Bug 586831

Summary:	yum groupinstall does not add required groups
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Matthias Schroder <matthias.schroder>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	James Antill <james.antill>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
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Description Matthias Schroder 2010-04-28 12:56:36 UTC

Description of problem: When doing a 'yum groupinstall Desktop' the required groups (e.g. 'X Windows' or 'Fonts' are not installed. The installed packages are thus incomplete, and the 'Desktop' not functional.


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How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. install machine with Base only
2. yum groupinstall Desktop
3.
  
Actual results: installed packages not sufficient for functional Desktop (no X, no fonts,...)


Expected results: all packages and groups needed for a functional desktop are installed


Additional info: I see the Desktop category in the comps.xml file, but it seems as if yum does ignore it?

Comment 2 James Antill 2010-04-28 14:06:00 UTC

What are "required groups", and how would yum groupinstall know they are required?

Comment 3 Matthias Schroder 2010-04-28 14:27:16 UTC

As 'required' groups I would consider the groups that are listed with 'groupid' in the 'category' of a group. Sorry for the bad phrasing, probably a leftover from early comps.xml days where groups had required packages (<packagereq type="...) and required groups '<groupreq>...'. I see no groupreq at all in the RHEL6beta comps.xml, but there are the categories. Are the categories only used by anaconda?

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2010-04-28 14:29:03 UTC

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Hat Enterprise Linux major release.  Product Management has requested further
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Comment 5 James Antill 2010-04-28 14:57:42 UTC

Yes, groupinstall/etc. operates on groups.

I once did a category plugin: http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/plugins/categories.py

...but it didn't seem like a good idea to have people using that (categories are too heavy weight, in general, to be useful) so it isn't packaged.

Comment 6 Matthias Schroder 2010-04-28 15:15:57 UTC

Why are categories too heavy? I find the idea to have properly defined groups or categories extremely useful. Having groups that do not pull in the required packages or groups are rather useless. What would be the point of (group-)installing 'Desktop', when that does not pull in the 'X Windows' and 'Fonts'?