Changes since version 1.0.29:
A bug fix in the handling of readdir errors; in earlier versions,
it was theoretically possible for a failing hard drive or other
errors in reading directories to result in files being silently
omitted from an archive.
Several bug fixes relating to the handling of @archive directives
with mtree files.
A bug fix to prevent cache directory corruption resulting in
tarsnap failing if it was interrupted at exactly the right
(wrong) moment in its operation.
A bug fix to correctly handle ~ in tarsnap -s path substitutions.
Many more minor bug fixes.
1.6.0
===
9404a7a (#7670) Add an acceptance test
0c23845 maint: Fix spelling of acceptance directory
926e912 (#7670) Stop preloading all facts in the application
2255abe (#7670) Never fail to find a fact that is present
8002c24 (#7507) Fix 1.9.2 test failure
0635822 Removed inappropriately uncredited Ohai method from ec2 fact
6b1cd16 (#6614) Update ipaddress6 fact to work with Ruby 1.9
21fe217 (#6612) Changed uptime spec to be endian agnostic
19f96b5 (#6728) Facter improperly detects openvzve on CloudLinux systems
5b10173 (#5135) Fix faulty logic in physicalprocessorcount
53cd946 Ensures that ARP facts are returned only on EC2 hosts
bfa038d Fixed#6974 - Moved to Apache 2.0 license
d56bca8 refactor the mechanism for allowing for resolution ordering to be influenced
9f4c5c6 (#6740) facter doesn't always respect facts in environment variables
7441b32 Partial fix for #6971 - Fix for virtual tests
7f3e89d (#2714) Fixed faulty test
bfc16f6 (#2714) Added timeout to prtdiag resulution
c2ff833 (#5135) Refactored physicalprocessorcount
0c4a98b Re-factor. Do not use pure-Ruby file reading against "/proc/cpuinfo" and possibly any entry under "/sys" from the sysfs file system.
cb52b06 Fix. Using sysfs file system entries to count the number of physical CPUs. Fall-back to "/proc/cpuinfo" included for backward-compatibility with legacy systems.
3efa9d7 (#3856) Add virtualbox detection via lspci (graphics card), dmidecode, and prtdiag for Solaris and corresponding tests. Darwin case is not handled yet.
7c80172 (#6883) Update Facter install.rb to be slightly more informative.
d31e3f9 (#5394) Document each Facter fact.
af4947c (#6862) Add a default subject for the mail_patches rake task
d6967a0 (#6613) Switch solaris macaddress fact to netstat
e056218 (#6817) Fix for Ruby 1.9 by calling .each_line on a string
861c2b2 maint: cleanup whitespace
f6c9927 (#6719) Corrected faulty logic in bugfix
e42e57c (#3856) Add virtualbox detection via lspci (graphics card), dmidecode, and prtdiag for Solaris and corresponding tests. Darwin case is not handled yet.
0b5b546 (#6883) Update Facter install.rb to be slightly more informative.
7c08270 (#5394) Document each Facter fact.
06eb3f5 (#6883) Update Facter install.rb to be slightly more informative.
1063753 (#6862) Add a default subject for the mail_patches rake task
56b5f10 (#6613) Switch solaris macaddress fact to netstat
fd4f31c (#6817) Fix for Ruby 1.9 by calling .each_line on a string
72996ff maint: cleanup whitespace
Upstream changelog:
## 2.8.0 / August 3 2011
A short release, after the last. Announcing Rails 3.1 asset pipeline support.
The asset pipeline support requires an additiona `load` in your `Capfile`.
You can see information pertaining to the pull request, including the inline
comments here: https://github.com/capistrano/capistrano/pull/35
Documentation will be available soon in the wiki.
* Drop-In Rails 3.1 asset pipeline support. (Chris Griego)
## 2.7.0 / August 3 2011
A fairly substantial release. There are fixes so that current_release works
during dry-runs, (although, apparently still not with bundler.)
The test-suite was also modified to work with Ruby 1.9.2, except in one case
where Ruby 1.9.x calls `to_ary` and `to_a` on mocks, which still makes an
error. 1.9.x has always been supported, but due to lack of maintenance on my
part the tests didn't ever pass.
