail
186 * FAIBASE/10-misc: add anchors to ainsl pattern
187 * class/20hwdetect.source: change discover call
188 * aisnl,fcopy,fai-chboot: print help and exit if unknow option was given
189 * lib/task_sysinfo: remove call of kudzu since it's not available any
190 more in etch
191
192 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2006 15:57:01 +0100
193
194 fai (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
195
196 * Makefile: force bash in Makefile, fixes FTBFS in ubuntu
197 * rename action dirinst to dirinstall (closes: #390345)
198 * fai-cd: fix wrong path for sources.list (closes: #391639)
199 * scripts/FAIBASE/10-misc: use ainsl instead of echo >> ...
200 * lib/create_ramdisk: make /var/discover writeable
201 * make-fai-nfsroot: create directory var/discover, add option -h and
202 usage() subroutine
203 * subroutines: move find's maxdepth option to the left, prevent multiple
204 fai softupdate running simultaneously (closes: #390680), move
205 disk_var.sh from FAI 2.X installation old to new location
206 rename variable sndhostname to sendhostname
207 * get-config-dir*: replace \s and \S in expr with regex using [:space:],
208 so it also works for sarge's version of expr
209 * subroutines-liux: add test if base.tgz exists (closes: #390343),
210 sources.list must be used from /etc/apt during normal installation
211 * fai: add option -u,--hostname (closes: #390367), create
212 /dev/shm/network if directory not already exists (needed for initrd
213 kernels)
214 * LAST/50-misc: do not fail if hardware clock can't be set
215 * fcopy: swap call of postinst and set_mode
216 * install_packages: add missing package list to yum and rpm calls
217 (closes: #392032)
218 * rename sndmon() to sendmon()
219 * fai-start-stop-daemon: start udevd (needed for ubuntu) and do not fake
220 it, add carriage return
221 * package_config/DEMO: remove rstatd since it buggy atm
222 * 20hwdetect.source: xorg can discover the grpahics driver itself, do
223 not call discover
224
225 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:46:32 +0200
226
227 fai (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
228
229 * conf/make-fai-nfsroot.conf,sources.list: move from sarge to etch
230 * fai: export FAI_ACTION, fix -c and -C in usage()
231 * subroutines-linux: fix path of resolv.conf
232 * fai-chboot: remove devfs=nomount, use NFS v3
233 * package_config/DEFAULT: replace kernel-image with linux-image
234 * faireboot: stop udevd
235 * rename class XFREE to XORG, use xorg packages
236 * bin/fai: rename $targetdir to $FAI_ROOT
237 * add debconf data for german environment (closes: #386192)
238 * package_config/GERMAN: new file includes packages for german
239 environment
240 * new script FAIBASE/20-removable_media creates fstab entries and makes
241 directories under /media
242 * new script and man page: ainsl, ainsl.1
243 * fai-start-stop-daemon: prints which daemon will not be started
244 * get-boot-info: fix duplicate call of get_dhcp_info()
245 * FAIBASE.var: add FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED=1
246 * fai-setup: add option no_subtree_check to etc/exports lines
247 * get-config-dir-svn: svn support for config space (closes: #314991)
248 * fai.8: add info about dirinst, add example
249
250 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:44:46 +0200
251
252 fai (3~beta21) unstable; urgency=medium
253
254 * make pathes conform to FHS:
255 (closes: #340608, #311524, #336650, #309554, #340609)
256 * use /srv/tftp/fai instead of /boot/fai
257 * use /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg instead of /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg
258 * use /srv/fai/config instead of /usr/local/share/fai
259 * use /srv/fai/nfsroot instead of /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
260 * use /var/lib/fai/config instead of /fai
261 * use /var/lib/fai/mirror instead of /mnt
262 * create_ramdisk: call mkrw with -n
263 * setup_harddisks: use more secure options for /proc line
264 * fai-chboot: use tcp as default for nfs, nfs v3 can will become default
265 with etch, existent .disable pxe file will be removed automatically,
266 add headline when copying from template, change in options: -d is now
267 -D, -r is now -d, -r is not used any more, abort if $pxedir does not
268 exist (closes: #373596)
269 * subroutines-linux: task_updatebase does not use updatebase.log any
270 more (closes: #366823), try ftar $FAI/basefiles before extracting
271 base.tgz, create policy-rc.d in the chroot, copy sources.list from
272 $FAI_ETC_DIR, replace $FAI_REMOTESH with local variable $remotesh, fix
273 path for resolv.conf
274 * move /etc/fai/sources.list to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list
275 * fix lintian error: build-depends-indep-should-be-build-depends
276 debhelper
277 * complies with policy 3.7.2
278 * added a linda override for fai-quickstart (ignore /usr/doc-symlink
279 warning)
280 * added Section: headers to binary packages in control
281 * conf/make-fai-nfsroot.conf: remove variables: $nfssize,
282 $NFSROOT_PACKAGES, $package
283 * new config file /etc/fai/NFSROOT which contains the package list
284 * fai.conf: remove FAI_REMOTESH and FAI_REMOTECP, use FAI_LOGPROTO
285 instead, LOGSERVER, LOGREMOTEDIR, LOGPASSWD removed installserver
286 removed (closes: #332837)
287 * lib/subroutines: remove get_fai_cvs(), get_fai_dir(), now separate
288 scripts, print warning if CD-ROM does not use DMA mode, eject fai-cd
289 at the end of the installation
290 * fai: replace $rclog with $LOGIDR/fai.log, add option -C,--cfdir,
291 -c,--class (closes: #353535), add support for dirinst, cleanup LOGDIR
292 before using it again (closes: #369534), remove variable rundir, mkdir
293 /var/run/fai if not existing, trap uses subroutine clean_exit() for
294 dirinst
295 * fai-setup: use getent for getting IP address, make it a bash script,
296 change $HOME of LOGUSER (closes: #290449), do not use SERVERINTERFACE
297 for getting hostname, add all IP addresses and host names to
298 ssh_known_hosts (closes: #286692), remove variable FAICLIENTS, use IP
299 address and netmask for exportfs line (closes: #381261)
300 * make-fai-nfsroot: new subroutine all_host_entries(), use
301 install_packages and /etc/fai/NFSROOT for installing packages into the
302 nfsroot, install fai-nfsroot before other packages are installed, do
303 not exit if getent returns no information, rename -c to -C, use
304 readlink to determine $cfdir (closes: #358765)
305 * variable $fstab replaced with fstab (no more Solaris support using
306 vfstab)
307 * savelog.LAST: set reboot=1 if no errors are found
308 * fcopy: fix bug (closes: #374415)
309 * control: update to Standards-Version: 3.7.2, fai-quickstart depends on
310 tftpd-hpa
311 * make-fai-bootfloppy: read make-fai-nfsroot.conf instead of fai.conf,
312 replace backticks with $(), fix test (closes: #384624), rename -c to -C
313 * lib/get-boot-info: get network info via DHCP if ip=dhcp was set
314 * prcopyleft: remove osname from copyright logo
315 * subroutines: add task dirinst (closes: #322634), do not execute task
316 prepareapt on softupdates (closes: #315000), save FAI_CLASSES and
317 disk_var.sh to /var/lib/fai, do not save variables.log to /var
318 * move fai-divert to fai-client package
319 * ftar: fix exit code when no matching class was found
320 * move code from script get-config-dir to task_confdir()
321 * rename $DO_INIT_TASKS to $do_init_tasks
322 * install_packages: add option -p
323 * fai-mirror: use packages.nfsroot instead of packages.arch, check if
324 obsolete variables are used, remove -a, add -B
325 * add policy-rc.d support instead of diverting start-stop-daemon
326 * remove varaible diskvar, use $LOGDIR/disk_var.sh instead
327 * fai-debconf: use read-only temp file during reconfigure
328 * get-config-dir-file: access config space via local path, used by
329 fai-cd
330 * fai-cd: use $FAI instead of /fai
331 * fai-mirror: generate distrib name from FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP
332 * move some -c to -C, so now all scripts use -C for cfdir, setting
333 $FAI_ETC_DIR is the same as specifying -C cfdir, print message if this
334 variables is used
335 * move NEWS to NEWS.Debian
336 * VERSION: default is kernel 2.6.17
337
338 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 13 Sep 2006 18:54:38 +0200
339
340 fai (2.10.5) unstable; urgency=high
341
342 * fixes patch from last NMUs. (really, really closes: #373955)
343 * make-fai-nfsroot: print debootstrap version
344 * add package lftp to nfsroot
345 * create_ramdisk: make more directories writeable
346 * 20hwdetect.source: add some usb modules
347 * dhcpd.conf: next-server is needed in dhcpd3 >=3.0.3
348
349 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:28:21 +0200
350
351 fai (2.10.4) unstable; urgency=high
352
353 * Non-maintainer upload.
354 * Fix previous patch; it should remove files from $FAI_ROOT/etc, not
355 /etc, as faireboot is not run inside the chroot. (Really
356 Closes: #373955)
357
358 -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2006 18:59:55 +0200
359
360
361 fai (2.10.3) unstable; urgency=high
362
363 * Non-maintainer upload.
