[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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