Fedora 21
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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 21.36-1 Anaconda 05/18/2014
- Works in Virtualbox if virtualbox is set to a minimum of 2 cores. CD install works fine.
- boot.iso is the same as a netinstall.iso
- For latest rawhide builds (and links to them) see:
- https://apps.fedoraproject.org/releng-dash/
- Not updating lives atm (20140611)
- http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?start=0&state=all&view=flat&method=createLiveCD&order=-id
- fedora-qa Install testing:
DNF vs YUM
- wifi is no longer installed by default in f21(rawhide)
"If you suddenly find yourself without Wi-Fi,find a wired network connection and:
dnf install NetworkManager-wifi systemctl restart NetworkManager"
log of install kernel 3.16-0.0 f21NetworkManager-wifi
[root@localhost satellit]# yum install NetworkManager-wifi Loaded plugins: langpacks Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64 1:0.9.9.95-1.git20140609.fc21 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: wpa_supplicant >= 1:1.1 for package: 1:NetworkManager-wifi-0.9.9.95-1.git20140609.fc21.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package wpa_supplicant.x86_64 1:2.0-9.fc21 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution
Dependencies Resolved
Package Arch Version Repository
Size
NetworkManager-wifi x86_64 1:0.9.9.95-1.git20140609.fc21 rawhide 132 k
Installing for dependencies:
wpa_supplicant x86_64 1:2.0-9.fc21 rawhide 807 k
Transaction Summary
Install 1 Package (+1 Dependent package)
Total download size: 939 k Installed size: 3.2 M Is this ok [y/d/N]: y Downloading packages: (1/2): NetworkManager-wifi-0.9.9.95-1.git20140609.fc21.x86_ | 132 kB 00:00 (2/2): wpa_supplicant-2.0-9.fc21.x86_64.rpm | 807 kB 00:00
Total 1.0 MB/s | 939 kB 00:00 Running transaction check Running transaction test Transaction test succeeded Running transaction (shutdown inhibited) Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
Installing : 1:wpa_supplicant-2.0-9.fc21.x86_64 1/2 Installing : 1:NetworkManager-wifi-0.9.9.95-1.git20140609.fc21.x86_64 2/2 Verifying : 1:NetworkManager-wifi-0.9.9.95-1.git20140609.fc21.x86_64 1/2 Verifying : 1:wpa_supplicant-2.0-9.fc21.x86_64 2/2
Installed:
NetworkManager-wifi.x86_64 1:0.9.9.95-1.git20140609.fc21
Dependency Installed:
wpa_supplicant.x86_64 1:2.0-9.fc21
Complete!
[root@localhost satellit]# systemctl restart NetworkManager
- wifi worked th 06/19/2014
- 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).
Systemd
- Fedora wiki page
Updating Grub 2 on UEFI systems
Turn off gnome automatic background updates
- NOTE seems to be no longer available:
- 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:
- This is modified: 12/28/2013
"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."
Logic Map for Updates in gnome
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
fedora boot optimization
- Can be dangerous - ADVANCED USERS ONLY
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
- select type of partition to create in Drop Down menu
- Custom formatting (advanced formatting)
- These Options are not covered here
- [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
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. "