Bug 655281
| Summary: | yum group's "installation" is confusing for groups with only optional member. Eg. "System administration tools". | |||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Madison Kelly <mkelly> | |
| Component: | yum | Assignee: | James Antill <james.antill> | |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Karel Srot <ksrot> | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | ||
| Priority: | low | |||
| Version: | 6.0 | CC: | alaurent, ksrot, psimerda | |
| Target Milestone: | rc | |||
| Target Release: | --- | |||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | |||
| OS: | Linux | |||
| Whiteboard: | ||||
| Fixed In Version: | yum-3.2.29-12.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | ||
| Clone Of: | ||||
| : | 1159400 (view as bug list) | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-05-19 13:33:59 UTC | Type: | --- | |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | ||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | ||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | ||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | ||
| Embargoed: | ||||
| Bug Depends On: | ||||
| Bug Blocks: | 1159400 | |||
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Description
Madison Kelly
2010-11-20 05:41:05 UTC
What does: yum groupinfo -v "System administration tools" ...say? This is odd... On one server, after having installed many more packages, it's showing as an installed group. So I went to another, freshly installed server that shows it as uninstalled. When I try to install it, it fails.: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@an-node01 ~]# yum groupinfo -v "System administration tools" Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Not loading "blacklist" plugin, as it is disabled Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin Not loading "whiteout" plugin, as it is disabled Config time: 0.039 Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-6] Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6] Yum Version: 3.2.27 Setting up Group Process rpmdb time: 0.002 group time: 0.228 Group: System administration tools Group-Id: system-admin-tools Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.025 Description: Utilities useful in system administration. Optional Packages: conman-0.2.5-2.3.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 crypto-utils-2.4.1-24.2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 dtach-0.8-4.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:hardlink-1.0-10.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 lsscsi-0.23-2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:mc-4.7.0.2-3.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 mgetty-1.1.36-8.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:rdist-6.1.5-49.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.i686 rhel-x86_64-server-6 rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 screen-4.0.3-15.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 scrub-2.2-1.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 symlinks-1.4-2.1.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 tree-1.5.3-2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 vlock-1.3-31.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 xdelta-1.1.4-8.el6.i686 rhel-x86_64-server-6 xdelta-1.1.4-8.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 [root@an-node01 ~]# yum groupinstall "System administration tools" Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin Setting up Group Process No packages in any requested group available to install or update [root@an-node01 ~]# yum groupinstall system-admin-tools Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin Setting up Group Process No packages in any requested group available to install or update ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I add the "Development Tools" group, it works (missing dependency?): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@an-node01 ~]# yum groupinstall "Development tools" "System administration tools" Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin Setting up Group Process Package 1:make-3.81-19.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package patch-2.6-6.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package 1:pkgconfig-0.23-9.1.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package gettext-0.17-16.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package binutils-2.20.51.0.2-5.11.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package elfutils-0.148-1.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package cvs-1.11.23-11.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Package git-1.7.1-2.el6.x86_64 already installed and latest version Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check <snip> Install 38 Package(s) Upgrade 0 Package(s) Total size: 66 M Total download size: 60 M Installed size: 0 Is this ok [y/N]: y Downloading Packages: <snip> Installed: autoconf.noarch 0:2.63-5.1.el6 automake.noarch 0:1.11.1-1.2.el6 bison.x86_64 0:2.4.1-5.el6 byacc.x86_64 0:1.9.20070509-6.1.el6 cscope.x86_64 0:15.6-6.el6 ctags.x86_64 0:5.8-2.el6 diffstat.x86_64 0:1.51-2.el6 doxygen.x86_64 1:1.6.1-4.el6 flex.x86_64 0:2.5.35-8.el6 gcc.x86_64 0:4.4.4-13.el6 gcc-c++.x86_64 0:4.4.4-13.el6 gcc-gfortran.x86_64 0:4.4.4-13.el6 indent.x86_64 0:2.2.10-5.1.el6 intltool.noarch 0:0.41.0-1.1.el6 libtool.x86_64 0:2.2.6-15.5.el6 patchutils.x86_64 0:0.3.1-3.1.el6 rcs.x86_64 0:5.7-37.el6 redhat-rpm-config.noarch 0:9.0.3-25.el6 rpm-build.x86_64 0:4.8.0-12.el6 subversion.x86_64 0:1.6.11-2.el6 swig.x86_64 0:1.3.40-5.el6 systemtap.x86_64 0:1.2-11.el6_0 Dependency Installed: apr.x86_64 0:1.3.9-3.el6 apr-util.x86_64 0:1.3.9-3.el6 cloog-ppl.x86_64 0:0.15.7-1.2.el6 cpp.x86_64 0:4.4.4-13.el6 gettext-devel.x86_64 0:0.17-16.el6 gettext-libs.x86_64 0:0.17-16.el6 glibc-devel.x86_64 0:2.12-1.7.el6_0.3 glibc-headers.x86_64 0:2.12-1.7.el6_0.3 kernel-devel.