Fedora Docs Meeting Reminder 30DEC2013 1400UTC
by Pete Travis
The Fedora Documentation Project continues the long standing tradition
of Monday meetings again this week. You can join this time honored
practice yourself, by simply logging on to freenode at 1400UTC and
joining #fedora-meeting.
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10 years, 3 months
Fedora Docs Meeting Reminder 23DEC2013
by Pete Travis
The Fedora Documentation Project continues the long standing tradition
of Monday meetings again this week. You can join this time honored
practice yourself, by simply logging on to freenode at 1400UTC and
joining #fedora-meeting.
--
-- Pete Travis
- Fedora Docs Project Leader
- 'randomuser' on freenode
- immanetize(a)fedoraproject.org
10 years, 4 months
web.git redirect for ro-RO
by Pete Travis
Hello,
I'd like to bring everyone's attention to a bug[1] that I've discovered
a workaround for. Here's what happens:
We install ro-RO translations to web.git. They go into
web.git/public_html/ro_RO/
When any book is installed, web.git/public_html/index.html is rewritten.
This page contains a snatch of JavaScript to redirect a user to their
localized content.
In the case of ro-RO, this JavaScript actually redirects to
web.git/public_html/ro/index.html - which breaks the site for ro-RO readers.
The fix[2] is simple. Edit web.git/public_html/index.html and changs
"ro" to "ro-RO" . This needs to be done after *every* run of installs,
so please check it before you push.
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998327
[2]
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/docs/web.git/commit/?id=2f2791b0ec7d42b...
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10 years, 4 months
Upgrading section of Installation Guide
by Adam Williamson
(pjones, there's a paragraph about bootloader stuff in the middle of
this mail which could use your input - skip straight to that :>)
Hi, folks. Just looking over the Upgrading section of the F20 install
guide as part of my hurried project to try and co-ordinate our fedup
messaging...
I believe these parts:
"Some upgraded packages may require the installation of other packages
for proper operation. If you choose to customize your packages to
upgrade, you may be required to resolve dependency problems. Otherwise,
the upgrade procedure takes care of these dependencies, but it may need
to install additional packages which are not on your system.
Depending on how you have partitioned your system, the upgrade program
may prompt you to add an additional swap file. If the upgrade program
does not detect a swap file that equals twice your RAM, it asks you if
you would like to add a new swap file. If your system does not have a
lot of RAM (less than 256 MB), it is recommended that you add this swap
file."
from
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/ch... are old holdovers from preupgrade and no longer applicable or relevant; I think they should simply be removed.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/20/html/Installation_Guide/ch... :
The --debuglog stuff seems kind of extraneous, since you never explain
to people what it's for or what to do with the log. I'd either add a
note about what this does and why they might want to look at the log
etc, or just drop that parameter from the instructions.
The stuff about updating the bootloader on UEFI is specific to the
Fedora XX->Fedora 18 transition where grub2-efi was introduced. F17 and
earlier are now EOL and we do not really support upgrades from EOL
releases. I would suggest we simplify this section and basically write
it considering only upgrades from 18 or 19, at least in the main body. I
don't _believe_ we have made any changes to the efibootmgr stuff between
F18 and F20, or that it is necessary to 'refresh' the grub2
configuration - I think UEFI upgrades at least between F18 and F20
should not require or even recommend any form of manual intervention
with grub; it should all be in order after a fedup. pjones, can you
correct me if I forgot anything? (I need to check how this works out in
the real world, for sanity - had a couple of reports this morning of
UEFI fedup not working properly at all, but the _theory_ is what should
be reflected in the installation guide text, I guess).
So, I'd recommend replacing "This is not mandatory, but is recommended
for BIOS systems and strongly recommended for EFI systems." with "This
is not necessary for UEFI systems. It is not mandatory, but is
recommended, for BIOS systems."
and then dropping everything from "To update GRUB on EFI systems..." to
"After the next reboot, your system will be using grub2-efi."
The 'fedup can only upgrade from Fedora 17 and above' note is also now
fairly EOL-y. The "If the contents of your /etc/fedora-release" note is
I believe a holdover from anaconda-based upgrades and can be removed.
We could add a little 'EOL upgrades' section at the bottom, perhaps,
which explains that EOL upgrades are not supported but you can try if
you're adventurous enough, and maybe suggest reading the installation
guides for the relevant Fedora releases to find specific instructions
like bootloader migration?
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10 years, 4 months
As I read the release notes,
by Leslie S Satenstein
May I comment on the following....
1.3.3.2. CPU Accelerated Graphics
Systems with older or no graphics acceleration devices can have accelerated desktop environments using LLVMpipe technology, which uses the CPU to render graphics. LLVMpipe requires a processor with SSE2 extensions. The extensions supported by your processor are listed in the flags: section of /proc/cpuinfo
Could you add that this information is only available if the user already has installed, a previous version of Linux Can he do something about this SSE2 test after installation?
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
An experienced Information Technology specialist.
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and tomorrow will be even better.lsatenstein(a)yahoo.com
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10 years, 4 months
Fedora Docs Meeting Reminder 16DEC2013 1400UTC
by Pete Travis
The regular meeting of the Fedora Documentation Project will, as usual,
take place on Monday in #fedora-meeting on freenode. (Intellectual)
Refreshments to be served in #fedora-docs before and after.
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10 years, 4 months
man-pages de license change
by Robert M. Albrecht
Hi,
the upstream project for the german man-pages translation died quite
some time ago and was now rebootet.
The new upstream made a license change to GPLv3+.
Anything to worry about for Fedora ?
cu romal
10 years, 4 months
