SEARCH
NEW RPMS
DIRECTORIES
ABOUT
FAQ
VARIOUS
BLOG

 
 
Changelog for mindi-3.0.0-1.mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm :
Tue Dec 23 11:00:00 2014 Bruno Cornec 3.0.0-1
- Updated to 3.0.0
- Fix #753 by forcing LV creation which on RHEL7 now asks a question in case something was already there before. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #741 by adapting busybox and init location for pre-fedora 18 distros (missing links) ! (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #735 by updating isolinux.bin and ldlinux.c32 location on recent Debian distros (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #656 and #732 by adding support for the new /lib being a symlink on fedora 18+ (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds systemd support (Bruno Cornec)
- Creates all links under /bin from /usr/bin when not already existing to allow older distros to find their binaries without issue (Bruno Cornec)
- Try to put everything for mindi under /usr now with the way the latest distros work and removes symlinks.tgz and dev.tgz (Bruno Cornec)
- /usr/sbin/dmeventd is now needed by systemd for dm dev creation (seen with LVM) (Bruno Cornec)
- Improves systemd support at startup of the restore media when the system uses it (new user, groups, files included from /usr/lib/systemd, dbus, (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix mount call in rcS to use devtmpfs instead of tmpfs for /dev and systemd (Bruno Cornec)
- If using systemd-udev, do not extract all devs as it perturbates LVM (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now generates UUIDs in mountlist.txt if no LABEL nor UUID exist (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix label-partitions-as-necessary to put back the original UUIDs to the partitions even if no LABEL or UUID line was used in fstab (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds support for XFS labelling (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix some wrong keyboard detection (Bruno Cornec)
- Add support for latest Fedora keymap file (/etc/vconsole.conf) and non us keyboard detection (Bruno Cornec)
- Launch start-netfs when a network conf is detected in the conf file to avoid an error later on in automatic mode (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi is now a bash script (for better logging support) (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds lvmetad daemon to list and launch it at restore time as new LVM version seems to need it. (Bruno Cornec)
- Rename the conf file mondo-restore.cfg into mondorestore.cfg for homogeneity (Bruno Cornec)
- Remove EXTRA_MODS variable leading to modules missing at restore time. Now part of CDROM_MODS and were anyway loaded 99% of the time. (Bruno Cornec)
- Remove usage of KEYMAP-LIVES-HERE, and USING-
* not used anymore (Bruno Cornec)
- Remove support for FAILSAFE kernels not maintained - use branch 3.0 if you still need it (Bruno Cornec)
- Optimize modules list computation between mindi and restore init script, which doesn\'t load the list twice anymore as eveything is in the boot part. (Bruno Cornec)
- Create /dev/shm at restore time in case it\'s not already done (Bruno Cornec)
- Improve initramfs detection for recent kernels (RE updated) (Bruno Cornec)
- Remove from mindi 2 functions replaced by perl code (ReadAllLink by mr-read-all-link and ProcessLDD by mr-process-ldd) (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now depends on new external perl modules: ProjectBuilder::Base, ProjectBuilder::Conf, ProjectBuilder::Distribution, IO::Interface::Simple, Net::IPv4Addr (Bruno Cornec)
- Try to fix a udev issue on latest Ubuntu where /run/udev is needed at boot time by creating it (Bruno Cornec)
- Include not only content of udev.conf files but if directories in it, do that recursively and fix udev deps inclusion by mimicing what was done for minimal (Bruno Cornec)
- Add creation of device /dev/kmsg through udev-links.conf (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now uses mr-net-get-config to build the network conf (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now uses mr-kernel-get-modules for automatic dependency analysis (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #718 by adding support for USB keyboard for HP ML Server with xhci-hcd now in USB_MODS (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #724 by adding support for USB keyboard with ehci_pci now in USB_MODS (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #713 typo in a start-netfs command preventing correct route to be setup (Victor Gattegno)
- Fix #727 by fixing serial mode support for machines like Sun 40z (Bruno Cornec)

2.1.7 (2013-09-13)
- Fix 2 bugs in kernel version detection (> 3.9) by simplifying the RE used (Bruno Cornec/many contributors)
- Improve mindi logging when a new kernel mechanism for initramfs is found (Bruno Cornec)
- Solve issues at restore time with loading of raid and igb modules by adding lacking modules as deps (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #713 by correcting typo (Victor Gattegno)