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.7.1.el6 kernel-headers.x86_64 0:2.6.32-71.7.1.el6 libgcj.x86_64 0:4.4.4-13.el6 libstdc++-devel.x86_64 0:4.4.4-13.el6 mpfr.x86_64 0:2.4.1-6.el6 neon.x86_64 0:0.29.3-1.2.el6 pakchois.x86_64 0:0.4-3.2.el6 ppl.x86_64 0:0.10.2-11.el6 Complete! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Immediately after which I get: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@an-node01 ~]# yum groupinfo -v "System administration tools" Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Not loading "blacklist" plugin, as it is disabled Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin Not loading "whiteout" plugin, as it is disabled Config time: 0.633 Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-6] Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6] Yum Version: 3.2.27 Setting up Group Process rpmdb time: 0.002 group time: 0.251 Group: System administration tools Group-Id: system-admin-tools Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.025 Description: Utilities useful in system administration. Optional Packages: conman-0.2.5-2.3.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 crypto-utils-2.4.1-24.2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 dtach-0.8-4.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:hardlink-1.0-10.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 lsscsi-0.23-2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:mc-4.7.0.2-3.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 mgetty-1.1.36-8.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:rdist-6.1.5-49.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.i686 rhel-x86_64-server-6 rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 screen-4.0.3-15.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 scrub-2.2-1.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 symlinks-1.4-2.1.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 tree-1.5.3-2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 vlock-1.3-31.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 xdelta-1.1.4-8.el6.i686 rhel-x86_64-server-6 xdelta-1.1.4-8.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I confirmed that it is still listed as an available group, rather than an installed one. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [root@an-node01 ~]# yum grouplist Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin Setting up Group Process Installed Groups: Additional Development Arabic Support Armenian Support Base Bhutanese Support Chinese Support Console internet tools Debugging Tools Desktop Desktop Debugging and Performance Tools Development tools Dial-up Networking Support Directory Client E-mail server Ethiopic Support FCoE Storage Client Fonts General Purpose Desktop Georgian Support Graphical Administration Tools Hardware monitoring utilities Hebrew Support Internet Browser Inuktitut Support Japanese Support Khmer Support Konkani Support Korean Support Kurdish Support Lao Support Large Systems Performance Legacy UNIX compatibility Legacy X Window System compatibility Myanmar (Burmese) Support NFS file server Network Infrastructure Server Network file system client Networking Tools Performance Tools Perl Support Scientific support Server Platform Storage Availability Tools Tajik Support Venda Support X Window System iSCSI Storage Client Available Groups: Afrikaans Support Albanian Support Amazigh Support Assamese Support Azerbaijani Support Backup Client Backup Server Basque Support Belarusian Support Bengali Support Brazilian Portuguese Support Breton Support Bulgarian Support CIFS file server Catalan Support Chhattisgarhi Support Chichewa Support Compatibility libraries Coptic Support Croatian Support Czech Support Danish Support Desktop Platform Desktop Platform Development Directory Server Dutch Support Eclipse Emacs English (UK) Support Esperanto Support Estonian Support FTP server Faroese Support Fijian Support Filipino Support Finnish Support French Support Frisian Support Friulian Support Gaelic Support Galician Support German Support Graphics Creation Tools Greek Support Gujarati Support Hiligaynon Support Hindi Support Hungarian Support Icelandic Support Indonesian Support Infiniband Support Input Methods Interlingua Support Irish Support Italian Support Java Platform KDE Desktop Kannada Support Kashmiri Support Kashubian Support Kazakh Support Kinyarwanda Support Latin Support Latvian Support Lithuanian Support Low Saxon Support Luxembourgish Support Macedonian Support Mainframe Access Maithili Support Malagasy Support Malay Support Malayalam Support Maltese Support Manx Support Maori Support Marathi Support Messaging Client Support Messaging Server Support Mongolian Support MySQL Database client MySQL Database server Nepali Support Network