The `start`, `stop` and `restart` tasks have been reduced to mere hooks into
which extensions can define their own functionality.
The `readme` was also slightly improved, simply tweaks to express how best to
run the test suite.
* Ensure dry-run works with `:current_release` variable (Carol Nichols)
* Added a new variable `:git_submodules_recursive`, setting the value to false
will ensure Git doesn't recursively initialize and checkout submodules. (Konstantin Kudryashov)
* Added an additional task option, `:on_no_matching_servers`, setting the
value to `:continue` will ensure tasks with no matched servers continue
without error, instead of raising `Capistrano::NoMatchingServersError` as was
the previous behaviour. (Chris Griego)
A huge thanks to all contributors, as always!
Remember: @capistranorb on twitter for news.
## 2.6.1 / June 25 2011
A short maintenance release, Some fixes to the verbose flag inside the Git SCM
as well as another argument for the (internal) `variable()` command, offering
a default. The Git SCM is now verbose by default, but can be disabled by
setting `:scm_verbose` to false.
There has been an additional method added to string, within the context of the
test suite, I'm always sketchy about adding additional methods to core
classes, but it's a short term fix until I make the time to patch the test
suite not to compare strings literally. The method is `String#compact`, and is
implemented simply as `self.gsub(/\s+/, ' ')`.
Here's the run-down of changes, and their committers, as always - a huge thank
you to the community that continues to drive Capistrano's development.
* `deploy:setup` now respects `:group_writable` (Daniel Duvall)
* Fixes to `:scm_verbose` for the Git module (defaults to On.) (Matthew Davies)
* Will now copy hidden files in the project's root into the release
directory (Mark Jaquith)
* Now handles closing already-dead connections in a sane way (does not raise
an exception) (Will Bryant)
* Renamed `Capistrano::VERSION::TINY` to `Capistrano::VERSION::PATCH` (Lee
Hambley)
* Removed the `VERSION` file (Lee Hambley)
Upstream changelog:
=========
* :release:`1.2.0 <2011-07-12>`
* :feature:`22` Enhanced `@task <fabric.decorators.task>` to add :ref:`aliasing
<task-aliases>`, :ref:`per-module default tasks <default-tasks>`, and
:ref:`control over the wrapping task class <task-decorator-and-classes>`.
Thanks to Travis Swicegood for the initial work and collaboration.
* 🐛`380` Improved unicode support when testing objects for being
string-like. Thanks to Jiri Barton for catch & patch.
* :support:`382` Experimental overhaul of changelog formatting & process to
make supporting multiple lines of development less of a hassle.
* :release:`1.1.2 <2011-07-07>` (see below for details)
* :release:`1.0.2 <2011-06-24>` (see below for details)
Prehistory
==========
The content below this section comes from older versions of Fabric which wrote
out changelogs to individual, undated files. They have been concatenated and
preserved here for historical reasons, and may not be in strict chronological
order.
----
Changes in version 1.1.2 (2011-07-07)
=====================================
Bugfixes
--------
* :issue:`375`: The logic used to separate tasks from modules when running
``fab --list`` incorrectly considered task classes implementing the mapping
interface to be modules, not individual tasks. This has been corrected.
Thanks to Vladimir Mihailenco for the catch.
Dragonfly users, please test that is still builds !
pkgsrc change: as snmp support doesn't depend on net-snmp
anymore, remove snmp option and always build snmp support.
cgi option now depend on graphics/gd/
User-visible changes sinces 3.14.3:
2010-08-30 14:18 adk0212
* src/drivers/snmplite/: mge-mib.cpp, mge-oids.h, mibs.cpp:
Add support for MGE SNMP MIB. Contributed by Lars Täer
<taeuber@bbaw.de>
2010-07-30 18:04 adk0212
* src/drivers/snmplite/: apc-mib.cpp, apc-oids.h, mib.cpp, oids.h,
rfc1628-mib.cpp, rfc1628-oids.h, snmplite.cpp, snmplite.h:
Add support for RFC1628 SNMP MIB. Refactor APC MIB and create
MibStrategy struct for associating MIB/CI mapping with
corresponding processing function. RFC1628 strategy is coded per
the MIB but untested.
