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#   Copyright (C) 1999-2005 Brian Elliott Finley
#   Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Andrea Righi
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4.1.8
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- added web based monitor GUI for clients.xml
- added /var/www/systemimager directory for all SI web pages

4.1.6
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- use hotplug to automatically load kernel modules in
  autodetect_hardware_and_load_modules() with BOEL
- print a list of loaded kernel modules at the end of
  autodetect_hardware_and_load_modules()
- remove spinner when quietly installing image: this removes dirty characters
  in the virtual console of si_monitortk
- use a more reliable way to copy module configuration files for UYOK
- removed 94all.update_initrd post-install script: the same feature is
  provieded by systemconfigurator adding CONFIGRD = yes in systemconfig.conf
- fixed a bug in disks/partitions auto-detection routine to initialize LVM
  devices when --autodetect-disks option is used
- resolve symlinks when copying module configuration files for UYOK (this fixes
  disk-by-id naming problems with openSuSE 10.3)
- added a workaround to not touch /dev/null on a build host with old versions
  of gcc
- updated BusyBox to 1.9.1
- updated rsync to 3.0.0
- updated mdadm to 2.6.4 (this also fixed a bug with 256K chunk size and RAID5
  devices)
- various improvements in si_lsimage (completely rewritten to show images
  details in parallel)
- fixed a bug with recent kernels and RAID-4/5/6 modules (now all the
  RAID-4/5/6 functions have been merged in the raid456.ko kernel module)
- some optimizations in si_clusterconfig
- now the option --server must be not mandatory for si_prepareclient if
  --no-rsyncd is specified

4.1.4
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- turn on rsync quick checks (based on size and modification timestamp) for
  files in the image and turn off quick checks for files in the overrides
- allow CTRL+C to break the init script (/etc/init.d/rcS)
- fix disk names in /boot/grub/device.map if it exists in the image
- updated BOEL kernel to 2.6.24.2 (for i386 and x86_64)
- allow si_clusterconfig to show the image associated to each client
- properly detect UYOK kernel version also when the build string contains the
  the build date in the yyyy/mm/dd format
- fix: automaticaly exclude blkid.tab from images
- allow to auto-detect disks when imaging Xen VMs (experimental)
- fix: correctly skip non-kernel files in UYOK kernel detection
- fix: set correct disk names for systemconfigurator
- any change in autoinstallscript.conf now automatically fixes the boot-loader
  configuration, so the warning in si_mkautoinstallscript is no more needed,
  just remove it
- updated rsync to 3.0.0pre10
- print image size on the console before starting imaging
- update the cluster configuration cache only when si_clusterconfig changes
  something
- do not clean-up si_monitortk threads on exit
- print a note about cluster-register/cluster-map website
  (http://www.systemimager.org/cluster-register) when a image is successfully
  cloned and configured by si_getimage
- synchronize /etc/hosts with /var/lib/systemimager/scripts/hosts (the hosts
  file used during imaging) by si_clusterconfig only when /etc/hosts changes
- remove redundant boot parameters in systemconfig.conf

4.1.2
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- updated BOEL to 2.6.24 (for i386 and x86_64)
- updated BusyBox to 1.9.0
- updated LVM to 2.2.02.26 and devmapper to 1.02.22
- updated e2fsprogs to 1.40.2
- updated tar to 1.19
- reimplemented si_pushupdate to work over si_psh
- si_clusterconfig with no option now returns the list of all the clients
- fixed a bug in autoinstall script to correctly save original versions of
  /etc/grub.conf, /etc/lilo.conf and /boot/grub/menu.lst
- fixed a bug that did not allow to install multiple initrd_template deb
  packages of different architectures
- fixed a bug in si_netbootmond that generated a wrong localboot file when
  deploying over a ssh tunnel
- now si_clusterconfig executed with no argument returns the whole list of
  clients

4.0.2
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- fixed a bug in the rsync transport to correctly set the atime/mtime of
  symlinks with kernels < 2.6.22
- fixed a bug to automatically detect a valid initrd also for statically built
  UYOK kernels (without loadable modules support)
- fixed a bug to properly run systemconfigurator at the end of the imaging
  process of the PS3 clients
- fixed a but in systemconfig.conf creation (BOOTDEV parameter was not
  correctly used)
- fixed a bug with kexec fast-reboot to support relocatable kernels from RHEL5
- fixed a bug in CentOS distribution to correctly detect an initrd for UYOK
- improvements in initrd detection for UYOK
- added systemconfigurator >= 2.2.11 dependency

4.0.0
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- updated the manual including the documentation of all the recent features
- some fixes to build SystemImager deb packages for Sony PS3
- added some missing dependencies to build .deb packages
- allow to specify size="*" in the LVM logical volumes definitions (in
  autoinstallscript.conf)
- now after a successful interactive image retrieval, si_getimage proposes to
  execute si_clusterconfig instead of si_addclients to define the groups of
  clients and assign images to them
- fixed a bug to correctly distribute files in the overrides that have the same
  size and timestamp of the files in the target client, but a different content
- fixed a bug to properly set the permission bitmask of the override root
  directory when the umask of the super-user in the image server doesn't use
  the standard value 0022
- fixed a bug with 2.4 kernels without udev to properly translate devfs disk
  names into the standard /dev names for hardware RAID disks that are using a
  non-standard naming schema (cciss, ida, rd, ...)
- fixed a bug to automatically skip udev network persistent naming rules in
  Debian or Debian-like distributions
- fixed a bug to properly recognize LABELs and UUIDs in swap partitions
- fixed a bug to not auto-detect a kernel for systemconfigurator when
  si_prepareclient is executed with the --kernel option
- permanently added ramdisk_size=80000 to the boot parameters

