[terminus-fonts] Update terminus-fonts-console README.fedora

Hans Ulrich Niedermann ndim at fedoraproject.org
Thu Nov 28 11:57:10 UTC 2013


commit ca9171b7b4ef54b8f01a79db72cc4a9f6e6665d7
Author: Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun at n-dimensional.de>
Date:   Thu Nov 28 12:56:43 2013 +0100

    Update terminus-fonts-console README.fedora
    
    Zing knew some more ideas for updating grub.cfg and initramfs.

 terminus-fonts-console.README.fedora |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 terminus-fonts.spec                  |    5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/terminus-fonts-console.README.fedora b/terminus-fonts-console.README.fedora
index d8d3363..c643217 100644
--- a/terminus-fonts-console.README.fedora
+++ b/terminus-fonts-console.README.fedora
@@ -34,28 +34,39 @@ the other console fonts are and does not do any setting up (for now).
 
    Configuration changes:
 
-   * In /etc/vconsole.conf, add a line
+   1. In /etc/vconsole.conf, add a line
 
         FONT="ter-u24b"
 
-   * In /etc/default/grub, add an option
+   2. In /etc/default/grub, add an option
 
         vconsole.font=ter-u24b
 
-     to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="..." definition.
+      to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="..." definition.
 
-   At this point, there should be an easy way to propagate those settings
-   into grub.cfg and the initramfs. However, I do not know it, so here is
-   how to do it manually:
+   At this point, there should be an easy and obvious way to propagate
+   those settings into grub.cfg and the initramfs. However, I do not
+   know it, so here are two ways to do it
 
-   * Open /etc/grub2.cfg in an editor and add the vconsole.font option to
-     the appropriate "linux" command lines (same as /etc/default/grub)
+   3a * Open /etc/grub2.cfg in an editor and add the vconsole.font
+        option to the appropriate "linux" command lines (same as
+        /etc/default/grub)
 
-   * Rebuild the initramfs. There might be a better way, but
+      * Rebuild the initramfs. There might be a better way, but
 
-        yum reinstall kernel
+          yum reinstall kernel
 
-     might work.
+        might work.
+
+   3b * Update /etc/grub2.cfg with options from /etc/default/grub (but
+        the generated grub2.cfg will look very differently than the
+        one maintained just by kernel installs and updates):
+
+	  grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
+
+      * Then rebuild a new initramfs with:
+
+          dracut -f
 
    Verify that the initramfs contains the required font file:
 
diff --git a/terminus-fonts.spec b/terminus-fonts.spec
index a60af77..f94f4a7 100644
--- a/terminus-fonts.spec
+++ b/terminus-fonts.spec
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ The font is available for the Linux console and for X11.
 
 Name:		%{fontname}-fonts
 Version:	4.38
-Release:	2%{?dist}
+Release:	3%{?dist}
 Summary:	Clean fixed width font
 
 Group:		User Interface/X
@@ -373,6 +373,9 @@ ln -s %{_fontdir} %{buildroot}%{catalog}/%{fontname}:unscaled
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Nov 28 2013 Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun at n-dimensional.de> - 4.38-3
+- Improve instructions for F18+ to console README.fedora (#1000491)
+
 * Sat Nov 16 2013 Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun at n-dimensional.de> - 4.38-2
 - Add instructions for F18+ to terminus-fonts-console README.fedora (#1000491)
 


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