364 * Remove /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/{10,90}fai in faireboot, since the settings
365 used during install_packages are not appropriate for the finished
366 system. (Closes: #373955)
367
368 -- Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse@debian.org> Sun, 9 Jul 2006 15:54:55 +0200
369
370 fai (2.10.2) unstable; urgency=medium
371
372 * lib/get-boot-info: call dhclient with different configuration and
373 script names, closes grave bug (closes: #369265), remove dpkg-divert
374 calls for /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script and /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
375 * create_ramdisk: make /etc/lvm writeable (closes: #365035)
376 * do not call mkrwsize if directory does not exist (closes: #365037)
377 * lib/mkrw: add option -n
378 * make-fai-nfsroot: grep before appending to file (closes: #364748),
379 enable DNS inside the nfsroot (closes: #358783)
380 * lib/subroutines-linux: task_prepareapt(): check $IPADDR before
381 appending to file (closes: #331258)
382 * lib/subroutines: make 100MB ramdisk for /fai when booting from CD
383 * bin/fai: do not mount --bind /tmp/fai on softupdate
384
385 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:51:19 +0200
386
387 fai (2.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
388
389 * fai-chboot: fix division by zero error
390 * fai.conf: remove $OS_TYPE
391 * fai: remove $OS_TPYPE, set $targetdir, eval_cmdline is not needed for
392 install and dirinst, move prcopyleft() and additional code into
393 external script, use /var/log/fai/current as default LOGDIR,
394 /tmp/fai is currently a mount --bind to it
395 * fai-do-scripts: replace --no-lock with -K, this should fix cfengine's
396 segfault bug
397 * install_packages: add commands for y2pmsh, yast and rpm
398 * mount2dir: add more fs types that should be skipped
399 * fai-mirror: use different source.list when downloading packages for
400 debootstrap (closes: #361786), remove comments from PACKAGES line
401 (closes: #358910), add option -C, (closes: #318299), recreates
402 Package.gz and Release file using apt-ftparchive
403 * fai-cd: add option -C (closes: #312198), print FAI version in grub
404 menu, not fai-cd version
405 * make-fai-nfsroot: print warning if -f is still used, add config for
406 aptitude to allow unsigned packages without prompting
407 * menu.lst: enable timeout, use localboot as default, remove syslogd
408 flag, remove unused entries, fix IP address for demohost
409 * subroutines: new path /var/log/fai/current/showvar.log
410 * fai-guide.sgml: include package splitting into fai guide
411 * make-fai-nfsroot.conf: new names packages in fai-kernel, add
412 console-tools to nfsroot (closes: #363480)
413 * get-boot-info: do not try to activate the first four ethernet devices
414 * conf/apt.conf: add aptitude option so untrusted repositories will also
415 be used
416 * instsoft.FAIBASE: use fcopy for kernel-img.conf
417 * subroutines-linux: use IP address when calling fai-chboot in
418 task_chboot, this helps when the install client has two network cards
419 and the host name lookup fails
420 * mkrw: fix typo (closes: #363521)
421 * dhcpd.conf: make deny unknown-clients default, remove range definition
422 * S99fai-setup: enable networking for faiserver
423
424 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:46:12 +0200
425
426 fai (2.10) unstable; urgency=low
427
428 * setup_harddisks: mapdisk(): add support for more than two disks, fix
429 wrong comments (closes: #356265), allow logical partitions to be
430 bootable (closes: #344536)
431 * make-fai-nfsroot: do not copy files from /etc/apt to the nfsroot,
432 detect kernel version for new kernel name (closes: #352939),
433 remove patches-* file when using -K (closes: #348350), remove
434 update-modules call, remove symlink creation to /tmp, add warning if
435 $FAI_LOCAL_REPOSITORY is still used
436 * fai-chboot: change output of -l and -L, major rework of the lsdir
437 function, add more options for different listing formats, add template
438 copy function (closes: #342471, #356136), options added: -g -c -t -o
439 * 20-hwdetect.source: test if discover is installed
440 * make-fai-bootfloppy: remove obsolete message (closes: #347974)
441 * fcopy: remove newline from $source, add \Q, (closes: #350015), warning
442 if unlink fails, add option -n (closes: #356378), preserving is not an
443 error (closes: #360183)
444 * make example scripts more cfengine2 compatible (closes: #312201)
445 * hooks/instsoft.FAIBASE: do not pause when kernel modules are already
446 available (closes: #314613)
447 * install_packages: new feature, just unpack packages (closes: #277079),
448 add urpmi, urpme and yum support
449 * fai: exit script if no parameters are given and no run from nfsroot
450 * subroutines: add verbose output when defining variables, add
451 subroutines mkrw and mkrwsize, set $diskvar during softupdate to
452 /var/log/fai/disk_var.sh, task_savelog: test if files exist before
453 copying them
454 * remove FAIBASE/20-save_diskvar (closes: #312296)
455 * task_sysinfo: call lshw if available
456 * lib/get-boot-info: remove duplicate network device names
457 * make-fai-nfsroot.conf: use SERVERINTERFACE for detecting subnet
458 (closes: #341577)
459 * create_ramdisk: use mkrw for making directories writeable
460 * fai-mirror: add warning if some files do not exist
461
462 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:11:30 +0200
463
464 fai (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
465
466 * install_packages: add aptitude-r to @commands (closes: #343361)
467 * new command fai-statoverride (like dpkg-statoverride)
468 * fai-chboot: use NFS v2 as default until FAI will drop sarge support
469 * fai.8: fix typo (closes: #343642)
470 * doc/classes_description.txt: remove all unused classes, update
471 description (closes: #322026)
472 * add script AMD64/99-discover-bug
473 * add class FAISERVER
474 * updatebase: mount /sys into chroot
475 * mkdebmirror: remove non-US stuff
476 * savelog.LAST: add segfault to error pattern
477 * make-fai-bootfloppy.8: fix typo (closes: #346428)
478 * make-fai-nfsroot: do not try to copy file if resolv.conf does not
479 exist
480 * menu.lst: add entry for faiserver
481 * fai-cd: adjust space, new code for generating sources.list file
482 * fai-debconf: add test if debconf data file exists (closes: #348857)
483
484 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:37:31 +0100
485
486 fai (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
487
488 * splitting binary package fai into fai-server, fai-client, fai-doc and
489 fai-nfsroot (closes: #210507)
490 * adjust some paths
491 * remove beowulf and advanced examples
492 * increase compat level to 4
493 * delete sunos code from source
494 * scripts/ directory is now bin/
495 * fai-cd: fixed hardcoded sources.list for the install client to be
496 generated, code by Michael Tautschnig (closes: #320024) and at least
497 partially #329547, test if nfsroot was created (closes: #317495), test
498 if mkisofs is available (closes: #334871), exist unless arch is i386
499 or amd64 (closes: #339098), check if $FAI_CONFIGDIR is valid
500 remove subroutine mhide amd module-hide, mkbimage is not needed any
501 more, use grub's stage2_eltorito feature mkisofs uses -no-emul-boot,
502 no floppy emulation needed, size is not limited any more to 2.88M
503 * install_packages: ignore packages ending with - when using -d
504 (closes: #334333), remove backtick evaluation (closes: #322157), add
505 -R to default aptitude call, add aptitude-r for download only mode,
506 add more warnings
507 * lib/create_ramdisk: make /etc/network/run/ifstate writable
508 (closes: #312128)
509 * fai-mirror: add -i to egrep (closes: #312508), add option
510 DPkg::force-conflicts::=yes (closes: #328138), only aptitude can
511 install conflicting packages, test if $mirrordir starts with a slash
512 (closes: #328139), check if $FAI_CONFIGDIR is valid (closes: #334577)
513 * fai-do-scripts: do not execute S[0-9][0-9]* any more (closes: #310999)
514 * fcopy: add preinst support, ignore .svn dirs (closes: #297550), do
515 chroot before using getpwnam (closes: #283475), add option -U
516 * fai-guide.sgml: include README.disk_config into fai guide, minor
517 fixes, (closes: #332295, #332318, #332293, #332291)
518 * make-fai-nfsroot: use --one-file-system instead of -l (closes: #308806),
519 new test if ssh package is installed (closes: #322759), create
520 apt.conf.d file to support unsigned repositories, fail if debootstrap
521 return with error code (closes: #342120)
522 * subroutines: test if hooks are executable (closes: #338524), new stamp
523 file name when action is softupdate
524 * make-fai-bootfloppy: fix code for -i when using a relative path
525 (closes: #314551), add option -I (closes: #337271), create more space
526 on boot floppy (closes: #294593), add option -B
527 * FAIBASE/10-misc: with the new fai-kernels package we can call tune2fs
528 even when using a 2.6 kernel (closes: #307147)
529 * ftar: test if $single is set (closes: #340421)
530 * FAIBASE/30-interface: do not overwrite resolv.conf if it's a symlink
531 (closes: #305783)
532 * setup_harddisks: add i2o support (closes: #317797), add workaround for
533 udev behaviour
534 * GRUB/10-setup: use -U with fcopy, so grub's menu.lst will not be
535 overwritten during softupdate (closes: #313069, #314995)
536 * subroutines-linux: fix idempotent code (closes: #340422)
537 * fai: do not use color logo if $console was set, start udev if
538 available (closes: #334373), test if run as root
539 * lib/updatebase: mount /dev into chroot during installation if we are
540 running udev
541 * fai-chboot: read $NFSROOT from fai.conf, add nfsroot option to kernel
542 parameters, root-path can now be removed from dhcpd.conf
543 * add support for unsigned repositories
544 * LAST/50-misc: fix code that detect of a kernel is installed, now it
545 does not break if more than one kernel is installed
546
547 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:53:00 +0100
548
549 fai (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=high
550
551 * fix important bug: remove non-US entry (closes: #310392)
552 * package_config: remove nonfree package t1-xfree86-nonfree from
553 examples (closes: #310705)
554
555 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 25 May 2005 13:59:39 +0200
556
557 fai (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=high
558
559 * fix a serious bug, remove debconf support (closes: #309209), debconf
560 support may be included again after sarge
561 * fix important bug, do not delete files in /etc/fai (closes: #309707)
562 * control: remove dependency on debconf
