release-notes/devel/en_US PackageNotes.xml,1.19,1.20
Paul W. Frields (pfrields)
fedora-docs-commits at redhat.com
Sat Sep 15 16:17:55 UTC 2007
Author: pfrields
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that are shown in the installation system.
</para>
- <section id="sn-pc-speaker">
- <title>PC Speaker Enabled</title>
- <para>The PC speaker is enabled by default in this release, but can
- be circumvented in a number of ways:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Reduce its volume to an acceptable level or completely mute
- the PC speaker in <command>alsamixer</command> with the
- setting for <literal>PC Speak</literal>.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
- user, disable the PC speaker system-wide by runing the
- following command in a console.</para>
- <screen><![CDATA[su -c '/sbin/modprobe -r pcspkr ; echo "install pcspkr :" >>/etc/modprobe.conf']]></screen>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-cdrkit">
- <title>The <package>cdrtools</package> Packages is Replaced by <package>cdrkit</package></title>
- <para>Recent versions of <package>cdrtools</package> intermix code
- under the GPL and CDDL licenses, which are mutually incompatible.
- To avoid this problem, in this release <package>cdrtools</package>
- has been replaced by a fork called cdrkit. Thanks to Joerg Jaspert
- (<email>joerg AT debian.org</email>) from Debian for initiating
- development of this software and reaching out to Fedora.</para>
- <para><ulink url="http://lwn.net/Articles/195167/"/></para>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.cdrkit.org/"/></para>
- <para><ulink
- url="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-advisory-board/2006-August/msg00409.html"/></para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-em8300">
- <title>EM8300 Drivers Default to ALSA</title>
- <para>The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities
- and kernel modules (<package>em8300</package> and
- <package>kmod-em8300-*</package> packages) has changed from OSS to
- ALSA to follow upstream. However, numerous applications that
- support the em8300 still expect to find it in OSS mode. Users of
- these applications can use the <option>audio_driver=oss</option>
- option for the <systemitem>em8300</systemitem> module in
- <filename>/etc/modprobe.conf</filename> to make the card use OSS
- for audio.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-pidgin">
- <title><application>Gaim</application> Renamed to
- <application>Pidgin</application></title>
- <para>The <application>Gaim</application> instant messenger has been
- renamed to <application>Pidgin</application> to avoid possible
- trademark infringement issues.</para>
- <para><ulink url="http://www.pidgin.im/index.php?id=177"/></para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-fc6-tag">
- <title>Packages with ".fc6" Tag</title>
- <para>There have not been any major changes in the toolchain in
- Fedora 7. Therefore, some packages in Fedora 7 might retain ".fc6"
- in the release tag if they have been inherited from the previous
- release without any changes. Fedora maintainers have not rebuilt
- these packages for Fedora 7 to avoid making end users download the
- packages for only a release tag change. This measure ensures that
- the robustness is not affected by any potential changes evoked by
- rebuilds. This naming of packages is merely cosmetic, and does not
- in any way affect the functionality of the software. </para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-perl-split">
- <title>Perl Package Split</title>
- <para>Development related files have been split from Perl and are
- now available in the <package>perl-devel</package> package. As a
- temporary exception to the Fedora packaging guidelines,
- <package>perl</package> requires <package>perl-devel</package> to
- avoid rebuilding some <package>perl</package> dependent packages
- late in the development cycle. During the next release cycle of
- Fedora, maintainers will split up the rest of the dependent
- packages.</para>
- <para><ulink
- url="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2007-April/msg00886.html"/></para>
- </section>
- <section id="zope-plone-not-available">
- <title>Zope and Plone Not Yet Available</title>
- <para>This release of Fedora includes Python 2.5, which does not
- support <application>Zope</application>. As a result, the
- <package>zope</package> and <package>plone</package> packages have
- been removed from this release. Work is underway to alleviate this
- problem for <application>Zope 3</application>, and possibly create
- a restricted Python 2.5 implementation of <application>Zope
- 2</application>. Refer to <ulink
- url="http://wiki.zope.org/zope3/Zope3UsingPython25"/> for
- additional information. Users who require the
- <package>zope</package> or <package>plone</package> packages are
- cautioned to plan appropriately, and use virtualized hosts or
- other methodologies to support their
- <application>Zope</application> and
- <application>Plone</application> needs.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="unstable-liferea-x64">
- <title>Unstable liferea x86_64 Package</title>
- <para>The <application>liferea</application> RSS/RDF feed reader has
