[Fai-commit] r3936 - in trunk: . debian
fai-commit at lists.alioth.debian.org
fai-commit at lists.alioth.debian.org
Wed Sep 13 09:11:47 UTC 2006
Author: lange
Date: 2006-09-13 09:11:46 +0000 (Wed, 13 Sep 2006)
New Revision: 3936
Added:
trunk/debian/NEWS
Removed:
trunk/NEWS
Log:
move to new location
Deleted: trunk/NEWS
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--- trunk/NEWS 2006-09-13 09:08:15 UTC (rev 3935)
+++ trunk/NEWS 2006-09-13 09:11:46 UTC (rev 3936)
@@ -1,560 +0,0 @@
-WARNING
-- the fai-guide does not yet reflect the changes from FAI 2 to FAI 3
-- this release is NOT yet tested with etch. It works out of the
- box with sarge. The next release will run with etch.
-
-New in FAI 3~beta
-
- - /etc/fai/sources.list moved to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list
- - a lot of new pathes:
- use /srv/tftp/fai instead of /boot/fai
- use /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg instead of /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg
- use /srv/fai/config instead of /usr/local/share/fai
- use /srv/fai/nfsroot instead of /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
- use /var/lib/fai/config instead of /fai
- use /var/lib/fai/mirror instead of /mnt
- - new file names
- variables.sh is now variables.log
- - changes in variables
- remove FAI_REMOTESH and FAI_REMOTECP from fai.conf, use FAI_LOGPROTO instead
- remove $installserver and $mirrorhost in fai.conf
- replace FAI_LOCATION by FAI_CONFIG_SRC, default if undefined:
- "nfs://`hostname`$FAI_CONFIGDIR"
- LOGSERVER, LOGREMOTEDIR, LOGPASSWD removed from fai.conf, set
- them in the config space
- MNTPOINT now set to /media/mirror
- SERVERINTERFACE not needed by default in make-fai-nfsroot.conf
- NFSROOT moved to make-fai-nfsroot.conf
- FAICLIENTS, NFSROOT_PACKAGES, packages removed from make-fai-nfsroot.conf
- terror renamed to task_error
- all flags from FAI_FLAGS are now defined as flag_xxx
- $time_zone renamed to $TIMEZONE
- $videodrv renamed to $VIDEODRIVER
- $FAI_CONSOLEFONT renamed to $CONSOLEFONT
- $FAI_KEYMAP renamed to $KEYMAP
- $rootpw renamed to $ROOTPW
- $moduleslist renamed to $MODULESLIST
- - new config file /etc/fai/NFSROOT which contains the package list
- for the nfsroot
- - task_updatebase does not use updatebase.log any more
- - all IP addresses of the install server are added to $NFSROOT/etc/hosts
- - automatic reboot if no errors are found (if error.log is empty)
- - uses discover1 for hardware detection (discover version 2 is not
- maintained any more
- - add task dirinst
- - try ftar $FAI/basefiles before extracting base.tgz
- - install_packages: new option -p (see man install_packages)
- - make-fai-nfsroot: add option -V (see man make-fai-nfsroot)
- - fai-chboot: change in options, -d is now -D, -r is now -d, -r is
- not used any more
- - add policy-rc.d support
- - move some -c to -C, so now all scripts use -C for cfdir, seting
- $FAI_ETC_DIR does the same
- - fai-cd can now eject the CD after installation
- - fai-mirror remove option -a (now default), add -B
-
-New in FAI 2.10.5
-
- - only minor changes
-
-New in FAI 2.10.2
-
- - only bug fixes
-
-New in FAI 2.10.1
-
- - minor fix in fai-chboot
- - packages in /files/packages are not supported any more
- - fai-mirror: add option -C
- - fai-cd: add option -C, grub menu now shows FAI version
- - after the installation you can leave the FAI-CD in the drive,
- since it now boot from local disk by default
- - FAI_FLAG syslogd was removed, syslogd is now started by default
-
-New in FAI 2.10
-
- - add option -n to fcopy
- - several new listing options for fai-chboot, add option -c for
- copying PXE configurations
- - verbose output when defining variables
- - add urpmi and yum support to install_packages
- - add new subroutine mkrw(), which makes read-only directories
- writeable. Very cool and usefull thing until we can use unionfs
- - When booting from fai-cd the config space /fai is now writeable
- - class FAISERVER sets up an apt-proxy
-
-New in FAI 2.9.1
-
- - new class FAISERVER can install the fai install server from CD
- - new command fai-statoverride
- - some bug fixes
-
-New in FAI 2.9
-
- - lots of bug fixes
- - splitting the FAI package into more packages:
- fai-server, fai-client, fai-nfsroot, fai-doc, fai-quickstart
- - use a 2.6 kernel by default
- - Config scripts named S[0-9][0-9]* are not executed any
- more. Rename them to match [0-9][0-9]*.
