Stable release 3.4.8 available

Sun Jun 5 16:38:58 CEST 2011

Hi all,

[...]
> 
> If anyone volunteers to prepare a mail to the release team
> please do so and share so we can join the party. :)
> 

So let me give it a try; comments are most welcome. Mika, would you subsequently
take on the task of sending this one out?

Best,
Michael

Dear release team,

As previously reported in DPN 07/2011 and in more detail at [1] the FAI
developers were holding a meeting more than one month ago. In this meeting a
large number of bugs got fixed in FAI and a new release, 3.4.8, was prepared
afterwards. This version closes 6 bugs, two of them being important and
affecting squeeze.

We are now looking for your opinion about uploading 3.4.8 to s-p-u. We well
understand that the changelog entry for 3.4.8 (appended below), listing 41
single commits, looks a bit intimidating. Yet all of them are bug fixes, even
though most of the bugs had not previously been reported to the Debian BTS. Two
exceptions to this rule must also be noted: [bdfc127] introduced a new feature
in setup-storage, enabling user-defined partition alignment. Yet we believe that
this feature is important to ensure efficient operation on current hardware and
large storage systems.  The second new feature, first added in [8e201f9], does
not affect in any way the operation of FAI if not used, hence we considered it
safe to add.

We have given our users now quite a while of testing this version and thus far
have not received any information about regressions.

The FAI development team

[1] http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/04/21/report-from-fai-developer-meeting-042011/

fai (3.4.8) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Michael Goetze ]
  * [eeae848] package_config/FAISERVER: remove mkisofs
  * [af1d1de] simple-examples: in squeeze, the GRUB 1 package is called
    "grub-legacy".
  * [f895526] Document http method for $FAI_CONFIG_SRC in fai-guide
  * [f3574fb] Use $ROOTCMD grub-install for grub1
  * [248edd7] menu.lst/postinst: Use grub device name for $ROOTCMD grub-
    install
  * [b264ac0] Make device2grub use grub-mkdevicemap rather than stuff in
    target

  [ Michael Prokop ]
  * [cffdba6] debian/changelog: update git commit IDs - thanks to
    Michael Tautschnig for helping
  * [81085f7] bin/fai-do-scripts: also ignore files with suffix .dpkg-
    dist and .dpkg-tmp
  * [8893351] FAIBASE/30-interface: bugfix so fai softupdate runs 
    without error on a fresh installation with simple-examples -
    backported patch by Michael Goetze
  * [07b42af] fai-guide: adjusting quoting of variables like 
    FAI_CONFIG_SRC for proper output
  * [8e201f9] Move get-config-dir-http to according space for stable-
    branch.
  * [a9c1065] Remove 99-discover-bug script, deprecated since lenny.
  * [e21417e] Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2.

  [ Michael Tautschnig ]
  * [b261425] setup-storage/Sizes.pm: Properly handle extended
    partitions that aren't the last primary partition.
  * [d939b6d] setup-storage/Sizes.pm: gpt-bios must be sector-wise first
    partition.
  * [cf1d068] setup-storage, setup-storage/Parser.pm: sanity checks.
  * [e014096] setup-storage.8: Clarify that partition/volume sizes are
    integers.
  * [a801de8] setup-storage/{Parser,Volumes,Init}.pm: Improved error
    reporting. (Closes: #617720, #611728) - thanks to Toomas Tamm 
  * [7715da4] setup-storage, setup-storage/{Volumes,Commands,Exec,
    Init,Parser}.pm: Software RAID bugfixes
  * [282e36a] setup-storage/{Parser,Commands}.pm: Make on-disk LV order
    consistent with disk_config
  * [01002aa] setup-storage: Revert incomplete $FAI::DATADIR use to
    $ENV{LOGDIR}
  * [01865ee] make-fai-nfsroot: Remove Ubuntu-specific
    lib/udev/rules.d/85-lvm2.rules to avoid LVM auto-start
  * [bbfb13b] setup-storage/Sizes.pm: Make 100% a valid partition size.
    (Closes: #619136)
  * [6e47075] setup-storage/Parser.pm: Support k and K for kilobytes
  * [bdfc127] setup-storage: Added align-at option for user-defined
    alignment - thanks to Mathieu Alorent
  * [37b2520] setup-storage/Parser.pm: Fixed mis-merge of align-at
    parsing and made it more robust.
  * [d9f96fe] setup-storage/Sizes.pm: Apply alignment constraints to start
    of first partition.
  * [1a904b3] setup-storage/Parser.pm: Finally fix align-at parser bug. 
  * [cee3610] setup-storage.8: Document alignment strategy of setup-storage.
  * [91ab2d0] get-config-dir-svn: really fix broken SVN URL comparison
  * [2b7475d] get-config-dir-svn: Fix broken-pipe error in SVN URL check

  [ Thomas Lange ]
  * [d7099c5] add initramfs-tools, workaround for fai-mirror problem
  * [012e755] diverting nis not needed any more, tested with lenny and
    squeeze (Closes: #612481)
  * [225c726] use new command names for cdrecord and mkisofs
    (Closes: #609568)
  * [a8b5849] get-config-dir-http: new script to get a tarball of the
    config space - thanks to Waldemar Brodkorb for the initial patch
  * [bf6b52d] fix comment in get-config-dir-http
  * [b196fb4] get-config-dir-http: minor change in messages
  * [4a8422a] fix wrong file name for memtest boot option
    (Closes: #620798)
  * [bfa7406] year++
  * [84a367d] use same linux-image package names as in NFSROOT
  * [aba26b4] replace transitional package name for dhcp-client
  * [64edc5e] call genisoimage with -R instead of -r, thanks to
    Syd Alsobrook for report and suggestion

 -- Michael Prokop <mika at debian.org>  Tue, 10 May 2011 12:39:55 +0200

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