563 * postinst, postrm: remove debconf code
564 * rules: do not call dh_installdebconf
565 * remove debian/config, debian/template
566 * remove files in debian/po: POTFILES.in de.po fr.po templates.pot
567 * fai.conf: set placeholder for installserver, since debconf will not
568 set it any more
569 * conf/make-fai-nfsroot.conf, conf/sources.list: use ftp.debian.org
570 instead of debconf's default values
571 * man/fai-chboot.8: minor document patch (closes: #309138, 309142)
572 * fai-guide.sgml: minor document patch, move section "For the impatient
573 user" to the front (closes: #309134, #309556)
574 * README.build-sources: add memo to use -ICVS in the future
575
576 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 19 May 2005 15:54:18 +0200
577
578 fai (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=high
579
580 * remove old unused scripts from cvs source
581 * updatebase: use mktemp for creating temp file, this closes a serious
582 security bug (closes: #307838)
583 * fai: create dir only during initial installation, fixes a critical bug
584 (closes: #307632)
585 * subroutines-linux: do not "mount --bind" when FAI_ROOT=/, closes
586 important bug (closes: #307631)
587
588 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 6 May 2005 09:23:34 +0200
589
590 fai (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
591
592 * only minor bug fixes, no major changes to the code, but a lot of them
593 * make-fai-bootfloppy: add missing $ to variable (closes: #304824)
594 * install_packages: add missing aptitude-r call (closes: #305544),
595 add $qopt and $devnull, used when install_packages is called with
596 verbose from fai-mirror
597 * fai-mirror: fix wrong path (closes: #304179), remove needless test if
598 mkinitrd-cd is available, add $qflag, return if $pkglist is empty, not
599 when $addpackages is empty
600 * fai: added $COLOR_FAI_LOGO, which is off when doing softupdate
601 * fai-cd: add test if mkinitrd-cd is available
602 * fai-savelog: set FAI_ACTION to noaction if undef (closes: #305283)
603 * savelog.LAST: add error message to global pattern
604 * make-fai-nfsroot.conf: remove --arch i386, since debootstrap now uses
605 dpkg --print-installation-architecture instead of another call which
606 needed gcc, change comment
607 * make-fai-nfsroot: split i386 and amd64 packages list, remove packages
608 from amd64 which are not available (closes: #306264)
609 * menu.lst/postinst: use BOOT_PARTITION instead of ROOT_PARTITION
610 (closes: #305861)
611 * install_packages.8: remove option -f
612 * make-fai-nfsroot.8: remove wrong information (closes: #304980)
613 * control: add grub to suggests
614 * rules: make hooks and postinst script executable
615 * FAIBASE/10-misc: do not call tune2fs when using 2.6 kernel. This may
616 hang the system
617 * fr.po: added french debconf templates (closes: #306232)
618 * de.po, templates.pot: remove fuzzy lines
619 * README.disk_config: add notes about boot option
620 * debian/postinst: replace sed -i with perl -pi -e since old sed does
621 not support -i
622 * fai-setup: change informational message
623 * fai-mount-disk: mount file systems read only
624 * 50-host-classes: move host specific class definitions to new script
625 * fai-guide.sgml: fix typos and other minor mistakes
626
627 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:20:53 +0200
628
629 fai (2.8) unstable; urgency=high
630
631 * remove ext2resize from $packages (closes: #303565)
632 * major rewrite of simple examples (closes: #290554)
633 * make-fai-nfsroot.8: add info about nfsroot location (closes: #303915)
634 * fai-guide.sgml: major update for new release
635 * setup_harddisks: add support for device names disk1 and disk2,
636 reformat some output, print some messages only if $verbose is set
637 * rcS_fai: renamed to fai, add manual page fai.8
638 * fai: add $rundir, remove unused dirs at the end, call set_disk_info
639 before task_defvar, add variable $DO_INIT_TASKS, add code for
640 softupdate support, rename rcS.log to fai.log, add copyright message
641 to usage(), add option -N --new, always test $DO_INIT_TASKS with -eq
642 * apt.conf: replace force-confnew with force-confdef
643 * make-fai-nfsroot: use dpkg --print-installation-architecture instead
644 off uname -m, add arch dependent package name to, remove "" for
645 matching * in KERNELPACKAGE, test if $KERNELPACKAGE is empty
646 $NFSROOT/var/tmp/packages.arch, use shadowconfig instead of pwconv
647 * make-fai-nfsroot.conf: comment FAI_LOCAL_REPOSITORY, set FAICLIENTS to
648 local class-C network, remove ext2resize until available again
649 * subroutines: add task softupdate, add support for softupdate, add
650 $DO_INIT_TASKS, minor changes in get_fai_cvs(), use swapoff -a for
651 disabling swap partitions, test $DO_INIT_TASKS always with -eq, use
652 /var/log/fai/FAI_CLASSES
653 * subroutines-linux: script prepare_apt is now updatebase, add support
654 for softupdates, add task_prepareapt, sliently skip task_chboot if
655 LOGUSER is undefined, $disklist now sorted, print setup_hardisks
656 output also to console
657 * install_packages: cleanup of multiple packages with different
658 install/remove operations, add installable(), check if a package is
659 listed in a package index and not only in the dpkg database, add
660 force-confdef and force-confold to apt-get, install_packages.conf
661 unused, remove -f, sub read_config_file
662 * fai-do-scripts: now executing scripts matching [0-9[0-9]*, S[0-9]*
663 also supported for backwards compatibility
664 * fai-mirror: add check if mkinitrd-cd and apt-move are installed, arch
665 dependent packages defined in make-fai-nfsroot, replace sed with bash
666 builtin, add $debdist, return if $addpackages is empty
667 * fai-chboot: change message
668 * load_keymap_consolechars: much simpler code
669 * create_ramdisk: create /tmp/var/run/fai
670 * fai.conf: installserver will be set by debconf, by default LOGUSER is
671 unset
672 * sources.list: insert MIRRORHOST which will be replaced by debconf data
673 * Makefile: install device2grub to new location, rename rcS_fai to fai
674 * control: add libapt-pkg-perl for install_packages, remove dependency
675 on nfs, because fai can also only be used for softupdate
676 * postrm: cleanup debconf data on purge
677 * postinst: use debconf
678 * rules: add dh_installdebconf call, remove chmod of rcS_fai
679 * utils/mkdebmirror: --ignore-missing-release --ignore-release-gpg
680
681 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:43:27 +0200
682
683 fai (2.7) unstable; urgency=high
684
685 * closes grave bug, make-fai-nfsroot.conf: replace raidtools2 with mdadm
686 (closes: #299952), move cfengine from $packages to $NFSROOT_PACKAGES
687 * closes important bug, make-fai-nfsroot: use resolv.conf from install
688 server during creation of nfsroot (closes: #301230)
689 * rcS_fai: set classes before fai-class is called (closes: #301179), set
690 hostname if HOST was specified on the commandline
691 * fcopy: fix wrong variable name
692 * package_config/KERNEL_SOFT: replace `echo $kernelversion` in package
693 name with 2.6.8
694 * fai-guide.sgml: fix a lot of broken http links, add info for fai-cd
695 * install_packages: add setdownloadonly() and $opt_d
696 * conf/install_packages.conf removed
697 * fai-mirror: source make-fai-nfsroot.conf, add add_base_packages(),
698 allow - in class names, add option -a, call install_packages with -d,
699 add PKGCOMP for apt-move.conf, do not exit 9 if $FAI_DEBMIRROR is not
700 defined, log aptitudes actions to /dev/null
701 * fai-mirror.1: add option -a
702 * install_packages.8: add option -d
703 * add fai-cd script for creating a bootable FAI CD image (closes: #265444)
704 * add fai-cd.8 man page
705 * add conf/menu.lst: needed by fai-cd
706 * control: add mkinitrd-cd to Suggests, add Build-Depends-Indep on
707 debhelper greater version 3
708 * class/DEFAULT.var: use kernel-image-2.4-386 as default kernel package
709 * fai-savelog-ftp: remove $ENV{LOGREMOTEDIR} from mkdir since we just cd
710 to it
711
712 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:51:34 +0100
713
714 fai (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
715
716 * add task debconf (closes: #136503)
717 * new script fai-debconf
718 * add manual page fai-debconf.1
719 * control: use nfs-kernel-server by default (closes: #293876)
720 * QUESTIONNAIRE: minor update
721 * packages_config/XFREE: remove some -dev packages
722 * packages_config/SERVER: remove symlinks
723 * packages_config/DEFAULT: add debconf-utils
724 * replace backticks with $()
725 * fai-do-scripts: use local variables, make it a bash script
726 * fai-guide.sgml: update for debconf support, add aptitude in
727 install_packages config
728
729 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:00:05 +0100
730
731 fai (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=medium
732
733 * 06hwdetect.source: add comment, add class NVIDIA which is not currently
734 used, bug fix: correct SCSI detect 2.6 kernel, replace backticks with
735 $(), discard error messages from modprobe, enable dma mode for ide
736 devices (with fai CD it was not enabled)
737 * make-fai-nfsroot: use "" when testing variables, add link for
738 discover, remove resolv.conf created by debootstrap (closes: #281264),
739 create list of all packages in base.tgz, add packages for x86_64,
740 remove unneeded files in $FSROOT/etc/fai
741 * ftar: bug fix do not do recursive removal if $target/$dir is /
742 * fai-guide.sgml: fix typos (closes: #287150), add info about
743 /files/packages/ (closes: #290359)
744 * add task_savelog to die() (closes: #290526)
745 * make-fai-bootfloppy: bug fix: support /media directory, choose last
746 installed kernel if more than one kernel is installed in nfsroot
747 * setup_harddisks: bug fix: redefined mountpoint are too often reported,
748 allow space before primary and logical keyword
749 * create_ramdisk: bug fix: make directory for discover
750 * fai-setup: typo in variable name (closes: #289271), reload nfs server
751 instead of restart, read make-fai-nfsroot.conf, use variable
752 FAICLIENTS
753 * fai-class: bug fix: option -T hangs the script, make it a bash script,
754 replace backticks `` with $(), bad variable name in testclass()
755 * share/subroutines: bug fix: cd to / so umount -a will not fail too
756 often, kill sshd before rebooting, umount $target/proc before
757 umounting all otger file systems, copy FAI_CLASSES variables.sh
758 disk_var.sh to $target/var/log/fai
759 * fai-chboot: bug fix: do not fail on subnet IP addresses, test if host
760 lookup is possible before calling $h->name (closes: #290007)
761 * install_packages: add option -f, add command{pending},
