Bug 472544

Summary:	RFE: allow making a full-groupinstall via the cli
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, pmatilai, tcpip4000, tim.lauridsen
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2008-11-21 17:06:06 UTC

Sometimes you need to override default yum settings, such as when making a one-shot full groupinstall regardless of how yum usually treats optional elements

While it is technically doable by changing the yum configuration and then changing it back, it's a lot of overhead for a one-shot operations and makes it all effectively impossible to use in web faqs and walkthrough. (anything that requires opening a text editor is usually a dead end)

Please add a CLI option to yum that can be used to perform one-shot full groupinstalls

yum-3.2.20-3.fc10.noarch

Comment 1 James Antill 2008-11-21 21:22:03 UTC

You might want to try: http://projects.robinbowes.com/yum-grouppackagetypes/trac

...feel free to package it, if you want, as we're not desperate to have it in yum-utils (IMO the real fix is some plugin like yum-config-cmd-line ... which allows you to set these weird config. variables on the cmd line, without requiring 666 plugins to do it).

Comment 2 James Antill 2010-04-29 16:27:22 UTC

We now have --setopt in upstream, so that can be used to change these corner case config. options from the cmd line.