- - fcopy now supports a preinst script, add option -U, ignore .svn
- directories
- - new option -I for make-fai-bootfloppy can specify default
- interface, new option -B creates 2.88M floppy
- - use md5 hash for passwords
- - backticks and variables can't be used in package_config any more
- - root-path does not need to be defined in dhcpd.conf any more
- (fai-chboot does it for you)
- - fai-cd's El Torito boot image is not limited to 2.88M any more
-
-New in FAI 2.8.4
-
- - small but important bug fix: remove non-US entry
-
-New in FAI 2.8.3
-
- - remove debconf support for package itself, debconf support for
- the installation was not removed
-
-New in FAI 2.8.2
-
- - close some bugs, which occured when using softupdates
-
-New in FAI 2.8.1
-
- - minor bug fixes
- - added $COLOR_FAI_LOGO which is off unless doing initial
- installations
- - added german and french translation of the debconf templates
- - task sysinfo mounts the local partitions read only
- - move some classes from 10-base-classes to the new script
- 50-host-classes
- - fixed a lot of typos in the fai guide
-
-New in FAI 2.8
-
- - rename rcS_fai to fai, add manual page fai.8
- - new simple examples using class FAIBASE
- - add debconf support for the package itself
- - new action softupdates, update a system without reinstallation
- - fai-do-scripts now executes scripts matching [0-9][0-9]*
- - rcS.log is now fai.log
- - major updates in fai-guide (softupdate, fai on other archs)
- - add task prepareapt
- - variable $addpackages removed from examples scripts
-
-New in FAI 2.7
-
- - closes grave and important bugs
- - add fai-cd(8) script for creating a bootable FAI CD image
- - add option -a to fai-mirror
- - add option -d to install_packages
-
-New in FAI 2.6.7
-
- - add task debconf and new script fai-debconf for preseeding
- - minor updates in the fai guide
-
-New in FAI 2.6.6
-
- - new command fai-mirror(1) to create a partitial Debian mirror
- - setup_harddisks: bug fix: error redefined mountpoint is wrongly
- reported, allow space before keywords primary and logical
- - install_packages: add option -f
- - task_sysinfo calls hwinfo if available (very nice hardware info)
- - 06hwdetect.source: SCSI detect code for 2.6 kernel
- - new variable FAICLIENTS in make-fai-nfsroot.conf. Used by
- fai-setup for exporting the nfsroot and the config space via NFS
- - create a list of all packages in base.tgz (for fai CD)
- - ftar: test if directory is / before removing files recursively
- - enable shadow passwords for passwd and group in examples
- - save files FAI_CLASSES, variables.sh and disk_var.sh to
- /var/log/fai not to /etc/fai
- - add supprt for booting from CD
- - other bug fixes
-
-New in FAI 2.6.5
-
- - fcopy now handles svn and arch subdirectories, added option -I
- - install_packages does not remove unknown package names when
- using aptitude, so aptitude's search patterns can be used
-
-New in FAI 2.6.4
-
- - bug fixes
- - install_packages and files in package_config/ have now support
- for aptitude
-
-New in FAI 2.6.3
-
- - make $rootpw not readable for users
- - use default kernel 2.4.27
- - fai-setup: add option -e
- - make-fai-nfsroot: add option -K
- - add xfs support into the nfsroot
- - define kernel parameters using $kappend
-
-New in FAI 2.6.2
-
- - Workaround to support new tasksel behaviour
- - fix broken grub entry when using class FAI_BOOTPART
- - fai-chboot: add option -e
-
-New in FAI 2.6.1
-
- - new option -k for make-fai-nfroot only installs a new kernel
- - catnc() greps now through multiple files
- - when logging in with ssh all variables for FAI are defined by
- sourcing /tmp/fai/variables.sh
- - faireboot sends message to fai monitor daemon
- - install_packages now supports taskrm (which calls tasksel
- remove), default number of packages that are install with one
- command is set to 99
- - better support for installing a client with a different hostname
- than during installaion
-
-New in FAI 2.6
-
- - make FAI ready-to-use for sarge
- - make the examples much easier, remove a lot of unused stuff
- - fai.conf is split into two files, make-fai-nfsroot specific
- variables are moved to /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
- - make-fai-nfsroot: more packages for hardware detection included,
- write a warning if $FAI_SOURCES_LIST is used
- - rcS_fai: if a file /.nocolorlogo exists, do not enable colored
- logo and let scroll region unchanged
- - 06hwdetect.source: better hardware detection uses discover2,
- load all pci IDE drivers, enables DMA mode for disks, include
- code of 11modules.source
- - task_sysinfo: show serial numbers of hard disks, show usb
- information
- - tasks can set return code ($terror) so faimond receives it
- - faimond receives more messages
- - fai-chboot: new options -d, can use localboot, so we need not
- copy the kernel image and initrd to the install server
- - grub-install does not probe floppy drive (which can hang the system
- for a long time)
- - install_packages: add option -L, new code for detecting unknown
- package names which uses perl module AptPkg
- - mkdebmirror: mirrors now woody and sarge in one directory
-
-New in FAI 2.5.4
-
- - fix bug in make-fai-bootfloppy when using -f
- - make-fai-bootfloppy: added option -i that creates a bootable
- ISO9960 cdrom image
- - some sparc and PowerPC adjustments
-
-New in FAI 2.5.3
-
- - default kernel is 2.4.24
- - add option -c to make-fai-{nfsroot,bootfloppy} to define a
- different configuration directory than /etc/fai
- - make-fai-bootfloppy: add option -c and -F, now DHCP is the
- default protocol when -d is not used
- - fai.conf: exclude more packages from debootstrap
- adjust KERNELPACKAGE to new name (since fai-kernels_1.6)
- put important variables to the top
- remove some comments
- - fai-chboot: new option -S sets FAI_ACTION=sysinfo
- - The variable FAI_SOURCES_LIST is now obsolete,
- use /etc/fai/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list instead
- - new examples for sources.list in
- /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/etc/sources.list
- - remove some packages that are not needed and not available in
- sarge
- - utility chkdebnames mostly rewritten
- - package recommends mknbi, and does not work with netboot package
- when using BOOTP
-
-New in FAI 2.5.2
-
- - fai monitor daemon added, see faimond(8)
- - colored copyright message on console
- - variable hdparm included again; can be used if the kernel does
- not enables DMA for brand new IDE controllers by default
- - package names can contain pinning information
- - preferences file is copied from /etc/fai if it exists
- - default kernel version is 2.4.22
- - bug fixes
-
-New in FAI 2.5.1
-
- - minor bug fixes
- - added chapter to the fai guide how to receive the configuration
- space using CVS
- - initrd support when booting new kernel via network
-
-New in FAI 2.5
-
- - a new section in the manual which describes a simple
- installation example. Read the chapter 'For the impatient user'
- - old templates now split into simple and advanced examples. They
- are located in /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/{simple,advanced}
- - added script fai-chboot which manages the network boot
- configuration files for PXE boot
- - the installation time is printed in seconds
- - menu entries for grub now works also if /boot is a separate
- partition
- - number of packages installed at a time can be limited (use
- $MAXPACKAGES)
- - log files can be saved using FTP protocol
- - the files in /fai/class that are list of classes can contain
- comment lines. All lines starting with a hash are ignored
- - syslogd now works during installation
- - add an grub entry for memtest86 if installed
- - do not fsck ext3 partitions
- - add -M option to fcopy
- - make-fai-nfsroot: new option -f; print error message if it fails
- - a new example configuration for a demo host using GNOME, DHCP
- - added XFS support to setup_harddisks
- - files class/*.mod and modules.log removed, use 11modules.source
- instead
- - packages for xfree server now in file/class XFREE
- - added SunOS support; you can install Solaris using FAI
- - bug fixes as always
-
-New in FAI 2.4.1
-
- - use dhcp3, dhcp support was broken in FAI 2.4
- - disk_config examples are using ext3 file systems
- - add SERVERINTERFACE to fai.conf
- - add FAI_BOOT to fai.conf; the list of boot protocols to set
- up (boot or dhcp or both)
- - DHCP install kernel file /boot/fai/installkernel renamed to
- vmlinuz-install
- - new script fai-do-scripts; include the functions from do_script
- and task_configure, this makes the Solaris port easier
- - some bug fixes
-
-New in FAI 2.4
-
- - Era Erikson did some great work on proofreading all manuals and
- script comments. Great work Era!
