Description of problem: On f20 when you try to install groups with 'yum install @groupname1 @groupname2' and one of them is not available you only get "Nothing to do", it doesn't say group 'foo' (for example) doesn't exist, same happens if you try only one group which doesn't exist. (yum install @foo (where foo is not a valid group name) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): yum-3.4.3-106.fc20.noarch How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install @<non_existing_group> 2. 3. Actual results: No error message tha group doesn't exist Expected results: Shows error message group 'xyz' doesn't exist Additional info:
I made a mistake in my first comment/original report, "Nothing to do" only appears when one group or probably multiple but all of them are invalid/non-existing groups are in the "yum install" command, if you have one valid and other invalid group (or probably any mix of them (but at least one valid and one invalid) it will install valid groups and won't say anything about invalid.
Fixed upstream. commit ff5416b1532fe43c68bf51ae30751504885a501a Author: James Antill <james> Date: Mon Oct 14 15:49:35 2013 -0400 Give same non-exist msg. for install @foo as group install foo. BZ 1018833.
I believe this change is the cause of quite a lot of the recent reports that yum is printing 'Warning: group (group) does not exist.' errors when they run 'yum update' recently. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043202 .
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