Storage Server Northern Sotho Support Norwegian Support Occitan Support Oriya Support PHP Support Persian Support Polish Support Portuguese Support PostgreSQL Database client PostgreSQL Database server Print Server Printing client Punjabi Support Remote Desktop Clients Romanian Support Russian Support SNMP Support Sanskrit Support Sardinian Support Security Tools Serbian Support Server Platform Development Sindhi Support Sinhala Support Slovak Support Slovenian Support Smart card support Somali Support Southern Ndebele Support Southern Sotho Support Spanish Support Swahili Support Swati Support Swedish Support System Management System administration tools Tagalog Support Tamil Support TeX support Technical Writing Telugu Support Tetum Support Thai Support Tibetan Support Tsonga Support Tswana Support TurboGears application framework Turkish Support Turkmen Support Ukrainian Support Upper Sorbian Support Urdu Support Uzbek Support Vietnamese Support Virtualization Virtualization Client Virtualization Platform Virtualization Tools Walloon Support Web Server Web Servlet Engine Web-Based Enterprise Management Welsh Support Xhosa Support Zulu Support Done ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ok, so the "problem" here is that the group has no mandatory or default entries ... so it's "installed" if _any_ of the optional packages are installed. However groupinstall is specified to install _all_ of the packages in the mandatory and default sections (which is none, in this case). Installing _all_ of optional is possible (but I doubt many people would want that) by doing: yum --setop=group_package_types=optional groupinstall blah ...or changing the yum.conf in a similar way. Ok, given that this wasn't closed, do you anticipate that the group will be changed to behave as expected? Thanks --setopt not --setop Upstream I've added a warning: # yum install @web-development [...] Warning: Group web-development does not have any packages. ...if we ever get groups as objects, that'll fix this too (but we'd been saying that for a long time now). This is currently causing problems with an automation script as I call the group install, then check to see that it installed successfully. With this bug, the script thinks that the groupinstall call failed. For now, I've added a specific exception, but this is obviously sub-optimal. I understand that my problem does not translate into Red Hat's problem. That said, anything that could be done to fix this sooner rather than later would be very much appreciated. :) Try to install the "education" group, it is the same (Fedora 14). More than that, the GUI installer not only refuses to install this group, but also refuses to install a selection of multiple groups (including education group) with no user-friendly error. Possible fixes: 1) Avoid or even disallow groups without mandatory/default packages. 2) Do not allow user to select a group without selecting at least one package in it. (The selection is a missing feature anyway.) 3) Ignore empty group selection with a user-friendly warning. I have also posted a loosely related bug #664804. I have just got a message about "needinfo" flag. What's going on with this bug regarding Fedora versions? I have tested the behavior with yum..-13 and this is the summary: When yum is going to really install Optional package(s), it doesn't print any warning. When you is not going to install Optional package(s) because of missing requirement, the warning is printed. E.g. "Amazigh Support" laguage group is reported to be installed in case the conditional package (the only package in the group) is installed. Old behavior was that the warning was printed in both cases. Current behavior seems perfect for me. @James, I thought that you said in #c17 that this behavior is not possible. Could you please confirm that my summary above is correct? [root@rhel61 ~]# yum groupinfo "Amazigh Support" Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. Setting up Group Process Group: Amazigh Support Language: ber Conditional Packages: hunspell-ber ----------------------------------------------------------------- [root@rhel61 ~]# rpm -q yum yum-3.2.29-13.el6.noarch [root@rhel61 ~]# rpm -q hunspell hunspell-1.2.8-16.el6.x86_64 [root@rhel61 ~]# yum groupinstall "Amazigh Support" Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. Setting up Group Process Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package hunspell-ber.noarch 0:0.20080210-3.1.el6 will be installed ... [root@rhel61 ~]# rpm -e hunspell [root@rhel61 ~]# yum groupinstall "Amazigh Support" Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. Setting up Group Process Warning: Group amazigh-support does not have any packages. No packages in any requested group available to install or update ----------------------------------------------------------------- [root@rhel61 ~]# rpm -q hunspell hunspell-1.2.8-16.el6.x86_64 [root@rhel61 ~]# rpm -q yum yum-3.2.29-10.el6.noarch [root@rhel61 ~]# yum groupinstall "Amazigh Support" Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. Setting up Group Process Warning: Group amazigh-support does not have any packages. Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package hunspell-ber.noarch 0:0.20080210-3.1.el6 will be installed ... [root@rhel61 ~]# rpm -e hunspell [root@rhel61 ~]# yum groupinstall "Amazigh Support" Loaded plugins: product-id, subscription-manager Updating Red Hat repositories. Setting up Group Process Warning: Group amazigh-support does not have any packages. No packages in any requested group available to install or update Oh, I type Optional package but I mean Conditional... therefore: Let's say we have a group with conditional packages only, e.g. "Amazigh Support" with conditional package hunspell-ber. In case the huspell package is installed, yum is really going to install the conditional package "hunspell-ber" and the warning is not printed (see the console log in previous comment). In case we remove hunspell, yum groupinstall "Amazigh Support" is not going to install any package (because hunspell-ber needs hunspell) and the warning is displayed. James, could you confirm that this is the intentional behavior? For me this is great. With previous patch the warning is displayed in both cases. > @James,
> I thought that you said in #c17 that this behavior is not possible.
> Could you please confirm that my summary above is correct?
Kind of, it's confusing ... what it used to do is:
1. Install any packages marked for direct install.
2. Install any packages marked for conditional install, where the condition was already met.
3. Save any conditional packages not matched by #2 so the depsolver can add them later.
...the first patch then added:
1.5. If no packages marked for direct install, issue warning.
...the change that I just did remove 1.5, and did:
4. If no packages have been installed directly, or via. conditionals, issue warning.
5. If warning was issued in #4, and some conditional packages were added at #3, then tell the user that too.
...so what you said is correct (assuming some packages where installed via. #2) but if that isn't the case, what I said initially is correct :).
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0602.html I'm seeing this behavior still with yum 3.2.29-22. yum-3.2.29-22.el6_2.2.noarch Fresh install of 6.2 on a new server, with an update after installation. # yum groupinstall system-admin-tools Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager Updating certificate-based repositories. Setting up Group Process Warning: Group system-admin-tools does not have any packages. No packages in any requested group available to install or update [root@ds4 root]# yum groupinfo -v "System administration tools" Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "product-id" plugin Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin Loading "security" plugin Loading "subscription-manager" plugin Updating certificate-based repositories. Config time: 0.073 Looking for repo options for [main] Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-6] Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Looking for repo options for [rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6] Repo 'rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6] Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Yum Version: 3.2.29 Setting up Group Process rpmdb time: 0.000 group time: 0.122 Group: System administration tools Group-Id: system-admin-tools Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.084 Description: Utilities useful in system administration. Optional Packages: conman-.2.5-2.3.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 crypto-utils-2.4.1-24.2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 dtach-0.8-4.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 expect-5.44.1.15-2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:hardlink-1.0-10.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 lsscsi-0.23-2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:mc-4.7.0.2-3.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 mgetty-1.1.36-8.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 pexpect-2.3-6.el6.noarch rhel-x86_64-server-6 1:rdist-6.1.5-49.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.i686 rhel-x86_64-server-6 rrdtool-1.3.8-6.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 screen-4.0.3-16.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 scrub-2.2-1.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 symlinks-1.4-2.1.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 tree-1.5.3-2.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 vlock-1.3-31.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 xdelta-.1.4-8.el6.i686 rhel-x86_64-server-6 xdelta-.1.4-8.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 Same problem with "Directory Server". Should I clone this to a new bug, or is this the best place for this? # yum groupinfo -v "Directory Server" Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "product-id" plugin Loading "refresh-packagekit" plugin Loading "security" plugin Loading "subscription-manager" plugin Updating certificate-based repositories. Config time: 0.073 Looking for repo options for [main] Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-6] Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Looking for repo options for [rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6] Repo 'rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'rhn-tools-rhel-x86_64-server-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Looking for repo options for [rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6] Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6' setting option 'enabled' = '1' Repo 'rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6' setting option 'gpgcheck' = '1' Yum Version: 3.2.29 Setting up Group Process rpmdb time: 0.000 group time: 0.124 Group: Directory Server Group-Id: directory-server Setting up Package Sacks pkgsack time: 0.084 Description: Machine and user identity servers. Optional Packages: krb5-server-1.9-22.el6_2.1.