3.9.6
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- allow to specify multiple overrides per group
- support dynamic host groups (a list of clients generated by a result
  of a command executed on the image server)
- si_updateclient rewritten to be host-group compliant
- use systemconfigurator to re-create the boot-loader configuration at
  the end of the imaging process (this allows to totally redefine the
  partitioning schema in autoinstallscript.conf and automatically fix the
  boot-loader configuration, according to the new partitioning schema)
- added --imaging option to si_psh (if the installation parameter SSHD=y
  is used the --imaging allows to execute a command on a set of imaging
  clients)
- added the "priority" attribute to host groups (if a client belongs to
  multiple groups, the group with the higher priority will be used to
  choose the image for that client; regarding the overrides of the
  groups they'll be sorted by group priority: in case of file overlaps
  first hit wins)
- multiple optimizations in the host group translations
- removed the deprecated command si_mkautoinstalldiskette
- always use --my-modules with UYOK in ppc64-ps3 architectures to reduce
  the size of initrd.img
- make the detection code for PS3 more generic (support also kernels >
  2.6.16)
- fix to correctly get UUIDs in hex format from swap headers (the same
  format used in /etc/fstab)
- minor fix to get tmpfs boot options with a initramfs (aka cpio-based)
  initrd
- minor fix in the monitoring post-install script to correctly report
  the REBOOTED state in some versions of Red Hat / Fedora distro
- minor fix in SuSE to update the installed initrd when the imaged
  client is equipped with a different hardware respect to the golden
  client
- other minor fixes for a better error handling
- additions in manpages

3.9.4
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- introduced the concept of host group: groups can be listed or
  modified by the command si_clusterconfig(8)
- improved tftpbooting architecture: the default /tftpboot root has been
  moved to /var/lib/tftpboot (more LSB compliant) and it is a symlink to
  /usr/share/systemimager/boot. In this way there is no need to keep in
  sync kernel and initrd.img in /tftpboot anymore and we can support
  multiple boot packages (kernel + initrd.img) at the same time
- a lot of improvements in the monitoring engine: now it is possible
  keep monitored thousands of imaging clients with a low overhead of the
  monitoring daemon
- improved the si_monitortk GUI responsiveness
- added a clickable header on top of the clients table in si_monitortk
  GUI to sort the monitored clients with a single click
- added full support to filesystem LABELs and UUIDs
- added --flavor option to si_mkbootpackage: this allows to directly
  create a boot package into a new flavor
- added the --append option to si_mkclientnetboot: this allows to define
  installation parameters for the target clients by si_mkclientnetboot
  (without the need to manually edit the syslinux.cfg file)
- at the end of the imaging systemconfigurator now configures the same
  interface used to perform the auto-installation and not always eth0
- now at the end of the auto-installation systemconfigurator will
  automatically configure the same network device used to perform the
  installation (and not always and only eth0)
- more verbosity for systemconfigurator (useful for troubleshooting
  activities)
- systemimager-boot-<arch>-standard deb package has been splitted in
  systemimager-boot-<arch>-standard and systemimager-initrd-template-<arch>
- added priority classification of the entries in the TODO list
- a lot of bug fixes
- a new SystemImager boot screen ;-)

3.9.2
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- Added support for the PS3 architecture
- Improved support and compatibility with Debian (now deb packages can be
  automatically built from source using the new target "make deb")
- updated BOEL kernel to 2.6.21 (for i386 and x86_64)
- fixed a bug that broke si_mkautoinstalldisk
- free unused RAM of the initramfs (only with cpio initrd.img) after switching
  to tmpfs
- updated udev to udev_108-0ubuntu4
- support old versions of the BitTorrent client (better compatibilty
  with *Ubuntu)
- fixed a lib/lib64 bug with ppc64
- fixed a bug in si_monitor daemon that didn't start correctly when the
  directory /var/lock/systemimager was not present
- added missing manpages
- remount the filesystems in read-only before giving-up when the umount
  fails at the end of the installation
- create all the swap partitions before the other filesystems in the autoinstall
  script: this avoids potential OOM conditions that could occur during the
  filesystem creation
- removed unused coreutils package from initrd.img
- removed unmaintained package imagemanip
- removed deprecated command si_mkbootmedia

3.9.0
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- added pci-automod autodetection: this allows to detect all the
  required device drivers supported by the kernel without the need of an
  external DB (it is fully based on sysfs and modules.pcimap, shipped with
  kernel modules)
- added fast-reboot post install action (based on kexec): this allows to
  execute the imaged kernel without the need of an additional reboot
  through the BIOS
- added si_pushoverride command (a tool to synchronize overrides from
  the image server to the clients, defining cluster topologies and host
  groups)
- added support for minix UYOK initrd.img
- updated BOEL kernel to 2.6.20.4 (for i386 and x86_64)
- added systemconfigurator >= 2.2.9 dependency (required for by kexec
  stuff)

3.8.2
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- fixed a bug in the monitoring: REBOOTED state was not properly
  reported in some minimal image (without the command which)
- added "--config FILE" option to si_prepareclient and si_mkbootpackage
  (and removed from si_mkautoinstalldisk: the option must be used in
  commands that explicitly create an initrd.img from initrd_template) 
- do not hard-code common patterns of exclusion in si_getimage (created
  the configuration file /etc/systemimager/getimage.exclude)
- si_getimage didn't stop correctly the rsync daemon in the golden
  client, using rsync over ssh for the image retrieval
- removed unused coreutils package from initrd.img

