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- fix gnome choice in "choose desktop" step (#33101)

Version 10.4.184 - 3 September 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- support for UUID (including UUID=xxx in fstab)
- do not set relatime option for mounting nfs
- nicely adjust mtime of fontconfig cache files
- steps window: do not underline categories (Installation, Configuration)
- nicer "choose desktop" step with icons

Version 10.4.183 - 31 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- add new step "choose desktop", before or hiding "choose groups"
- bootloader-config
  o handle new naming of vmlinuz flavors: vmlinuz-<version>-<flavor>-Xmdv
    instead of vmlinuz-<version>-Xmdv<flavor>
  o always use "linux" short name instead of "linux-<flavor>"
    (since the long name is quite nice nowadays)

Version 10.4.182 - 30 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- enable snd-ac97-codec power_save=1 option if installed on laptop (#32213)
- set specific icons for summary steps (#32923)
- assume system is a laptop if it contains some "Intel Corporation|Mobile" devices
  (fix Samsung Q1U detection, #32967)

Version 10.4.181 - 29 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- fix translating steps titles
- ugtk2: use given title if available instead of default step title (#32923)

Version 10.4.180 - 27 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- bug command: fix choosing the usb-key/floppy drive
  (ie adapting interactive::stdio to new interactive callbacks)
- add /usr/share/ldetect-lst/fallback-modules.alias for 
  drakx-in-chroot on old kernels
- fallback to kernel-desktop
- fix summary in text mode (#32858)
- fix loading linux software raid (mdadm) kernel modules
  (after rename raid5&raid6 -> raid456)
- diskdrake
  o fix action "Type" on a software raid (eg: dm0)
  o fix coloring "Other" partitions (#32845)
- update banner for RC1

Version 10.4.179 - 24 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- install kernel-desktop-devel-latest instead of
  kernel-source-stripped-latest on upgrade

Version 10.4.178 - 24 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- adapt to new kernel flavors

Version 10.4.177 - 24 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- fix typo in banner name (otherwise internal_error)

Version 10.4.176 - 24 August 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- fix resolving category from module (mainly fix usbhid loading)

Version 10.4.175 - 23 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- fix typo making selectKeyboard step not called
- diskdrake:
  o change the legend and the colors per partition
- drop /etc/sysconfig/usb configuration (not used anymore in initscripts)
- update banner for beta2

Version 10.4.174 - 21 August 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- set default per step banner title & icon for all steps
- fallback on module name if the filename can't be found
  (in the rare case the caller uses '-' in the module name)
- use '_' in module names when explicitely loading them (cosmetics only)
- kill old usb-storage code, mkinitrd now loads it when necessary

Version 10.4.173 - 21 August 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- convert module names to module filenames

Version 10.4.172 - 21 August 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- ignore wmaster* devices when detecting wireless interfaces

Version 10.4.171 - 20 August 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- really use '_' in modules names

Version 10.4.170 - 20 August 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- use '_' in modules names

Version 10.4.169 - 14 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- use better default title & icon for banners
- diskdrake:
  o add support for 'relatime' mount option
  o default all machines to 'relatime' mount option
    (except laptops which use the stronger noatime)
  o kill support for 'nodiratime' mount option

Version 10.4.168 - 13 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- merge root password step and create user step
- fix checking user creation info (#32517)
- allow to create only one user per default, but add an entry in summary to
  create more users
- authentication method is not configurable anymore for now. 
  should we add it to summary?
- 'ibm_acpi' driver was replaced by 'thinkpad_acpi (#31606)
- internal
  o use urpm::select::get_preferred to choose preferred packages
    (need urpmi library >= 4.10.1)
  o computeGroupSize: do direct requires before choices
    (eg for epiphany: require libmozilla-firefox2.0.0.6 before choosing
    package providing libmozjs.so)

Version 10.4.165 - 10 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- fix detecting sound cards

Version 10.4.164 - 9 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- cache PCI probe results
- use Xconfig::proprietary::pkgs_for_Driver2 from drakx-kbd-mouse-X11 0.21

Version 10.4.162 - 08 August 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- drakboot:
  o allow choosing another bootloader method when a package cannot be
  installed (occurs on 2008.0 beta1 where mandriva-gfxboot-theme is missing)
- diskdrake:
  o do not show partition types which have no associated filesystem
    for LVM LV (#32326)
- allow using diskdrake even if there is only a lvm PV on full disk available
- fix range max value >2TB when creating a partition (useful for LVs >2TB)
- kill security level step (only reachable from summary now)
- restore progress bar when formatting ext3
- summary screen:
  o warn if the security level will prevent accessing windows partitions
  o reorder steps according to specs
  o render titles in bold

Version 10.4.158 - 3 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- configure removable writable media to use "flush" option instead of "sync" (#23042)

Version 10.4.155 - 2 August 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- use kbd (setfont) instead of console-tools (consolechars)
- drop supermount support
- diskdrake: drop "Rescue partition table" feature 
  (was based on rescuept which has been dropped in util-linux, but was quite
  bad compared to testdisk anyway)

Version 10.4.150 - 24 July 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin
- update banner for 2008 beta 1 (from Anne)

Version 10.4.149 - 17 July 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin
- fix build of wireless binding with latest kernel headers

Version 10.4.148 - 17 July 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- add ide-disk module in disk/raw
- load ide-disk module when loading disk/ide category

Version 10.4.147 - 12 July 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- allow using sqlite for rpmdb when using option rpm_dbapi=4
- add /LIB/udev/usb_id which is needed by mouse.pm to generate /dev/input/by-id/xxx

