gbootroot (1.3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Now the template called Helper.yard used to create the
root_fs_helper is included with root_fs_helper.
* 1.3.4 was awarded Editor's pick by SoftLandMark, but I recommend
upgrading to 1.3.5 because of my oversight with the root_fs_helper
issue, as well as the improved initrd testing capability of the
specially patched 2.4.17-10um kernel. I also recommend running
gbootroot as a normal user, at least that's what I usually do. :)
* Root_fs_helper was working fine, but because I hadn't committed, let
alone copied the new changes to CVS I didn't notice any aberrations
until I installed the new released version of gbootroot. This is
related to the new securretty requirements of uml. Problem fixed.
* Initrd was not working with any fs other than ext2. After
contacting the trinux-uml project, Matthew Franz <mfranz@cisco.com>
confirmed that he was having problems creating a working uml for the
initrd created by Bill Burdick <bill@appliedreasoning.com>. I
talked Bill into sending me his uml .config, and narrowed down the
problem to cramfs. Cramfs has known bugs as documented in the
kernel sources. Because cramfs was placed before just about every
fs in the VFS check order, and trinux-uml's initrd was minix, the
kernel failed, but an ext2 initrd didn't. Changing the order in
which filesystems are checked during the VFS stage by editing
fs/Makefile solves the problem. Thanks to Henrik Nordstrom
<hno@marasystems.com> for pointing out how to do this at user-mode-
linux-devel. I am hoping the patch found in user-mode-
linux/usr/lib/uml/cramfs-vfs-oder.patch becomes part of uml. This
should have been corrected ages ago in the standard Linux kernel.
* Removed unecessary warning which warned that left-hand side
replacements couldn't be a directory if it happened to find that
directory on the hostfs. Directories can be replacements.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:11:41 -0500
gbootroot (1.3.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated to 2.4.17-10um and added Jeff's initrd fix.
* Updated to 20020125 uml tools.
* The rpmized gbootroot package requires perl-Expect which in turn
requires perl-IO-Tty and perl-IO-Stty. A search on the Net revealed
that the existing rpms out there are either outdated, don't have
their dependencies set-up properly, or require a particular version
of the perl5 series. I made these rpms so they work on any i386
architecture which is using the perl5 series. This includes 5.6.0
and 5.6.1 which are in common use on most major distributions as of
the year 2002. If you have a problem with the automated Linux
virtual machine which appears related to these modules, please don't
hesitate to contact me. They are available at
prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gbootroot.
* Created rpms for Mandrake type dists, and Red Hat type dists.
* Added vc/? and vcs? to the etc/securetty files because the new uml
kernel uses these now.
* Fixed the fhs situation again. This time it will definitely work.
As I wrote in the code: "I always thought the BEGIN statements were
executed before everything else, but I have discovered that in this
case it has to be placed before the use statements if exec
/usr/bin/gbootroot is done via $PATH .. I guess that makes sense
because $PATH is established in this particular BEGIN." Other
executables have been fixed including expect_uml and
yard_chrooted_tests.
* Improved Replacements Box GUI.
* Added a button to open up the Filesystem Box from the ARS, this is
on the same line as Filesystem Size.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Fri, 8 Feb 2002 19:33:13 -0500
gbootroot (1.3.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
* During the boot stage the filsystem type was used to determine
whether to use the genext2fs (non-root) method or the normal method
used by root. Now the user type is used, this is better because it
prevents conflicts if a different filesystem type is chosen, or if a
non-root user changes to a different filesystem type in the
filesystem box and forgets to change back to genext2fs; however, it
prevents root from using the genext2fs method, which isn't a
problem. The sudo requirement for lilo is too much of a
requirement, and will be changed in future versions.
* Fixed another non-root boot/root bug. The info had it correct, but
the actual copy with genext2fs was being done from the wrong
location. This has been fixed. This method may be ditched for a
far better one in the near future.
* Had some testing code which was providing the wrong value for
$compress, this made non-root booting fail for bzip2 because bunzip2
didn't exist in the initrd.
* Added another technique in the FAQ to show how space can be saved on
the root_fs by using the libraries from the initrd. Liav
instigated this by asking a question related to FAQ question 14, "So
if I understand correctly, it is not possible to copy libc from
/dev/ram0 to /dev/ram1 before mounting /dev/ram1 as / ?