2010-01-10 10:29 adk0212
* include/defines.h, src/apctest.c, src/drivers/usb/usb.c:
Add apctest support for reading/setting self-test interval on USB.
Also show current setting in UPS status. Contributed by James
Belleau <jpbelleau@gmail.com>
2009-10-25 11:03 adk0212
* configure, autoconf/config.h.in, autoconf/configure.in,
autoconf/variables.mak.in, include/struct.h,
platforms/etc/apcupsd.conf.in, src/drivers/Makefile,
src/drivers/drivers.c, src/drivers/snmplite/Makefile,
src/drivers/snmplite/asn.cpp, src/drivers/snmplite/asn.h,
src/drivers/snmplite/mib.cpp, src/drivers/snmplite/snmp.cpp,
src/drivers/snmplite/snmp.h, src/drivers/snmplite/snmplite.cpp,
src/drivers/snmplite/snmplite.h, src/lib/apcconfig.c,
src/lib/apcstatus.c:
Add SNMP Lite driver which does not depend on net-snmp library.
This makes it more portable and eliminates need to move libsnmp.so
to /lib in order to do a killpower on systems where /usr is
unmounted.
2009-09-01 20:30 adk0212
* src/apctest.c:
Implement battery calibration in apctest for USB models. Thanks to
James Belleau <james@belleau.net> for the original implementation
which has been modified somewhat in this commit.
2009-05-02 10:30 adk0212
* src/action.c:
Change log level of UPS self-test messages to WARNING from ALERT.
Given that self-test messages are routine, they do not belong at
LOG_ALERT. Contributed by Dave Ewart <davee@ceu.ox.ac.uk>.
2009-04-25 10:58 adk0212
* src/lib/apcconfig.c:
Remove EVENTFILE, EVENTFILEMAX config directives. These were
replaced by the plural versions that are in use today (EVENTSFILE,
EVENTSFILEMAX) almost 10 years ago. It's time to kill the old
names. (h/t Trevor Roydhouse <trev@sentry.org>)
2009-03-02 17:48 adk0212
* doc/apcupsd.man, include/drivers.h, include/extern.h,
src/action.c, src/apctest.c, src/apcupsd.c, src/device.c,
src/options.c, src/drivers/drivers.c,
src/drivers/apcsmart/apcsmart.h, src/drivers/apcsmart/smart.c,
src/drivers/apcsmart/smartoper.c, src/drivers/usb/usb.c,
src/drivers/usb/usb.h, src/lib/apclock.c:
Add support for turning the UPS off completely. This complements
existing hibernate (aka killpower) functionality. Turn-off is
implemented for apcsmart and USB drivers, subject to support for
the relevant commands in the UPS itself. Contributed by Keith
Campbell <campbell@econnectix.com>.
2008-06-29 11:12 adk0212
* src/action.c:
Fix bug in LOWBATT glitch handling. We must examine LOWBATT for
changes every time thru the status loop, not just during the
OnBattery state. Otherwise we can miss the initial LOWBATT
assertion, which defeats the glitch rejection logic.
2008-05-06 20:16 skoona
* src/gapcmon/gapcmon.c:
Corrected the use of NOMPOWER and the calc of current usage amount
2008-05-04 11:13 adk0212
* src/drivers/usb/usb.c:
Add a heuristic to fix up incorrect NOMINV or NOMOUTV. Some UPSes
(RS 500) report decivolts instead of volts. Reported by Kirill S.
Bychkov <yason@linklevel.net>.
2008-01-27 12:00 adk0212
* include/struct.h, platforms/etc/apcupsd.conf.in,
platforms/mingw/apcupsd.conf.in, src/device.c,
src/drivers/net/net.c, src/drivers/snmp/drv_powernet.c,
src/lib/apcconfig.c:
Add POLLTIME directive to control UPS polling interval. NETTIME is
accepted as a synonym for compatibility with old config files.