- - lots of updates in the fai guide
- - use the script fai-class for defining classes; scripts in class/
- must not have prefix S; the following command renames your
- existing scripts so they will work with the new command:
- rename 's/S(\d\d.+)(\.sh|\.pl)/$1/' S*
- the order of scripts executed has slightly changed; all classes
- from the file $HOSTNAME are defined after the scripts in class/
- are executed; the suffix .sh or .pl is not needed any more,
- fai-class has a manual page
- - kernel 2.4.20 is the default kernel during installation
- - USB keyboard support during installation
- - make-fai-bootfloppy creates a more generic boot floppy which
- uses grub or lilo as boot loader, it supports more than one boot
- protocol, more disk space is available on the floppy
- - the exit status of every hook and script is written to
- status.log
- - the hook faiend.LAST parses all log files for warnings and
- errors and writes them to error.log
- - variable.sh lists all variables defined after task defvar has finished
- - FAI_LOCATION is now defined in fai.conf, FAI_ACTION is defined
- in LAST.var, do not use T170 and T171 via a BOOTP or DHCP server
- (but it is still possible)
- - hooks can make their tasks to be skipped (as in fai 2.2)
- - templates scripts and config files has been rewritten and added
- (eg. WWWKIOSK, a notebook with Windows and Linux)
- - a new default location for the Debian mirror (in mkdebmirror and
- fai.conf)
- - much of reorganizing the code, but this does not change the user
- visible behavior
- - some functions that were defined as shell subroutines are now
- separate scripts in /usr/lib/fai (fai-class, create_ramdisk,
- prepare_apt, fai-divert, fai-savelog, task_sysinfo, ...), they
- are not standalone script, most of them only work in the fai
- environment, this should solve the problems with a too big
- environment (when using xargs)
- - PATH always starts with /usr/local/{sbin,bin}
- - new FAI_FLAG syslogd starts log daemons (syslogd and klogd) only
- on demand
- - save log files to host $LOGSERVER if defined, otherwise use
- $SERVER
- - make-fai-nfsroot always does setup for dhcp and bootp, and uses
- following sources to create the file sources.list for the
- nfsroot: the variable $FAI_SOURCES_LIST or the files
- /etc/fai/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list
- - you can add a list of classes after the PACKAGE command in files
- in package_config, so the following packages will only be
- installed for this class (Please only use this in the file
- package_config/DEFAULT)
- - fcopy has new option -i and -B
- - the variable addpackages can contain a list of packages without
- their version number, therefore /fai/files/packages should be a
- simple repository
- - a lot of bug fixes
-
-New in FAI 2.3.4
-
- - the default name for fai kernel-image package has changed to
- kernel-image-2.2.20_fai1_i386.deb, since the package fai-kernel
- >=1.4 contains install kernels which support both the BOOTP and
- DHCP protocol
-
-New in FAI 2.3.3
-
- - important bug fix (wrong symlink for rcS_fai)
- - copy id_dsa* and id_rsa* files in make-fai-nfsroot
- - use strict enabled in perl scripts
- - add "append ip=dhcp" in pxelinux.cfg/default
- - minor changes in package_config files
- - setup_harddisks default fs type changed from auto to ext2
-
-New in FAI 2.3.2
-
- - minor bug fixes
- - minor changes in package_config files
- - use discover command for hardware detection and loading of scsi
- kernel modules in class/S03hwdetect.source
- - use swap partitions during installation if available
-
-New in FAI 2.3.1
-
- - some minor bug fixes
- - add variable $addpackages to DEFAULT.var
- - $FAI_SUBDIR renamed to $FAI_SHAREDIR (fai.conf)
- - changes in package_config files
- - additional method to determine all ethernet devices
- - manual updates for woody
- - added a lot of comments into shell script
- - add option -m to make-fai-bootfloppy
-
-New in FAI 2.3
-
- - all default configurations are for Debian 3.0 aka woody
- - /etc/fai.conf moved to /etc/fai/fai.conf
- - moved some variables from fai.conf to class/*.var
- - add FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS to fai.conf
- - temporary files are stored to $LOGDIR (default to /tmp/fai/),
- can be set in fai.conf using mktemp if desired
- - log files for every new run are stored in a separate directory,
- last-$FAI_ACTION is pointing to the last log directory
- - if a task is skipped, also all its hooks are skipped
- - uname -s in uppercase is also a default class
- - all class/S[0-9]*.source scripts are sourced
- - hooks that end in .source are sourced (formerly .sh), so they
- can define variables
- - new adddivert routine; make a diversion for a file and add it to
- the list of all diversions; you need not care about removing the
- diversion; the finish task will do this for you
- - class/*.mod files can now define variables
- - new examples class/S30menu.source (was hook/install.MENU)
- - /fai can be a different location using $FAI in fai.conf
- - /fai can be retrieved from a CVS repository: (see variables
- FAI_LOCATION, FAI_CVSROOT, FAI_CVSMODULE) and create a
- /etc/fai/.cvspass
- - /etc/apt/preferences will be copied to nfsroot
- - additional manual pages for fai-setup, make-fai-nfsroot,
- make-fai-bootfloppy, install_packages
- - setup_harddisks: called with option -d (DOS alignment)
- support for ext3 and disk controllers using /dev/ida/, /dev/rd/
