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fai (5.9) unstable; urgency=low
* add UEFI support to fai-cd, fai-kvm
* add disk configs for UEFI
* new scripts fai-sed, fai-link
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 02 Jan 2020 22:23:36 +0100
fai (5.8.7) unstable; urgency=low
* support apt keys in files called package_config/CLASS.gpg
* fai-mirror: new option -V
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:48:21 +0200
fai (5.8) unstable; urgency=low
* fcopy: change the precedence of mode handling
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 08 Feb 2019 23:16:40 +0100
fai (5.7) unstable; urgency=low
* The config examples are now in a separate git repo. See README for
more infos
* Add support for diskless clients in setup-storage
* Ubuntu installation now default to 18.04 LTS aka Bionic release
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 31 May 2018 22:41:20 +0200
fai (5.6) unstable; urgency=low
* When installing the package fai-server, use the repository
from fai-project.org by default for building the nfsroot
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Feb 2018 11:48:16 +0100
fai (5.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
* New option -P for fai-make-nfsroot also preserves the ssh host
keys
* fai-diskimage: add support for raw.xz and raw.zst
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Feb 2018 13:08:40 +0100
fai (5.5) unstable; urgency=low
* New option -S in fcopy for variable substitution, which may replace
your preinst scripts
* Get rid of the need to have aptitude installed
* Change order of package commands in install_packages, aptitude is now
called after apt-get
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:47:20 +0200
fai (5.4) unstable; urgency=low
* FAI can now build cross-architecture disk images and chroot
environments for foreign architectures
* Add support for eMMC storages
* Disk images can use LVM partitions even if the host also uses LVM
* Use http://deb.debian.org as default for Debian package repositories
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:57:00 +0200
fai (5.2) unstable; urgency=low
* new command fai-diskimage creates bootable disk images for your VM
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:33:47 +0200
fai (5.0) unstable; urgency=low
* major rewrite of the FAI guide
* new autodiscover function, the client is searching the network
for a FAI server
* FAI profiles extend the FAI class concept
* FAI shows a curses based menu for selecting a profile on demand
* ready-to-go setup of the FAI server using the FAI CD or USB stick
* ready-to-go FAI profile for CentOS 7 and Ubuntu 14.04
* Cloning machines using an image (hook debconf.IMAGE)
* action sysinfo now also mounts lvm and RAID devices
* use httpredir.debian.org as default
* fai-cd now uses dracut instead of live-boot,
use of squashfs creates smaller CD images,
fai-cd replaces fai-nfsroot2image
* files *.source are renamed to .sh
* dnf support for rpm based distributions
* improved btrfs support
* new command fai-kvm for starting a virtual machine
* new command fai-mk-network for setting up different test networks
* fai-cd: no networking for the rescue boot entry by default
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:16:31 +0200
fai (4.3) unstable; urgency=low
* add btrfs support to setup-storage
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Mon, 06 Oct 2014 10:33:21 +0200
fai (4.2) unstable; urgency=low
- fai-cd now builds a hybrid ISO image
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 23 May 2014 13:46:47 +0200
fai (4.0) unstable; urgency=low
- New script names:
faimond -> fai-monitor
faimond-gui -> fai-monitor-gui
make-fai-nfsroot -> fai-make-nfsroot
disk-info -> fai-disk-info
- make-fai-nfsroot.conf renamed to nfsroot.conf
- task prepareapt renamed to repository
- task mirror was removed and is now part of task repository
- add task tests to action dirinstall and softupdate
- old tool setup_harddisks removed. Use setup-storage instead
- new script fai-nfsroot2image
- new script fai-new-mac
- new variables $FAI_BASEFILEURL adds support for receiving basefile via
ftp and http
- multicore support in fai-make-nfsroot (rm and xz compression is done
in the background
- huge speedup in fai-make-nfsroot using ramdisk (package installation
is twice as fast)
- ifclass new options -a and -o
- fai-make-nfsroot new option -a, -g, -l, remove -U, -r
- fai-make-nfsroot dracut is now the default initramfs creator inside
the nfsroot which replaces live-boot and initramfs-tools
- fai-monitor-gui: add option -s
- *.asc files are loaded by class names
- the variable $FAI does not need to be set in fai.conf, since all
scripts use the default value of /var/lib/fai/config
- add support for python, ruby and zsh scripts to fai-do-scripts
- fai-chboot must specify the config space URL
- fai-chboot: new option -E
- FAI supports NFS v4 using dracut
- install apt keys from /etc/fai/apt/keys into nfsroot
- fcopy can copy symlinks using -H
- FAI can work without any NFS access
- action softupdates now calls task repository
- add dracut support
- new FAI_FLAG halt
- add variable AINSL_TARGET
- new log file fai-monitor.log on the install client
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:48:33 +0200
fai (3.4.4) unstable; urgency=low
- This stable release is targeted towards Debian/squeeze but continues
to provide support for older Debian releases as well.
If you want to deploy the Debian lenny release please see
/usr/share/doc/fai-doc/lenny-instructions.txt for instructions.
- Please note that due to Debian's switch from /bin/bash to /bin/dash
as default /bin/sh shell your scripts/hooks/... should use
/bin/bash in the shebang line if you're using the environment of FAI.
Otherwise you might notice problems like "ifclass" not being defined.
- FAI project homepage moved to its own domain http://fai-project.org/
Along with the new web home also the wiki moved.
