debian-cd version 3.0.0. Highlights:
* Support now added for multi-arch CDs/DVDs, including mixed
binary/source discs. Multi-arch discs should be bootable on those
multiple arches, modulo boot-sector clashes. Extra support added
in boot-i386 and boot-amd64 to make the 2 main arches happily
co-exist.
* Disc sizing is now much more intelligent - sizes are defined
depending on the disk type chosen at the start, and discs are now
filled exactly to those sizes while files are added rather than
the old up-front guessing method. Equally, the metadata on the
disc (Packages, Packages.gz, Sources, Sources.gz, md5sums.txt) is
generated as much as possible while this is happening to make the
sizing code incredibly accurate. Using this method of disc sizing
means that customising discs should be much easier/safer - either
add custom contents at the start and debian-cd will fill the
remainder of the disc, or afterwards roll back the packages on the
disc and add extras later.
* Source is now treated as (almost) just another arch, with most of
the special casing for source hidden internally. If asking for
source-only discs, they will simply be built using all the
available sources. If combined with other arches, the sources will
automatically be chosen to match the binary packages. Meeting GPL
requirements was never so easy!
* Removed lots of old cruft to clean up the codebase:
+ non-US support
+ woody support
+ lots of old support scripts that have been made redundant
+ significantly simpler Makefile, much easier to follow
+ old boot-$ARCH.calc files for estimating boot-file sizes are now
(obviously) obsolete and therefore gone
(including the one that comes with dpkg >= 1.10).
* Protect the call to add_secured by a stamp file. Closes: #147105
* Provide a customised isolinux image. We don't need to
recommend syslinux now.
CONF.sh as DEFBINSIZE and DEFSRCSIZE
build.sh and build_all.sh now use these settings to calculate the
packages and source files to go on each disk, using bc - shell
arithmetic cannot cope with > 32-bit numbers
use the md5sum from the textutils package - dpkg's md5sum cannot
handle large files.
* Drop dpkg-multicd support.
* Uses apt-ftparchive instead of dpkg-scan{packages,sources}
* Try to use extra override file (for Task: fields), not tested.
SECURED environment variable. It is *disabled* by default
(thanks to jgg who doesn't want to correct apt even if he
proposed the current scheme)
* Priority optional (same than in the overrides)
* Added Recommends: debianutils because pi-makelist uses tempfile(1)
since 2.2.3; also mentioned this in the debian-cd/YACS README.
* Some minor updates/rewordings in CD's top-level README.
Raphaël Hertzog
Steve McIntyre
Frans Pop
Joey Hess
Richard Atterer
Christopher Lawrence
Anne Bezemer
Dan Jacobowitz