I just want to remind people that there are only a few days for final review of this -- and I've had no replies yet. In particular, I'd appreciate hearing from ths, tbm and kamion. Joey Hess wrote: > We need to have a debian-installer package ready to release by March > 2nd, according to the timeline. This means merging a lot of changes to > installer/ from trunk back to the sarge branch. > > For the manual, we'll just merge all the changes back to sarge; fjp will > be taking care of that. So I'm working on the other two subdirectories > of installer/; build/ and debian/. > > The diff is fairly huge, a lot of files moved and more were added. So I > think a better way than going through the entire history of changes > since rc2 is to just take trunk's version of installer/ and back out any > changes we do not want to put in sarge. I've now set this up on the > sarge branch, and backed out some of my changes. > > The following is the changelog as it now stands; please look over your > changes and decide if they are suitable for sarge, if not, back them out > of the sarge branch. > > debian-installer (20050120) UNRELEASED; urgency=low > > * Thiemo Seufer > - Do an e2fsck for the extra floppy images. > - Handle sparse files in cramfs images more efficiently. > - Use cramfs images for mips/r4k-ip22 and mips/r5k-ip22. > - Add cramfsprogs build-dep for mips. > * Colin Watson > - Add acpi-modules to the amd64 cdrom, hd-media, monolithic, and netboot > initrds, so that rootskel can turn the fan on. > - Use dependency resolution for ide-modules, nic-modules, > pcmcia-storage-modules, scsi-common-modules, scsi-modules, and > usb-storage-modules on powerpc, and remove several modules from > powerpc-extra-modules that only belong on certain images. This removes > cdrom-core-modules and fs-common-modules from netboot images, and adds > parport-modules to apus/cdrom (I think it was missing by mistake). > - Add support for kernel-specific pkg-lists entries: use lines like > "package [2.2 2.4]" or "package * [2.6]". Should eventually form a > simpler replacement for the kernel_specific directory. > - Include initrd.list on amd64/i386 images. > - Add hd-media image for powerpc, including a boot.img.gz designed for > use on USB sticks. > - Document USB booting on powerpc. This involved splitting out the > documentation for USB booting on i386 a bit. > - Since power3 and power4 no longer build images with the 2.4 kernel, > remove their KERNELVERSION_2.4 variables and kernel-build-2.4* > build-dependencies. > - Switch libparted1.6-0 build-dependency to libparted1.6-12. > - Fix support for multiple words in KERNELVERSION. > * Christian Perrier > - Add the list of needed characters for Belarussian > - Add the list of needed characters for Esperanto > * Martin Michlmayr > - Switch Cobalt to use the new-style initrd parameter rd_start and > rd_size. > * Stephen R. Marenka > - Add m68k/amiga startup scripts with thanks to and the permission of > Christian T. Steigies <cts@debian.org>. > * Frans Pop > - Implement new-generation build scripts for sarge branch. > - Make kernel-version for sparc64 ide-modules variable by using an > #include rather than the full module name. > - Add gawk and poxml build dependencies (required for the manual) > * Joshua Kwan > - Change sparc kernels to use 2.6.8-2 udebs. > * Joey Hess > - Add new usb-modules to sparc64 images to support usb keyboard on sun > blades. > - Move all utilities in build/ into build/util/, except daily-build, > which is hardcoded in many cron jobs. > - Fix two cases where the pkg-lists dependency checker printed warnings > about dependencies that were actually ok. > - Manual correction re debconf/priority. > - Don't fail to build if sources.list has a cdrom entry in it > (don't try to use the cdrom as a udeb source, either). > - Switch i386, ia64, alpha, hppa, and s390 to use the -2 kernel abiname. > - Add text frontend to alpha netboot image for general old-timey keenness. > - Dropped hppa 2.4 images. > - Removed various things from the hppa 2.6 netboot initrd to make > it small enough to work again. > - Add cdrom-modules to hppa cdrom initrd, this is a new package as of the > -2 kernel. > - Add socket-modules to all hppa initrds, also newly modularised. > * Bdale Garbee > - hppa 2.6 cdrom initrd needs more modules > * Kurt Roeckx > - Remove unused config files for amd64. > - Update kernel version for amd64 to 2.6.8-10 > - Update netboot and monolithic config files for amd64 to match i386. > > -- > see shy jo -- see shy jo
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