3.8.1
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- added the support of cpio initramfs for UYOK
- added interactive mode in si_psh
- added --arch option to si_mkbootpackage
- added support for Intel S5000PAL based mainboard
- now the installation parameter DEVICE can be used to bind the
  execution of the DHCP client on a single interface (instead of
  requesting an IP for all the available interfaces on the client)
- fixed a potential problem in si_getimage: now some dangerous patterns
  are automatically excluded during the image retrieval (i.e. /selinux
  files, LVM caches and backups, NFS stuff, etc.)
- fixed a problem in the detection of swap labels in RHEL distributions
- fixed a potential partition size problem with old versions of parted
  (< 1.6.23)
- fixed a bug that occurs when parted prints empty flags (now all the
  patition flags are correctly retrieved)
- now rsync is not restarted after si_mvimage, si_rmimage and si_cpimage
  (the restart could break the installation if these command were
  executed during the imaging)
- fixed a bug in SLES9 for UYOK (the --my-modules option was not able to
  correctly detect the filename of the loaded kernel modules)
- fixed a dependency problem with perl(XML::Simple) and perl(XML::Parser)

3.8.0
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- added SSH=y|n and SSHD=y|n installation parameters
- added si_pushinstall to perform server-driven installation with SSH
  transport
- added status option for all the scripts in /etc/init.d
- support hostname and IP ranges for si_psh, si_pcp, si_mkclientnetboot,
  si_addclients
- added --ssh-key and --authorized-keys options to si_prepareclient and
  si_mkbootpackage (to add SSH private key and/or SSH authorized_keys directly
  into the initrd.img)
- automatically kill rsync daemon on the golden client after the image is
  correctly retrieved
- updated LVM and device-mapper packages (now SystemImager can be
  compiled on Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 ppc64 on PS3)
- fixed a bug to properly load kernel modules with dashes or underscores
  in the name
- fixed a bug in the LVM1 logical volume discovery
- fixed some bugs in the use of SSH transport
- fixed a recursion bug in boot-standard RPM that causes yum to crash
- fixed a bug when saving the partitioning schema of the golden client
  (with some old versions of parted the partitioning schema can be
  uncorrectly saved)

3.7.6
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- resolved some compiling problems in Debian
- fixed perl::threads bug for Mandriva
- built more portable RPMs between different distributions
- added si_psh (SystemImager Parallel Shell) and si_pcp (SystemImager
  Parallel Copy)
- added si_mkautoinstalldisk, a tool to create autoinstall disks
  (supports also USB devices)
- added --no-delete option to si_updateclient
- added --unit option to si_prepareclient
- some fixes in the ssh transport
- better support for ppc64 architectures
- additional hardware support
- updated backend packages (LVM, devmapper, discover, rsync)
- generic bug fixes

3.7.5
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- BOEL updated to kernel 2.6.18.1
- added support of parted 1.7.x syntax
- correctly support swap over LVM
- correctly support TLS (Thread Local Storage) libraries
- reimplemented si_mkbootpackage using UYOK library
- UYOK supports monolithic kernels (and BOEL)
- improved the monitoring scalability
- improvents in the BitTorrent transport
- reduced the verbosity of the imaging process by default to speed up
  the installation time
- some fixes in si_mkbootserver

3.7.4
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- better compatibility with 2.4 kernels
- better support with cciss/ida/rd RAID controllers
- added support for filesystems (and swap partitions) with LABELs
- better support of software-RAID devices (managed by mdadm), LVM
  (version 1 and 2) and LVM over software-RAID volumes
- better support of x86_64 architectures
- added Infiniband support (experimental)
- new implementation of the BitTorrent transport
  - autodetection of the staging directory
  - lot of tunings to speed-up installations
- monitoring interface improvements (si_monitortk)
  - added new states: 'finalizing', 'beeping', 'shutdown', 'rebooting'
    and 'REBOOTED'
  - implemented "full log" feature in virtual console (to see full
    stdout and stderr)
  - store the whole installation session in /root/si_monitor.log of the
    imaged client
  - optimized CPU and memory utilization on the image server
  - lots of graphics improvements
- UYOK improvements
  - added --kernel and --modules-dir option to si_prepareclient to choose a
    custom kernel to perform installations
  - implemented --image option for si_prepareclient (to prepare a
    kernel+initrd.image package based on the kernel present in the image)
  - UYOK initrd optimizations
- BOEL improvements
  - moved to kernel 2.6.16.5
  - moved to udev+hotplug device discovery
- added support for both /dev managed via udev and static /dev
- added --autodetect-disks option in si_getimage and
  si_mkautoinstallscript
- added FUSION_SAS support (needed for LSISAS1064 support on the Sun Fire X4100 servers)
- added support for LSI 53c1030 storage adapter on the IBM e326 server
- new packages: systemimager-bittorrent, systemimager-imagemanip
- better RPM package dependencies for SUSE Linux and Red Hat/Fedora Linux
- services (eg. /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-rsyncd) are disabled by default
  after RPM installation
- added SKIP_LOCAL_CFG to the kernel boot parameters for the clients (if
  set to 'y' the check to find local.cfg will be skipped, saving a lot
  of time with machines that don't properly support floppy controllers
- lots of bugfixes

3.6.3
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- Bug: discover patch was removed that allowed support of ICH7
       controllers.  
  Fix: upgrade to discover1

3.6.2
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- Build system fix: change $(SRC_DIR)/$(DISCOVER_DIR)/lib/.libs to
  $(DISCOVER_DIR)/lib/.libs in libpath

3.6.1
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- Broke discover and discover-data into seperate make files
- Simplified each
- The impetus was to fix a problem where wildcarded discover data files
  were a target, but they didn't exist until that target had been
    processed, resulting in a null target of "".  Fixed.
- depend on discover and discover data build stamps instead of the
  discover binary and data files.
- Was using wrong assignment operator (=: instead of =) for
  DISCOVER_DATA_FILES.  This meant that DISCOVER_DATA_FILES was being
  evaluated _once_ at the beginning of the build -- prior to the files
  being there.  Fixed.


