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Debian Changelog aboot (0.9b-3+etchnhalf.1)

2008

aboot (0.9b-3+etchnhalf.1) stable; urgency=low

   * Fix unrepreducible build issue.
     Though etch's aboot successfully built on etch/alpha, it was not producing
     the same set of binaries - i.e., it was building aboot-cross instead of
     aboot. This was corrected in 1.0~pre20040408-1 with the following change,
     originally from Steve Langasek:
     - Update debian/rules to use DEB_HOST_GNU_CPU instead of
       DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE, to fix a misbuild in unstable.
   * Correcting the above creates two new FTBFS issues, likely due to the
     use of the newer gcc in etch (the aboot that shipped with etch was the
     same binary package that shipped in sarge):
     - error: conflicting types for 'dispatch'
       - Drop duplicate definition of dispatch() from cons.c
     - net.c: In function 'load_kernel':
       net.c:129: error: invalid lvalue in assignment
       - Change assignment to move casting to rvalue
   * Add support for booting >= 2.6.23 kernels, needed for etchnhalf. This
     was corrected in 1.0~pre20040408-1 with the following change, originally
     from Steve Langasek:
     - Update bootlx to ignore ELF header sections not of type PT_LOAD when
       loading the kernel, so that the new PT_NOTE sections in 2.6.23rc1 and
       above don't cause load failures.  Thanks to Richard Henderson for the
       patch.

 -- dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>  Wed, 14 May 2008 02:38:35 -0600

2004

aboot (0.9b-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Synced man pages with upstream: aboot.conf.sgml, aboot.sgml,
     abootconf.sgml, e2writeboot.8, isomarkboot.sgml, sdisklabel.sgml,
     swriteboot.8.
   * Took german translation of man pages from upstream.
   * Minor code issues synced from upstream CVS (partially for testing
     builds). Closes: #258594.
   * Include patch to make isomarkboot endian-safe. Thanks to Steve McIntyre,
     Closes: #253846.
   * Add netabootwrap man page (english and german).
   * Fix netabootwrap so that it stops claiming to be bootp.

 -- Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@zola.itp.uni-hannover.de>  Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:02:10 +0200

aboot (0.9b-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Actually install the netabootwrap binary so that people can use it
     (really-closes: #127303).

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>  Sat, 8 May 2004 16:20:42 -0500

aboot (0.9b-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer.
   * Build all our tools with "-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64",
     so they can handle accessing files > 4GB (e.g., DVD images for
     isomarkboot) (closes: #228235).
   * Include patch from Chris Lumens (upstream) for building with
     additional flags (e.g. "-g").
   * Enable noopt in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS build with "-g" always for now; also
     stripping can be disabled now.
   * Enable the all-package to be build on non-alpha archs as well
     (typo & thinko in debian/rules).
   * FOREIGN for building on non-alpha archs is gone, it was not necessary.
   * Conflict aboot with aboot-cross as the latter package
     is no longer build on Alpha but contained in aboot.
   * Fixed dependencies (dropped woody only docbook2man)
   * Added SRM-HOWTO (and updated description) built from SGML sources and
     added into doc-base.
   * Removed source diff target in rules file
   * Turn off DH_VERBOSE, so our builds are a bit more palatable
   * Don't forget to create the 'boot' directory in the install target
   * Fix the srmbootfat manpage's section (8->1)
   * Updated TODO list.
   * Improved & split man pages for srmbootfat/srmbootraw.
   * Clarified copyright (we are using a stable upstream release).
   * Slightly updated isomarkboot.sgml
   * Include netboot patch from
     Soohoon Lee <soohoon.lee@api-networks.com> (closes: #127303).

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>  Mon, 3 May 2004 19:43:19 -0500

aboot (0.9b-0.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Fix package split so that aboot-cross isn't needed on alpha,
     and aboot-base isn't attempted on non-alpha systems (in spite of
     being arch: all).
   * Put srmbootfat and isomarkboot both in /usr/bin, for consistency.
   * Fix package priorities/sections to match archive overrides.
   * Reorder headers in lib/isolib.c, needed for building on i386.
   * Change aboot.conf from a conffile to maintainer script-managed
     config file, so that aboot-installer can do its job.

