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Fedora 21 (rawhide)

Boot.iso - Basically a (Rawhide) Netinstall (Built daily)
This is Rawhide so it may (or not) work. Latest is 21-24-1 Anaconda 2/27/2014
Works in Virualbox fails for ext USB HD as sdb on formatting bugzilla 1068942
Download: https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso

DNF vs YUM

comparison of features 3/7/2014 from #yum freenode

Release Schedule

As requested on the last FESCo meeting, F21 schedule draft follows (all dates after Change Submission deadline are still labelled as "no earlier than"). 

   Tue 2014-04-08 Change Proposals Submission Deadline
   Tue 2014-07-08 Change Proposals Freeze (Testable|Complete) - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-07-08 Branch Fedora 21 from Rawhide - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-07-22 Alpha Change Deadline - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-08-05 Alpha Release Public Availability - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-08-26 Accepted Changes 100% Complete Deadline - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-08-26 Beta Change Deadline - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-09-09 Beta Release Public Availability - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-09-30 Final Change Deadline - no earlier than
   Tue 2014-10-14 Final Release Public Availability (GA) - no earlier than

Mid October gives us pretty a lot of time for real work to be done before branching (in the beginning of July). I'm going to share this draft with other teams (websites guys asked for). It's based on current schedule structure, adjusted to earlier change process but I don't expect (at least for F21) we want to diverge from what we used to do in pre-next releases. Unless needed of course. One question to discuss is spins process and dates for it - I skipped it for now intentionally. Exact GNOME schedule for 3.14 is not yet available (to put this release into the context of F21 release).

Networking fix

  • 12/23/2013 on IRC
also on 12/26/2013 Boot.iso install of lxde to HD

Fixes the bug 

<satellit> dhclient: error loading shared libraries: libk5crypto.so.3   ...:Permission denied
  • Temporary fix
<danofsatx> well, adam's trick works...
<danofsatx> setenforce Permissive
<danofsatx> systemctl restart NetworkManager
  • Permanent fix:

 

  • gedit (root) of /etc/seliux/config to fix networking in rawhide
Change SELINUX to Permissive and save
Restart f21 after editing with gedit
Start wireless AP
Start ABRT and look at details for each denial, and make suggested changes in terminal

Systemd

  • Fedora wiki page

Turn off gnome automatic background updates

  • NOTE seems to be no longer available:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709121
  • To turn off background downloading of updates and forced 10 minute updates on boot of gnome3.10.1
  • Root terminal
yum install dconf-editor
  • User Terminal
dconf-editor
gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/updates
Uncheck [ ] auto updates
NOTE this plugin no longer exists in f21(rawhide) 03/14/2014
  • see gnome Bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719304
  • This is modified: 12/28/2013
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-software/commit/?id=774a67b55ca21901d4dca58717015503fce8db1b
"This moves more functionality from the gsd updates plugin here:
* Notify about successful or unsuccessful offline updates 15 seconds after start.
* Monitor for available offline updates and notify about them, once per hour.
* Refresh the cache once per day, after 6am.
* If important updates are available, or updates have not been installed for at least 7 days, download all available updates.
We rely on PackageKit to prepare an offline update when updates have been downloaded.
* Avoid mobile networks for cache refresh and downloads."
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709121

Logic Map for Updates in gnome

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709121

know how to force a reinstall of a kernel

yum reinstall kernel isn't doing anything
you need to re-run the scriptlets
this is not done with "yum reinstall"
"rpm -q --scripts kernel-version-release" would tell you what to rerun

Rawhide Watch

boot failures with recent rawhide kernels

dogtail

Being consdered by gnome in IRC GIPMnet #qa for automated testing

Fedora-21 anaconda 21.6-1 installer

  • This is the installer from a fedora-Live-MATE-Compiz-x86_64-rawhide-20131116 Mate LiveCD in Oracle VM VirtualBox
This is a Preliminary (rawhide) version and will be modified before f21 is released.
11/17/2013
  • Install done from root Mate terminal
  • Note is the same installer is on the DVD and netinstall Installers but with more options.

 

  • liveinst command in root terminal

 

  • >Preliminary introductory screens are not shown (Language and keyboard)<
  • Anaconda Main Hub
Note that Time Zone is not correct so we select the Date & Time spoke to change it:

 

  • Time Zone selected
[Done} to return to main Hub
  • [Installation Destination] spoke selected

 

  • [Installation Destination] spoke selected

 

  1. select type of partition to create in Drop Down menu
  2. Custom formatting (advanced formatting)
These Options are not covered here
  1. [x]Encrypt My Data
encrypts /home
  • [continue} to return to main Hub

 

  • [Begin Installation] selected in Main Hub
Bottom right corner

 

  • Configuration
Root Password and User Creation
Select Password and User Creation to enter their spokes and return with [Done]
  • A weak Password will require entering [done] 2 times to return to main Configuration Spoke
See yellow warning in bottom of page

 

  • Root Password

 

  • User Creation

 

  • Installing Software
% completion until [Done]-Reboot appears
  • Reboot and log in
Remember to check that installation DVD/CD (or .iso in VM) is removed before retarting
This may not occur automaticaly with a live .iso-DVD/CD

 

  • Log In to User


Sugar-test Cases

Used in #fedora-qa testing

SoaS v10 testing with activities not included in the standard distribution

Bug Reports

  • Blockers Bugs info
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Trackers

New proposed Features

AppInstaller in F21

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/AppInstallerContinued 

"gnome-software will support installing system add-ons such as fonts and codecs. It will show additional metadata for applications: screenshots, ratings, other details.
We will also work with the Fedora infrastructure team to obtain the metadata online for all applications instead of shipping it statically for a limited set."

Fedora.next

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora.next 

"This all came out of a number of proposals at Flock 2013, 
including Architecture for a More Agile Fedora and Stephen Gallagher's suggestion that we use that architecture to design, build,
and market three distinct Fedora products. This grew into a proposal accepted by the Fedora advisory board, and the formation of Initial Working Groups by FESCo. "
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