762 command{dpkgc}, print max number of packages only in verbose mode
763 * install_packages.8: add option -f, add info about
764 install_packages.conf
765 * new config file: install_packages.conf, used for fai-mirror(1)
766 * rcS_fai: remount / with noatime, set variables if booting from CD, set
767 hostname to $HOST it was unset, remove unused variable, minor code
768 cleanup
769 * DEFAULT/S01: add copying of /etc/modules
770 * DEFAULT/S10: add message where grub writes boot record
771 * class/01alias: add class FAICD if running from fai CD, add classes for
772 host gnomehost (used by fai-cd)
773 * package_config/DEMO: replace install with aptitude
774 * make-fai-nfsroot.conf: add variable FAICLIENTS, remove package dpkg-dev
775 * script/LAST: enable shadow passwords for passwd and group in examples,
776 eject cdrom when running from fai CD
777 * task_sysinfo: call hwinfo if available
778 * fai-savelog: do not save remotely if $LOGSERVER is not set
779 * new command fai-mirror and manual page fai-mirror.1
780 * .../XF86CXonfig-4/DEFAULT: change HorizSync, use pc105 keyboard model
781 * .../XF86CXonfig-4/MATROX: removed because DEFAULT works now
782
783 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:24:26 +0100
784
785 fai (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=medium
786
787 * install_packages: bug fix. Do not remove package names which are
788 search patterns for aptitude, read /etc/fai/install_packages.conf if
789 it exists
790 * hooks/savelog.LAST: add patterns that will be ignored
791 * fcopy: add support for svn and arch, add option -I, use variable
792 $FCOPY_IGNOREDIRS if set
793 * fcopy.8: add option -I
794
795 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:14:08 +0100
796
797 fai (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=medium
798
799 * add missing Beowulf examples
800 * fai-guide.sgml: fix error in link
801 * fai-start-stop-daemon: add short options, because so some init.d
802 scripts use them
803 * rcS_fai: do not use -t when remounting
804 * make-fai-nfsroot: print error when $KERNELPACKAGE is not found, add a
805 package for alpha architecture
806 * share/subroutines: do not dump variable $HOME and $PWD to variables.sh
807 * doc/QUESTIONNAIRE: typos, add example for answer
808 * install_packages: use warn instead of print for warning and verbose
809 messages, add aptitude support
810 * Fai.pm: add () to subroutine calls
811 * prerm: do not exit when nfs server reload fails (closes: #279024)
812 * setup_harddisks: add $devdisklist to call of sfdisk (closes: #276033)
813 * preparte_apt: divert programs before calling apt-get update
814 * subroutines-linux: redirect stdin of install_packages unless in debug
815 mode (closes: #264727)
816
817 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:38:58 +0100
818
819 fai (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=high
820
821 * subroutines: remove $rootpw from variables.sh (closes: #270871)
822 * update to kernel 2.4.27
823 * make-fai-nfsroot: force link creation of ifstate (closes: #270463),
824 use /etc/shadow in $NFSROOT
825 * make-fai-makefsroot.conf: add xfsprogs and xfsdump packages, adjust
826 size, install with chmod 0600 (closes: #270666, #271113)
827 * DEFAULT/S10: removed: add auto to /etc/modules
828 * class/DEFAULT.var: use single quotes instead of double quotes,
829 $kappend contains kernel parameters, new default kernel package
830 kernel-image-2.4.27-1-386
831 * scripts/DEFAULT/S20: remove unused action
832 * packages_config/DEFAULT: add iproute to NETTOOLS
833 * make-fai-nfsroot.8: add info about make-fai-nfsroot.conf,
834 add option -K which first removes all kernels from nfsroot
835 (make-fai-bootlfoppy is broken if multiple kernels are in the nfsroot)
836 * fai-setup: add option -e which does not set up nfs environment, which
837 may hang some production systems for a while
838 * fai-setup.8: add info for new option
839 * Makefile: install make-fai-nfsroot.conf with 0600
840
841 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:40:36 +0200
842
843 fai (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
844
845 * install_packages: fix broken taskinst action, workaround for new
846 tasksel behaviour
847 * DEFAULT/S10: fix broken grub entry for FAI_BOOTPART when two kernels
848 are in the nfsroot
849 * fai-chboot: add option -e the opposite of -r, uses nearly the same code
850
851 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:09:15 +0200
852
853 fai (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium
854
855 * catnc() greps through more than one file
856 * changlog messages of fai-setup moved from 2.5.2 to 2.6
857 * hooks/savelog.LAST: add package names which include the string "error"
858 as ignorepatterns
859 * make-fai-nfsroot.conf: add portmap again, since nis setup needs it
860 * make-fai-nfsroot: add option -k which installs a new kernel for the
861 nfsroot (closes: #256187), /root/.profile sources variables.sh, test
862 if $NFSROOT/prco/self exists before umount, kernel_install() includes
863 all code for installing the kernel, create dir $NFSROOT/var/state only
864 when not already existing, call umount_dirs and reset trap exit for
865 normal finishing script
866 * control: recommends dhcp3-server (closes: #263260), update to
867 standards 3.6.1, remove sp from build-depends
868 * rcsfai.var is not needed any more
869 * share/subroutines: do not dump readonly variables to variables.sh
870 * faireboot: make it a bash script, source variables.sh, source
871 subroutines, send message to faimond
872 * fai-divert: do not execute if dpkg-divert is not available
873 * install_pacakges: add support for tasksel remove, set default number
874 of packages from 4711 to 99
875 * package_config/COMPILE: replace task c-dev by list of packages names
876 * prepare_apt: make diversion of invoke-rc.d
877 * rules: call dh_clean after make clean
878 * prerm: test if $nfsserver is empty (closes: #263906)
879 * NETWORK/S40: remove /etc/hosts from fcopy list
880 * DEFAULT/S20: add async to export options
881 * fai-savelog: define $HOSTNAME to output of command hostname
882 * subroutines-linux: task_chboot() use `hostname` instead of $HOSTNAME,
883 sndmon() use $sndhostname instead of $HOSTNAME
884 * remove doc/README.package_problems
885 * fai-guide.sgml: add hint about dhcpd/nfsroot (closes: #264486), fix
886 typos
887
888 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:02:13 +0200
889
890 fai (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
891
892 * fai-setup: fix hostname detection when hostname includes a dash -,
893 pass all fai-setup options to make-fai-nfsroot (closes: #255830)
894 * fai.conf: move make-fai-nfsroot specific variables to make-fai-nfsroot.conf
895 * fix typo in lib/get-boot-info (closes: #242739, #239405)
896 * fix link in fai-guide.sgml (closes: #237794)
897 * fix typo in make-fai-bootfloppy.8 (closes: #238608)
898 * make-fai-bootfloppy: change lilo labels in (closes: #248955),
899 check if -s option is IP-address or hostname, new path for stage
900 files, remove install= line for lilo.conf, newer lilo does not need
901 boot-menu.b, added support for old an new lilo
902 * make-fai-nfsroot: add package dmidecode for some archs, add
903 module-init-tools, libapt-pkg-perl, smartmontools, usbutils, lvm2,
904 raidtools2, hwinfo, remove portmap package, jove to nfsroot, do not
905 copy bootsector, use mkelf-linux,
906 new code for creating timezone and localtime (closes: #201440), always
907 show $NFSROOT when copying verbosely, insert newline before adding
908 $FAI_LOCAL_REPOSITORY to sources.list, warning if $FAI_SOURCES_LIST is
909 used, use new make-fai-nfsroot.conf file, divert discover-modprobe,
910 add -q to depmod, create var/state dir, add subroutine fdivert(),
911 use fdivert instead ov ln or mv commands
912 * create_ramdisk: use tmpfs instead of shm, create dir for discover
913 * fcopy: -i always exists with 0
914 * rcS_fai: if a file /.nocolorlogo exists, do not enable colored
915 logo and let scroll region unchanged
916 * 06hwdetect.source: new call of discover (closes: #248532), be silent
917 when loading modules, use pipe instead of exec for find, mount usbfs
918 after loading an usb module, add $videodrv to additional.var, load
919 different modules when using a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel
920 * 11modules.source: moved into 06hwdetect.source
921 * lib/task_sysinfo: first call discover, then load modules using
922 discover, call smarctl for each disk, call lsusb, print partition
923 table with parted
924 * fai-divert: create dummy script only when dpkg-divert will succeeds
925 * fai-savelog: copy LOGDIR recursively, add remote log method none,
926 add -xdev to find
927 * subroutines: use /proc/uptime to determine installation time, use $()
928 instead of backticks, set terror when error occurs, add catnc(),
929 report FAI_FLAGS in one line, send message to faimond when starting a
930 hook
931 * subroutines-linux: set terror if error, add sndmon TASKERROR, do not
932 copy kernel image and initrd to install server, remove echo command
933 when defining kernel append parameters as variables
934 * faimond: always flush output
935 * fai-chboot: add option -o, special treatment of hostname default, also
936 list default config file when using -l, die with error message if
937 hostname is unknown, remove path from program name
938 * install_packages: add option -L, calling system with array should be
939 more efficient, new code for detecting unknown package names uses
940 AptPkg, add subroutine mkpackagelist(), remove path from program name
941 * bootsector, bootsector.8 removed
942 * class/LAST.var: removed because $hdparm is not needed any more
943 * class/70partition: remove definition of class FAI_BOOTPART
944 * class/01alias: remove unimportant examles, remove catnc definition,
945 remove beowulf example
946 * DEFAULT/S01: remove copying of bootsector, remove our local stuff
947 * scripts/BOOT: grub-install does not probe floppy drive, use bash,
948 replace backtics with $()
949 * hooks/instsoft.SERVER not needed any more
950 * hooks/savelog.LAST: add more messages to ignore
951 * disk_config/SMALL_IDE: remove partition /fai-boot, make / and /var
952 bigger, /usr smaller
953 * package_config/*: adjust package names to sarge distribution
954 * S40: remove NISLPRCLIENT and bootptab stuff
955 * examples/etc/sources.list: remove proposed updates lines
956 * mkdebmirror: mirror woody and sarge in one directory
957 * new FAQ
958 * THANKS: juergen added
959
960 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:22:44 +0200
961
962 fai (2.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
963
964 * DEFAULT/S01,S20: add async option to export lines