==New major user-visible features==
* Support for new programmers:
** OpenMoko Neo1973/Neo FreeRunner debug board version 2 or 3, FTDI FT2232-based (r1231)
** Olimex ARM-USB-TINY, ARM-USB-TINY-H, ARM-USB-OCD, and ARM-USB-OCD-H, FTDI FT2232-based (r1331)
** Open Graphics Project development card, OGD1 (r1241)
** Angelbird Wings PCIe SSD/88SX7042 (r1258)
** ITE IT85xx embedded controllers (r1262)
** Intel NIC with parallel flash (r1297)
* Dozens of added flash chips, chipsets, mainboards.
* Improved user interface.
* Reliability fixes for buggy hardware, buggy third party software and corner case spec conformance.
* Improved Dediprog SF100 support.
* Update port of flashrom package to Mac OS X using DirectHW.
* Improved support for protection status printing and chip unlocking.
* Fix and improve libpayload platform support.
* Add support for more than one Super I/O or EC per machine.
* Always read the flash chip before writing, for improved error checking and faster programming.
* Enable write support on NVIDIA MCP6x/MCP7x.
* Added SPI flash emulation capability to the dummy programmer.
==Infrastructural improvements and fixes==
* Shutdown function registration
* Improved error messages
* Correctness fixes
* Various workarounds for broken hardware
* Code cleanups
libvirt is:
+ A toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent
versions of operating systems, see our project goals for details.
+ A long term stable C API
+ A set of bindings for common languages
+ A CIM provider for the DMTF virtualization schema
+ A QMF agent for the AMQP/QPid messaging system
libvirt supports:
+ The KVM/QEMU Linux hypervisor
+ The Xen hypervisor
+ The LXC Linux container system
+ The OpenVZ Linux container system
+ The User Mode Linux paravirtualized kernel
+ The VirtualBox hypervisor
+ The VMware ESX and GSX hypervisors
+ The VMware Workstation and Player hypervisors
+ Virtual networks using bridging, NAT, VEPA and VN-LINK.
+ Storage on IDE/SCSI/USB disks, FibreChannel, LVM, iSCSI, NFS and filesystems
libvirt provides:
+ Remote management using TLS encryption and x509 certificates
+ Remote management authenticating with Kerberos and SASL
+ Local access control using PolicyKit
+ Zero-conf discovery using Avahi multicast-DNS
+ Management of virtual machines, virtual networks and storage
I'm fairly sure that the NetBSD part of the bridging code still needs
some more work, but I'll leave that as an exercise for someone more
versed in it than I am.
Upstream changes highlights:
Many, many bugfixes.
In release 1.1, highlights are
* #76: New-style tasks have been added. With the addition of the task
decorator and the Task class, you can now "opt-in" and explicitly mark task
functions as tasks, and Fabric will ignore the rest. The original behavior (now
referred to as "classic" tasks) will still take effect if no new-style tasks are
found. Major thanks to Travis Swicegood for the original implementation.
* #56: Namespacing is now possible: Fabric will crawl imported module
objects looking for new-style task objects and build a dotted hierarchy (tasks
named e.g. web.deploy or db.migrations.run), allowing for greater organization.
See Namespaces for details. Thanks again to Travis Swicegood.
All:
- The makefile system now by default disables smake Simple Suffix Rules
and the POSIX Suffix Rules in order to speed up inference rule search.
Libschily:
- New functions mkgmtime() mklgmtime() and timegm()
Libfind:
- libfind no longer aborts with a lack of memory but writes an error
message
- libfind now correctly frees memory that has been allocated internaly
from treewalk()
Mkisofs (Maintained/enhanced by J
- Mkisofs now correctly supports El Torito multi boot entries by introducing
a Boot Dection Header before a list of alternate boot entries.
- New option -eltorito-platform allows to set the El Torito platform id
for a boot entry or for a list of boot entries. Supported values for the
parameter are:
- x86 the standard value vor x86 based PCs
- PPC the Power PC platform
- Mac The Apple Mac platform
- efi EFI based boot for PCs
- # an arbitrary numerical value
- New option -modification-date allows to specify a predictable UUID for grub.
The syntax is: YYYY[MM[DD[HH[MM[SS]]]]][.hh][+-GHGM] and is forgiving
enought to accept the pupular POSIX date format created by:
date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z"
Release date: 2011-05-26 05:28 UTC
Changelog:
- Improved the console handler's stream handling. (Bug 17874)
- Added a 'reopen' configuration parameter to the syslog handler.
