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1    fai (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2    
3      * bugs in mkdebmirror fixed
4      * replace compat from nsswitch.conf templates (closes: #113902)
5      * FAI_FLAGS can contain comma or space separatedd list of flags
6      * echo device before BOOTP request
7      * all_hosts uses netgroup allhosts
8    
9     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Fri,  5 Oct 2001 17:19:14 +0200
10    
11    fai (2.2) unstable; urgency=low
12    
13      * fix lilo bug in make-fai-bootfloppy
14      * user can define their own action using FAI_ACTION and
15        creating a command /fai/hooks/$FAI_ACTION
16      * rcS_fai rearranged; move a lot of subroutines into subroutines
17      * hooks can force rcS_fai to skip the default task
18      * timeout for bootpc can be set in rcS_fai
19      * new subroutine ether_info sets variable $ethers
20      * unused subroutine myyes removed
21      * prepare-apt.log renamed to updatebase.log
22      * task_sysinfo only probes available disks
23      * install_packages: support for new task packages using tasksel
24      * get_bootp_info() and get_dhcp_info() uses multiple network interfaces
25        via variable $netdevices
26      * layout of local Debian mirror for non-US changed
27      * mkdebmirror: non-US has new location, minor bugs removed
28      * rmdivert moves distrib.dpkg-new files
29      * new chapter about installing a Beowulf cluster
30      * bug in list_disks() fixed
31      * diskless class is automaticly defined, improved diskless hook
32      * package nfs-common added to nfsroot for lockd, statd
33      * support for additional variable definitions and classes
34      * new utilities: all_hosts, rshall and softupdate
35      * new examples for Beowulf cluster: atoms, ATOMCLIENT, BEOWULF
36      * defvar and devclass are now called before task_action
37      * bug fix: fcopy down not convert from octal when using file-modes
38      * all file in /files/root/ use file-modes
39      * tlink can show symlink of a host or all file in /boot/fai
40      * new class NOSECURETTY, NOTCPD
41    
42     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:35:49 +0200
43    
44    fai (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
45    
46      * user visible changes are now reported in NEWS file
47      * setup_harddisk: do not check if root partition is in first 8GB, do not
48        check if it's a primary partition
49      * make-fai-nfsroot: uses debbootstrap if FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP is
50        defined (closes: #100914)
51        use /etc/apt/sources.list is FAI_SOURCES_LIST is undefined
52      * call some commands with prefix LC_ALL=C, so diffrent locale does
53        not change the output
54      * ftar: do not call tar with option I, j or z, use pipe instead
55      * rcS_fai: added hook support, use all ntpserver for ntpdate, always
56        extract base.tgz, no version number in base.tgz; read_config() removed;
57        move some task from fai_init to fai_setup to get their output;
58        create etc/hosts with fqdn in target directory; $revclasses contains
59        classes in reversed order
60      * new flag createtv; controls if ctrl-c will reboot or give a shell and
61        if two additional terminals will be available
62      * debhelper compatability level now 2
63      * woody support: using debootstrap, different package lists
64      * added class DISKLESS
65      * subroutine disk_info rewritten, ignores cdrom
66      * fai-setup: do not generate ssh key if already existing
67      * cat <<EOF calls corrected
68      * mkdebmirror now mirrors also testing and unstable by default
69      * grub support in scripts/BOOT and scripts/FAI_BOOTPART
70      * new utility chkdebnames check debian package names
71      * new script device2grub convert normal device names to grub device names
72    
73     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:55:29 +0200
74    
75    fai (2.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
76    
77      * typo in ftp Debian mirror fixed
78      * corrected wrong cvs tag, some more little changes
79    
80     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 14:11:23 +0200
81    
82    fai (2.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
83    
84      * Default Debian mirror access now via ftp. This can take much time to
85        download the required packages. (closes: #101596)
86      * Check if LOGUSER is defined, (closes: #101620)
87      * wget now recommends, (closes: #101594)
88      * Use ntpdate if a ntp server is defined (tag nt in bootptab),
89        (closes:  #101899)
90      * DEFAULT script writes fqdn and short hostname into etc/hosts,
91        (closes: #101820)
92      * Bug fix. Check if immgen executable is available.
