Bug 1069985 - Release notes should contain changes to kickstart options
Summary: Release notes should contain changes to kickstart options
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Fedora
Component: release-notes
Version: devel
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Bokoc
QA Contact: Fedora Docs QA
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-02-26 03:02 UTC by Edgar Hoch
Modified: 2014-12-06 22:06 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2014-12-06 19:14:06 UTC
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Description Edgar Hoch 2014-02-26 03:02:46 UTC
Description of problem:

Release notes for Fedora 20 contains nothing about the changes to kickstart options.

It would be helpful if changes to kickstart options will be noticed in future release notes too. Now I know that I have to check the wiki diffs of the Anaconda/Kickstart wiki page to see the changes, but other administrators may check only the release notes.

An example is the "--addsupport=" option to the "lang" kickstart option which was added to Fedora 20 (I assume... - I have no information about the time of the change), together with "%packages ... -instLangs=..." still not implemented.

Please see also at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1051816#c11


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Fedora 20 release notes.

How reproducible:
Always.


Another note:
This request is to improve the next release notes.

But I want to note that there should a place (web page, wiki page, etc.) too where additional (late) informations can be added to release notes of already released Fedora versions. Is such a place available?

Comment 1 Pete Travis 2014-05-06 13:30:22 UTC
Can you take care of this one, Petr?

Comment 2 Petr Bokoc 2014-05-06 14:22:52 UTC
(In reply to Pete Travis from comment #1)
> Can you take care of this one, Petr?

Will do.

Comment 3 Petr Bokoc 2014-12-06 19:14:06 UTC
So, the F21 Release Notes contain section 3.2.5. Changes in Kickstart Syntax, with a subsection for new commands/options and one for changes in existing command/option behavior.

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/21/html/Release_Notes/sect-Release_Notes-Changes_for_Sysadmin.html#sect-installation

I'll make sure to include a similar section in all subsequent Release Notes for future Fedora releases.

Comment 4 Edgar Hoch 2014-12-06 22:06:45 UTC
Thanks, thats fine!

An addition:

The current version of the release notes (found at your link, 21-01 of Fri 29 August 2014) does not contain the changes introduced in bug #1146156 .

I am still hoping that there will be options with the previous behaviour with logvol --percent in the near future, but if people use there kickstart configurations that had worked with previous releases they will run into the same problem as I. So I think this change should be noted too.


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