- and /dev/cciss (Compaq SMART2 raid array and Mylex DAC960 PCI
- RAID controller)
- - make-fai-bootfloppy can write to a file, creates environment for
- DHCP using pxelinux, does not copy System.map to floppy (now
- more space left for the kernel image), new option -s
- - bootpc and dhcp request will use only active network devices
- ($netdevices_up determined by netdevice_info()) by default,
- which can be overwritten with $netdevices
- - add a hint how to set up the kernel automounter for scratch
- partitions
- - fcopy skips CVS directories, executes postinst script if file
- was copied, new options -L and -P
- - added prtnetgr script which prints a flat list of all hosts
- belonging to a netgroup
- - execute all /fai/scripts/$class/S[0-9]* scripts if this
- directory exists, so it's possible to execute multiple scripts
- for one class; see examples in scripts/NETWORK/ and scripts/DEFAULT/
- - use shm (was tmpfs) for ramdisk if available
- - mkdebmirror uses passive ftp mode
- - task sysinfo calls kudzu
- - added THANKS file
-
-New in FAI 2.2.3
-
- - woody support improved, but the default configuration is still
- for potato
- - added disk configuration for Beowulf nodes
- - Wake on LAN section added to FAI guide
- - reiserfs support in setup_harddisks (thanks to Diane Trout)
- - make-fai-nfsroot -v output can be redirected to a file
- - sysinfo also uses detect and discover to probe for hardware
- - utilities moved to /usr/share/fai/utils
- - install_packages checks all package names. If a package name is
- misspelled, it will be removed from the installation list
- - added class NOGETTY
- - package_config: new action "hold", PRELOAD can use a file: url
-
-New in FAI 2.2.2
-
- - bug fix: getting dhcp information
- - added jmon to BEOWULF
-
-New in FAI 2.2.1
-
- - FAI_FLAGS can be space or comma separated. They must be space
- separated in bootptab. Use a comma to separate them as
- additional kernel parameters.
- - bootp requests on multiple ethernet devices show device name
- (Thanks to Geert Stappers)
- - script all_hosts doesn't use hardcoded list of hosts any more;
- now it uses the netgroup allhosts
-
-New in FAI 2.2
-
- - the fai guide has a new chapter about building a Beowulf cluster
- - new utilities for Beowulf cluster: all_hosts and rshall
- - new utility softupdate for updating packages on a running system
- - improved example for diskless hook
- - major reorganization of the rcS_fai code; most parts are moved
- to the subroutines file
- - source /fai/hooks/subroutines if file exists; here you can define
- your own subroutines or redefine FAIs subroutines
- - most tasks are now executed via task() and the name of the task
- as option. This subroutine looks for a hook with the given name
- and executes it. Hooks can skip the default task of FAI (called
- task_<name>) by using skiptask(). So, hooks can replace the
- default behavior, and not only add functions to the
- installation process
- - hooks can define classes by writing class names to
- /tmp/additional-classes and variable by writing line to
- /tmp/additional.var
- - new hooks/tasks added
- - classes and variables are now defined in the very beginning
- before task_action is called and $FAI_ACTION is evaluated
- - FAI_ACTION can be any user defined value. FAI is looking for a
- command in /fai/hooks/$FAI_ACTION and executes it.
- - log file prepare-apt.log renamed to updatebase.log
- - debian-non-US in local mirror script (mkdebmirror) has new location
- - new type "PACKAGE taskinst" in package_config can install new
- task packages (for Debian 3.0 and later releases)
- - get_bootp_inf() and get_dhcp_info() support multiple ethernet
- devices via $netdevices
- - $netdevices can be set or automaticly determined to the list of
- ethernet devices
- - make-fai-bootfloppy: handle symlinks of lilo 21.5 and newer
- - tlink can show symlink of a host or all file in /boot/fai
- - new classes NOSECURETTY, BEOWULF, NOTCPD
-
-New in FAI 2.1
- - NEWS file added (you found it already ;-), which contains the
- user visible changes; changelog file is for developers
- - woody support
- - define $FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP for using debootstrap
- - you can add your own functions using hooks (read the manual)
- - /fai/fai_config not used anymore, replaced by a hook
- - setup_harddisk does not complain when root partition is not in
- the first 8GB, do not complain if not a primary partition
- - no more problems when using other locales
- - support for diskless clients
- - grub support, new class LILO and GRUB
- - new flag createvt; add this to FAI_FLAGS to get two additional
- terminals and ctrl-c will interrupt the installation
- process. Otherwise ctrl-c will reboot and no terminals are
- available. In the past, this function was enabled by default.
- Add createvt to FAI_FLAGS to get the old behavior.
- - before any classes are defined using the scripts in /fai/class,
- the classes DEFAULT, $HOSTNAME and LAST are defined
- - new utility chkdebnames can check package names for a certain
- distribution
Copied: trunk/debian/NEWS (from rev 3929, trunk/NEWS)
===================================================================
--- trunk/debian/NEWS (rev 0)
+++ trunk/debian/NEWS 2006-09-13 09:11:46 UTC (rev 3936)
@@ -0,0 +1,560 @@
+WARNING
+- the fai-guide does not yet reflect the changes from FAI 2 to FAI 3
+- this release is NOT yet tested with etch. It works out of the
+ box with sarge. The next release will run with etch.
