Add an example about how to run hooks

[ext/instance-debootstrap.git] / NEWS

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+Version 0.13
+------------
+
+The Debian version installed by default is now Wheezy.
+
+The filesystem type for the root partition of instances is now
+configurable through the new OS parameter ``filesystem``. It
+defaults to 'ext4'.
+
+Improve documentation with regard to instance variants.
+
+Bugfixes:
+
+- Report an error if it's exporting an instance fails because of the
+  wrong filesystem type.
+
+Version 0.12
+------------
+
+A few small bugfixes:
+
+- the defaults file is now installed automatically; even though all
+  settings are commented out, this allows for easier configuration
+- require and check for a minimum device size; this makes error messages
+  much clearer, compared to tar's out of disk space errors (fixes issue
+  164)
+- it is now possible to override the "components" argument to
+  debootstrap, to be able to install more packages (e.g. from contrib,
+  or from universe) (fixes issue 254)
+- all existing hooks are now distributed in the archive and also
+  installed via `make install' (fixes issue 283)
+- the console activation for xen-pvm hypervisor has been corrected;
+  before it was working only for kvm (fixes issue 284)
+
+
+Version 0.11
+------------
+
+The partition alignment offset is now configurable (using the
+PARTITION_ALIGNMENT configuration setting, in sectors) and the
+distribution names and packages in the defaults file have been updated.
+
+Furthermore, the grub example hook has been improved a bit:
+
+- automatically uses the defined proxy, so that package installation
+  uses the same method as the main install
+- debconf frontend set to non-interactive, to prevent an debconf
+  question loop
+
+However, there still seem to be issues related to this hook (recent grub
+versions fail to run correctly "grub-install" or "update-grub" and
+complain about device mappings); help is welcome.
+
+Version 0.10
+------------
+
+This add supports for ext4 file-systems and changes the default
+distribution from Lenny to Squeeze.
+
+Additionally, new hooks were added:
+
+- setting the password for the root user
+- setting the timezone
+- setting SSH keys for a given user
+
 Version 0.9
 -----------
 
@@ -7,6 +72,13 @@ match better with the directory used for the variants file. Now
 customization of the instance-debootstrap is done either in the defaults
 file or under ganeti/instance-debootstrap.
 
+Fix serial console access for kvm instances (bind to ttyS0 rather than
+console). Please note that with this change if you toggle the serial
+console hypervisor parameter in Ganeti, but don't create the getty entry
+in /etc/inittab or /etc/event.d/ you won't have serial access. Before it
+used to work, but the serial console was slightly broken (no ctrl+c for
+example).
+
 Also start shipping the examples in the tar archive, to ease packaging.
 
 Version 0.8
@@ -69,7 +141,7 @@ Note that the cache file is no longer stored in the same directory as
 the OS definition files, but (again depending on ./configure options)
 usually under /var/cache/ganeti-instance-debootstrap.
 
-There are many other customuizable settings added in this version, for
+There are many other customizable settings added in this version, for
 example the actual OS to be installed (no longer always installing
 Debian Etch), whether to use a proxy or not, etc. See the README and the
 'defaults' files.