If your sources.list configuration includes something like:
deb http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/download lenny koeln
please change it to the new URL accordingly, like:
deb http://fai-project.org/download lenny koeln
-- Michael Prokop <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Oct 2010 17:29:35 +0200
fai (3.3) unstable; urgency=low
- variable FAI_CONFIGDIR moved from fai.conf to make-fai-nfsroot.conf
- automatic tests are now supported
- dirinstall now uses FAI_CONFIG_SRC instead of FAI_CONFIGDIR
- files named package_config/*.asc are added to the list of apt keys
- cvs, bootpc, expect and mdetect are not installed by default into the
nfsroot
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:35:06 +0100
fai (3.2.8) unstable; urgency=low
- new partition tool setup-storage added
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:47:16 +0200
fai (3.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
- LOGDIR is now /var/log/fai/$HOSTNAME/$FAI_ACTION_date+time
- LOGDIR is /tmp/fai during an installation (not dirinstall), and
will be copied to the path above at the end of an installation
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:46:49 +0100
fai (3.2) unstable; urgency=low
- replace special fai-kernels with plain Debian kernel and an initrd
build by initramfs ($KERNELPACKAGE removed)
- FAI uses live-initramfs for booting, the whole nfsroot is now
writeable for the clients (by using unionfs)
- fai-cd can create bootable USB sticks
- major update to the fai guide
- scp/ssh are now the default methods instead of rcp/rsh when
contacting the install server
- faimond can now call fai-chboot (instead of rsh/ssh call)
- Task extrbase can also extract files from directory ../basefiles/
- /tmp/target is now /target
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:43:30 +0200
fai (3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
- rename action dirinst to dirinstall
- fai: add option -u,--hostname
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:18:36 +0200
fai (3.0) unstable; urgency=low
- WARNING: the fai-guide does not yet reflect the changes from FAI 2 to FAI 3
- rename NEWS to NEWS.Debian
- /etc/fai/sources.list moved to /etc/fai/apt/sources.list
- lots 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
- changed file names
variables.sh is now variables.log
- new config file /etc/fai/NFSROOT which contains the package list
for the nfsroot
- changes in variables
remove FAI_REMOTESH and FAI_REMOTECP from fai.conf,
use FAI_LOGPROTO instead
remove $installserver and $mirrorhost in fai.conf
replace FAI_LOCATION by FAI_CONFIG_SRC, use default if undefined:
"nfs://`hostname`$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 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 variable FAI_ALLOW_UNSIGNED
- task_updatebase does not use updatebase.log any more
- task_updatebase now logs to fai.log
- 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)
- new task dirinst for creating a chroot environment
- 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, setting
$FAI_ETC_DIR does the same
- fai-cd can now eject the CD after installation
- fai-mirror remove option -a (now default), add -B
- default is kernel 2.6.17
- convert cfengine (version 1) scripts to cfengine2
- rename class XFREE to XORG
- new script ainsl, implements AppendIfNoSuchLine from cfeninge in Perl
- config space can be checked out from a subversion repository
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:41:11 +0200
fai (2.10.1) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 20 Apr 2006 11:46:12 +0200
fai (2.10) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:11:30 +0200
fai (2.9.1) unstable; urgency=low
- new class FAISERVER can install the fai install server from CD
- new command fai-statoverride
- some bug fixes
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Mar 2006 22:37:31 +0100
fai (2.9) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:53:00 +0100
fai (2.8.4) unstable; urgency=high
- small but important bug fix: remove non-US entry
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Wed, 25 May 2005 13:59:39 +0200
fai (2.8.3) unstable; urgency=high
- remove debconf support for package itself, debconf support for
the installation was not removed
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 19 May 2005 15:54:18 +0200
fai (2.8.2) unstable; urgency=high
- close some bugs, which occured when using softupdates
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 6 May 2005 09:23:34 +0200
fai (2.8.1) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:20:53 +0200
fai (2.8) unstable; urgency=high
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Sat, 9 Apr 2005 23:43:27 +0200
fai (2.7) unstable; urgency=high
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 23:51:34 +0100
fai (2.6.7) unstable; urgency=low
- add task debconf and new script fai-debconf for preseeding
- minor updates in the fai guide
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:00:05 +0100
fai (2.6.6) unstable; urgency=medium
- new command fai-mirror(1) to create a partial 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:24:26 +0100
fai (2.6.5) unstable; urgency=medium
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Nov 2004 15:14:08 +0100
fai (2.6.4) unstable; urgency=medium
- bug fixes
- install_packages and files in package_config/ have now support
for aptitude
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:38:58 +0100
fai (2.6.3) unstable; urgency=high
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Sep 2004 18:40:36 +0200
fai (2.6.2) unstable; urgency=high
- Workaround to support new tasksel behaviour
- fix broken grub entry when using class FAI_BOOTPART
- fai-chboot: add option -e
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Aug 2004 20:09:15 +0200
fai (2.6.1) unstable; urgency=medium
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Aug 2004 14:02:13 +0200
fai (2.6) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:22:44 +0200
fai (2.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Feb 2004 17:07:31 +0100
fai (2.5.3) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Wed, 4 Feb 2004 14:42:40 +0100
fai (2.5.2) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:20:10 +0100
fai (2.5.1) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 14:58:16 +0200
fai (2.5) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:02:26 +0200
fai (2.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 3 Apr 2003 16:57:12 +0200
fai (2.4) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:45:29 +0100
fai (2.3.4) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 16 May 2002 14:42:00 +0200
fai (2.3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 16 May 2002 09:27:15 +0200
fai (2.3.2) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:47:39 +0200
fai (2.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:30:04 +0200
fai (2.3) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:29:15 +0200
fai (2.2.3) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:01:02 +0100
fai (2.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
- bug fix: getting dhcp information
- added jmon to BEOWULF
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Oct 2001 10:52:35 +0200
fai (2.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:19:14 +0200
fai (2.2) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:35:49 +0200
fai (2.1) unstable; urgency=low
- 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
-- Thomas Lange <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Jul 2001 11:55:29 +0200