Mon Jul 29 12:00:00 2013 Bruno Cornec 2.1.6-1
- Updated to 2.1.6
- Use 2 README files as embedded doc for restore boot, with function keys (Bruno Cornec)
- Improve #628 by adding a comment in order to connect external disks after the boot (Bruno Cornec)
- Improve also boot menu visibility (Bruno Cornec)
- First modifications to add support for systemd-udev (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #697 by adding the iproute parameter at boot time to support addition of static routes (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #656 for Mageia 3 and Fedora 17+ with no /bin and /lib under / but relocated under /usr (Bruno Cornec)
- Copy the multipath dynamic libraries in order to have a working multipath at restore time (RHEL 6.4 and later) (Dimitri Bellini)
- Softlink in LocateDeps have now their target scanned, should improve Debian 7 support (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #699 by improving NFS and SSHFS support for Debian 7 and Ubuntu 13 with nss libs placed under /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ and /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ (Bruno Cornec/Victor Gattegno)
- Backports some 3.1 fixes for mindi, and minimize diffs (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #705 by adding fdisk -l info to log file (Bruno Cornec)
- rev is mandatory and included now in the boot part (not in minimal.conf) (Bruno Cornec)
- Add an example to use a fixed IP configuration at boot time through mindi.conf (Bruno Cornec)
- Be more precise in messages displayed at restore time when a non-rewinding device should be used (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #686 by adding grub.conf, grub.cfg and modified device.map.lst to device.map (Victor Gattegno)
- Fix #679 again and #685 by reducing the list of possible kernels (Victor Gattegno/Didier Diaz/Bruno Cornec)
- Fix support for OBDR tapes connected to SCSI cards, now copies sg_inq, sg_reset, sg_rw_mode and sg_map in the ramdisk (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds support for the obdrmods boot parameter if some additional drivers should be removed (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds more info in mindi log file (df -i, df -a, grub/lilo conf files, fdisk -l) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a bug on SLES 11 SP2 by removing a dd in mindi which was filling the target dir (Bruno Cornec)

Fri May 3 12:00:00 2013 Bruno Cornec 2.1.5-1
- Updated to 2.1.5
- Fix #681 by reintroducing code from mindi 2.0.6 in order to support detection of initrd tyep support deep in kernel with some black magic. (Bruno Cornec/Victor Gattegno/Didier Diaz)
- Fix ReadAllLink by supporting multi-level of ../.. in link names (Bruno Cornec)
- Add cifs support for #208 with first modifications to add cifs support as an external FS - will need mondo 3.0.4 (Bruno Cornec)
- Force the addition of the RESTORE keyword in the boot line to avoid interaction at restore time. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #677 by adding a missing parameter to modinfo (Victor Gattegno)
- Update ProLiant support with hp-rcu and hp-fm (Gen8 and following) (Bruno Cornec)

Fri Mar 15 11:00:00 2013 Bruno Cornec 2.1.4-1
- Updated to 2.1.4
- Fix #651 by removing a potential dmsetup conf before formating the USB with mkdosfs (Matthew Ross)
- Should fix an issue with RHEL 6 where mindi was comparing an info obtained by readlink -f (/dev/dm-1) different from the one in fstab (/dev/mapper/systemvg-root_lv) and the one given by vgs in GiveMapperofDm (/dev/systemvg/root_lv) (Bruno Cornec)
- Removing telinit from minimal.conf to avoid on SLES to have init coming as the target of the telinit link :-( (Bruno Cornec)
- Adding an inittab file in order to avoid problems with CTR-ALT-DEL (Bruno Cornec)
- mindi now uses the full content of minimal.conf in deplist to include it in the boot media. Prevously only a fraction of it was included (Bruno Cornec)
- blkid is needed at least by Fedora 16 at restore time early so added to minimal.conf (Bruno Cornec)
- Handle better the symlinks during the copy of content in order to support the /lib issue for F17. Performance is still degraded (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds more drivers in mindi to better support iscsi env (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #611 for SLES SP1/SP2 with improved LVM support and addition of a function GiveVGLVOfdm to analyze-my-lvm (Matthew Ross/Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #654 by exporting correct value for LANG and LANGUAGE in analyze-my-lvm to avoid localized display (ediaz)
- Improve Fedora 17 support and #656 with all sort of symlinks from / to /usr (Bruno Cornec)
- Improve VxFS support and #167 (Bruno Cornec)
- Add proposed enhancement in #648 to add more control through conf file to boot timeout and default mode (Matthew Ross)
- Fix #649 by adding serial port detection in GetShell function which was harcoding the tty to use (Matthew Ross)
- Fix #639 bu adding dyn. libs needed on RHEL 6.3 by ssh (Peter Kohler)
- Fix #622: Adds swaplabel support if it exists (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #647: bash is now systematically included in the ramdisk (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #631 by adding /bin/lsmod to minimal.conf in order to support SLES 11 SP2 (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #623 by sorting correctly the dev mapper devices when more than 10 are handled (Martin Kitka/Didier Diaz)
- Adds support for 3.5 kernel and USB keyboard by adding module hid_generic (Hugo vw)
- Increase size of tmpfs using shm in order to support larger mindi boot images (Mark Wisniewski)
- Solve #646 by increasing BOOT_SIZE for Ubuntu 12.04 (Victor Gattegno)

