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2008

xen-tools (4.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   - New command line argument '--no-hosts' to avoid touching /etc/hosts
     on dom0
   - New command line argument '--pygrub' to setup a guest for pygrub use.
   - Generated configuration file should work for --image-dev + --swap-dev
     again.
   - Always use /dev/pts for new images.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:06:01 +0000

xen-tools (3.9-6) unstable; urgency=low

   - Allow command line flags to be unset.
     Thanks to Ruud Koolen for the patch.
     (Closes: #484338)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:00:22 +0000

xen-tools (3.9-5) unstable; urgency=medium

   - Record the ARCH for RPM-based distros.
     (Closes: #475125)
   - Abort if the generated configuration file already exists.
     (Closes: #499475)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:20:21 +0000

xen-tools (3.9-4) unstable; urgency=high

   * Changed two defaults in xen-tools.conf to conform
     to the defaults used by the xen packages:
       + serial_device: tty1 -> hvc0
       + disk_device:   sda  -> xvda
 
   * Priority High because of RC bug. (closes: #499282)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:02:21 +0300

2007

xen-tools (3.9-3) unstable; urgency=medium

   - Ensure that Fedora guests get /dev/pts mounted.
     Thanks to  Giovanni Biscuolo (Closes: #474919)
   - Add the new hostnames to /etc/hosts on the dom0 in the correct order.
     Thanks to Wolfgang Karall (Closes: #477775)
   - Ensure that packages are remoed non-interactively for scripted stuff.
     Thanks to Wolfgang Karall (Closes: #477629)
   - Correctly handle custom partitioning systems.
     Thanks to Stéphane AICARDI (Closes: #477334)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Feb 2007 21:22:23 +0000

xen-tools (3.9-2) unstable; urgency=high

   - Ensure that the hook scripts which setup networking details for
     Debian & Ubuntu guests will correctly setup teh broadcast address.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Wed, 20 Feb 2007 21:22:23 +0000

xen-tools (3.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   - general:
     - Removed recommendation on perl-doc.  (Closes: #447715)
     - Support fedora Core 8 (Closes: 450626)
   - hooks:
     - Update /etc/securetty upon new images to ensure that xvc0 + hvc0
       are permitted.  (Closes: #442926)
   - xen-delete-image:
     - Show what has been deleted by default. (Closes: #452756)
   - xen-create-image:
     - Return exit status of 127 on any error.
       (Closes: #455916)
   - Debian:
     - Moved homepage into control file, not description.
     - Updated standards version to 3.7.3 (no changes).

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Fri, 1 Feb 2007 19:22:01 +0000

xen-tools (3.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * Allow the debootstrap command to be changed to cdebootstrap
     via 'debootstrap-cmd = /usr/sbin/cdebootstrap'.
     (Closes: #436480)
   * Fix typo on pointopoint links.
     (Closes: #436170)
   * Avoid breaking command line completion when using aliased 'ls'.
     (Closes: #439874)
   * Correctly determine whether a Xen guest is running prior to deletion.
     (Closes: #440664)
   * Allow the user to specify which serial device should be used for
     use by the 'xm console', via serial_device=/dev/xvc0 in xen-tools.conf
     (Closes: #423389)
   * Allow the user to specify which disk device should be used, via
     disk_device=/dev/xvd[a-z] in xen-tools.conf
     (Closes: #439233)
   * Use 'apt-get remove' rather than 'dpkg --purge' when removing packages
     in hooks.  (Closes: #441981)
 
   [ Radu Spineanu ]
   * debian/control: Roland Stigge and I switched maintainer places.
   * debian/control: Added Steve Kemp to Uploaders.

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:39:58 +0300

xen-tools (3.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added dependency upon 'rinse'
     - Support the installation of Fedora Core 4-7 & Centos 4 + 5.
   * Better POD files
   * Updated the example script 'setup-kernel-initrd' to work better.
   * Mount /proc prior to running post-install scripts.
   * Better handling for Ubuntu language packs.
   * Generate MAC addresses for all new guests by default.

 -- Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>  Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:35:34 +0000

xen-tools (3.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Added custom partitioning support.
      - Added dependency upon libconfig-inifiles-perl.
   * Better device creation in the creation of guests.
   * Sanity checking of the network configuration of Xend.

