Fedora 21

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Fedora 21

  • Rawhide is now f 22
To convert to a F21 and remove rawhide repos:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2014-July/121912.html
Boot.iso - Basically a (Rawhide) Netinstall (Built daily)
This is Rawhide so it may (or not) work. Latest is 21.48.1-11 Anaconda 07/29/2014
Works in Virtualbox

Download

https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/21/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso
https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/x86_64/os/images/boot.iso
boot.iso is the same as a netinstall.iso
  • For latest Builds builds (and links to them) see:
https://apps.fedoraproject.org/releng-dash/
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/tasks?start=0&state=all&view=flat&method=createLiveCD&order=-id
  • fedora-qa Install testing:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_21_Rawhide_2014_05_Install#Live_image
06/24/2014 NetworkManager--wifi added to comps in f21(rawhide)
SoaS shows wireless and ad-hoc in f1 Network Neighborhood on install

"If you suddenly find yourself without Wi-Fi,find a wired network connection and:

dnf install NetworkManager-wifi
systemctl restart NetworkManager"

DNF vs YUM

http://blogs.gnome.org/dcbw/2014/06/19/psa-fedora-21-networkmanager-and-dnf/

Upgrade to rawhide from an existing installation

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/Rawhide#Upgrade_from_an_existing_installation

Systemd

  • Fedora wiki page

Updating Grub 2 on UEFI systems

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

fedora boot optimization

  • Can be dangerous - ADVANCED USERS ONLY
http://www.harald-hoyer.de/2013/11/13/fedora-boot-optimization/

Rawhide Watch

boot failures with recent rawhide kernels

dogtail

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

Fedora-21 anaconda 21.48-1.1 installer

  • This is the installer from Fedora-Live-SoaS-x86_64-21-20140728.iso SoaS LiveCD in Oracle VM VirtualBox
This is a Preliminary version and will be modified before f21 is released.
07/29/2014
  • Note The same installer is on the boot.iso with more options.

 

 

 

  • Install done from Soas terminal with
su
liveinst

 

 

  • Time Zone selected
[Done} to return to main Hub

 

Custom Install Screens

  • Note only used if you select:
 [x]I will configure partitioning

 

 

select type of partition to create in Drop Down menu

 

 

Reclaim space if HD is already formatted

 

 

Begin Installation

 

 

  • 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

 

  • Installing Software
% completion until [Done]-Reboot appears

 

Boot.iso

  • This may also be listed as netinstall.iso

 

Software Selection

 

Lists Server and Desktop Environments with their Optional packages listed on the right side.
Select and hit [Done] to return to Main Hub.

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. "

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).