(Request 18185)
- The backtrace depth is now configurable via setBacktraceDepth().
(Request 18423)
from the ChangeLog:
Add support for decoding OBEX Action command.
Add support for decoding SMP commands.
Add support for decoding ATT commands.
Add support for missing LE decoding.
ruby-compass pacakge.
The File System State Monitor keeps track of the state of any number
of paths and will fire events when said state changes
(create/update/delete). FSSM supports using FSEvents on MacOS, Inotify
on GNU/Linux, and polling anywhere else.
1.5.9
=====
4de8b20 Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc6
cc67a01 Removed inappropriately uncredited Ohai method from ec2 fact
69f98da Add facter test for ticket 7039
f91c120 downcase arp output so that the ec2 arp is matched
a75f0f9 (#7039) Pre-load all facts when requesting a single fact
6b97242 Update CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc5
acf0bb2 Ensures that ARP facts are returned only on EC2 hosts
76f544b Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc4
09b9f9b (#6795) Update tests to reflect changed exec
3db1cd0 Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc3
def3322 (#6795) xendomains: Ignore error output from xm list
f39d487 (#6763) Use Facter::Util::Resolution.exec for arp
3eb9410 arp: Cleanup indendation
50b9b3f Updated CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc2
2fb8316 Clean up indentation, and alignment in macaddress_spec.rb
3f0a340 (#6716) fix facter issues on OSX with ipv6 in macaddress.rb.
43f82ef Update CHANGELOG for 1.5.9rc1
d62e079 Fixed#2346 - A much cleverer EC2 fact
0411d2e Fixed#2346 - Part 1: Added arp fact for Linux
5b6f4fa Discussion on ec2 facts - #2346
e917e1a Fixed#3087 - Identify VMWare
d0f0f63 (#6327) Memory facts should be available on Mac Darwin
458a22d Incremented release to 1.5.9
4eb64fe Fixed#6719 Typo
ffd80ac (#5011) Adds swap statistics for OSX
1207765 (#6719) Restricts virtualization types for zones
8d71db3 Fixed#6616 - Stubbing in VMware tests on Linux
aa959df Remove Solaris from the list of confined systems. It won't get the original lsb facts, and it's nonsensical too.
2e48e18 Fixed#6695 - Updated id fact for Darwin et al
d718af4Fix#6679 - Added Scientific Linux to operatingsystem fact
dea6f78 Further fix to #5485 - SELinux facts
6d6d8da (#2721) Merged patch from Brane GraAnar
868e7ba (#5485) Made selinux_mode fact work
214da73 Fixed#5485 - Updated selinux_mode fact
ba2601f Fix for #6495 - Updated interface detection
93461d9 Fixed#5950 - Solaris ipaddress incorrect after bonding failure
2e06cdc (#6615) fix missing stub calls in loader specs
3c7841e (#5666) windows support for facter/id.rb
dd5d5bf (#4925) - MS Windows doesn't do man pages
52026ee Fixed#5699 - Added processorcount support for S390x
7dd730d Fixed#5699 - Added virtual support for s390x/Zlinux
d6ce08a Fixed#6611 - Fixed broken HPVM test and rationalised test structure
84fa3c4 (#6525) change semicolons to 'then' in case statement for ruby 1.9.2 compatibility
3e6217d Fixes#6521 and other Ruby 1.9 issues
eb5d6fc Fixed#6525 - Test failures on Ruby 1.9.x
cb25119 (#2270) add testing for the new ipaddress6 feature
ea29483 (#2270) add IPv6 support to facter core.
77eb512 (#2270) Remove DWIM code from ipaddress on Darwin.
f5bf0f5 (#6360) Flush Facter top level cache before every test case.
0d7a2e6 Fix#4755: add support for GNU/kFreeBSD platform where missing.
b88a088 (#5510) Facter should load custom fact definitions in filename order.