+
+New in FAI 3~beta
+
+ - /etc/fai/sources.list moved to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list
+ - a lot of new pathes:
+ use /srv/tftp/fai instead of /boot/fai
+ use /srv/tftp/fai/pxelinux.cfg instead of /boot/fai/pxelinux.cfg
+ use /srv/fai/config instead of /usr/local/share/fai
+ use /srv/fai/nfsroot instead of /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot
+ use /var/lib/fai/config instead of /fai
+ use /var/lib/fai/mirror instead of /mnt
+ - new file names
+ variables.sh is now variables.log
+ - changes in variables
+ remove FAI_REMOTESH and FAI_REMOTECP from fai.conf, use FAI_LOGPROTO instead
+ remove $installserver and $mirrorhost in fai.conf
+ replace FAI_LOCATION by FAI_CONFIG_SRC, default if undefined:
+ "nfs://`hostname`$FAI_CONFIGDIR"
+ LOGSERVER, LOGREMOTEDIR, LOGPASSWD removed from fai.conf, set
+ them in the config space
+ MNTPOINT now set to /media/mirror
+ SERVERINTERFACE not needed by default in make-fai-nfsroot.conf
+ NFSROOT moved to make-fai-nfsroot.conf
+ FAICLIENTS, NFSROOT_PACKAGES, packages removed from make-fai-nfsroot.conf
+ terror renamed to task_error
+ all flags from FAI_FLAGS are now defined as flag_xxx
+ $time_zone renamed to $TIMEZONE
+ $videodrv renamed to $VIDEODRIVER
+ $FAI_CONSOLEFONT renamed to $CONSOLEFONT
+ $FAI_KEYMAP renamed to $KEYMAP
+ $rootpw renamed to $ROOTPW
+ $moduleslist renamed to $MODULESLIST
+ - new config file /etc/fai/NFSROOT which contains the package list
+ for the nfsroot
+ - task_updatebase does not use updatebase.log any more
+ - all IP addresses of the install server are added to $NFSROOT/etc/hosts
+ - automatic reboot if no errors are found (if error.log is empty)
+ - uses discover1 for hardware detection (discover version 2 is not
+ maintained any more
+ - add task dirinst
+ - try ftar $FAI/basefiles before extracting base.tgz
+ - install_packages: new option -p (see man install_packages)
+ - make-fai-nfsroot: add option -V (see man make-fai-nfsroot)
+ - fai-chboot: change in options, -d is now -D, -r is now -d, -r is
+ not used any more
+ - add policy-rc.d support
+ - move some -c to -C, so now all scripts use -C for cfdir, seting
+ $FAI_ETC_DIR does the same
+ - fai-cd can now eject the CD after installation
+ - fai-mirror remove option -a (now default), add -B
+
+New in FAI 2.10.5
+
+ - only minor changes
+
+New in FAI 2.10.2
+
+ - only bug fixes
+
+New in FAI 2.10.1
+
+ - minor fix in fai-chboot
+ - packages in /files/packages are not supported any more
+ - fai-mirror: add option -C
+ - fai-cd: add option -C, grub menu now shows FAI version
+ - after the installation you can leave the FAI-CD in the drive,
+ since it now boot from local disk by default
+ - FAI_FLAG syslogd was removed, syslogd is now started by default
+
+New in FAI 2.10
+
+ - add option -n to fcopy
+ - several new listing options for fai-chboot, add option -c for
+ copying PXE configurations
+ - verbose output when defining variables
+ - add urpmi and yum support to install_packages
+ - add new subroutine mkrw(), which makes read-only directories
+ writeable. Very cool and usefull thing until we can use unionfs
+ - When booting from fai-cd the config space /fai is now writeable
+ - class FAISERVER sets up an apt-proxy
+
+New in FAI 2.9.1
+
+ - new class FAISERVER can install the fai install server from CD
+ - new command fai-statoverride
+ - some bug fixes
+
+New in FAI 2.9
+
+ - lots of bug fixes
+ - splitting the FAI package into more packages:
+ fai-server, fai-client, fai-nfsroot, fai-doc, fai-quickstart
+ - use a 2.6 kernel by default
+ - Config scripts named S[0-9][0-9]* are not executed any
+ more. Rename them to match [0-9][0-9]*.
