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= Package Notes =
The following sections contain information regarding software packages that have
undergone significant changes for Fedora Core [[GetVal(DocsDict,BeatsVer)]]. For easier
access, they are generally organized using the same groups that are shown in the
installation system.
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== Core utilities POSIX changes ==
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The `coreutils` package now follows the POSIX standard version 200112. This change in
behavior might affect scripts and command arguments that were previously deprecated. For
example, if you have a newer system but are running software that assumes an older version
of POSIX and uses {{{sort +1}}} or {{{tail +10}}}, you can work around any compatibility
problems by setting `_POSIX2_VERSION=199209` in your environment. Refer to the section on
standards in the `coreutils` info manual for more information on this. You can run the
following command to read this information.
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- {{{
- info coreutils Standards
+ ##{{{ info coreutils Standards
- }}}
+ ##}}}
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== Pango Text Renderer for Firefox ==
Fedora is building Firefox with the Pango system as the text renderer. This provides
better support for certain language scripts, such as Indic and some CJK scripts. Pango
is included with with permission of the Mozilla Corporation. This change is known to
break rendering of MathML, and may negatively impact performance on some pages. To
disable the use of Pango, set your environment before launching Firefox:
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- {{{
- MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 /usr/bin/firefox
+ ##{{{ MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 /usr/bin/firefox
- }}}
+ ##}}}
Alternately, you can include this environment variable as part of a wrapper script.
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== Smbfs deprecated ==
The kernel implementation of '''smbfs''' to support the Windows
file sharing protocol has been deprecated in favor of '''cifs''',
which is backwards compatible with '''smbfs''' in features and
maintenance. It is recommended that you use the '''cifs'''
filesystem in place of '''smbfs'''.
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== Yum kernel handling plugin ==
The yum package provides the `installonlyn` plugin by default. This plugin retains the
latest two kernels, in addition to the currently running kernel, when you perform updates
on your system. To tune this feature to retain more or fewer kernels, or to disable it
entirely, edit the `/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/installonlyn.conf` file. Other plugins and
utilities are available as part of the `yum-utils` package in Fedora Extras. To install
them, use the following command:
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- {{{
- yum install yum-utils
+ ##{{{ yum install yum-utils
- }}}
+ ##}}}
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== Yum cache handling behavior changes ==
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As part of the changes to the mounting infrastructure, the desktop's automatic
mountable devices detection now includes policy definitions that ignore all fixed disk
devices from. This was done to increase security on multi-user systems. People on
multi-user systems who want to make changes to disk mounting that could impact the
multi-user environment are advised to understand the implications of the default HAL
policy decisions and to review the HAL policy files in `/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/`.
If you are on a single-user system and would like to recover the functionality to mount
fixed disk items such as IDE partitions from the desktop, you can modify the default HAL
policy. To enable deskop mounting for all fixed disks:
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- {{{
- su -c 'mv
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi
/root/'
+ ##{{{ su -c 'mv
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/99-redhat-storage-policy-fixed-drives.fdi
/root/'
- su -c '/sbin/service haldaemon restart'
+ ##su -c '/sbin/service haldaemon restart'
- }}}
+ ##}}}
If you need more fine-grained control and only want to expose certain fixed disks for
desktop mounting, read over how to create additional HAL policy to selectively
ignore/allow fixed disk devices.
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== LinuxThreads support removed ==
The Linux``Threads library is no longer available. Linux``Threads was deprecated in
Fedora Core 4 and is no longer available in this release. The Native POSIX Threading
Library (NPTL), which has been the default threading library since Red Hat Linux 9, has
replaced Linux``Threads completely.
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