 -- Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>  Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:35:34 +0000

xen-tools (3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Only add Debian sources for security.debian.org if enabled upon the host.
   * Allow per-dist mirrors.  Which is useful when working with mixed
     Debian + Ubuntu installations.
   * Added support for Ubuntu Feisty + Gutsy
   * Use "policy-rc.d" to prevent daemons from starting inside our
     chroot().
   * xen-update-image will now skip Xen guests which are running.

 -- Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>  Sun, 16 Jun 2007 14:43:00 +0000

xen-tools (3.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * New upstream release v3.4
     - Allows the expansion of backticks in configuration file(s).
     - Generate locales for the new Xen guests to match the host machine.
       (Closes: #423385)
 
   [ Radu Spineanu ]
     - Better kernel/initrd guessing in the configuration file(using uname -r).
       Also added a note about this in README.Debian. (closes: #425019)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Tue, 29 May 2007 01:09:40 +0300

xen-tools (3.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * New upstream release v3.3
     - Refuse to delete running guests.  (Closes: #419561)
     - Updated the package "Recommends" (Closes: #421174)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Fri, 12 May 2007 19:09:09 +0200

xen-tools (3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * New upstream release v3.2
     - Installation argument changes so that --copy, --debootstrap, --rpmstrap,
       and --tar have been replaced with --install-method.
       Indirectly (closes: #404454, #411817)
     - Updated bash completion scripts.
     - New installation method, using an image-server.
   * Added sample script in examples/ to update the xen-tools.conf
     file, and all domains with the most current Xen kernel and initrd
     image.  (closes: #401206)
   * Setup correct security sources for apt-get.
     (Closes: #407543)
   * Automatically cleanup if installation fails.
     (Closes: #383029)
   * Auto-incrementing network addresses for new installations.
   * Added 'xen-create-nfs' to create new NFS-Root Xen guests.
   * Added the ability to install into a physical partition.
     (Closes: #406212)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:35:06 +0300

xen-tools (3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * New upstream release v3.1.
     - Installation of packages in hooks works. (Closes: #402889, #404518)
     - Xen configuration files are not accidently trashed.  (Closes: #404443)
     - Hooks are now optional.  (Closes: #404444)
     - Better error handling of image creation. (Closes: #404455, #404516)
     - Avoid copying needless kernel modules to guests.  (Closes: #404508)
     - Fixed typo in error handling. (Closes: #404509)
     - When copying user accounts copy groups too. (Closes: #404521)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:35:04 +0300

2006

xen-tools (3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   [ Steve Kemp ]
   * New upstream release of 3.0
     - Tests that config files exists.  (Closes: #402328)
     - New option to create image but not install.  (Closes: #383057, #402315)
     - Made "etch" the default target to install.  (Closes: #399705)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:17:28 +0000

xen-tools (3.0~beta1-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Remove old symlinks and directories during preinst. (closes: #401834)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:58:44 +0200

xen-tools (3.0~beta1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Development snapshot
   * Mention the --mac option in the man page.
     (closes: #399708)
   * Set the locale version to 'C' to avoid perl warnings.
     (closes: #399778)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:55:31 +0200

xen-tools (2.8-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Support Upstart in hook 30-fix-inittab (Closes: #399153)
   * hooks/common.sh: Applied Petter Reinholdtsen's
        assert "$LINENO" ""
     changes, the rest was already fixed in 2.8-1 (Closes: #399286)
   * Only copy modules if newer in 80-install-modules (Closes: #399196)
   * Fix installation of libc6-xen from right source (Closes: #397784)
   * Activate hook disable-tls only if 32 bit architecture (Closes: #397933)
   * Add hook disable-tls for Ubuntu (Closes: #399274)
   * bin/xen-create-image: Fixed documentation: --untar => --tar
     (Closes: #398769)
   * debian/rules: Moved the cfengine hook to roles (Closes: #399152)

 -- Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>  Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:48:46 +0100

xen-tools (2.8-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:35:40 +0200

xen-tools (2.7-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control: Priority: extra (because of debootstrap and
     libtext-template-perl)

 -- Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>  Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:21:05 +0200

xen-tools (2.7-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * debian/control:
     - Priority: optional (following override, was: extra)
     - Recommends: perl-doc (Closes: #393472)
     - Recommends: xen-hypervisor

 -- Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>  Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:58:28 +0200

xen-tools (2.7-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed 2.6-2 changelog entry.

