Changelog
live-build (1:20210122) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Raphaël Hertzog ]
* Get rid of extraneous whitespace showing up in syslinux menu
* Standardize on having the GUI installation first in boot menus
* config: obsolete --net-root-path
* Drop the epoch in /usr/share/live/build/VERSION
* Fix version computing when LIVE_BUILD is set
* binary_syslinux: rely on $LIVE_BUILD_VERSION instead of lb --version
* Add updated directives to enable cryptsetup support in initrd
* frontend: do no try to look for sub-commands in the PATH
* Synchronize syslinux menu structure with the grub-pc one
* Make librsvg2-bin dependency unconditional for syslinux
* Do not overwrite splash.png if the user has provided it
* Tell APT to retry downloads a few times before giving up
* Use bullseye as default release in preparation of the next stable release
* Use truncate --no-create --size=0 to truncate files
* Document our autopkgtest tests as needing internet access
* Update renamed lintian tag names in lintian overrides.
* Don't fail if one of the package lists expands to an empty list
* Fix a small info message
* autopkgtest: get rid of deprecated needs-recommends feature
[ David Hewitt ]
* binary_syslinux: Accommodate LB_INITRAMFS not live-boot
[ Lyndon Brown ]
* Lots of cleanup and refactoring.
* remove redundant files (Closes: #952834, #952835)
* source: fix wrong action value for script execution (Closes: #952837)
* archives: fix removal of chroot/root/packages.chroot package list
(Closes: #952838)
* archives: fix incorrect usage string (Closes: #952839)
* archives: add 'pass' param validation check (Closes: #952841)
* archives: fix deb-src entry exclusion (Closes: #952842)
* fix indentation (Closes: #952857)
* installer: de-dup daily DI url (Closes: #952860)
* don't unnecessarily convert exit codes to strings (Closes: #952861)
* source: fix mistaken append instead of overwrite (Closes: #952862)
* memtest: better handle obsolete LB_MEMTEST value (Closes: #952866)
* bootloaders: fix ignoring LB_DEBIAN_INSTALLER_GUI in menu creation
(Closes: #952890)
* chroot_dpkg: start-stop-daemon simplification (Closes: #952891)
* add missing shebangs to temp generated shell code files
(Closes: #952863)
* help/usage: fix incorrect program command (Closes: #952884)
* config: rename --architectures to --architecture (Closes: #952892)
* echo: fix problem with error printing (Closes: #952878)
* echo: ensure output goes to stdout/stderr (Closes: #952879)
* cursor: purge unused cursor functions (Closes: #952880)
* binary_iso: fix wrong echo helper (Closes: #952881)
* binarie_onie: fix missing use of echo helpers (Closes: #952882)
* binary_onie: fix lack of newline on error (Closes: #952883)
* installer: robustify udeb inclusion
* installer: filter derived udebs from parent list
* installer: download udebs directly from correct mirror
(Closes: #952914)
* firmware: avoid building unnecessary lists
* firmware: construct file location once and reuse
* firmware: fix possible duplication in firmware package lists
(inefficiency) (Closes: #952906)
* firmware: delete pointlessly cached (large) file after use
(Closes: #952907)
* firmware: de-dup firmware list parsing (Closes: #952908)
* firmware: reorder firmware list construction
* firmware: avoid potentially duplicate work (Closes: #952909)
* firmware: save the compressed contents file to disk instead of
decompressed (Closes: #952910)
* firmware: enable caching for archive content file with firmware lists
(Closes: #952911)
* fix inadequate chroot_archives validation
* fix consistency in binary execution and existance checking
(Closes: #952927)
* archives: tidy deb-src exclusion (Closes: #952928)
* installer: use boolean for clarity (Closes: #952930)
* top level cmd "auto redirect" handling (Closes: #952919)
* help/usage: remove pointless vars (Closes: #952859)
* archives: always include enabled/disabled deb-src apt entries
(Closes: #952929)
* copyright: add missing "The Debian Live team" entry
* remove obsolete loop-aes-utils related losetup hack
* debootstrap: use --force-check-gpg
* hide mountpoints from nautilus
* source: properly fix _apt permissions warning (Closes: #953957)
* fix -h|--help component script man page redirection
* strip progress-linux distro hacks
* grub-pc: fix broken boot capability (Closes: #956131)
* Fix permissions & ownership of copied /etc/resolv.conf (Closes: #857740)
* manpage: document that multiple archive areas should be space separated
* manpages: document space separation for --keyring-packages
* manpages: document that --linux-flavours is space separated
* manpages: fix typo (Closes: #926238)
* config: stop writing 'default: <foo>' lines to config files
(Closes: #904614)
* config: obsolete unused --isohybrid-options option
* config: obsolete unused --net-cow-* options
* config: obsolete --net-root-* options (except one)
* rename LB_ARCHITECTURES to LB_ARCHITECTURE
* rename LB_BOOTSTRAP_QEMU_ARCHITECTURES to LB_BOOTSTRAP_QEMU_ARCHITECTURE
* rename binary_loopback_cfg to binary_grub_cfg
* bootloaders: reorganise installer menu entries
* grub2: fix using wrong directory in certain cases (Closes: #952843)
* binary: fix missing use of chroot_dpkg in binary stage (Closes: #776532)
* bootstrap: drop obsolete check for `--no-check-gpg` support in debootstrap
(Closes: #952847)
* binary_rootfs: fix deletion of excludes file from wrong location in