965 * fai-guide.sgml: add info how to boot a SUN Sparc, add URL for Sparc
966 * make-fai-nfsroot: add gnu-efi and silo to arch package lists, add
967 sparc64 arch, ppc arch uses vmlinux not vmlinuz
968 * make-fai-bootfloppy: create and use device.map for grub_floppy
969 (closes: #233018), remove unused ip entry for fixed ip addresses,
970 create iso9660 iso image with option -i
971 * make-fai-bootfloppy.8: add option -i and an example for creating a
972 cdrom image
973 * rcS_fai: add prcopyleft() and fstart(), use mkfifo and tee instead of
974 bash special >(), mount sysfs if available
975 * doc/README.disk_config: add info about lazyformat
976 * THANKS: added holger
977
978 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:07:31 +0100
979
980 fai (2.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
981
982 * make-fai-bootfloppy: call grub in chroot environment, so correct libc
983 is used, add option c and F, DHCP is now default boot protocol, be
984 more verbose
985 * make-fai-nfsroot: add option c which sets $cfdir (closes: #219824)
986 add variable nfssize, remove package strace, check if $NFSROOT is set,
987 mkdir $RUNDIR is not need any more, use $cfdir instead of fixed
988 /etc/fai, do not copy fai-chboot to nfsroot, call certain commands in
989 a LC_ALL=C environment, add more verbose messages, new options for
990 mknbi-linux call (closes: #181393), test if FAI_SOURCES_LIST is
991 defined or a sources.list file exists, be verbose when copying
992 important files if option -v is set
993 depmod -a ... || true so it does not stop the whole system
994 * debian/control: replace netboot package with mknbi
995 * debian/dirs: add var/run/fai, remove unused directory utils
996 * debian/prerm: check if $NFSROOT is set, sleep 2 before removing nfsroot
997 * man/make-fai-bootfloppy.8: add new options F and c
998 * man/make-fai-nfsroot.8: add new option c
999 * lib/task_sysinfo: show ide disk geometry
1000 remove detect call
1001 most text reformated, because subroutine definition removed
1002 * doc/Makefile: remove some new tempfiles, add "|| true" to rm so it
1003 does not complain
1004 * fai-chboot: add option -S, complain when host names are missing for
1005 option -r
1006 * fai.conf: add packages to the exclude list for debootstrap
1007 new name for KERNELPACKAGE
1008 add comment how to use NFSROOT_ETC_HOSTS (closes: #219433)
1009 remove FAI_SOURCES_LIST examples, use sources.list instead
1010 disable FAI_LOCAL_REPOSITORY by default
1011 put important variables to the top
1012 * examples/etc/sources.list: new file, that shows examples of different
1013 access method to the Debian mirror
1014 * fai-guide.sgml: describe new handling of sources.list, add manref to
1015 make-fai-nfsroot, new line for tftpd in inetd.conf, add info on use
1016 without DNS
1017 * class/06hwdetect.source: modprobe ide-detect needed for 2.4.24 kernel,
1018 remove ide-probe-mod, add isa-pnp
1019 * lib/get-boot-info: new code to extract ip parameters, fix problems
1020 when one parameter is missing
1021 * share/subroutines: islinux() not needed any more, task_chboot: always
1022 copy new kernel image to /boot/fai/$HOSTNAME-localboot
1023 * apt.conf: replace values yes with true
1024 * rcS_fai: new code for task action pipe at the end, new mount option
1025 for remounting /dev/root, copyright has one line less
1026 * examples/etc/dhcpd.conf: new example for a local 192.168.1 subnet, add
1027 nfs mount options to root-path
1028 * VERSION: default is kernel 2.4.24
1029 * chkdebnames: most parts rewritten
1030 * setup_harddisks: typos
1031
1032 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:42:40 +0100
1033
1034 fai (2.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
1035
1036 * rcS_fai: print copyright message in red, set scroll region, add
1037 actimeo for nfs mounts
1038 * fai.conf: add exim4 packages to exlude list
1039 * make-fai-nfsroot: add netcat to nfsroot; remove libdetect0 from
1040 package list (closes: #219420), copy preferences from /etc/fai
1041 (closes: #219824), use apt-get dist-upgrade instead of upgrade,
1042 do not create base.tgz in $NFSROOT/.. and then move file
1043 * setup_harddisks: add -f tp mkfs.xfs option (closes: #219439)
1044 * faimond, faimond.8 added
1045 * subroutines-linux: add sndmon subroutine, try to connect faimond, on
1046 success, enable monitor feature, test if $ret is empty, make it a bash
1047 script, show nc output only when debugging
1048 * fai-guide.sgml: typo in URL
1049 * class/01alias: use other IP-addresses for exmaples
1050 * lib/fai-mount-disk: extend regex to support devfs names
1051 (closes: #218541)
1052 * scripts/DEFAULT/S01: create S61hdparm if $hdparm is not empty,
1053 set cdromdevice to SCSI if available, add code for lprng setup if
1054 NISLPRCLIENT and LPD
1055 * class/LAST.var: do not set a default value for FAI_ACTION, change in
1056 comment
1057 * add postrm file to remove all files when purging
1058 * subroutines: add sndmon messages, script should be bash script, change
1059 debug code in ifclass
1060 * install_packages: remove pinning info before checking for misspelt
1061 package name, usage() points to the man page
1062 * fai-setup: chown of /boot/fai
1063 * utils/softupdate, lib/prepare_apt: use dist-upgrade
1064 * debian/compat created and debian/conffiles removed
1065 * scripts/DEFAULT1/S20: add noatime,actimeo=900 options, add linux logo
1066 to login messages
1067 * sunos/makefile: add fai-savelog to solaris tarball
1068 * hooks/savelog.LAST: added "unexpected IO-APIC" to ignore pattern
1069 * Fai.pm: test if /var/adm/messages exists
1070 * lib/task_sysinfo: add dmidecode call, add sfdisk -d call, change fdisk
1071 call
1072
1073 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:20:10 +0100
1074
1075 fai (2.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
1076
1077 * share/subroutines: use $SECONDS instead of date +%s
1078 * fcopy: add usage info for -M
1079 * add chapter "advanced FAI" to fai guide
1080 * dhcclient-perl: add new names to mapping table
1081 * lib/create_ramdisk: start devfsd if needed
1082 * share/subroutines-linux: task_chboot should return, not exit; copy
1083 initrd.img to install server if needed for the kernel
1084 * make-fai-nfsroot: add $NFSROOT_ETC_HOST before calling apt-get
1085 upgrade; remove mkdir of fai_config
1086 * package_config/DEFAULT: add nfs-common for all
1087 * examples/simple/scripts/DEFAULT/S01: add -n to head command (closes: #205547)
1088 * sunos/scripts/SUNOS/S05: add -t to expand
1089 * sunos/bin/newfs:chown -> chmod
1090 * make-fai-bootfloppy: use perl one liner to get IP and host name, call
1091 grub executable from nfsroot
1092 * fai-guide.sgml: fix typos (closes: #204763)
1093 * package_config/DEFAULT: always install nscd package for speedup
1094 * Makefile: remove mv of NETWORK1; add variable libfiles
1095 * rcS_fai,fai-setup: add async to mount and exports options
1096
1097 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:58:16 +0200
1098
1099 fai (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
1100
1101 * add script fai-chboot
1102 * add script fai-savelog-ftp
1103 * add vaiables to fai.conf: FAI_LOGPROTO LOGSERVER LOGPASSWD; used by
1104 fai-savelog-ftp, localhost is default for $installserver
1105 * make-fai-nfsroot: add option -f, change to #! /bin/bash, copy
1106 resolv.conf to $NFSROOT, add libnet-perl, trap errors, add bad_exit()
1107 * make-fai-bootfloppy: bug fix, add root=/dev/nfs (closes: #198568),
1108 remove ip=both for fixed ip-address, change to !# /bin/bash
1109 * make-fai-bootfloppy.8: add example with fixed IP address
1110 * changes in package_config, added XFREE class
1111 * install_packages: add force-yes to apt-get install, remove warnings
1112 from apt-cache output, limit number of packages used at once using
1113 $MAXPACKAGES
1114 * bug fix: /proc/cmdline info is trashed when reading a long kernel
1115 command line
1116 * make-fai-nfsroot: create package list that depends on architecure,
1117 make symlink for syslogd
1118 * scripts/BOOT: noew code for generating grub entries, add grub entry
1119 for memtest; add entries for re-installation
1120 * scripts/DEFAULT1/S01: do never fsck ext3 partitions; add -M to some
1121 fcopy calls; add user demo; use fcopy for /etc/kernel-img.conf
1122 * scripts/DEFAULT1/S20: enable tcp connections for X server for CS_KOELN
1123 * fcopy: add option -M and -b; add variables FCOPY_LASTLOG and
1124 FCOPY_UPDATELOG; remove substring from an ewarn call
1125 * subroutines: append $FAI_ACTION to file $rcsfaivar; faiend must not
1126 reboot for SunOS
1127 * subroutines-linux: add support for fai-chboot
1128 * hook faiend.LAST renamed to savelog.LAST
1129 * setup_harddisks: add XFS filesystem support, add sfdisk environment
1130 variable
1131 * fai-savelog: make a bash script; use -exec instead of xargs because of
1132 sunos version of xargs
1133 * fai-class: remove comment lines also in the file $HOSTNAME
1134 * class/{dom,kueppers}: add NOSECURETTY
1135 * lib/get-boot-info: print warning message if no boot protocol was
1136 detected, add network info to boot.log if booting from floppy with
1137 fixed IP address
1138 * chkdebnames: bug in regex fixed
1139 * lib/create_resolv_conf: use resolv.conf from installserver if $DOMAIN
1140 is not defined
1141 * lib/task_sysinfo: call programm sysinfo if available
1142 * scripts/NETWORK1/S40: copy /etc/network/interfaces /etc/hosts /etc/networks
1143 using fcopy, add -i to fcopy calls
1144 * scripts/DEFAULT1/S10: create etc/hostname only if fcopy fails, add
1145 password protection to grub menu
1146 * class/01alias: use classes from file demo if hostname is demohost; add
1147 catnc(); use catnc instead of cat
1148 * class/11modules.source: now uses code from DEFAULT.mod
1149 * examples now live in /usr/share/doc/examples{simple,advanced}
1150 * utils move back to doc/examples/utils directory
1151 * utils/rshall: add exclude function
1152 * class/06hwdetect.source tries to detect video card
1153 * Makefile: do not create symlinks (closes: #195377), new directories
1154 for examples
1155 * rcS_fai: compute and print installation time in seconds
1156 * dhcpd.conf: remove unused commands
1157
1158 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:02:26 +0200
1159
1160 fai (2.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1161
1162 * set correct year in fai guide
1163 * dhcp3 support
1164 * make-fai-bootfloppy: force ext2 when mounting floppy, blank first
1165 sector
1166 * make-fai-nfsroot: FAI_BOOT determines which boot protocol to set up,
1167 fix ownership of $NFSROOT/root/.ssh/authorized_keys (closes: #183989)
1168 * use ext3 in most disk_config samples
1169 * Makefile: do not copy executable twice