+ - fcopy now supports a preinst script, add option -U, ignore .svn
+ directories
+ - new option -I for make-fai-bootfloppy can specify default
+ interface, new option -B creates 2.88M floppy
+ - use md5 hash for passwords
+ - backticks and variables can't be used in package_config any more
+ - root-path does not need to be defined in dhcpd.conf any more
+ (fai-chboot does it for you)
+ - fai-cd's El Torito boot image is not limited to 2.88M any more
+
+New in FAI 2.8.4
+
+ - small but important bug fix: remove non-US entry
+
+New in FAI 2.8.3
+
+ - remove debconf support for package itself, debconf support for
+ the installation was not removed
+
+New in FAI 2.8.2
+
+ - close some bugs, which occured when using softupdates
+
+New in FAI 2.8.1
+
+ - minor bug fixes
+ - added $COLOR_FAI_LOGO which is off unless doing initial
+ installations
+ - added german and french translation of the debconf templates
+ - task sysinfo mounts the local partitions read only
+ - move some classes from 10-base-classes to the new script
+ 50-host-classes
+ - fixed a lot of typos in the fai guide
+
+New in FAI 2.8
+
+ - rename rcS_fai to fai, add manual page fai.8
+ - new simple examples using class FAIBASE
+ - add debconf support for the package itself
+ - new action softupdates, update a system without reinstallation
+ - fai-do-scripts now executes scripts matching [0-9][0-9]*
+ - rcS.log is now fai.log
+ - major updates in fai-guide (softupdate, fai on other archs)
+ - add task prepareapt
+ - variable $addpackages removed from examples scripts
+
+New in FAI 2.7
+
+ - closes grave and important bugs
+ - add fai-cd(8) script for creating a bootable FAI CD image
+ - add option -a to fai-mirror
+ - add option -d to install_packages
+
+New in FAI 2.6.7
+
+ - add task debconf and new script fai-debconf for preseeding
+ - minor updates in the fai guide
+
+New in FAI 2.6.6
+
+ - new command fai-mirror(1) to create a partitial Debian mirror
+ - setup_harddisks: bug fix: error redefined mountpoint is wrongly
+ reported, allow space before keywords primary and logical
+ - install_packages: add option -f
+ - task_sysinfo calls hwinfo if available (very nice hardware info)
+ - 06hwdetect.source: SCSI detect code for 2.6 kernel
+ - new variable FAICLIENTS in make-fai-nfsroot.conf. Used by
+ fai-setup for exporting the nfsroot and the config space via NFS
+ - create a list of all packages in base.tgz (for fai CD)
+ - ftar: test if directory is / before removing files recursively
+ - enable shadow passwords for passwd and group in examples
+ - save files FAI_CLASSES, variables.sh and disk_var.sh to
+ /var/log/fai not to /etc/fai
+ - add supprt for booting from CD
+ - other bug fixes
+
+New in FAI 2.6.5
+
+ - fcopy now handles svn and arch subdirectories, added option -I
+ - install_packages does not remove unknown package names when
+ using aptitude, so aptitude's search patterns can be used
+
+New in FAI 2.6.4
+
+ - bug fixes
+ - install_packages and files in package_config/ have now support
+ for aptitude
+
+New in FAI 2.6.3
+
+ - make $rootpw not readable for users
+ - use default kernel 2.4.27
+ - fai-setup: add option -e
+ - make-fai-nfsroot: add option -K
+ - add xfs support into the nfsroot
+ - define kernel parameters using $kappend
+
+New in FAI 2.6.2
+
+ - Workaround to support new tasksel behaviour
+ - fix broken grub entry when using class FAI_BOOTPART
+ - fai-chboot: add option -e
+
+New in FAI 2.6.1
+
+ - new option -k for make-fai-nfroot only installs a new kernel
+ - catnc() greps now through multiple files
+ - when logging in with ssh all variables for FAI are defined by
+ sourcing /tmp/fai/variables.sh
+ - faireboot sends message to fai monitor daemon
+ - install_packages now supports taskrm (which calls tasksel
+ remove), default number of packages that are install with one
+ command is set to 99
+ - better support for installing a client with a different hostname
+ than during installaion
+
+New in FAI 2.6
+
+ - make FAI ready-to-use for sarge
+ - make the examples much easier, remove a lot of unused stuff
+ - fai.conf is split into two files, make-fai-nfsroot specific
+ variables are moved to /etc/fai/make-fai-nfsroot.conf
+ - make-fai-nfsroot: more packages for hardware detection included,
+ write a warning if $FAI_SOURCES_LIST is used
+ - rcS_fai: if a file /.nocolorlogo exists, do not enable colored
+ logo and let scroll region unchanged
+ - 06hwdetect.source: better hardware detection uses discover2,
+ load all pci IDE drivers, enables DMA mode for disks, include
+ code of 11modules.source
+ - task_sysinfo: show serial numbers of hard disks, show usb
+ information
+ - tasks can set return code ($terror) so faimond receives it
+ - faimond receives more messages
+ - fai-chboot: new options -d, can use localboot, so we need not
+ copy the kernel image and initrd to the install server
+ - grub-install does not probe floppy drive (which can hang the system
+ for a long time)
+ - install_packages: add option -L, new code for detecting unknown
+ package names which uses perl module AptPkg
+ - mkdebmirror: mirrors now woody and sarge in one directory
+
+New in FAI 2.5.4
+
+ - fix bug in make-fai-bootfloppy when using -f
+ - make-fai-bootfloppy: added option -i that creates a bootable
+ ISO9960 cdrom image
+ - some sparc and PowerPC adjustments
+
+New in FAI 2.5.3
+
+ - default kernel is 2.4.24
+ - add option -c to make-fai-{nfsroot,bootfloppy} to define a
+ different configuration directory than /etc/fai
+ - make-fai-bootfloppy: add option -c and -F, now DHCP is the
+ default protocol when -d is not used
+ - fai.conf: exclude more packages from debootstrap
+ adjust KERNELPACKAGE to new name (since fai-kernels_1.6)
+ put important variables to the top
+ remove some comments
+ - fai-chboot: new option -S sets FAI_ACTION=sysinfo
+ - The variable FAI_SOURCES_LIST is now obsolete,
+ use /etc/fai/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list instead
+ - new examples for sources.list in
+ /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/etc/sources.list
+ - remove some packages that are not needed and not available in
+ sarge
+ - utility chkdebnames mostly rewritten
+ - package recommends mknbi, and does not work with netboot package
+ when using BOOTP
+
+New in FAI 2.5.2
+
+ - fai monitor daemon added, see faimond(8)
+ - colored copyright message on console
+ - variable hdparm included again; can be used if the kernel does
+ not enables DMA for brand new IDE controllers by default
+ - package names can contain pinning information
+ - preferences file is copied from /etc/fai if it exists
+ - default kernel version is 2.4.22
+ - bug fixes
+
+New in FAI 2.5.1
+
+ - minor bug fixes
+ - added chapter to the fai guide how to receive the configuration
+ space using CVS
+ - initrd support when booting new kernel via network
+
+New in FAI 2.5
+
+ - a new section in the manual which describes a simple
+ installation example. Read the chapter 'For the impatient user'
+ - old templates now split into simple and advanced examples. They
+ are located in /usr/share/doc/fai/examples/{simple,advanced}
+ - added script fai-chboot which manages the network boot
+ configuration files for PXE boot
+ - the installation time is printed in seconds
+ - menu entries for grub now works also if /boot is a separate
+ partition
+ - number of packages installed at a time can be limited (use
+ $MAXPACKAGES)
+ - log files can be saved using FTP protocol
+ - the files in /fai/class that are list of classes can contain
+ comment lines. All lines starting with a hash are ignored
+ - syslogd now works during installation
+ - add an grub entry for memtest86 if installed
+ - do not fsck ext3 partitions
+ - add -M option to fcopy
+ - make-fai-nfsroot: new option -f; print error message if it fails
+ - a new example configuration for a demo host using GNOME, DHCP
+ - added XFS support to setup_harddisks
+ - files class/*.mod and modules.log removed, use 11modules.source
+ instead
+ - packages for xfree server now in file/class XFREE
+ - added SunOS support; you can install Solaris using FAI
+ - bug fixes as always
+
+New in FAI 2.4.1
+
+ - use dhcp3, dhcp support was broken in FAI 2.4
+ - disk_config examples are using ext3 file systems
+ - add SERVERINTERFACE to fai.conf
+ - add FAI_BOOT to fai.conf; the list of boot protocols to set
+ up (boot or dhcp or both)
+ - DHCP install kernel file /boot/fai/installkernel renamed to
+ vmlinuz-install
+ - new script fai-do-scripts; include the functions from do_script
+ and task_configure, this makes the Solaris port easier
+ - some bug fixes
+
+New in FAI 2.4
+
+ - Era Erikson did some great work on proofreading all manuals and
+ script comments. Great work Era!