7a8be16 Refactor #6044 -- use _spec.rb as the pattern for spec tests.
b39f892 Refactor #6044 -- require spec_helper with a consistent path.
a4fe459 Refactor #6044 -- port testing to rspec2
af9134c (#5086) Try using kstat before falling back to 'who -b' to determine uptime.
cbbfe55 Refactor util/uptime.rb tests to reduce duplication using contexts
f0cc2c0 (#4575) win32 support for manufacturer, productname, & serialnumber
c40fc07 (#1423) Memory facts for Solaris
1985528 (#4754) Change is_virtual logic to not enumerate virtual types
739040f (#4754) Add support for Darwin and Parallels VM to "virtual" fact
9332f8a (#5325) Add tests for SPARC manufacturer and product name
5b561e3 (#5325) Manufacturer and product name on SPARC
9d99079 maint: Fix spec failures caused by having a space in the path to facter's source
89da001 maint: require rubygems so hudson can run the specs
1eef842 Maint: add "Local-branch:" info to mails sent by "rake mail_patches"
f007a9d (#4989) Add xendomains fact
1fa87a9 JSON support. Works in 1.9.1. Warnings in 1.9.2. LoadError on 1.8.7 for some reason
43e203c (#5040) fact virtual should detect hpvm
7cec60a (#5016) is_virtual should be true on solaris zones
f2e66b6 (#5031) Remove redundant puts from RDoc.usage
f4da528 maint: Fix merge error
d62b013 Issue #4889 Fact values should all be strings
07f186d [#4552] Updating --timing to report in milliseconds instead of seconds
1f387a5 [#4552] Apply patch from Dean Wilson
244d2f1 Better fix for Bug 4569: Uptime Fact is incorrect on Windows
11544c1 [#4289] operatingsystemrelease fact for oel, ovs
e6bfdf9 Fix for bug #4569
8c4d0cd (#4558) Fail with message on --help errors
7210429 [#4558] Refactor facter binary using optparse
b5c85de [#4563] Add a --trace option to the binary
ebcb81b [#4558] Refactor facter binary using optparse
b8b7123 (#4567) Remove unnecessary or non-portable redirects
7ecba71 (#4567) Retain detached HEAD state
1125e1e Make sure FreeBSD spec also works on systems that have /proc/cpuinfo.
889e150 Sync rpm spec file from Fedora/EPEL
725dce0 Rename Reductive Labs to Puppet Labs
ff473ef Updated signing rake task
a85f2b0 [#2865] Fix reporting of virtual facts
f67ec05 [#4567] Add ext/facter-diff to compare output of 2 versions
4050acc Removing stupid .DS_Store files :(
016cf03 [#3703] Fix macaddress fact for Darwin
* Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898
* Enhancements to guest introspection (VM single stepping support for very
fine-grained access control)
* Many stability improvements, such as: PV-on-HVM stability fixes (fixing
some IRQ issues), XSAVE cpu feature support for PV guests (allows safe use of
latest multimedia instructions), RAS fixes for high availability, fixes for
offlining bad pages and changes to libxc, mainly of benefit to libvirt
* Compatibility fixes for newer Linux guests, newer compilers, some old
guest savefiles, newer Python, grub2, some hardware/BIOS bugs.
* Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898
* Enhancements to guest introspection (VM single stepping support for very fine-grained access control)
* Many stability improvements, such as: PV-on-HVM stability fixes (fixing some IRQ issues), XSAVE cpu feature support for PV guests (allows safe use of latest multimedia instructions), RAS fixes for high availability, fixes for offlining bad pages and changes to libxc, mainly of benefit to libvirt
* Compatibility fixes for newer Linux guests, newer compilers, some old guest savefiles, newer Python, grub2, some hardware/BIOS bugs.
Its signature is changed at libpcap-1.0, not DragonFly specific,
and it should be defined by include of pcap.h, no need to define here.
fixes PR#45035.
Changes since 4.10:
Added failsafe mode (press F1 at startup)
Added support for Intel "Sandy Bridge" CPU
Added support for AMD "fusion" CPU
Added Coreboot "table forward" support
Corrected some memory brands not detected properly
Various bug fixes
least minimal comments to all patches and tidy up some (but by no
means all) pkglint.