1170 * minor changes to packages_config/AUDIO
1171 * install_packages: call "apt-get clean" to remove unused package files
1172 * fai.conf: add FAI_BOOT, add SERVERINTERFACE, add example how to access
1173 a mirror created by mkdebmirror via HTTP
1174 * S20: bug fix, move inserting $rootpw from GERMAN to any section
1175 * fai-class: add . to PATH; test operator == replaced by -eq
1176 * DEFAULT/S01: new location for bootsector executable
1177 * dhclient-perl: use short hostname
1178 * new script fai-do-scripts, contains the do_script() subroutine and
1179 task_configure code
1180 * QUESTIONAIRE: added questions
1181
1182 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:57:12 +0200
1183
1184 fai (2.4) unstable; urgency=low
1185
1186 * not alles changes in templates/* are listed here, there are to many
1187 * use command fai-class to define classes, fai-class writes status of
1188 every script to status.log
1189 * make variables local or unset them after use, unset function
1190 definitions after use
1191 * add config files for XFree86 4.1
1192 * many changes in the package_config files
1193 * bootsector: do not use dpkg to get hardware architecture, add man page
1194 * a lot of spelling mistakes corrected. Thanks Era! (closes: # 155735)
1195 * control: correct name for Debian distribution (closes: #150887)
1196 * new templates: hooks/partition.kueppers.source, hooks/faiend.LAST
1197 package_config/WWWKIOSK, class/WWWKIOSK.var, package_config/paeffgen
1198 * make-fai-nfsroot: add -l to tar when creating base.tgz (closes: #151173),
1199 add noatime to mount, new mknbi-linux options, check for existence of
1200 mknbi-linux (closes: #167900), replace $UID with `id -u`, do not call
1201 rdev, remove packages that are already installed by debootstrap, new
1202 option for mknbi-linux, always do setup for dhcp and bootp, write PATH
1203 to /root/.profile, correct location for syslog.conf, copy sources.list
1204 from /etc/fai if available, add diversion for discover, add rsync, ssh
1205 to nfsroot, do not die when mknbi-linux is missing, do not create
1206 device nodes (closes: #174844)
1207 * class/70partition: bug fix. Use the same file as setup_harddisks to
1208 determine classes which depend on partitions
1209 * scripts/*: convert some shell code to cfengine code, do not use fcopy
1210 if only a few lines has to be changed
1211 * scripts/BOOT: echo each kernel module to a seperate line in, add
1212 supoprt for kernel using initrd, use fcopy for lilo.conf and menu.lst,
1213 /etc/modules, lilo.conf can also boot the old kernel, add initrd
1214 option when using grub
1215 * scripts/DEFAULT1/S20: use declaration directories, add WWWKIOS entries
1216 * scripts/LAST: add call: apt-get -f install, copy sources.list
1217 * scripts/USB removed, now made in S20
1218 * scripts/FAI_BOOTPART: missing $target added, remove rdev call
1219 * share/subroutines*: better regex for matching disks in /proc/partitions,
1220 task_sysinfo, prepare_apt, add link last to last action performed, new
1221 variable $LOGSERVER, list_disks move to a external script, disable
1222 debugging output in ifclass(), write exit status of scripts and hook
1223 to status.log and stdout, create_resolv_conf now an external script,
1224 write exit status of hooks to status.log, do not define $revclasses,
1225 save variables to variables.sh, subroutine task unsets the definition
1226 of the executed task after its execution, source hooks/subroutines now
1227 in fai_setup, remove task_backup, move load_keymap_consolechars to
1228 rcS_fai
1229 * share/subroutines-linux: remove diskandsize(), disk_info now called
1230 set_disk_info() which calls externel script
1231 * task_instsoft(): mount --bind /fai /tmp/target/fai so packages in
1232 /fai/files/packages can be installed using apt-get
1233 * new script disk-info prints a list of all disks and their sizes
1234 * new script get-boot-info contains subroutines for getting info via
1235 BOOTP or DHCP, also detects network devices
1236 * DEFAULT/S01: install $addpackages with one dpkg call, installation of
1237 default kernel creates symlinks in /, make /root accessable only by
1238 root, use fcopy -r to copy all dot files for the root account, do not
1239 copy sources.list
1240 * ftar: conditional rm -rf, echange in error message
1241 * test if mknbi-linux is available (closes: #167900)
1242 * make-fai-bootfloppy: add grub support, code reorganized and split into
1243 more subroutines, rmdir lost+found and copy fewer files to get more
1244 space on the floppy, replace $UID with `id -u`, create a generic boot
1245 floppy independant of the boot protocol, use one image with multiple
1246 append parameters, new options -v, -d, -l, -g
1247 * bug fix: hooks can now skip its task again
1248 * NFS file systems are also mounted with noatime.
1249 * rcS_fai: create var/run/sshd directory, /usr/local/{bin,sbin} at the
1250 very beginning of PATH, add /usr/lib/fai to PATH, PATH is defined
1251 before doing anything else, create_ramdisk is an extern script, new
1252 options for remounting /, remove some unused variables
1253 * task_sysinfo now a separate script; add lsmod call, new test if
1254 executables are available is using which, move log file from kudzu to
1255 $LOGDIR
1256 * adddivert, mkdivert, rmalldivert, rmdivert moved to the new script
1257 fai-divert
1258 * fai-divert: be quiet unless debug is set
1259 * mount_local_disks, umount_local_disks, fstab_mount move to new script
1260 fai-mount-disk
1261 * Fai.pm and subroutines* are moved from lib/ moved to share/
1262 * Fai.pm: call disk-info to get size of all disks
1263 * fai-setup: ssh-keygen needs option -t (closes: #156947), test if
1264 nfsserver is set
1265 * fai.conf: correct line containing proposed-updates, new variable
1266 FAI_LOCAL_REPOSITORY, new directory for debian mirror, add
1267 architecture to debootstrap options, move some nfsroot packages to
1268 make-fai-nfsroot script, add $FAI_LOCATION, remove FAI_SHAREDIR
1269 * setup_harddisks: allow more that 3 primary partitions, new regex for
1270 matching disks and partitions, write less info to stdout, do not write
1271 info to stdout which is written to a separate file, name of partition
1272 table changed from hda.sfdisk to partition.hda
1273 * add sources.list in conf, it's used when FAI_SOURCES_LIST in undefined
1274 * fai_modules_off: add block-major-{104,105}
1275 * remove debian/undocumented
1276 * install_packages: add option -l, only print the list of packages,
1277 add option -h, -t does not executes the commands, support for classes
1278 listed after command, change in echo strings, add option to manual
1279 * disk_config/: make /fai-boot partition larger, CS_KOELN use more
1280 flexible values for partitions sizes
1281 * add suffix -386 to name of kernel-image package
1282 * save_log_*(): do not create loops in symlinks, moved to external
1283 script fai-savelog
1284 * apt.conf: add option force-confdef to dpkg call
1285 * 06hwdetect script loads SCSI and IDE modules and prints /proc/scsi
1286 info, less messages in verbose mode, detect SCSI devices correctly
1287 * move mount2dir to lib directory, echo different messages for verbose
1288 and debug flags
1289 * fcopy bug fix: option -r does not work correctly, when no matching
1290 file for a class is found, do not exit with error, add option -i and
1291 -B, use $LOGDIR, set $ROOTCMD for postinst scripts
1292 * templates/package_config: use nfs-kernel-server
1293 * debian/rules: use dh_installman to install manual pages
1294 * ATA33.var no longer needed, no tuning via hdparm in *.var
1295 * lots of updates and additions to the manual
1296
1297 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:45:29 +0100
1298
1299 fai (2.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
1300
1301 * default name for fai kernel-image has changed
1302
1303 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2002 14:42:00 +0200
1304
1305 fai (2.3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
1306
1307 * enable use strict in perl scripts
1308 * remove some potato specific code
1309 * typo fixed (closes: #143272)
1310 * add some packages to SERVER
1311 * copy id_dsa* and id_rsa* files in make-fai-nfsroot
1312 * debian/rules uses DH_COMPAT=3
1313 * add packages to AUDIO, changes in SERVER
1314 * potato specific code removed
1315 * faireboot kills syslogd before booting
1316 * change symlink of rcS_fai (closes: #146430)
1317 * print warning before removing nfsroot
1318 * do not compress pdf files in /usr/share/doc/
1319
1320 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 16 May 2002 09:27:15 +0200
1321
1322 fai (2.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
1323
1324 * bug fix: THISLOG is unused variable
1325 * added save_log_*(): only remove files (-type f added)
1326 * load net-pf-1 kernel module (unix socket)
1327 * minor changes in package_config files
1328 * added script class/S03hwdetect.source
1329 * dhclient-perl: dhcp use host_name
1330 * faireboot: use rmalldivert for removing diversions
1331 * $divertlist not used any more; use dpkg-divert --list
1332 * setup_harddisks writes list of swap devices; they are enables using swapon
1333
1334 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:47:39 +0200
1335
1336 fai (2.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
1337
1338 * bug fix in make-fai-bootfloppy, fcopy
1339 * first letter in description now uppercase (closes: #142017)
1340 * add option -m to make-fai-bootfloppy
1341 * save keymap to boottime.kmap.gz
1342 * add many comments to shell scripts
1343 * copy $loguserhome/.ssh/*.pub files to $NFSROOT/root/.ssh
1344 * packages from $addpackages are also installed to the system if
1345 they exist in $FAI/files/packages/
1346 * minor changes in package_config files
1347 * move task_confdir() to subroutines-linux
1348 * added create_resolv_conf(); code removed from task_confdir
1349 * jobsrunning() subroutine for linux and solaris added
1350 * faireboot: source fai.conf and subroutines-$OS_TYPE
1351 * subroutines-linux: additional way to determine all ethernet devices
1352 * move some packages from $NFSROOT_PACKAGES into make-fai-nfsroot
1353 * add more .ssh/ files to nfsroot
1354 * $FAI_SUBDIR renamed to $FAI_SHAREDIR
1355 * rcS_fai: add $osname
1356 * write some variabel definitions to $rcsfaivar (used for remote logins)
1357
1358 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:30:04 +0200
1359
1360 fai (2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1361
1362 * default configurations are for Debian 3.0
1363 * add auto stanza to /etc/network/interfaces (closes: #114627)
1364 * now depends on debootstrap (closes: #128457)
1365 * set DEBIAN_FRONTEND to "noninteractive" (closes: #131855)