* Liav pointed out how Yard can make boot/root floppies with a
compressed root filesystem. Edited FAQ question 13 to correctly
reflect how gz compressed root filesystems may be booted without an
initrd.
* State is saved for the Compression off check box and the Root
Filename save check box.
* The UML Kernel entry box in the ARS remembers state now.
* Changed the behavior of save_as so that when compression is chosen,
the entry won't be the same as that found in Root Filename, but
instead reflects the newly compressed file. This change was
precipitated by the previous change to the Accept behavior.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Tue, 15 Jan 2002 13:50:08 -0500
gbootroot (1.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated linux and modules to 2.4.17-4um. Made jffs and jffs2 part
of the kernel, and had to comment out the get_mtd_device function
call in jffs_fm.c and super.c to accomplish this. Looking forward
to more support from the uml project for mtd devices.
* Updated to the 20020104 uml tools, this includes port-helper which
is the new helper for allowing uml devices to be attached to a
specified host port.
* Changed the behavior of the Accept button so that when compression
is chosen (gzip or bz2) the Root Filename remains the same as
before. This is nice because the fs can be remade with the same
name and re-compressed, rather then appending gz or bz2 to the name.
Before if the user forget to delete the ending this would happen:
root_fs.bz2.bz2.bz2
* Changed shells for root and user to /bin/sh in passwd-debian,
passwd.debian and passwd.example. This is a better idea, and
assumes sh links to a user defined shell, so if the shell is changed
the password files don't have to be.
* Added several new questions to the FAQ, thanks to Liav.
* Liav Asseraf <liav_a@yahoo.com> points out a problem in 1.3.1. I
reply to him with this answer: "Indeed, you have found a bug.
Bootroot adheres to the most recent Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
(2.1); in previous bootroot versions a big chunk of the source code
was included in /usr/bin/gbootroot, but I decided to reorganize and
move most of that code to BootRoot/BootRoot.pm, in the process I
also moved a statement which executes before the rest of the program
does to set up a proper @INC. What this all means is that gbootroot
couldn't find the required modules." This bug has been fixed.
* Altered tooltip text for the Options entry to recognize that the
umid needs to be switched in the mconsole box in order for the new
Linux virtual machine to be controlled via the buttons and the
mconsole. The behavior could be changed to accomplish this
automatically, but that wouldn't be consistent with the behavior
one would expect from the mconsole; anyways the documentation
already explains to use switch in the mconsole.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:03:13 -0500
gbootroot (1.3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a complete interface to the mconsole in the UML Box. Multiple
options can be entered at one time. Options include: switch so
that the umid can be changed to control a different Linux virtual
machine, sysrq as in Documentation/sysrq.txt, config and remove for
devices (ubd?,eth?), reboot and halt, version to find the version
of the running uml kernel, and help.
* Added both a Reboot and Halt button to the UML Box. Both of these
buttons have an interface to mconsole, and provide clean control of
rebooting or halting a Linux virtual machine. When they fail,
Abort does all the clean-up, but this should be used as a last
resort. Both of these buttons initially parse the Options entry
for the first instance of umid
* Added a new stage button in the Yard Box called Copy. Create is now
Copy, and the uml_exclusively and genext2fs behavior are handled by
Create, this is much nicer because a new filsystem type can be
created without having to wait for everything to be copied again to
the sources directory.
* Updated the documentation and graphics to reflect the new changes,
and provide a new exercise.
* If the sources created from the template had a symlink in them from
a previous creation, you couldn't just press create again without
symlink() complaining (for instance, for genext2f and the new
uml_exclusively). This has been fixed.
* Compiled 2.4.16-2um linux and modules to specification for
root_fs_helper. Makefile properly edited to copy over the config
used. Ext2, cramfs, minix, reiserfs, and romfs are built-in to the
kernel.
* Got rid of the complete lock-up when large files are compressed,
ofcourse, users won't want to try to compress more than one format
at the same time, because the logic will get skewed. In the future
may make this OO. Added some verbosity to tell when the process
has begun and finished.
* Established logic for Filesystem Box based on ownership. Defaults
need to be different dependending on the user. Normal users
probably never will want to preserve permissions, but they may want
to toggle off UML Exclusively to create different filesystem types
when <= 8192 fs_size. Root users may want to turn off Preserve
Permissions to create a root only filesystem, and the may want to
toggle between creating root filesytems via loop devices or UML to
allow different filesystem types.