- a known issue compiled for x86_64 platforms. This issue causes it
- to take 100% of the CPU time, becoming unresponsive. As a
- workaround until the bug is found and fixed, remove the
- <package>liferea.x86_64</package> package from your system, then
- install the i386 version. This package requires the
- <package>firefox.i386</package> package as well. For more
- information, refer to this bug report:</para>
- <para><ulink
- url="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=231073"/></para>
- </section>
- <section>
- <title>Xfce URL opening focus issue</title>
- <para>If you use the Xfce desktop and click on a URL to open it in
- your browser, the active browser window moves to your current
- workspace. A hidden option named <option>ActivateAction</option>
- adjusts this behavior. Set this string value to
- <literal>bring</literal> (default), <literal>switch</literal> or
- <literal>none</literal>. To add this option to your settings edit
- your
- <filename>~/.config/xfce4/mcs_settings/wmtweaks.xml</filename>
- file and add a line like the following:</para>
- <screen><![CDATA[<option name="Xfwm/ActivateAction" type="string" value="none"/>]]></screen>
- <para>The <literal>bring</literal> option moves your browser to your
- current workspace and focuses it. The <literal>switch</literal>
- option moves you to the workspace with your browser in it and
- focuses it. The <literal>none</literal> option opens the URL in
- your browser in the background and keeps your focus in the current
- application.</para>
- <para>Refer to <ulink
- url="http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2961"/> for more
- information on this issue.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-System-Tools">
- <title>System Tools</title>
- <section>
- <title>Yum kernel handling plugin</title>
- <para>By default Fedora includes and enables a yum plugin package
- <package>yum-installonlyn</package>. This plugin retains the
- latest two kernels, including the one running, when you perform
- updates on your system. To tune this feature to retain more or
- fewer kernels, or disable it entirely, edit the
- <filename>/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf</filename>
- file.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-apcupsd">
- <title><package>apcupsd</package></title>
- <para>
- The <package>apcupsd</package> package has been upgraded to version
- 3.14.0. This version removes the old master/slave networking mode. Refer
- to the <package>apcupsd</package> release notes for more information.
- </para>
- <para>
- <ulink
- url='http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=54413&release_id=485633'>http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=54413&release_id=485633</ulink>
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
-
- <section id="sn-Engineering-and-Scientific">
- <title>Engineering and Scientific</title>
- <section id="sn-paraview">
- <title><package>paraview</package></title>
- <para>
- The <package>mpi</package> build and sub-package of
- <package>paraview</package> have been removed until
- <command>cmake</command> related build issues are resolved.
- </para>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-ATA-over-Ethernet">
- <title>ATA over Ethernet</title>
- <para>
- This release includes packages that support a kernel feature, providing
- ATA access over Ethernet. The packages are <package>aoetools</package>,
- the ATA over Ethernet tools, and <package>vblade</package>, a virtual
- EtherDrive blade daemon.
- </para>
- </section>
- <section id="sn-Graphics">
- <title>Graphics</title>
- <section id="sn-sn-GIMP-Plugins">
- <title>Handling of GIMP Plugins Contained in Other Packages</title>
- <para>The <application>GIMP</application> package in Fedora
- includes a helper script
- <filename>/usr/sbin/gimp-plugin-mgr</filename> for plugins
- contained in other packages, for example,
- <package>xsane-gimp</package>. This script manages symlinks from
- the <application>GIMP</application> plugin directory (which may
- change between upgrades) to the actual location of the
- plugins.</para>
- <para>A bug has been fixed in the Fedora 7 release of
- <application>GIMP</application> that was in all older
- <application>GIMP</application> packages, including all those in
- the test releases. The bug concerns the execution order in which
- the symlinks are installed and removed, causing the symlinks to
- vanish when the <application>GIMP</application> package is
- updated.</para>
- <para>Although the <application>GIMP</application> package
- contained in the final release has the execution order fixed,
- due to the nature of the problem it will show up once more when
- updating from an affected version to a fixed version. To add
- these symlinks back in, run this command, providing the
- <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> password when
- prompted:</para>
- <screen><![CDATA[su -c "/usr/sbin/gimp-plugin-mgr --install '*'"]]></screen>
- </section>
+ <section id="sn-utility-packages">
+ <title>Utility Packages</title>
+ <para>The <package>cryptsetup-luks</package> package has been
+ renamed to <package>cryptsetup</package>.</para>
</section>
</section>
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