Sun Jul 8 12:00:00 2012 Bruno Cornec 2.1.3-1
- Updated to 2.1.3
- Fix #621 by avoiding to handle iso9660 FS type from fstab as well as bind mounted FS. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix a bug in mindi where regular expressions were used with grep without the -E option (Jeffery Kalchik)
- Fix #614 SLES kbd issue (removing double quotes was not done for all of them) (Victor Gattegno)
- mindi now includes the libnss files under /lib in minimal.conf to bring back sshfs support on Debian (Bruno Cornec)
- Mageia 2 needs .ko.xz modules detection (Bruno Cornec)
- Document the fact that selinux needs to be disable for extended attributes to be restored (was missing in the PXE example boot line) (Bruno Cornec)

Sun Jun 3 12:00:00 2012 Bruno Cornec 2.1.2-1
- Updated to 2.1.2
- Fix a bug on RHEL 5 where lvdisplay doesn\'t support redirection. Adds a | cat in between, as was done for vgdisplay (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #617 and #615: Only non directtory are transferred to the rootfs by tar, in order to avoid linked dirs such as /lib to finish fully on it. (Bruno Cornec)
- Adding pata_acpi support (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #607 by including kernel modules symlinked to modules out of tree (hpsa case from HP PSP) (Sanjeev V Kumar)
- Fix #618 by adding support for new command tune4fs for labelling ext4 FS (needed on RHEL 5.6 at least) (Bruno Cornec)
- Add support for HP CNA in Blades for PXE boot (Bruno Cornec)
- Call kpartx to force device creation in case it wasn\'t done automatically as it should (Bruno Cornec)
- Avoids useless warning by using the right regexp for 2.4.x kernel detection (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #609 by using option -L of stat in order to get the correct value for major and minor numbers of mapper links (bzium)
- Fix #600 by linking /bin/sh to /bin/bash when it\'s in the initrd as the default shell used. Adds support for pushd/popd at least. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #614 to add correct keyboard support on SLES 10 (Bruno Cornec)
- Solve #610 by adding a --nolog option to mindi, which needs to be the first one, and used in analyze-my-lvm with a redirection of errors to /dev/null. (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #598 by increasing again boot sizes (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds support for upstart (RHEL 6.2) to try having CTRL-ALT-DEL work again (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds cnic net driver for bnx2i support on RHEL 6.2 at least (Bruno Cornec)
- Prepare a new script to compute IP addresses mr-net-find (not used yet) (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #589 by removing fixed path for grep in mindi, and managing correctly paths for udev related binaries in mindi and rcS, and improving Arch Linux support (MC)
- mv udev.files to udev.conf under deplist.d to be more coherent (Bruno Cornec)
- Use LogFile everywhere possible as a echo replacement (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #590 by adding a warning in case of McAfee detection, and checking tar files before their copy. (Bruno Cornec)

Fri Feb 24 11:00:00 2012 Bruno Cornec 2.1.1-1
- Updated to 2.1.1
- Adds rpcbind support. Fixes RHEL6.2 NFS restore, and hopefully Debian as well. (Bruno Cornec)
- Force inclusion all files mentioned in minimal.conf (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #576 by truncating the mesage text created with cut (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #586: mindi now skips swap files in the mountlist creation (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds module usb_common support for Linux kernel 3.2 (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds brtfs support (Michael Caerwyn mcaerwyn_at_gmail.com)
- Fix a bug where lvm libes were duplicated (Michael Caerwyn mcaerwyn_at_gmail.com)
- Fix #582 by avoiding the use of the term WARNING and using now INFO and a hopefully improved msg (Bruno Cornec)
- Fix #519 for good by cjecking syslinux version 4.02 and making a special call to --stupid for it. THat\'s all it deserves ;-) (Bruno Cornec)
- Adds support for more VIA device drivers (pata and rhine) (Bruno Cornec)
- debugfs should be excluded from the device considered for fstab analysis (Bruno Cornec)


 
ICM