* Added UML Exclusively and Preserve Permissions check boxes to the
Filesystem Box. Esc closes, changed table size, and layout,
responds to return, and submit button defaults.
* Put Jeff Dikes UML.pm in BootRoot, and changed it to BootRoot::UML,
added one change to allow no password.
* The auto-magic test for uClibc was only testing for busybox, this
has been fixed.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Mon, 24 Dec 2001 14:21:49 -0500
gbootroot (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Added a README for users installing from the source package.
* Removed the enforcement of the yard suffix rule for templates,
because it was never really documented; however, it is still a nice
rule to follow despite that it is not enforced anymore.
* Added an archictecture-dependent replacements repository directory.
* Fixed the freezing behavior for particularly large templates, like
the ones produced by make_debian, and make_debian-X11. However,
overly large buffers in the verbosity box still hog cpu in a big
way. The best procedure for now is to open and close the box
between stages.
* Made the termcap check just a warning if terminfo or termcap don't
exist, If a terminfo directory is found, linux will need to exist or
the test will return error. This is better because the root
filesystem can still work if this information doesn't exist. A
minority of gettys will fail if they use termcap or terminfo, but
this check was removed from the chrooted tests several months ago
for the reason just cited. Note: check_getty_type_call was removed
from Yard.pm, but exists in chrooted tests without the termcap
check. Also, added a close which was missing.
* Removed an unnecessary check from the fstab test, and improved a
regexp which was failing if tabs were used in the fstab.
* State is saved for all check buttons when the yard box is opened and
closed. Deciding whether to save state between invocations of
gbootroot via a file.
* Moved the Changelog from within gbootroot to a Changes file in
/usr/share/doc/gbootroot, because it is getting quite large.
* Improved the sizing of the UML box.
* Added New Template (Alt-N) capability to the Yard Box.
* Added several new FAQ questions, added a lot more information on
"How do I use gBootRoot?" Updated the graphics for the
documentation.
* Updated to version 2.4.16 of user-mode-linux.
* The Yard Box has new check buttons which allows the parsing behavior
of the nss and pam configuration files to be turned off and on
(default).
* Pam.conf and pam.d/{service names or *} can now be checked for their
specified service modules. The service modules are located either
in /lib/security or /usr/lib/security and included with the file set
if they are found on the host system. The modules are then checked
for their dependencies which are included if they haven't
previously been specified. Therefore, the user no longer needs to
specify pam modules and dependencies in the template if the pam
parsing option in turned on. Nsswitch.conf can now be checked for
the service modules it specifies. The service modules pertaining to
the host systems libc6 are located and automatically included. The
modules are then checked for their dependencies which are included
if they haven't previously been specified. Therefore, the user no
longer needs to specify nss modules and dependencies in the
template if the pam parsing option in turned on.
* $ENV{RELEASE} is now initialized every time a check is run on the
template. Information can come from three sources, the kernel
version returned from a selected kernel in the main section, the
user defined kernel version in the ABS, or `uname -r`. User defined
kernel version overrides the kernel. The root_fs needs to be built
in relation to the actual kernel modules it will run on.
Previously the $RELEASE value wasn't returned properly because of
some bugs in kernel_version_check. This has been fixed.
* The proper ldd check is now used if a dynamically linked binary is
detected to require uClibc rather than libc6. The ldd from the
default location of /usr/i386-linux-uclibc/bin is used for uClibc.
The old behavior of automatically including the default loader for
the host system has been removed.
* Fixed pam test so that the 3rd field rather than the 4th field is
being checked in the service-name files found in /etc/pam.d/. The
4th field is acceptable for pam.conf. If a path is specified in
either conf format, that path will be checked, otherwise, either
the pam default path of /usr/lib/security or the FSSTD location
/lib/security will be checked for a match.
* Fixed nss test so that it checks for the right
libnss_(service).so.$version if glibc 2.2 is used. Glibc 2.0 and
2.1 used 1 and 2 respectively, but 2.2 uses 2.
* Experimental busybox and uClibc functionality included for boot_fs.
* Many improvements to the verbosity output.
* Replacements path is set just once.