3.6.0
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- make complete_source_tarball target for getting all source, including
  all versions of kernels (results in ~200M tarball)
- make source_tarball target now only produces systemimager source
- all source URLs point to download.systemimager.org, and all necessary
  build source will be maintained there.
- LVM bug fixes
- si_monitor tweaks
- some refinements to UYOK (UseYourOwnKernel), but still considered beta
- version revs on many supporting utilities


3.5.3
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- installation monitoring GUI (si_monitor, si_monitortk)
- version revs on many supporting utilities

3.5.2
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Brian Finley
- added lib/SystemImager/UseYourOwnKernel.pm

Josh Aas
- miscellaneous patches aimed at improving Altix support

Andrea Righi
- added LVM support

dann frazier
- merge in fixes from 3.4 branch

3.5.1
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- added hfsutils to boel
- 2.6 series kernel capability and 2.6 series kernels for many archs.
- x86_64 (aka. Opteron) support 
- added pdisk utility to boel initrd
- "Official" PPC64 support added by Terra Soft Solutions.
  http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/news/2004/2004-11-09.shtml
  Works with PPC64 series Macs running Linux, and in theory, most other Linux
  on PPC platforms. (AJ Hawks, David Smith, Owen Stampflee, Kai Staats)


3.4.0
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- use pre-install script to turn on dma for ata thingies.  See
  "/var/lib/systemimager/scripts/pre-install/99all.dma_on" (finley)
- include ssh as part of standard build, standard release (finley)
- renamed _all_ commands to use the "si_" prefix.  allows for tab 
  completion with a competent shell, like zsh ;-) (finley)
- took out sfdisk.rul -- haven't been using sfdisk for quite a while 
  now (finley)
- added util-linux.rul, for mkswap that supports >2G on ia32.  Recommended by
  Viet Hoang. (finley)
- update x86 kernel to 2.6.9 (John Aas)

SystemImager-3.3.2 (unstable) UNRELEASED
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o dann frazier
  - merge in bug fixes from 3.2 branch

SystemImager-3.3.1 (unstable) 2004.06.01
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o brian e finley
  - new version of udpcast
  - pre and post-install script tweaking
  - lsimage: add --verbose option, and show image retrieval date
  - getimage: record image retrieval time in $image/etc/systemimager/IMAGE_RETRIEVAL_TIME

SystemImager-3.3.0 (unstable) 2004.04.14
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o brian e finley
  - add post-install script support
  - add pre-install script support


SystemImager-3.2.1 2004.04.05
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o dannf
  - 2.4.25 kernel
o Brian E. Finley
  - Server.pm: deal with 'noauto' mount option properly during autoinstall
o Jerry G. DeLapp/dann frazier
  - Add some strict checking around the APPEND entry in syslinux.cfg
  - Remove some unnecessary pieces of the default append line

SystemImager-3.2.0 2004.03.02
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o added multicast support via Flamethrower. -BEF-
o added imagemanip tool. -KC-
o many other bug fixes and improvements
o renamed init scripts to /etc/init.d/systemimager-server-<foo>
o Fix bug #[ 501646 ] prepareclient shouldn't killall rsyncs.
o added hardlink/parse files patch for rsync from stevegt (Closes #669565).
o new versions of many of the boel binaries tools, including:
  - e2fsprogs
  - openssh
  - discover
  - parted
  - reiserfsprogs
  - sfdisk
  - xfsprogs
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SystemImager-3.0.1 2003.03.30
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o updateclient: fixed bug [ 676908 ] GATEWAY not set in /local.cfg

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SystemImager-3.0.0 2002.12.08
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o static_dhcp and dynamic_dhcp went away.  Now simply use "dhcp".  See comments
  in autoinstall script on setting the host name to get the functionality that
  static_dhcp used to provide. -BEF-
o FAT support: FAT filesystems are now properly supported on i386 and ia64 (this
  includes vfat).  TODO #482984. -BEF-
o jfs support
o xfs support
o mvimage: Was failing if source image and destination image had the same
  name, even if a different location was specified (-directory). 
  Fixed bug# 548279. -BEF-
o mvimage: Now use rsync to copy the image over, then after a successful
  copy, we remove the old image directory.  (only if source image dir and
  destination image dir are different.)  If they're the same, we just use
  move(). -BEF-
o updateclient: Fixed bug number 426654.  We now strip the directory, 
  specified with -directory,  from the beginning of each path to exclude. -BEF-
o updateclient: The regex that was being created to exclude non-local 
  filesystems was parsing as a reference, as opposed to actual values. 
  Therefore, all filesystems ended up being excluded.  Including "/" (root). ;)

  Now we get a reference to the fstypes array with: 
  "my $fstypes = $config->fstype();"

  Then use it as an array with: "@$fstypes"