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:21:25 +0300

xen-tools (2.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:16:20 +0300

xen-tools (2.6-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * New maintainer (Closes: #390904)
   * Fixed sysvinit's /lib/init/rw being mounted on debootstrap, leading to the
     deletion of the image content on creation (Closes: #391501)

 -- Roland Stigge <stigge@antcom.de>  Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:58:30 +0200

xen-tools (2.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Allow the user to modify the commands used when installing with
     --copy or --tar.
   * Add --numeric-owner to the command used by --tar by default.
     (Closes: #385024)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Sep 2006 17:00:21 +0000

xen-tools (2.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Don't complation about /etc/xen-tools/role.d/ any more.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:39:45 +0000

xen-tools (2.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Install roles system-wide into /etc/xen-tools/role.d/
     This is certainly the last time this will move, since this is
     the second time.  New command line argument '--roledir' allows
     you to specify an alternative location.  (Also valid in the config file.)
     (Closes: #383822)
   * Correctly setup "${noswap}" for the hook scripts.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:33:20 +0000

xen-tools (2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     - Don't setup ramdisk in xm.tmpl if one isn't being used.
       (Closes: #383703)
     - xen-delete-image will not complain if a swap volume doesn't exist.
       It will also remove the new installation logfile.
       (Closes: #383736)
     - Improved documentation on custom variables in the Xen configuration
       file in the manpage for xt-create-xen-config
     - Allow the MAC address to be set for the first network interface,
       regardless of DHCP/static addressing.
       (Closes: #383492)
   * Added watch file.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:00:00 +0000

xen-tools (2.3-1) unstable; urgency=high

   * Urgency set to high because the software will not work correctly unless
     using a specific version of debootstrap.
     - Updated manpages to avoid word-wrapping.
     - Updated --noswap option such that a LVM swap volume isn't created.
     - Reverted the usage of '--keep-debootstrap-dir' since that is a
       "recent" thing.  Will switch to keeping a global logfile for error
       purposes.
       (Closes: #383589)
     - File given as '--template' argument must exist.
     - Leave /etc/inittab terminal type alone.
     - When running with --noswap the Xen configuration file is correct.
     - --fs command line processing is now correct.
   * Switched myself to maintainer, and Radu to be uploader after discussion.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:54:32 +0000

xen-tools (2.3-0) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release:
     - Better manpage for xen-create-image which longer displays internal functions. (Closes: #383032)
     - Use a user-specified Xen configuration file template via "--template=xx"
       (Closes: #383036)
     - Allow new images to be created without swap via "--noswap".
       (Closes: #383058)
     - Preserve debootstrap error output in xt-install-image.
       (Closes: #383037)
     - Mount /proc more securely in new guests: nodev, noexec, nosuid.
     - Allow command line installation method or installation type (dir/lvm)
       to override the configuration file options.
       (Closes: #383033)
     - Allow "arch" to be specified and passed to rpmstrap/debootstrap.
       (Closes: #383041)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:34:59 +0000

xen-tools (2.2-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Applied upstream patches to ensure a suitable image-creation method
     is specified to xen-create-image and improved the documentation for
     that script.  (Closes: #379347)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:22:24 +0000

xen-tools (2.2-1) unstable; urgency=high

   * New upstream release, fixes several important bugs hence urgency=high.
     - /etc/fstab creation generated correctly for reiserfs
       (Closes: #379023) (Closes: #379096)
     - --force works with xfs filesystems.
       (Closes: #377684)
     - Timezone configuration file copied over into new guest domains.
       (Closes: #376846)
     - Debian image creation works correctly.
       (Closes: #378165)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:59:39 +0000

xen-tools (2.1-2) unstable; urgency=high

   * CVS snapshot to fix RC bugs and allow package into testing.
     - Build from source with no test-case failures.
       (Closes: #375267)
     - Fixed several typos in the configuration file, and scripts.
       (Closes: #375382)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Thur, 29 Jun 2006 10:31:23 +0000