* The Path Box only allowed extra paths to be added before the first
generation of a root_fs creation, this was because the values
weren't allowed to be changed after they were defined. This has
been fixed.
* Symlinks have been vastly improved. Fictional or real links can now
be specified, and links always follow the link -> (file | directory
) format where either side can be existing dirs/files or fictional
dirs/files on the system.
* All of Tom's templates have been replaced with new templates clearly
marked as Examples.
* Example.yard takes advantage of the automated NSS and PAM feature,
and can create a devfs or nondevfs root filesystem, and has many
new replacements. The inittabs reflect modern versions of dpkg,
rpm, and slackware based distributions.
* Example-Mini.yard demonstrates the bare minimum required to create a
working root_fs.
* The documentation in the new templates has been improved to respect
the way gbootroot's Yard now works, since it has been greatly
modified from the original, and some old features deemed unnecessary
have been removed.
* The Debian.yard example has had a name change to Example-
Debian.yard, and has additional documentation so the user
understands its prerequisites. The FAQ covers make_debian usage.
* Chrooted tests in the Yard Box are disabled and removed when a non-
root user runs the box.
* ARS and YardBox error handling is much better because $error has
been made private, before it was mostly global in YardBox.pm which
meant an error value remained ERROR even when the problem was fixed
which caused the YardBox to fail to work properly after certain
errors.
* When the ARS hadn't been opened yet, the program reported that the
root device hadn't been umounted yet, this was observed with
genext2fs but was certainly a global bug. This has been fixed.
* The majority of add-on replacements except for passwd*, shadow, and
ld.so.conf have a CVS Id and "make_debian replacement".
* Original CVS information is now preserved so that non-root users and
root can't edit global replacements, the basic idea is that root
will usually be using an editor like Emacs in
$HOME/.gbootroot/yard/Replacements which respects that CVS versioned
files outside of the repository are read-only (essentially because
the date has changed). Users should make copies of versioned
replacements which they want to edit, for instance: fstab.debian-
1000 Also, they shouldn't defeat the mechanism by removing the CVS
directories, although, only root has write permissions.
* All replacements are now symlinks which is helpful to maintain
static information for add-ons, anotherwards, this allows the
author to know that all his replacements are updated in user
workspaces when he releases a new add-on. Because of this change
symlinks will now be respected in the Replacements directory since
the file being pointed to will be used instead of the actual link
when constructing the root filesystem.
* Non-root users may now create boot disks. Boot Loaders may required
root permissions for some methods, and the fstab may need to be
edited, see FAQ. And some /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules may
need to be given world read permissions.
* A dialog box has been added which will pop up when the lilo stage
has been reached for a normal user, explaining the requirements,
and what the user can do next which is explained in detail in the
FAQ.
* Non-root users may now create root filesystems up to 8192k in size
using genext2fs. FAQ explains how to exceed this limit as a normal
user.
* Added sources.list replacement.
* Added /swapfile to fstab.debian.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:07:54 -0500
gbootroot (1.2.14-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Append field in the ABS now saves state for non-root users. Before it only
remembered state if lilo.conf could actually be read, ofcourse, this wasn't
an option for non-root users. The beginnings of non-root boot and root_fs
creation capabilities have been put into place, but haven't been fully
implemented. The end result of this is that directories created in
$tmp are now static for non-root users and now use the userid number to
keep track of different non-root users.
* The author of swim came out with a new version he now calls dswim. This
means Debian System Wide Information Manager, but the "d" could also stand
for different. Changes have been made to make_debian to facilitate this
much more stable version of swim, and better non-installed package checks
have been implemented in make_debian.
* The control dependencies have been vastly improved, and reflect the change
from swim to dswim. Yard_chrooted_tests is now put in a gbootroot specific
directory since it is unique to gbootroot.
* The lastest user-mode-linux is included: 2.4.12
* Updated the documentation, and it includes a better explanation in step 7
for "How can I test gBootRoot?"
* Added checks for the existence of ash, lilo, bzip2, and file for the 2
disk compression method.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Wed, 24 Oct 2001 13:03:32 -0400
gbootroot (1.2.13-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Initial Release.
-- Jonathan Rosenbaum <freesource@users.sourceforge.net> Tue, 9 Oct 2001 02:20:52 -0400
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