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>  Sun, 4 Jan 2004 17:03:46 -0600

aboot (0.9b-0.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Change the order of docbook2man and docbook-utils in the
     build-depends list, to satisfy the autobuilders. Closes: #225938

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>  Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:51:35 -0600

2003

aboot (0.9b-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   *  NMU.
   *  Upgraded to 0.9b.
   *  Switched from dh_installmanpages to dh_installman.
   *  Included latest version of all man pages. Closes: #57804
   *  All man pages are now created at build time from their sgml source.
   *  Updated README.Debian -- upstream maintainer is now Will Woods -- and
      copyright -- home page is sourceforge now --.
   *  Move isomarkboot to /usr/bin and the manpage into section 1
   *  Include upstream changelog
   *  Upgraded to standards version 3.6.1.0. Partially support DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
   *  Split package into three packages to enable isomarkboot to be used on
      other archs (e.g. for d-i); since we run into conflicts with two
      packages three were needed, where aboot-base just contains common files
      needed for booting (which need to be built on alpha). Closes: #211777
   *  We depend on "linux-kernel-headers" to properly build isomarkboot,
      patched "include/utils.h" to properly include the "asm"-headers
   *  Patched "lib/Makefile" to only use "no-fp-regs" for isomarkboot if
      building for alpha
   *  Added srmbootfat and srmbootraw from the milo package
      http://www.suse.de/~stepan/source/milo-2.2-18.tar.bz2
      The man page was slightly updated (spell checking, formatting, SEE ALSO).
      Closes: #173620
      Applied a patch from Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
      to get_fat_entry in srmbootfat/srmbootfat.c to make it portable
   *  Stole patches from CVS HEAD/Jeff.Wiedemeier@hp.com for USB console and
      to check kernel memory against console memory descriptors.
      These two patches should allow booting on Wildfire.
   *  Disable check for vol-set-size in lib/isolib.c as sets of volumes are
      perfectly fine. For explanation of this term, see e.g. section 4.16 and
      4.17 in http://www.y-adagio.com/public/standards/iso_cdromr/sect_1.htm
      Closes: #149840
   *  Added extra-args patch from RedHat/Will Wood to allow calls like
      dka0 -fl "0 console=ttyS0"
      This will be in the next official aboot release as well.

 -- Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de>  Sat, 13 Dec 2003 18:32:43 +0100

aboot (0.9-1.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * NMU.
   * Use -fno-builtin-printf when compiling, so we don't end up with
     references to gcc's implementation.  Closes: 205864

 -- Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>  Sat, 23 Aug 2003 18:04:48 -0500

2001

aboot (0.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.  Closes: #117973

 -- Gregory W. Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>  Sun, 11 Nov 2001 23:19:00 -0500

aboot (0.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream (from CVS)
   * I am calling this version of aboot from CVS 0.8.
   * Minor tweeks to make it compile with kernel 2.4.x headers.
   * e2writeboot now returns non-zero on error.  Closes: #107757

 -- Gregory W. Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>  Wed, 15 Aug 2001 01:55:36 -0400

2000

aboot (0.7a-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * added Build-Depends line to debian/control.  Closes: #70114

 -- Gregory W. Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>  Fri, 8 Sep 2000 15:57:32 -0400

aboot (0.7-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Needed for potato boot-floppies

 -- Gregory W. Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>  Thu, 4 May 2000 15:48:25 -0400

aboot (0.6a-1) frozen unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream version.
   * Updated README.Debian.  Closes: #57803

 -- Gregory W. Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>  Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:46:39 -0500

aboot (0.5-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added "ext2" patch form RedHat aboot for new style ext2
     filesystems.  Closes: #54388
   * Added "big" patch from RedHat aboot.
   * Closes: #34109, #34368: previously fixed -- see below.

 -- Gregory W. Johnson <gjohnson@physics.clarku.edu>  Wed, 12 Jan 2000 01:26:26 -0500

1999

aboot (0.5-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Adopted package from Jeff.
   * Updated to FHS (/usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc)
   * Added patch from Jay Estabrook (via RedHat) for volumes larger than
     2GB.

 -- Gregory W. Johnson <gwj@debian.org>  Fri, 1 Oct 1999 01:40:58 -0400

aboot (0.5-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Included patches from Loic Prylli, closing #34109:
     - A bug fix in isolib.c which could cause isomarkboot to segfault (and
       probably also bootlx to have undefined behaviour at run-time), if a
       directory entry is in the middle of a 2k block.
     - A bug fix for sdisklabel whcih segfault when called with only one
       argument
     - some more functionality in isomarkboot to set a offset to a root
       filesystem image in the CD in the application_data fied of the first
       volume descriptor.
   * Increase maximum partitions from 8 to 16
   * Include sdisklabel in package (fixes #34368)

 -- Jefferson E. Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>  Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:05:12 -0600

1998

aboot (0.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Several bugfixes.
   * Included objdump from kernel sources.
   * Now works with binutils >= 2.9.
   * Cleaned up debian/rules and build process.

 -- Jefferson E. Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>  Mon, 12 Oct 1998 12:04:43 -0500

aboot (0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial release.

 -- Jefferson E. Noxon <jeff@planetfall.com>  Sat, 3 Oct 1998 16:31:50 -0500