Dear Wiki user, You have subscribed to a wiki page or wiki category on "Fedora Project Wiki" for change notification. The following page has been changed by RahulSundaram: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Beats/PackageNotes The comment on the change is: note on POSIX changes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ = 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. + + == Core utilities POSIX changes == + + + The 'coreutils' package now follows the POSIX standard version 200112. This change in behavior might affect scripts and command arguments which have been deprecated earlier. 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. + + {{{ + + info coreutils Standards + + }}} == Yum kernel handling plugin == @@ -16, +27 @@ }}} - == Yum cache handing behavior change == + == Yum cache handing behavior changes == By default, {{{yum}}} is now configured to remove headers and packages downloaded after a successful install to reduce the ongoing disk space requirements of updating a Fedora system. Most users have little or no need for the packages once they have been installed on the system. For cases where you wish to preserve the headers and packages (for example, if you share your `/var/cache/yum` directory between multiple machines), modify the keepcache option to `1` in `/etc/yum.conf`.