xen-tools (2.1-1) unstable; urgency=high

   * New upstream release:
     - The --boot option works again.
     - Accept the --mirror command line option.
     - Accept the --fs command line option (Closes: #374987)
     - Create swap for new images (Closes: #374989)
     - Always create non-sparse images on LVM systems (Closes: #374988)
     - Gentoo image customisation supported.
   * Urgency set to high primarily because of the failure to create
     swap devices.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Thur, 23 Jun 2006 10:08:32 +0000

xen-tools (2.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
      + Moves the hook directories from /etc/xen-tools to /usr/lib/xen-tools
      + Adds explicit support for Ubuntu Dapper.
      + Changed homepage links.
   * Updated build-deps to include modules required for clean pass of test
     suite.
   * Added dependency for Text::Template, and removed obsolete Term::Size.
   * Improved documentation relating to the LVM support.
     Note: --volume becomes --lvm from 2.0 upwards.
     (Closes: #368831)
   * Installation on LVM partitions now works without error.
     (Closes: #373800)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:57:45 +0000

xen-tools (1.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (closes: #368983)
      + Install libc6-xen on sid/etch systems
      + Don't update /etc/hosts on the host if there is already an
        entry present for that given host.
   * Added xen | xen-hypervisor-3.0 to depends again (closes: #370278)
   * Updated Standards version
   * Added missing 1.4-2 changelog entry

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Sat, 10 Jun 2006 18:57:50 +0300

xen-tools (1.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Tue, 30 May 2006 00:07:30 +0300

xen-tools (1.4-2) unstable; urgency=medium

   * Snapshot of CVS to close bugs.
   * Consistently use SCSI / IDE style device names.
     (Closes: #366252)
   * Don't overwrite new images with xen-create-image, unless '--force'
     is applied.  (Closes: #366403)
   * Rather than recommending Xen (which is Xen 2.0) recommend either
     xen or xen-hypervisor-3.0.  (Closes: #366459).
   * Updated standards version to 3.7.2.  (No changes).
   * Set the priority to "optional" not "extra".  Must remember to keep
     this there this time..

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Mon, 22 May 2006 12:04:21 +0000

xen-tools (1.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   *  Delete the /etc/xen-tools/xen-create-image.d directory if it's empty
      or display a warning otherwise
   *  Closed wrong bug number in the 1.3-1 upload
   *  Allow files to be copied to all new instances via /etc/xen-tools/skel
      (Closes: #363070)
   *  Added new option --initrd to specify the initial ramdisk.
      (Closes: #365500)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sun, 7 May 2006 14:43:43 +0000

xen-tools (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
      + Ignore .dpkg-(new|old) files in the hooks directory
        (closes: #357716)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:44:36 +0300

xen-tools (1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
      + Disk devices are no longer created one unit bigger than asked
        (closes: #353155)
      + Populate /dev on the virtual server (closes: #352942)
      + Added --use-ide flag in case people want ide style device names
        (closes: #352937)
      + xen.cfg is no longer broken when using LVM

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:28:28 +0200

xen-tools (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release
   * Changed priority from optional to extra because of debootstrap

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Thu, 9 Feb 2006 00:25:41 +0200

xen-tools (0.9-2) unstable; urgency=high

   * BUGFIX:  Add "vif = ['']" to each configuration file created in
     /etc/xen.  Without this networking of guest domains may fail in
     Xen 3.0.1

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sat, 4 Feb 2006 20:20:01 +0000

xen-tools (0.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
     Allows disabling of the .deb caching via "--cache=no" (Closes: #348721)

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:19:21 +0000

xen-tools (0.8.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (closes: #345912)
     (generated /etc/fstab broken)
   * Fixes typo in description (closes: #346296)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Sun, 8 Jan 2006 21:57:17 +0200

2005

xen-tools (0.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release, featuring a collection of "hooks" to
     do most of the processing.
   * Build manpages at package creation time.
   * Run the (minimal) test suite at package creation time.
   * Added link to homepage in debian/control
   * Added dependency upon libterm-size-perl so that the messages
     may stretch the width of the console.

 -- Steve Kemp <skx@debian.org>  Sun, 25 Dec 2005 15:01:38 +0000

xen-tools (0.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Initial release (Closes: #344081)

 -- Radu Spineanu <radu@debian.org>  Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:21:05 +0200