Bug 1318536

Summary:	comps.xml contains packages which are not available at all
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Alexander Todorov <atodorov>
Component:	releng	Assignee:	Tomas Mlcoch <tmlcoch>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
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Priority:	high
Version:	6.9	CC:	anthomas, dgilmore, lkocman, tlavigne
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Description Alexander Todorov 2016-03-17 07:37:00 UTC

Description of problem:

For Server x86_64 there are several packages listed in comps.xml which are not available, nor is a provides with that name available. Anaconda silently ignores them during installation (as seen in yum.log):

No package named netxen-firmware available to be installed
No package named abrt-plugin-mailx available to be installed
No package named openssl-ibmca available to be installed
No package named abrt-plugin-sosreport available to be installed


These can lead to either problems with obsoleted packages (these comps entries have likely not been removed when the packages were obsoleted) and upgrades or cause you grouplist to not display groups as installed because these packages are missing.

Comment 2 Alexander Todorov 2016-03-17 10:03:23 UTC

Server s390x is worse because it has listed some x86_64 packages as well:

 No package named grub available to be installed
 No package named netxen-firmware available to be installed
 No package named efibootmgr available to be installed
 No package named xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware available to be installed
 No package named setserial available to be installed
 No package named abrt-plugin-mailx available to be installed
 No package named acpid available to be installed
 No package named biosdevname available to be installed
 No package named microcode_ctl available to be installed
 No package named cpuspeed available to be installed
 No package named fprintd-pam available to be installed
 No package named abrt-plugin-sosreport available to be installed
 No package named eject available to be installed
 No package named irqbalance available to be installed
 No package named pcmciautils available to be installed
 No package named usbutils available to be installed


Server ppc64 is a bit better:

 No package named grub available to be installed
 No package named netxen-firmware available to be installed
 No package named efibootmgr available to be installed
 No package named iwl3945-firmware available to be installed
 No package named abrt-plugin-mailx available to be installed
 No package named acpid available to be installed
 No package named biosdevname available to be installed
 No package named microcode_ctl available to be installed
 No package named openssl-ibmca available to be installed
 No package named abrt-plugin-sosreport available to be installed

Comment 10 Jan Kurik 2017-12-06 12:02:47 UTC

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is in the Production 3 Phase. During the Production 3 Phase, Critical impact Security Advisories (RHSAs) and selected Urgent Priority Bug Fix Advisories (RHBAs) may be released as they become available.

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This issue does not meet the inclusion criteria for the Production 3 Phase and will be marked as CLOSED/WONTFIX. If this remains a critical requirement, please contact Red Hat Customer Support to request a re-evaluation of the issue, citing a clear business justification. Note that a strong business justification will be required for re-evaluation. Red Hat Customer Support can be contacted via the Red Hat Customer Portal at the following URL:

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