+ - lots of updates in the fai guide
+ - use the script fai-class for defining classes; scripts in class/
+ must not have prefix S; the following command renames your
+ existing scripts so they will work with the new command:
+ rename 's/S(\d\d.+)(\.sh|\.pl)/$1/' S*
+ the order of scripts executed has slightly changed; all classes
+ from the file $HOSTNAME are defined after the scripts in class/
+ are executed; the suffix .sh or .pl is not needed any more,
+ fai-class has a manual page
+ - kernel 2.4.20 is the default kernel during installation
+ - USB keyboard support during installation
+ - make-fai-bootfloppy creates a more generic boot floppy which
+ uses grub or lilo as boot loader, it supports more than one boot
+ protocol, more disk space is available on the floppy
+ - the exit status of every hook and script is written to
+ status.log
+ - the hook faiend.LAST parses all log files for warnings and
+ errors and writes them to error.log
+ - variable.sh lists all variables defined after task defvar has finished
+ - FAI_LOCATION is now defined in fai.conf, FAI_ACTION is defined
+ in LAST.var, do not use T170 and T171 via a BOOTP or DHCP server
+ (but it is still possible)
+ - hooks can make their tasks to be skipped (as in fai 2.2)
+ - templates scripts and config files has been rewritten and added
+ (eg. WWWKIOSK, a notebook with Windows and Linux)
+ - a new default location for the Debian mirror (in mkdebmirror and
+ fai.conf)
+ - much of reorganizing the code, but this does not change the user
+ visible behavior
+ - some functions that were defined as shell subroutines are now
+ separate scripts in /usr/lib/fai (fai-class, create_ramdisk,
+ prepare_apt, fai-divert, fai-savelog, task_sysinfo, ...), they
+ are not standalone script, most of them only work in the fai
+ environment, this should solve the problems with a too big
+ environment (when using xargs)
+ - PATH always starts with /usr/local/{sbin,bin}
+ - new FAI_FLAG syslogd starts log daemons (syslogd and klogd) only
+ on demand
+ - save log files to host $LOGSERVER if defined, otherwise use
+ $SERVER
+ - make-fai-nfsroot always does setup for dhcp and bootp, and uses
+ following sources to create the file sources.list for the
+ nfsroot: the variable $FAI_SOURCES_LIST or the files
+ /etc/fai/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list
+ - you can add a list of classes after the PACKAGE command in files
+ in package_config, so the following packages will only be
+ installed for this class (Please only use this in the file
+ package_config/DEFAULT)
+ - fcopy has new option -i and -B
+ - the variable addpackages can contain a list of packages without
+ their version number, therefore /fai/files/packages should be a
+ simple repository
+ - a lot of bug fixes
+
+New in FAI 2.3.4
+
+ - the default name for fai kernel-image package has changed to
+ kernel-image-2.2.20_fai1_i386.deb, since the package fai-kernel
+ >=1.4 contains install kernels which support both the BOOTP and
+ DHCP protocol
+
+New in FAI 2.3.3
+
+ - important bug fix (wrong symlink for rcS_fai)
+ - copy id_dsa* and id_rsa* files in make-fai-nfsroot
+ - use strict enabled in perl scripts
+ - add "append ip=dhcp" in pxelinux.cfg/default
+ - minor changes in package_config files
+ - setup_harddisks default fs type changed from auto to ext2
+
+New in FAI 2.3.2
+
+ - minor bug fixes
+ - minor changes in package_config files
+ - use discover command for hardware detection and loading of scsi
+ kernel modules in class/S03hwdetect.source
+ - use swap partitions during installation if available
+
+New in FAI 2.3.1
+
+ - some minor bug fixes
+ - add variable $addpackages to DEFAULT.var
+ - $FAI_SUBDIR renamed to $FAI_SHAREDIR (fai.conf)
+ - changes in package_config files
+ - additional method to determine all ethernet devices
+ - manual updates for woody
+ - added a lot of comments into shell script
+ - add option -m to make-fai-bootfloppy
+
+New in FAI 2.3
+
+ - all default configurations are for Debian 3.0 aka woody
+ - /etc/fai.conf moved to /etc/fai/fai.conf
+ - moved some variables from fai.conf to class/*.var
+ - add FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP_OPTS to fai.conf
+ - temporary files are stored to $LOGDIR (default to /tmp/fai/),
+ can be set in fai.conf using mktemp if desired
+ - log files for every new run are stored in a separate directory,
+ last-$FAI_ACTION is pointing to the last log directory
+ - if a task is skipped, also all its hooks are skipped
+ - uname -s in uppercase is also a default class
+ - all class/S[0-9]*.source scripts are sourced
+ - hooks that end in .source are sourced (formerly .sh), so they
+ can define variables
+ - new adddivert routine; make a diversion for a file and add it to
+ the list of all diversions; you need not care about removing the
+ diversion; the finish task will do this for you
+ - class/*.mod files can now define variables
+ - new examples class/S30menu.source (was hook/install.MENU)
+ - /fai can be a different location using $FAI in fai.conf
+ - /fai can be retrieved from a CVS repository: (see variables
+ FAI_LOCATION, FAI_CVSROOT, FAI_CVSMODULE) and create a
+ /etc/fai/.cvspass
+ - /etc/apt/preferences will be copied to nfsroot
+ - additional manual pages for fai-setup, make-fai-nfsroot,