squashfs after use (Closes: #952849)
* binary_rootfs: fix chmod of squashfs image only being applied when using
chroot (Closes: #952850)
* binary: fix missing handling of disk info for netboot case
(Closes: #952846)
* simplify --debian-installer choices (Closes: #952864)
* archives: fix mount local repo comments (Closes: #952873)
* fix capitalisation of some output messages (Closes: #952875)
* help/usage: avoid unnecessary use of echo helpers (Closes: #952877)
* chroot: fix redundant usage line (Closes: #952885)
* binary_disk: refactor (Closes: #952865)
* help/usage: fix overly complex script description handling
(Closes: #952887)
* fix missing use of echo helpers (Closes: #952876)
* archives: deduplicate apt sourcelist file construction (Closes: #952889)
* aliases: simplify excessively complex In_list function (Closes: #952915)
* cache: clarify and simplify package cache save/restore (Closes: #952916)
* source: add output of config readme file to source image (Closes: #952921)
* defaults: ensure global caching param overrides specific caching params if
disabled (Closes: #952923)
* simplify STAGE checks - use In_List (Closes: #952917)
* config: rename the config set/check functions for clarity
(Closes: #952920)
* chroot: improve directory creation/destruction efficiency
(Closes: #952924)
* source: downloaded pkgs to a clean directory rather than chroot root
(Closes: #952931)
* source: target downloads with corresponding version (Closes: #952932)
* strip useless multi-arch separate directory stuff
* locks: tidy lock acquisition (Closes: #952918)
* grub1/grub2/loopback: fix missing delimiter in menu kernel parameter lists
(Closes: #775143)
* syslinux: remove replacement of unused label in menu configs
* syslinux: fix shortcut caret appearing in menu entries
* syslinux: changed 'build' to 'built' in splash
* bootloaders: add install with speech synthesis menu entries
* syslinux: expand list of install options
* syslinux: add install menu entries only if including installer
* syslinux: add memtest menu entry only if including memtest
* syslinux: use more dynamic memtest menu config file
[ Luca Boccassi ]
* Fix Lintian Warnings about changelog: day-of-week, trailing whitespace
* Bump Standards-Version to 4.5.0, no changes.
* Add autopkgtest: default image build
* autopkgtest: build kali image
* autopkgtest: disable updates/security repositories, not available for
Bullseye
[ johnraff ]
* Replace 'which' with 'command -v' to test for the existance of an
executable This is considered to be more robust.
[ Steven Shiau ]
* Add grub EFI support for armhf arch.
[ adrian15 ]
* grub-efi: fix partial broken boot capability (Closes: #924053)
[ Ryan Finnie ]
* Add initial ppc64el support
* Enable arm64 for binary_grub_cfg
* architectures.sh: armhf/armel can be built on arm64
* grub-efi: Show fwsetup, do not show incompatible memtest even if enabled
* Bugfix: Fix grub.cfg pc/ENABLE_MEMTEST check
[ Victor Gavro ]
* chroot_apt: fixed adding Pin-Priority (broken in da1fab11)
[ Roland Clobus ]
* Some changes towards reproducible builds of live images and
various bugfixes discovered while working on this.
* A second invocation of 'lb config' will result in an identical settings
file
* Delay resolving the timestamp for the ISO volume to the moment the
ISO-image is created
* Preserve timestamps
* Add new manpage to the list of translatable files
* Ensure that SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is always set in all sub scripts. When
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH was already set before 'lb config', also enable UTC
timestamps.
* SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is always set
* Use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for 'now' in the boot splash image
* Use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for 'now' in .disk/info
* Use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for the partition-id of /efi.img
* Use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH for the partition-id of /boot/grub/efi.img
* Set timestamp embedded in EFI files
* Set timestamp in embedded files of the installer
* Apply SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to newly generated files and create a log
* Bugfix: do not create /dev/lock and /dev/lock-frontend
[ Marcel Partap ]
* For 32bit UEFI secure boot, the package name is grub-efi-ia32-signed
* binary_rootfs stage: give custom MKSQUASHFS_OPTIONS precedence
* binary_rootfs stage: disable mksquashfs progress bar only in quiet mode
* binary_rootfs stage: slightly lower mksquashfs nice levels (19 -> 17)
[ Thore Sommer ]
* Add option to change compression algorithm and level for squashfs.
* Option for using systemd-nspawn instead of chroot for hooks.
(Closes: #965953)
* Added the option to include files before and after package installation
(Closes: #927128)
[ Matthijs Kooijman ]
* binary_iso: Execute mkdir binary/.disk before writing to it
[ Unit 193 ]
* Add 'unstable' as a valid distribution and link to sid.
[ Jan Kot ]
* bootstrap_debootstrap: change debootstrap path to /usr/sbin/debootstrap
* packages.sh: check for /etc/debian_version existance rather than
dpkg-query aviability
* exit.sh: fix selinux mountpoint
[ Steev Klimaszewski ]
* Add arm64 udeb include files
-- Raphaël Hertzog <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:13:32 +0100