  This fixes bug #548156 -BEF-

o updateclient: Stopped accepting varying length (least unique) options.  As
  in, -verb to specify -verbose when -version is also an option.  Put
  Getopt::Long module back in and went back to using this for gathering all
  command line options.  Fixed Bug #547833 and #546599 -BEF-
o updateclient -a issues bad karma if dnsdomainname doesn't succeed in
  returning a domain name.  Simplified resolv.conf parsing code.
  Fixed Bug #547835 -BEF-
o updateclient: Go back to doing option validation in the body of updateclient,
  rather than asking AppConfig to do it.  This allows us to present more
  helpful output to the user. -BEF-
o updateclient: Put defaults into client.conf, rather than having them in the
  program itself. -BEF-
o updateclient: Only use croak() when something we are expecting to work breaks.
  For option validation and other expected user messages, do manually to provide
  more useful output. -BEF-
o updateclient: After gathering options from the config file, use simple
  variables throughout the code, rather than the AppConfig variable structure.
  This makes the code easier to read. -BEF-
o updateclient: Don't include -listing in the options anynmore, but recommend
  lsimage at the bottom. -BEF-
o updateclient: Help now indicates that user should put -directory "DIRECTORY"
  in quotes. -BEF-
o prepareclient: Fixed the bit about rsync needing a hostname.  No 
  longer need to prompt the user to allow us to add an entry, and we 
  leave the /etc/hosts file the way we found it.  Fixes bug #546600 -BEF-
o Autoinstall client would fail if a /local.cfg was used, but 
  GATEWAY was not specified.  Autoinstall now only tries to run the
  route command if GATEWAY is specified.  Fixed bug #547069. -BEF-
o The configdir variable was misnamed in the
  _get_list_of_IDE_and_SCSI_devices subroutine.  Changed to config_dir.
  This fixes bug #546606. -BEF-
o Re-Worked the devices_by_label.txt creation code.  Fixed bug #545335
  "prepareclient errors while processing labels". -BEF-
o Fixed bug #545328 "prepareclient -q doesn't wait for rsync". -BEF-
o Improved prepareclient messages. -BEF-
o Fixed bug #501650 "prepareclient needs better tmp files". -BEF-
o Fixed a bug in Server.pm where partitions 5 and above were not dealt
  with properly if using hardware RAID and non explicit partitioning. 
  This fixes bug #453549 -BEF-
o /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf is now a product of stub files.
  packages provide only the stubs that are relevent to them, and then
  regenerate /etc/systemimager/rsyncd.conf.
o added -kernel and -initrd flags to mkautoinstall{cd,diskette},
  allowing media generation using non-default files.  Closes #498741.
o added notes on using a DHCP v3 to the manual and the mkdhcpserver
  manpage.  Closes #502946.
o updateclient no longer references tftpboot.  Closes #507543.
o cpimage now has ssh support (thanks Thomas Schenk!)
o new systemimager-boot flavors
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SystemImager-2.1.1 2002.02.05
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o IMAGENAME variable added to local.cfg
o autoinstall will now use local.cfg variables even if
  ip address is obtained from dhcp
o addition of --append option to mkautoinstall* which allows
  additional kernel parameters to be set during the creations of 
  install media
o new /etc/systemimager/client.conf file which defines parameters
  on the SI client, including which filesystems to support on
  updateclient
o removal of beep executable in favor of 'echo -e "\a"'.  
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SystemImager-2.1.0 2002.01.16
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o first development release
o new arch - ia64
o prepareclient now supports devfs
o updateclient now supports Grub and Elilo through the use 
   of System Configurator
o fat and vfat filesystems are now imaged with getimage, though
    the default SystemImager kernel for i386 will NOT propperly
    install vfat partitions
o bootable partitions on golden-clients are now retained
o various bug fixes
o i386 kernel upgraded to 2.2.20

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SystemImager-2.0.1 2001.12.15
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installserver
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o fixed bugs/typos

initrd.gz
---------
o replaced old mke2fs with one that supports journaling

make*
-----
o inserted missing stubs for the deprecated make* scripts

manpages
--------
o added mkautoinstallscript manpage

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-2.0.0 2001.10.16
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

mkdhcpstatic
------------
o updated to work w/ RedHat 7.1, thanks to the PiT

FHS
---
o this is the FHS compliancy release (Dann/Brian), so lots of files have
  been shuffled around.  see the toplevel Makefile for details.

updateclient
------------
o added -dry-run patch (Dirk Wetter)

addclients
----------
o commandlineized (Austin Gonyou)
o added padded zero support (Brian)

install
-------
o new make-based build system

Client.pm
---------
o created it. (Brian)

Common.pm
---------
o created it. (Brian)

cpimage
-------
o created it. (Brian)

dev_ls-lR
---------
o added entries for /dev/rd/c0d[3456789]* (Brian)

getimage
--------
o broke certain functions out into the Server.pm and Common.pm libraries 
  (Brian)
o added -exclude option (Brian)
o depricated -server now recommends using cpimage (Brian)
o removed depricated -master-client option (use -golden-client instead) 
  (Brian)

initrd
------
o Added /dev/sdg* and /dev/sdh* entries. (Brian)
o We now use a Makefile to create the initrd.  This means that the rcS
  script and other important files are stored in CVS as text files that
  can be edited induhvidually. (go Dann!)

lsimage
-------
o no longer shows tftpboot as an image (Brian)

makeautoinstallcd, makeautoinstalldiskette, makedhcpserver, makedhcpstatic
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
o Renamed make* to mk*.  Left make* for this release, but they only say 
  "Use the mk* versions". (Brian)

mkautoinstallscript
-------------------
o created it. (Brian)

mkbootserver
------------
o created it.  This tool will now be used to configure an image server 
  to allow network booting of clients.  (Dann)

mvimage
-------
o created it. (Brian)

rmimage
-------
o created it. (Brian)