1366 * Fai.pm now copied to new location if woody in use (closes: #125839)
1367 * package upgrade does not remove nfsroot (closes: #123463)
1368 * many files: use $FAI instead of fixes /fai, config file moved to
1369 from /etc/fai.conf to /etc/fai/fai.conf
1370 * store log files to $LOGDIR (default to /tmp/fai), can be set in fai.conf
1371 * read also subroutines-$OS_TYPE file
1372 * fai.conf: moved to /etc/fai/fai.conf
1373 variables removed: FAI_ARCH, UTC (now in class/*.var), KERNELVERSION
1374 variables added: FAI, FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS
1375 * make-fai-nfsroot sets up pxelinux environment
1376 automaticly determine kernel version; added get_kernel_version(),
1377 copies /etc/fai/.cvspass to nfsroot, can now write the floppy image to
1378 a file
1379 added call_with_stamp subroutine, for easy creation of stamps
1380 Tue Jan 29 20:19:27 CST 2002 -- Chad Walstrom <chad@debian.org>
1381 Added support to run script as a recovery operation. This is a
1382 glue-script; we may as well provide the ability to fix problems and
1383 continue. Changes include:
1384 - Adding a RUNDIR environment variable
1385 - A command line option "-r" for recover operations
1386 - logic tests and stampfiles to appropriate function calls
1387 Checked for existance of character file dev/boot255 before calling mknod.
1388 Checked for existance of $NFSROOT/proc/modules file before calling
1389 umount $NFSROOT/proc
1390 Recursively copies contents of /etc/fai/ directory (good if using CVS)
1391 Install $NFSROOT_PACKAGES in a second pass, to sidestep conflicts
1392 (e.g. so that ssh may replace rsh-client)
1393 Don't set up $LOGUSER's home directory if that variable is undefined
1394 add variable FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS
1395 * conf/fai_modules_off: more modules turned off
1396 * call openvt with full shell path (closes: #134641)
1397 * hooks are also skipped if task is skipped
1398 * hooks that end in .source are sourced
1399 * class/*.mod file can now define variables
1400 * add ADAPTEC.mod file
1401 * apt/conf: set Assume-Yes "true" so apt-get (and tasksel) is noninteractive
1402 * lib/subroutines: /dev/ida/ and /dev/rd/ support in
1403 subroutine:umount_local_disks, added $netdevices_up, use $tfsab
1404 instead of fstab (for solaris support), /fai is now $FAI, mount shm
1405 file system if available, otherwise use normal ramdisk, strip comment lines
1406 when defining classes via scripts, added subroutine do_script,
1407 do_scriptss calls every script class/<classname>/S[0-9]* when class is
1408 not a file, execute all S[0-9]* scripts in a directory
1409 /fai/scripts/$class/, skip all comment lines when definig classes
1410 task_partition() call setup_harddisks only if no disk_var.sh exists
1411 defclass also sources all scripts class/S*.source
1412 add subroutines adddivert(), rmalldivert(); task_finish calls
1413 rmalldivert, task_sysinfo calls kudzu; save_log*() -maxdepth not
1414 needed for find, save_log*() now uses date and time for directory name;
1415 /tmp/fai now $LOGDIR, can be set in fai.conf; new cvs co code
1416 * templates/scripts: change NET and NETWORK examples; now called S10,
1417 S40 and located in directory /fai/scripts/NETWORK/
1418 BASE and DEFAULT moved to DEFAULT/S20 and DEFAULT/S01
1419 * setup_harddisk: raid support for /devc/rd, /dev/ida and cciss driver
1420 for Compaqs Smart Array Controllers, called with -d
1421 * doc/Makefile: detect if anything is really to do
1422 * use gzip -dc instead of zcat
1423 * make-fai-bootfloppy: do not copy /boot/System.map to floppy, new
1424 option -s
1425 * added prtnetgr; change netgroup example and script all_hosts to use it
1426 * fcopy: added debug message if executing postinst, ignore CVS
1427 directories, use File::Find, now sets envionment variables $target and
1428 $FAI_ROOT, bug fix in -d option, new options -L and -P
1429 * KERNELVERSION not needed in fai.conf, now automaticly determined in
1430 make-fai-* scripts
1431 * FAI_FILES removed
1432 * Files added: THANKS, preinst, prtnetgr, pxelinux.cfg
1433 * Manual pages added fai-setup, install_packages, make-fai-bootfloppy,
1434 make-fai-nfroot
1435 * add use stict pragma for perl scripts
1436 * add auto.master and auto.scratch config for kernel automounter
1437 * mkdebmirror: use passive ftp mode
1438 * added autofs to package_CONFIG/BEOWULF
1439 * debian/prerm: do nothing when upgrading package
1440 * scripts/fai-setup: determine loguserhome earlier (closes: #136851)
1441 * new standards version 3.5.6
1442
1443 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:29:15 +0200
1444
1445 fai (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
1446
1447 * added ATOMCLIENT in disk_config
1448 * setup_harddisks detects harddisk even if no valid partition table is
1449 available
1450 * added dosfstools to nfsroot
1451 * added .rhosts for ATOMCLIENTS
1452 * added detect, discover and lsdev to sysinfo
1453 * make-fai-nfsroot: now ash compatible (closes: #117431)
1454 clean apt cache before creating base.tgz, make
1455 liloconf silent, verbose output can be redirected to a file
1456 call mknbi only for kernels using BOOTP, added sysutils package
1457 * scripts/DEFAULT: chmod 1777 the defined scratch partition
1458 * wake on LAN section added to fai guide
1459 * reiserfs patch added to setup_harddisks
1460 * nfs-user-server support for woody
1461 * DEFAULT: scratch directories are writeable for all users
1462 * utils moved from doc directory to /usr/share/fai
1463 * install_packages: check all package names, remove unknown packages
1464 from install list; PRELOAD support for url of type file:
1465 * dpkg-divert is quiet unles verbose is set
1466 * make diversion for broken liloconfig (closes: #113906)
1467 * added class NOGETTY
1468 * install_packages: add code for command PACKAGES hold
1469
1470 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:01:02 +0100
1471
1472 fai (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1473
1474 * bug fix in get_dhcp_info()
1475 * added jmon to BEOWULF
1476
1477 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:52:35 +0200
1478
1479 fai (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1480
1481 * bugs in mkdebmirror fixed
1482 * replace compat from nsswitch.conf templates (closes: #113902)
1483 * FAI_FLAGS can contain comma or space separatedd list of flags
1484 * echo device before BOOTP request
1485 * all_hosts uses netgroup allhosts
1486
1487 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:19:14 +0200
1488
1489 fai (2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1490
1491 * fix lilo bug in make-fai-bootfloppy
1492 * user can define their own action using FAI_ACTION and
1493 creating a command /fai/hooks/$FAI_ACTION
1494 * rcS_fai rearranged; move a lot of subroutines into subroutines
1495 * hooks can force rcS_fai to skip the default task
1496 * timeout for bootpc can be set in rcS_fai
1497 * new subroutine ether_info sets variable $ethers
1498 * unused subroutine myyes removed
1499 * prepare-apt.log renamed to updatebase.log
1500 * task_sysinfo only probes available disks
1501 * install_packages: support for new task packages using tasksel
1502 * get_bootp_info() and get_dhcp_info() uses multiple network interfaces
1503 via variable $netdevices
1504 * layout of local Debian mirror for non-US changed
1505 * mkdebmirror: non-US has new location, minor bugs removed
1506 * rmdivert moves distrib.dpkg-new files
1507 * new chapter about installing a Beowulf cluster
1508 * bug in list_disks() fixed
1509 * diskless class is automaticly defined, improved diskless hook
1510 * package nfs-common added to nfsroot for lockd, statd
1511 * support for additional variable definitions and classes
1512 * new utilities: all_hosts, rshall and softupdate
1513 * new examples for Beowulf cluster: atoms, ATOMCLIENT, BEOWULF
1514 * defvar and devclass are now called before task_action
1515 * bug fix: fcopy down not convert from octal when using file-modes
1516 * all file in /files/root/ use file-modes
1517 * tlink can show symlink of a host or all file in /boot/fai
1518 * new class NOSECURETTY, NOTCPD
1519
1520 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:35:49 +0200
1521
1522 fai (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1523
1524 * user visible changes are now reported in NEWS file
1525 * setup_harddisk: do not check if root partition is in first 8GB, do not
1526 check if it's a primary partition
1527 * make-fai-nfsroot: uses debbootstrap if FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP is
1528 defined (closes: #100914)
1529 use /etc/apt/sources.list is FAI_SOURCES_LIST is undefined
1530 * call some commands with prefix LC_ALL=C, so diffrent locale does
1531 not change the output
1532 * ftar: do not call tar with option I, j or z, use pipe instead
1533 * rcS_fai: added hook support, use all ntpserver for ntpdate, always
1534 extract base.tgz, no version number in base.tgz; read_config() removed;
1535 move some task from fai_init to fai_setup to get their output;
1536 create etc/hosts with fqdn in target directory; $revclasses contains
1537 classes in reversed order
1538 * new flag createtv; controls if ctrl-c will reboot or give a shell and
1539 if two additional terminals will be available
1540 * debhelper compatability level now 2
1541 * woody support: using debootstrap, different package lists
1542 * added class DISKLESS
1543 * subroutine disk_info rewritten, ignores cdrom
1544 * fai-setup: do not generate ssh key if already existing
1545 * cat <<EOF calls corrected
1546 * mkdebmirror now mirrors also testing and unstable by default
1547 * grub support in scripts/BOOT and scripts/FAI_BOOTPART
1548 * new utility chkdebnames check debian package names
1549 * new script device2grub convert normal device names to grub device names
1550
1551 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:55:29 +0200
1552
1553 fai (2.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
1554
1555 * typo in ftp Debian mirror fixed
1556 * corrected wrong cvs tag, some more little changes
1557
1558 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:11:23 +0200
1559
1560 fai (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1561
1562 * Default Debian mirror access now via ftp. This can take much time to
1563 download the required packages. (closes: #101596)
1564 * Check if LOGUSER is defined, (closes: #101620)
1565 * wget now recommends, (closes: #101594)
1566 * Use ntpdate if a ntp server is defined (tag nt in bootptab),
1567 (closes: #101899)
1568 * DEFAULT script writes fqdn and short hostname into etc/hosts,
1569 (closes: #101820)
1570 * Bug fix. Check if imggen executable is available.