I have no idea if this works. It spews warnings about "packed", which
lead me to suspect it may not run correctly, but I don't have the
facilities to test it. It does, however, now build ok on LP64 and if
someone can test it may be reasonable to remove the restriction on that.
- use the correct way to get the size of a disk device or partition (from
haad@NetBSD.org)
- if given a block device, use the character device instead (the block device
is already in use by the backend driver).
With this I could succeffully boot a HVMPV FreeBSD kernel using a phy:
virtual disk.
bup is a program that backs things up. bup has a few advantages
over other backup software:
It uses a rolling checksum algorithm (similar to rsync) to split
large files into chunks. The most useful result of this is you can
backup huge virtual machine (VM) disk images, databases, and XML
files incrementally, even though they're typically all in one huge
file, and not use tons of disk space for multiple versions.
It uses the packfile format from git (the open source version
control system), so you can access the stored data even if you
don't like bup's user interface.
Unlike git, it writes packfiles directly (instead of having a
separate garbage collection / repacking stage) so it's fast even
with gratuitously huge amounts of data. bup's improved index formats
also allow you to track far more filenames than git (millions) and
keep track of far more objects (hundreds or thousands of gigabytes).
Data is "automagically" shared between incremental backups without
having to know which backup is based on which other one - even if
the backups are made from two different computers that don't even
know about each other. You just tell bup to back stuff up, and it
saves only the minimum amount of data needed.
You can back up directly to a remote bup server, without needing
tons of temporary disk space on the computer being backed up. And
if your backup is interrupted halfway through, the next run will
pick up where you left off. And it's easy to set up a bup server:
just install bup on any machine where you have ssh access.
Bup can use "par2" redundancy to recover corrupted backups even if
your disk has undetected bad sectors.
Even when a backup is incremental, you don't have to worry about
restoring the full backup, then each of the incrementals in turn;
an incremental backup acts as if it's a full backup, it just takes
less disk space.
You can mount your bup repository as a FUSE filesystem and access
the content that way, and even export it over Samba.
Upstream changes:
## 2.6.0 / May 3 2011
A rather large release, feature-version bump because of the new
multiple-gateways feature as implemented by Ryan Duryea (way to go!)
Please also note from this release that if you use Git submodules, the
Git-version requirement for the new implementation is now >= 1.5.6, from
previously un-documented. (1.5.6 is new-enough that I think this is
acceptable)
* Upgrade Net::SSH-gateway dependency to 1.1 (fixes a thread-deadlocking bug on
MRI 1.9)
* Respect "dry-run" on transfer methods (Florian Frank)
* Add support for multiple gateways: (Ryan Duryea)
set :gateway, {
'gate1.example.com' => 'server1.example.com',
[ 'gate2.example.com', 'gate3.example.com' ] =>
[ 'server5.example.com', 'server6.example.com' ]
}
* Properly support nested Git submodules, moves Git requirement to >= 1.5.6 [if
you rely upon submodules] (Ken Miller)
* Fetch tags into the remote cache, allows deploying a tag when using Git, with
the remote_cache strategy (Florian Frank)
* Various fixes to path handling bugs in the copt strategy. (Philippe Rathé)
ocsinventory-agent creates inventory data. This agent is the
successor of the former linux_agent which was released with OCS
1.01 and prior. It also replaces the Solaris/AIX/BSD unofficial
agents. The detailed list of supported Operating System is available
in the OCS Inventory Wiki.
Based on PR#44884 by YAMAMOTO Takeshi.
Additionaly, some improvements by me.
Active Management Technology (AMT) tools
descriptions from man pages:
amttool - remotely control Intel AMT managed machines.
amtterm - Intel AMT serial-over-lan (sol) client.
from amt-howto(7):
What is AMT and why I should care?
AMT stands for "Active Management Technology". It provides some remote
management facilities. They are handled by the hardware and firmware,
thus they work independant from the operation system. Means: It works
before Linux bootet up to the point where it activated the network
interface. It works even when your most recent test kernel deadlocked
the machine. Which makes it quite useful for development machines ...
Intel AMT is part of the vPro Platform. Recent intel-chipset based
business machines should have it. My fairly new Intel SDV machine has
it too.