Server.pm
---------
o created it. (Brian)

systemimager.exclude
--------------------
o renamed to updateclient.local.exclude.  Hopefully this will be a
  less confusing name. (Brian)

systemimager.conf
-----------------
o created it.  This configuration file can take variables to specify
  many defaults throughout SystemImager. (Dann)

makeautoinstalldiskette
-----------------------
o added -out-file option (Dann)

man pages
---------
o created (Dann)


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-1.5.0 2001.05.08
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The whole thing
---------------
o Added support for secure operation over SSH.

autoinstall initrd.gz
---------------------
o Fix bug [ #419185 ] rcS script matches multiple IPs.
o don't pull hosts file from imageserver if HOSTNAME is known.
o Fixed bug #407316.  Autoinstall was only working on eth0, even if 
  another interface got an IP address.  Thanks to James Oakley for 
  submitting this bug and a patch.

getimage
--------
o We were escaping $image so that IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO was not being 
  set during autoinstall.  Fixed by un-escaping.
o Fixed bug where the "Would you like to update the autoinstall script 
  for this image? ([y]/n): " question would fail if the user actually 
  typed a "y".  Thanks to John Chabalko <john.chabalko@nbci.com> for 
  finding this bug.
o Fixed IP assignment question out of order bug.  Thanks to
  Cath Burrowes <cath@starbiz.com.au> for this patch.
o Added section to autoinstall.master scripts to deal with testing
  for and doing raidstop if necessary -- even if we're not 
  autoinstalling a raid image.
o Add " || shellout" to the end of almost everything in <image>.master
  for better error testing.
o Added some syntax checking for the -update-script option.  
o Fixed bug: changed stringwise operators to numeric operators where 
  appropriate.  This bug caused dynamic partitioning to fail when
  the golden client had 10 or more partitions.  Thanks to
  Efstathiadis Efstratios <stratos@bnl.gov> for finding this bug.

lsimage
-------
o New with this release!

pushupdate
----------
o New with this release!

updateclient
------------
o -imageserver is now depricated.  use -server.

makeautoinstallcd
-----------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist.  Suggested by 
  Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.

makeautoinstalldiskette
-----------------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist.  Suggested by 
  Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.



-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-1.4.1 2001.04.20
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

addclients
----------
o Copy /etc/hosts -> /tftpboot/systemimager/hosts even if we don't 
  modify it.

autoinstall initrd.gz
---------------------
o don't pull hosts file from imageserver if HOSTNAME is known.
o Fixed bug #407316.  Autoinstall was only working on eth0, even if 
  another interface got an IP address.  Thanks to James Oakley for 
  submitting this bug and a patch.

autoinstall kernel
------------------
o added IBM ServeRAID support
o fixed eepro100 cmd_wait bug in the 2.2.18 kernel: 
  http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/eepro100/2001-January/001442.html

getimage
--------
o We were escaping $image so that IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO was not being
  set during autoinstall.  Fixed by un-escaping.
o Fixed bug where the "Would you like to update the autoinstall script
  for this image? ([y]/n): " question would fail if the user actually
  typed a "y".  Thanks to John Chabalko <john.chabalko@nbci.com> for
  finding this bug.
o Added some syntax checking for the -update-script option.
o Fixed IP assignment question out of order bug.  Thanks to 
  Cath Burrowes <cath@starbiz.com.au> for this patch.
o Added section to autoinstall.master scripts to deal with testing 
  for and doing raidstop if necessary -- even if we're not 
  autoinstalling a raid image.
o Add " || shellout" to the end of almost everything in <image>.master
  for better error testing.
o Fixed bug: changed stringwise operators to numeric operators where 
  appropriate.  This bug caused dynamic partitioning to fail when
  the golden client had 10 or more partitions.  Thanks to
  Efstathiadis Efstratios <stratos@bnl.gov> for finding this bug.

makeautoinstallcd
-----------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist.  Suggested by 
  Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.

makeautoinstalldiskette
-----------------------
o Verify that the kernel and initrd.gz actually exist.  Suggested by 
  Greg Pratt <gpratt@valinux.com>.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-1.4.0 2001.03.04
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

install 
-------
o Now uses the "install" program wherever possible
o Now works with /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or /etc/init.d.
o The imageserver now runs rsync as a daemon from an init script.  This
  is configured automatically at install time.

installclient
-------------
o Don't overwrite systemimager.exclude if it already exists.  Thanks to
  Wesley Smith <wessmith@engr.sgi.com>.

getimage
--------
o Improved support for ext3.  However, currently all journals are
  created at 15MB in size.  They are also the hidden type (good).
  Hopefully we can detect the existing size in the future.  For now
  the journal sizes can be set by modifying the <image>.master script.
o deal with networking properly on debian 2.2 and 2.1 systems
o now leaves it's mark -> "/etc/systemimager/IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO"
o added the "replicant" option to the -ip-assignment option.
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Added support for LABEL=/partition/label format in /etc/fstab.  This
  format is used in new (not upgrades) RedHat 7 installations.
o Improper usage statements no longer include the entire output from 
  the --help option.  In earlier versions this would often run the 
  usage correction statement off the screen.  Still provides a reminder
  to "-help".
o Now autodetects whether prepareclient left the partition data behind
  as "-explicit-geometry" or as megabytes.  If using megabytes, 
  getimage creates the autoinstall script in such a way that client 
  disks don't have to have the same geometry.  They can even be 
  significantly different sizes.  They can easily be much larger than 
  the original master client disks and can even be smaller...  (within 
  reason -- depends on specific partition scheme)
o Now uses the --numeric-ids rsync option.
o Fixed a harmless bug that made nasty output when blank lines were in
  the golden clients /etc/fstab file.  The fix was to tell getimage to
  skip blank lines in the /etc/fstab file.  