1571
1572 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:33:33 +0200
1573
1574 fai (2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1575
1576 * first upload to Debian archive
1577 * kernel-2.2.19 support
1578 * order of classes now (with increasing priority):
1579 DEFAULT, <other classes>, $HOSTNAME, LAST
1580 * architecture is now also a class (see S01alias.sh)
1581 * class/*.source renamed to class/*.var, because they define variables
1582 * new description of all classes
1583 * $moduleslist is the list of modules that will be loaded by the new system
1584 * names of examples changed to make them more comprehensible
1585 * FAI_PACKAGEDIR now FAI_DEBMIRROR
1586 * new fcopy script for copying files with classes
1587 * new ftar script for extracting tar files with classes
1588 * manual pages for fcopy, ftar
1589 * converted many cfengine scripts to shell scripts
1590 * several classes and scripts removed and rearranged
1591 * S90partitions.pl replaces the old shell version
1592 * add FAI_BOOTPART class and scripts
1593 * klogd, syslogd running during installation
1594 * make-fai-bootfloppy can take additional parameters for the kernel and
1595 supports multiple network interface cards
1596 * kernel append parameters define variables in rcS_fai
1597 * added subroutines ifclass, rwmount
1598 * new command bootsector can enable, disable or list magic number of
1599 boot sector
1600 * make many variables local
1601 * better debugging of shell scripts
1602 * remote login has all subroutines available
1603 * faireboot -s saves log files to install server
1604 * sfdisk call removed from subroutines and Fai.pm, since it's not
1605 portable; unfortunately setup_hardisk still using it
1606 * new mount2dir command; this task is removed from setup_hardisk
1607 * files in package_config can use dpkg --get-selections format
1608 * redundant packages in package_config/COMPILE removed
1609 * PRELOADRM feature for package_config
1610 * comments in files in package_config/ are now everything after a #, not
1611 only at the beginning of a line
1612 * lvm not in nfsroot by default, grub now included
1613 * access from install clients to server can be done via rsh/rcp or
1614 ssh/scp (see fai.conf)
1615 * modprobe displays less errors
1616 * templates now stored in /usr/share/fai
1617 * all release timestamp in this changelog until version 1.4.2 are
1618 wrong; they indicate the time when I started hacking the next version;
1619 these are the correct release dates:
1620 Jun 20 2000 fai_1.1beta2.tar.gz
1621 Jul 11 2000 fai_1.2.0beta1.tar.gz
1622 Oct 26 2000 fai_1.3.0test1.tar.gz
1623 Nov 6 2000 fai_1.3.0test2.tar.gz
1624 Nov 23 2000 fai_1.4.0.tar.gz
1625 Dec 7 2000 fai_1.4.1.tar.gz
1626 Dec 12 2000 fai_1.4.2.tar.gz
1627
1628 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Tue, 15 May 2001 14:28:31 +0200
1629
1630 fai (1.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
1631
1632 * add wget to suggests list
1633 * xviddetect called for FAI_ACTION=sysinfo
1634 * fai.conf: added missing / in ftp definition of FAI_SOURCES_LIST
1635 * added parted to nfsroot and package_config/MINI_SOFT
1636 * FAI_KEYMAP files can also be located in /fai/files
1637 * added subroutine load_keymap_consolechar (was included in rcS_fai)
1638 keymap now called correctly
1639 * the little FAI banner is now printed on startup
1640 * variable hdparm tunes your hard disks and creates rcS.d script
1641
1642 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:36:31 +0100
1643
1644 fai (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
1645
1646 * swap order of class ALL and hostname
1647 * CLASS ALL renamed to DEFAULT
1648 * templates/class/S*.source files renamed
1649 * scripts in class/ reorganized. First *.{sh,pl) are executed, then
1650 $class.source are sourced for all defined classes
1651 * install kernels removed, now included in package fai-kernels
1652 * hdparm available in nfsroot, sysinfo prints hparm -i
1653 * classs/ATA33.source can tune harddisk during installation
1654 * class DEBIAN_DEVEL commented out, because this software package list
1655 mostly segfaults dpkg
1656 * base?_?.tgz now included in nfsroot; BASETGZ not needed any more
1657 * bug fixed: setup_harddisks don't mount preserved partitions if mount
1658 point is not in root directory
1659 * bug fixed: no dns support during chroot in make-fai-nfsroot
1660
1661 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:34:41 +0100
1662
1663 fai (1.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1664
1665 * faireboot is faster and more reliable
1666 * package depends on nfs-server
1667 * keymap created by shell script ALL (uses $FAI_KEYMAP)
1668 * mk3comimage removed (uses non free software), now netboot is used
1669 * first version of the FAI Guide included
1670 * use dpkg-divert to fake some programs (solves many problems)
1671 * yes pipes <CR> to apt-get during installation
1672 * all definitions from global.conf are moved to fai.conf
1673 * make-fai-nfs now uses chroot when calling apt-get
1674 so nfsroot must not use the same Debian distribution as the server
1675 * $MNTPOINT is mount point for Debian mirror
1676 * postinst tasks are moved to fai-setup script
1677 * $UTC, $FAI_CONFIGDIR added to fai.conf
1678 * bug fixed: loopback device was not set up
1679
1680 -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org> Mon, 6 Nov 2000 12:20:00 +0100
1681
1682 fai (1.3.0test2) unstable; urgency=low
1683
1684 * loopback device is set up during installation
1685 * create resolv.conf via script RESOLV instead of using cfengine
1686 * printers are defined in class/ not in cfengine script
1687 * mount nfs directories using rsize=8192
1688 * bug fixed: make-fai-nfsroot removes /boot/*-$KERNELVERSION
1689
1690 -- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de> Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:26:03 +0100
1691
1692 fai (1.3.0test1) unstable; urgency=low
1693
1694 * kernel in nfsroot is now build with kernel-package (make-kpkg)
1695 * installkernel now supports loadable modules
1696 * class/S05modules.sh can load modules (example global.mod)
1697 * add script make-fai-bootfloppy
1698 * client's timezone during installation is now the same as on server
1699 * FAI_ACTION sysinfo now mounts all local disk and searches for fstab
1700 * add support for expect scripts
1701 * add nfs-kernel-server support
1702 * do not create account fai if it already exists (e.g when using NIS)
1703 * new format for keymap and consolefont definition
1704
1705 -- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de> Mon, 9 Oct 2000 18:08:02 +0200
1706
1707 fai (1.2.0beta1) unstable; urgency=low
1708
1709 * two virtual terminals available (press alt-F2 or alt-F3)
1710
1711 * make-fai-nfsroot removes pcmcia-cs
1712 installs additionals packages: lvm raidtool2 ext2resize sshd dhcp-lient
1713 flag verbose controls output level
1714 nfsroot is created without any interaction
1715 base2_2.tgz is fetched via wget if it's not found in /tmp
1716
1717 * new start-stop-daemon script instead of symlink to fake it
1718
1719 * configuration for kernel 2.2.17
1720
1721 * start sshd during installation for remote access;
1722 add "sshd" to FAI_FLAGS to enable this
1723 remote reboot possible via: ssh -l root hostname faireboot
1724
1725 * additional dhcp support available (bootp is still the default)
1726
1727 * cvs repository available
1728
1729 -- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de> Fri, 30 Jun 2000 13:41:13 +0200
1730
1731 fai (1.1beta2) unstable; urgency=low
1732
1733 * PRELOAD feature, faireboot added
1734
1735 -- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de> Tue, 20 Jun 2000 16:29:14 +0200
1736
1737 fai (1.1beta1) unstable; urgency=low
1738
1739 * Initial Release.
1740
1741 -- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de> Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:16:23 +0200

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