Version 10.4.142 - 2 July 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- brown paper bag fix (stage1 can't create symlink /etc/rpm/platform)

Version 10.4.141 - 29 June 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- bundle /etc/rpm/platform for rpm 4.4.8
- use modularized ide drivers and configure ide-controller in modprobe.conf
- auto_install:
  o allow "automatic=met:http,ser:server,dir:/pub/dir
    kickstart=/pub/auto_inst.cfg" to get http://server/pub/auto_inst.cfg (#31474)
  o ensure /etc/resolv.conf is configured in /mnt for network installs
- add /etc/mke2fs.conf in order to format ext3fs with 4k blocks (#27377)
- diskdrake
  o fix 1.9TB displayed as 1TB
- do not ask for updates at end of installation when updates are already
  available (network installs) (#30344)
- do not try to configure dvd devices since /dev is wiped out at
  reboot
- fix detecting usb drives (#13395)
  (need a perl-MDK-Common 1.2.5)
- hw support:
  o handle snd-cs5530 driver
- install fonts-ttf-dejavu & fonts-ttf-liberation by default
- allow umounting cdrom during a transaction
- really allow having name with "/" in media.cfg
- use "mkfs.ext3" instead of "mkfs.ext2 -J"
  (to have dir_index & resize_inode features)
  (cf Frederik Himpe 23 Apr 2007 mail on cooker)

Version 10.4.129 - 4 April 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- move advertising out of drakx-installer-stage2 into drakx-installer-advertising

Version 10.4.128 - 3 April 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- don't configure /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc if it doesn't exist
  (other kdmrc.rpmnew will be created, many important values will be missing)
- fix ext3 formatting with label and progress bar (#30032)
- fix taking screenshot
- prefering libkdebase4-kmenuedit over libkdebase46-kmenuedit to ensure
  kdebase-kmenuedit is chosen instead of kdebase4-kmenuedit

Version 10.4.126 - 29 March 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- use pci_domain when matching sysfs device and computing
  sysfs device path

Version 10.4.124 - 29 March 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- correctly mark "update" media in urpmi.cfg
- fix multiple detection of PCI network cards with the same driver (#29688)
- rename o->{build_live_system} as more generic o->{match_all_hardware} name
- automatically install network drivers when matching all hardware

Version 10.4.122 - 29 March 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- final banner image
- fix installing kernel-source-stripped
- include mmc_block for card readers

Version 10.4.120 - 23 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- allow having name with "/" in media.cfg
- interactive::curses: 
  o handle multi-line labels, and wrap too long labels (#29060)
- do not use bold&big for advanced_messages
  (fixes authentication choice being big & ugly, #28676)

Version 10.4.119 - 22 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- use concat_symlink to get rid of ../../ in urpmi.cfg on x86_64 for main32 medium
- don't complain about missing pata drivers
- do not install nspluginwrapper on ia32 (#29808)
- use http://api.mandriva.com/mirrors/$type.$version.$arch instead of simply
  $version.$arch (useful to differentiate CorpoDesktop4)
- fix ati/nvidia drivers installation on One

Version 10.4.116 - 19 March 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- do not fallback on english HTML help but on on old translated help
- handle more drivers (dvb, ethernet, gigabit, ide, pcmcia, sata,
  sound, tv, usb hosts, wan, webcam, wireless)
- 2007 RC logo
- diskdrake: handle mkntfs

Version 10.4.115 - 16 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- use kernel-*latest to select the kernel, 
  and also kernel-source-stripped-latest when dkms is installed on upgrade
- add some nice code selecting the various kernel-source-stripped (or
  kernel-.*-devel) corresponding to the chosen kernels
- allow having rpmsrate on CD0 overriding rpmsrate on CD1 
  (bugged introduced in rev 37253)
- when using 2 media_cfg in auto_inst, 
  allow specifying which rpmsrate will be used
- for locales with fallback (eg: br:fr), try main language before
  english

Version 10.4.114 - 16 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- use grub-gfxmenu command to configure /boot/gfxmenu for grub

Version 10.4.111 - 15 March 2007, by Olivier "blino" Blin

- correctly translate Driver2 to package name (fix ati packages installation on One)

Version 10.4.109 - 15 March 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- display HTML help if availlable
- load tifm_sd if needed (#25133)

Version 10.4.107 - 13 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- prefer kde3 packages over kde4 packages

Version 10.4.106 - 12 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- move the lib64 symlink in share/symlinks (to fix drakx-in-chroot),
  this will leave a harmless dangling symlink in most cases though
- configure "tifm_7xx1" driven card_reader (#25133)
- do not bother configure old modutils
- fix PCI descriptions returned from pci_probe()
- enhance wrapping in wizards

Version 10.4.103 - 6 March 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- add icons needed by xorg configuration (#29069)

Version 10.4.98 - 22 February 2007, by Thierry Vignaud

- do not install athcool on ia32, it freeze at least some nforce2 machines
- fix regexp for kernel-2.6.17.10mdv for autoinstall install & liveCD building
- include fsck.jfs on x86_64 too (#28821)
- update kernel/list_modules.pm

Version 10.4.96 - 16 February 2007, by Pascal "Pixel" Rigaux

- handle vga=0x3.. instead of vga=7..
- prefer free-kde-config (otherwise one-kde-config is chosen)
- use system-wide raghu.ttf (pablo)
- fix rights on files
- fix automatic selection of proprietary video kernel packages (blino)
- modify custom.conf instead of gdm.conf (blino)

10.4.93
- really fix command bug