systemimager.exclude 
--------------------
o added additional exclusions for Debian.  Thanks to Wichert Akkerman
  for sending these in.

local.cfg
---------
o Now uses IMAGESERVER instead of DHCPSIADDR.  Of course, it is 
  backwards compatible so as not to completely confuse you. ;)

rsyncd.conf
-----------
o Change back to using one log file: /var/log/systemimager

afterburner
-----------
o Test for inetd and SIGHUP as is appropriate.
o Test for xinetd and SIGUSR1 as is appropriate.  Thanks to Dann 
  Frazier <daniel_frazier@hp.com> for pointing out that xinetd only 
  does a state dump with a SIGHUP and requres a SIGUSR1 to do a soft 
  reconfigure.
o Now works with /etc/rc.d/init.d/ or /etc/init.d.

updateclient
------------
o now leaves it's mark -> "/etc/systemimager/IMAGE_LAST_SYNCED_TO"
  noting the image the client was last synced to.
o added the -configure-from DEVICE option.  Only used with -autoinstall.
  Stores the network configuration for DEVICE in the /local.cfg file so
  that the same settings will be used during the autoinstall process.
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Now uses the --numeric-ids rsync option.  Thanks to all who submitted
  info on this one.  This closes bug #123339.

goldenclient
------------
o Changed phraseology from "master client" to "golden client"

installclient
-------------
o /etc/systemimager/ directory is now properly created.  This closes bug
  #123337.  Thanks to James Oakley <joakley@solutioninc.com>.

prepareclient
-------------
o No longer use /etc/mtab to get mounted filesystems.  Now we use mount.
  Now works properly on systems with /etc/mtab linked to /proc/mounts.
  Thanks to the folks below for helping debug and test this code:
  o Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>
  o Chad A. Hughes <chughes@coremetrics.com>
o removed ext3 stuff.  getimage now does all the ext3 stuff.
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Offers to add "127.0.0.1 $hostname" to /etc/hosts.
o Now defaults to using megabytes to store partition information.  Can
  be told to leave explicit partitioning information for getimage with
  the -explicit-geometry option.
o What was I thinking in v1.3.0 with the -no-rsyncd option?!?  Don't try
  this, folks.  It would record your imageserver's partition information
  as if it were the client's.

makedhcpstatic
--------------
o Automatically send a HUP signal to dhcpd (if running) to make it
  re-read the freshly modified config file.

makedhcpserver
--------------
o Now supports specification of an imageserver that is a different
  machine from the dhcp server.
o Added patches from John Goebel <jgoebel@valinux.com> to allow for
  other non-systemimager specific advanced options!

autoinstallclient
-----------------
o added support for 3c905 
o added support for 3c59x
o added support for pcnet32
o added support for Alteon AceNIC/3Com 3C985/NetGear GA620 Gigabit
o added support for 3ware Hardware ATA-RAID (EXPERIMENTAL)
o Smallerized.  More stuff done by BusyBox.
o Now using hardlinks for BusyBox.  Thanks for this suggestion go 
  to: Rob Latham <rlatham@plogic.com>.
o Added mawk.  Funky and easily breakable sed stuff can now be done
  with mawk.
o Changed to dhclient.  dhclient allows us to try all interfaces for
  DHCP.  This will solve some instances where a system would boot the 
  autoinstall media off the network, but then couldn't get an IP 
  address for the running OS.  dhclient also allows us to specify the 
  imageserver as seperate from the dhcp server.
o Bug fix:  Was using POSIX [[:blank:]] in sed statement to find and 
  change spaces and tabs to single spaces.  Sed version changed and no 
  longer behaved properly.  Spaces work fine with the v1.3.0 client but
  tabs will give you errors.
o Enforce that the client sleeps 35s before trying to use the network.  
  Even if using local.cfg.

autoinstall scripts 
-------------------
o Added the -L option to sfdisk.  Recommended by Matthew Marlowe 
  <mmarlowe@jalan.com>.
o Fixed a bug where autoinstall of clients with reiserfs root partitions
  fails.  The -notail option must be used, otherwise lilo will complain
  about a hole in a mapfile and not make the disk bootable.  Thanks to 
  Matthew Marlowe <mmarlowe@jalan.com> for submitting this bug.
o Turn on swap space after initializing.  In the past we didn't use the
  swap space at all.  Go ahead and use it to help out in low memory 
  situations.
o Now uses the --numeric-ids rsync option.
o Fixed the bit where egrep is used to test for mounted filesystems 
  (indicating a running machine that shouldn't be touched).  grep is now
  used and no error messages should be seen.

makeautoinstallcd
-----------------
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.

makeautoinstalldiskette
-----------------------
o -help and -version now exit with a status of 0.
o Test for either superformat or fdformat.  Use superformat if both exist.