+ make-fai-bootfloppy, install_packages
+ - setup_harddisks: called with option -d (DOS alignment)
+ support for ext3 and disk controllers using /dev/ida/, /dev/rd/
+ and /dev/cciss (Compaq SMART2 raid array and Mylex DAC960 PCI
+ RAID controller)
+ - make-fai-bootfloppy can write to a file, creates environment for
+ DHCP using pxelinux, does not copy System.map to floppy (now
+ more space left for the kernel image), new option -s
+ - bootpc and dhcp request will use only active network devices
+ ($netdevices_up determined by netdevice_info()) by default,
+ which can be overwritten with $netdevices
+ - add a hint how to set up the kernel automounter for scratch
+ partitions
+ - fcopy skips CVS directories, executes postinst script if file
+ was copied, new options -L and -P
+ - added prtnetgr script which prints a flat list of all hosts
+ belonging to a netgroup
+ - execute all /fai/scripts/$class/S[0-9]* scripts if this
+ directory exists, so it's possible to execute multiple scripts
+ for one class; see examples in scripts/NETWORK/ and scripts/DEFAULT/
+ - use shm (was tmpfs) for ramdisk if available
+ - mkdebmirror uses passive ftp mode
+ - task sysinfo calls kudzu
+ - added THANKS file
+
+New in FAI 2.2.3
+
+ - woody support improved, but the default configuration is still
+ for potato
+ - added disk configuration for Beowulf nodes
+ - Wake on LAN section added to FAI guide
+ - reiserfs support in setup_harddisks (thanks to Diane Trout)
+ - make-fai-nfsroot -v output can be redirected to a file
+ - sysinfo also uses detect and discover to probe for hardware
+ - utilities moved to /usr/share/fai/utils
+ - install_packages checks all package names. If a package name is
+ misspelled, it will be removed from the installation list
+ - added class NOGETTY
+ - package_config: new action "hold", PRELOAD can use a file: url
+
+New in FAI 2.2.2
+
+ - bug fix: getting dhcp information
+ - added jmon to BEOWULF
+
+New in FAI 2.2.1
+
+ - FAI_FLAGS can be space or comma separated. They must be space
+ separated in bootptab. Use a comma to separate them as
+ additional kernel parameters.
+ - bootp requests on multiple ethernet devices show device name
+ (Thanks to Geert Stappers)
+ - script all_hosts doesn't use hardcoded list of hosts any more;
+ now it uses the netgroup allhosts
+
+New in FAI 2.2
+
+ - the fai guide has a new chapter about building a Beowulf cluster
+ - new utilities for Beowulf cluster: all_hosts and rshall
+ - new utility softupdate for updating packages on a running system
+ - improved example for diskless hook
+ - major reorganization of the rcS_fai code; most parts are moved
+ to the subroutines file
+ - source /fai/hooks/subroutines if file exists; here you can define
+ your own subroutines or redefine FAIs subroutines
+ - most tasks are now executed via task() and the name of the task
+ as option. This subroutine looks for a hook with the given name
+ and executes it. Hooks can skip the default task of FAI (called
+ task_<name>) by using skiptask(). So, hooks can replace the
+ default behavior, and not only add functions to the
+ installation process
+ - hooks can define classes by writing class names to
+ /tmp/additional-classes and variable by writing line to
+ /tmp/additional.var
+ - new hooks/tasks added
+ - classes and variables are now defined in the very beginning
+ before task_action is called and $FAI_ACTION is evaluated
+ - FAI_ACTION can be any user defined value. FAI is looking for a
+ command in /fai/hooks/$FAI_ACTION and executes it.
+ - log file prepare-apt.log renamed to updatebase.log
+ - debian-non-US in local mirror script (mkdebmirror) has new location
+ - new type "PACKAGE taskinst" in package_config can install new
+ task packages (for Debian 3.0 and later releases)
+ - get_bootp_inf() and get_dhcp_info() support multiple ethernet
+ devices via $netdevices
+ - $netdevices can be set or automaticly determined to the list of
+ ethernet devices
+ - make-fai-bootfloppy: handle symlinks of lilo 21.5 and newer
+ - tlink can show symlink of a host or all file in /boot/fai
+ - new classes NOSECURETTY, BEOWULF, NOTCPD
+
+New in FAI 2.1
+ - NEWS file added (you found it already ;-), which contains the
+ user visible changes; changelog file is for developers
+ - woody support
+ - define $FAI_DEBOOTSTRAP for using debootstrap
+ - you can add your own functions using hooks (read the manual)
+ - /fai/fai_config not used anymore, replaced by a hook
+ - setup_harddisk does not complain when root partition is not in
+ the first 8GB, do not complain if not a primary partition
+ - no more problems when using other locales
+ - support for diskless clients
+ - grub support, new class LILO and GRUB
+ - new flag createvt; add this to FAI_FLAGS to get two additional
+ terminals and ctrl-c will interrupt the installation
+ process. Otherwise ctrl-c will reboot and no terminals are
+ available. In the past, this function was enabled by default.
+ Add createvt to FAI_FLAGS to get the old behavior.
+ - before any classes are defined using the scripts in /fai/class,
+ the classes DEFAULT, $HOSTNAME and LAST are defined
+ - new utility chkdebnames can check package names for a certain
+ distribution
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