93    
94     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Thu, 28 Jun 2001 13:33:33 +0200
95    
96    fai (2.0) unstable; urgency=low
97    
98      * first upload to Debian archive
99      * kernel-2.2.19 support
100      * order of classes now (with increasing priority):
101        DEFAULT, <other classes>, $HOSTNAME, LAST
102      * architecture is now also a class (see S01alias.sh)
103      * class/*.source renamed to class/*.var, because they define variables
104      * new description of all classes
105      * $moduleslist is the list of modules that will be loaded by the new system
106      * names of examples changed to make them more comprehensible
107      * FAI_PACKAGEDIR now FAI_DEBMIRROR
108      * new fcopy script for copying files with classes
109      * new ftar script for extracting tar files with classes
110      * manual pages for fcopy, ftar
111      * converted many cfengine scripts to shell scripts
112      * several classes and scripts removed and rearranged
113      * S90partitions.pl replaces the old shell version
114      * add FAI_BOOTPART class and scripts
115      * klogd, syslogd running during installation
116      * make-fai-bootfloppy can take additional parameters for the kernel and
117        supports multiple network interface cards
118      * kernel append parameters define variables in rcS_fai
119      * added subroutines ifclass, rwmount
120      * new command bootsector can enable, disable or list magic number of
121        boot sector
122      * make many variables local
123      * better debugging of shell scripts
124      * remote login has all subroutines available
125      * faireboot -s saves log files to install server
126      * sfdisk call removed from subroutines and Fai.pm, since it's not
127        portable; unfortunately setup_hardisk still using it
128      * new mount2dir command; this task is removed from setup_hardisk
129      * files in package_config can use dpkg --get-selections format
130      * redundant packages in package_config/COMPILE removed
131      * PRELOADRM feature for package_config
132      * comments in files in package_config/ are now everything after a #, not
133        only at the beginning of a line
134      * lvm not in nfsroot by default, grub now included
135      * access from install clients to server can be done via rsh/rcp or
136        ssh/scp (see fai.conf)
137      * modprobe displays less errors
138      * templates now stored in /usr/share/fai
139      * all release timestamp in this changelog until version 1.4.2 are
140        wrong; they indicate the time when I started hacking the next version;
141        these are the correct release dates:
142        Jun 20  2000 fai_1.1beta2.tar.gz
143        Jul 11  2000 fai_1.2.0beta1.tar.gz
144        Oct 26  2000 fai_1.3.0test1.tar.gz
145        Nov  6  2000 fai_1.3.0test2.tar.gz
146        Nov 23  2000 fai_1.4.0.tar.gz
147        Dec  7  2000 fai_1.4.1.tar.gz
148        Dec 12  2000 fai_1.4.2.tar.gz
149    
150     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Tue, 15 May 2001 14:28:31 +0200
151    
152    fai (1.4.2) unstable; urgency=low
153    
154      * add wget to suggests list
155      * xviddetect called for FAI_ACTION=sysinfo
156      * fai.conf: added missing / in ftp definition of FAI_SOURCES_LIST
157      * added parted to nfsroot and package_config/MINI_SOFT
158      * FAI_KEYMAP files can also be located in /fai/files
159      * added subroutine load_keymap_consolechar (was included in rcS_fai)
160        keymap now called correctly
161      * the little FAI banner is now printed on startup
162      * variable hdparm tunes your hard disks and creates rcS.d script
163    
164     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Dec 2000 16:36:31 +0100
165    
166    fai (1.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
167    
168      * swap order of class ALL and hostname
169      * CLASS ALL renamed to DEFAULT
170      * templates/class/S*.source files renamed
171      * scripts in class/ reorganized. First *.{sh,pl) are executed, then
172        $class.source are sourced for all defined classes
173      * install kernels removed, now included in package fai-kernels
174      * hdparm available in nfsroot, sysinfo prints hparm -i
175      * classs/ATA33.source can tune harddisk during installation
176      * class DEBIAN_DEVEL commented out, because this software package list
177        mostly segfaults dpkg
178      * base?_?.tgz now included in nfsroot; BASETGZ not needed any more
179      * bug fixed: setup_harddisk don't mount preserved partitions if mount
180        point is not in root directory
181      * bug fixed: no dns support during chroot in make-fai-nfsroot
182    
183     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:34:41 +0100
184    
185    fai (1.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
186    
187      * faireboot is faster and more reliable
188      * package depends on nfs-server
189      * keymap created by shell script ALL (uses $FAI_KEYMAP)
190      * mk3comimage removed (uses non free software), now netboot is used
191      * first version of the FAI Guide included
192      * use dpkg-divert to fake some programs (solves many problems)
193      * yes pipes <CR> to apt-get during installation
194      * all definitions from global.conf are moved to fai.conf
195      * make-fai-nfs now uses chroot when calling apt-get
196        so nfsroot must not use the same Debian distribution as the server
197      * $MNTPOINT is mount point for Debian mirror
198      * postinst tasks are moved to fai-setup script
199      * $UTC, $FAI_CONFIGDIR added to fai.conf
200      * bug fixed: loopback device was not set up
201    
202     -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Mon,  6 Nov 2000 12:20:00 +0100
203    
204  fai (1.3.0test2) unstable; urgency=low  fai (1.3.0test2) unstable; urgency=low
205    
206    *    * loopback device is set up during installation
207      * create resolv.conf via script RESOLV instead of using cfengine
208      * printers are defined in class/ not in cfengine script
209      * mount nfs directories using rsize=8192
210      * bug fixed: make-fai-nfsroot removes /boot/*-$KERNELVERSION
211    
212   -- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de>  Fri,  3 Nov 2000 10:26:03 +0100   -- Thomas Lange <lange@informatik.uni-koeln.de>  Fri,  3 Nov 2000 10:26:03 +0100
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