-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SystemImager-1.3.0 2000.10.04
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
- autoinstall kernel -- Patched with:
                        - http://people.redhat.com/mingo/raid-patches/raid-2.2.17-A0
                        - http://www.tux.org/pub/devel/reiserfs/linux-2.2.17-reiserfs-3.5.25-patch.gz
- prepareclient -- <<<<< Don't use this feature to update    >>>>>
                   <<<<< your master scripts.  I must have   >>>>>
                   <<<<< been up *really* late the night I   >>>>>
                   <<<<< did this.  See comments for v1.4.0. >>>>>
                   Added the -n or -no-rsyncd option.  This allows
                   you to run prepareclient from a chrooted image
                   and then run getimage with the -s option to
                   update your master autoinstall script.
- autoinstall media -- Added support for software RAID.
- getimage -- Added support for software RAID.
- getimage -- Fixed a bug where filesystem creation and mounting was 
              done based on the order of entries in the fstab file.
              If /boot came before /, for example, then the resultant
              autoinstall script would unsuccessfully try to mount 
              /boot first.  Mount points are now sorted.  Thanks to
              Dale Harris <rodmur@valinux.com> for finding this one.
- getimage -- Fixed a bug where fstab files containing tabs or with
              spaces at the beginning of a line might not be parsed
              properly.  This could potentially result in an 
              improperly created autoinstall script.

SystemImager-1.2 2000.09.25
- makedist -- Only used by me really (Brian).  Now automatically sets the
              version number in each of the appropriate files.
- prepareclient -- No longer messes with /etc/rsyncd.conf.  Now uses a
                   temporary configuration file: /tmp/rsyncd.conf and
                   references it like this:
                     rsync --daemon --config=/tmp/rsyncd.conf
- afterburner -- modified to add [tftpboot] section to existing 
                 rsyncd.conf file.
- updateclient -- Now looks for systemimager.exclude in /etc/systemimager/.
- updateclient -- Figures out root device from /etc/fstab and appends
                  LAST_ROOT=device to lilo.conf entry when -autoinstall is
                  issued.  This allows for placing a local.cfg file in the 
                  root filesystem prior to rebooting after running 
                  updateclient -autoinstall.
- updateclient -- added the -autoinstall option.  Courtesy of
                  Alan Lambert <alambert@epicrealm.com>.  Allows you to 
                  tell any machine that is currently running to autoinstall 
                  itself the next time you reboot.  *Very* cool idea!  No 
                  mucking about with removeable media or that tricky PXE 
                  stuff for remote re-installs.
- makedhcpstatic -- added support for restarting dhcp daemon.
- addclients -- images are now presented in chronological order from
                oldest to newest.  newest is now the default that is 
                presented.
- addclients -- made the descriptions more clear and broke it up into 3 
                sections.
- rsyncd.conf -- now has entry for /tftpboot and the /var/log/systemimager
                 entry is added on a per image basis.
- autoinstalldiskette -- now uses a 1.44M floppy!
                         - faster creation
                         - faster booting
                         - fewer floppy failures
- autoinstallclient -- now uses rsync v2.4.6
- autoinstallclient -- now uses smaller libraries, allowing for larger 
                       kernels and more utilities!
- autoinstallclient -- support for use *without* DHCP!  See the FAQ for 
                       more info.
- autoinstallclient -- kernel includes support for software RAID and for
                       reiserfs.
- autoinstallclient -- added support for post install options of beeping,
                       shutdown, or reboot.
- autoinstallclient -- can now be used *without* DHCP.
- autoinstallclient -- added support for ext3.
- autoinstallclient -- added support for reiserfs.
- autoinstallclient -- added beep utility.
- autoinstallclient -- added mkraid and raidstart utilities.
- autoinstallclient -- added mkreiserfs.
- autoinstallclient -- added Wes Smith's patch to sedding for the HOSTNAME.
- autoinstallclient -- added some diagnostics.
- autoinstallclient -- added ifconfig and route utilities.
- autoinstallclient -- using rsync again for everything except network
                       boot installs.
- getimage -- you can now specify the path to the image directory with
              the -directory option.  Suggested by Wesley Smith 
              <wessmith@engr.sgi.com>.
- getimage -- added the -server option to allow copying an image from one
              imageserver to another.  Suggestion and example code
              contributed by Phil Champon <pchampon@valueweb.net>.
- getimage -- modified the way getimage deals with filesystems to make it 
              much easier to add new filesystems to the supported list.
- getimage -- added support for post install options of beeping,
              shutdown, or reboot.
- getimage -- added support for ext3 and reiserfs.
- getimage -- changed the mke2fs options to the conservative defaults.
              Hopefully soon we will be able to detect existing settings and 
              re-create those by partition.

SystemImager-1.1 2000.05.26
- updateclient -- Fixed a bug.  root --> / was not becoming the default 
  if the -directory option was not used and updateclient was exiting 
  quietly.  Just an if/then/else issue.
- syslinux RPM -- Bug in the syslinux RPM prevented proper creation of 
  bootable CD image with makeautoinstallcd.  This is fixed as of 
  syslinux-1.48-2.i386.rpm.  (Note: this was not a bug in syslinux, just
  a bug in the packaging)
- FAQ-HOWTO updates and fixes.
- makeautoinstallcd -- fixed a bug where the output file was not created
  properly unless an absolute path was given.  Now works with an absolute
  path, a relative path, or just a filename (to be placed in the current
  working directory).
- prepareclient -- (also part of the va-systemimager-client RPM)
  Implemented a delay between killing a running rsync daemon and starting
  up the fresh one.
- prepareclient -- now tests for hostname in /etc/hosts for rsync.
- autoinstallcd.iso -- autoinstallcd ISO image put up on the download 
  site. (3 Meg)
- prepareclient -- gave it a real usage statement.  Behavior is 
  no longer to traipse upon the network with tftp, but to use the 
&nb