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 krb5-server-ldap-1.9-22.el6_2.1.i686 rhel-x86_64-server-6 krb5-server-ldap-1.9-22.el6_2.1.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 migrationtools-47-7.el6.noarch rhel-x86_64-server-6 openldap-servers-2.4.23-20.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 samba-3.5.10-116.el6_2.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 ypserv-2.19-22.el6.x86_64 rhel-x86_64-server-6 ]# yum groupinstall "Directory Server" Loaded plugins: product-id, refresh-packagekit, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager Updating certificate-based repositories. Setting up Group Process Warning: Group directory-server does not have any packages. No packages in any requested group available to install or update Hi Addison, could you be more specific about the issue you are facing? Please not that the mentioned groups have only Optional packages which are not going to be installed if their requires are missing. Therefore the warning "Group directory-server does not have any packages." Karel: Specifically, "yum grouplist" generates lists of groups - some of which aren't installable candidates. Nor does the error message give a IMO correct warning - after a night of sleeping on it, and re-re-re-re-reading the man page, now I understand what it _means_. And understanding that, the man page makes more sense, but it doesn't if you don't. I should be able to install that list of packages - or at least get a better error - but those 2 groups _won't install_. The message is confusing, at best. If you list groups, then tell yum to install a group, and it then installs nothing (and claims there's nothing there), that's counterintuitive. groupinstall Is used to install all of the individual packages in a group, of the specified types (this works as if you’d taken each of those package names and put them on the command line for a "yum install" command). The group_package_types configuration option specifies which types will be installed. I see now what that the "fix" is to change /etc/yum.conf to include group_package_types=default,mandatory,optional But that's very indirectly hinted at, and very counterintuitive to the groupinfo listing. The only reason I knew to check for optional packages was this bug listing - which took a while to find. I'd suggest at the least to change the return message to either include the notice that there are optional messages (acknowledging that the command ran correctly and there was correct input/processing) and passing either info as to how to change it, or to possibly change yum to accept an "install-optional", and have the warning illustrate that. Or, in a case like this, prompt for "install optional candidates". "Warning: Group directory-server does not have any packages. No packages in any requested group available to install or update" This in no way hinted to me that there was a _configuration_ issue. And that it was processing correctly. Or that there were optional packages. I might suggest at least he warning be changed to: Warning: Group directory-server does not have any mandatory or default packages. No packages in any requested group available to install or update. To install groups with only optional packages, add to /etc/yum.conf "group_package_types=default,mandatory,optional" (if you changed it to group_package_types=optional then _only_ optional would be installed, correct, overriding the default of 'default, mandatory'?) I'd also suggest being more explicit with this in the man page, rather than having this info be in yum and yum.conf man pages exclusively. Thank you for the reply.
> I might suggest at least he warning be changed to:
>
> Warning: Group directory-server does not have any mandatory or
> default packages.
Actually, I was proposing similar change but the developer thought it would not be more informative than the current version (well, your version is longer and therefore more descriptive than mine).
According to yum man page:
groupinstall
Is used to install all of the individual packages in a group, of the
specified types (this works as if you’d taken each of those package
names and put them on the command line for a "yum install" command).
The group_package_types configuration option specifies which
types will be installed.
while the yum.conf man page says:
group_package_types List of the following: optional, default, mandatory.
Tells yum which type of packages in groups will be installed when
’groupinstall’ is called. Default is: default, mandatory
Since I have some knowledge about this report I found man page explanation sufficient but now I can see that it still might be confusing and hard to understand. May I kindly ask you to report a new bug report against yum with your proposal?
I would propose to update the yum.conf man page with the Warning text and probably also update the warning itself with a reference to man page or group_package_types directly.
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