652750 – RFE: Separate language support and software in 'yum grouplist' output

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Bug 652750 - RFE: Separate language support and software in 'yum grouplist' output

Summary: RFE: Separate language support and software in 'yum grouplist' output

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	yum
Sub Component:
Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Priority:	medium
Severity:	low
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	James Antill
QA Contact:	BaseOS QE Security Team
Docs Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:	655920
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2010-11-12 17:04 UTC by Magnus Glantz
Modified:	2014-01-21 06:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	7 users (show)
Fixed In Version:	yum-3.2.29-2.el6
Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	With this update, in output of the "yum grouplist" command, software groups and language groups are separated and sorted independently, making the whole list much clearer to read. Additionally, a language code is appended to each entry in the language group list.
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-05-19 13:33:57 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHBA-2011:0602	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	yum bug fix and enhancement update	2011-05-19 09:37:29 UTC

Description Magnus Glantz 2010-11-12 17:04:41 UTC

Description of problem:
When going a 'yum grouplist' it's very difficult to get a good view of what's available as languages and software is mixed. It's very difficult to find a group of special interest. Both software and languages uses the secondary wording 'Support', so the end-user cannot filter out all the languages using a simple 'grep -v Support' either.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
All versions.

How reproducible:
yum grouplist


Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum grouplist
  
Actual results:
On a (for example) RHEL6 server. Tetum and Xhosa Support, interesting software or interesting language?

# yum grouplist

Installed Groups:
   E-mail server
Available Groups:
   Additional Development
   Afrikaans Support
   Albanian Support
   Amazigh Support
   Arabic Support
   Armenian Support
   Assamese Support
   Azerbaijani Support
   Backup Client
   Backup Server
   Base
   Basque Support
   Belarusian Support
   Bengali Support
   Bhutanese Support
   Brazilian Portuguese Support
   Breton Support
   Bulgarian Support
   CIFS file server
   Catalan Support
   Chhattisgarhi Support
   Chichewa Support
   Chinese Support
   Compatibility libraries
   Console internet tools
   Coptic Support
   Croatian Support
   Czech Support
   Danish Support
   Debugging Tools
   Desktop
   Desktop Debugging and Performance Tools
   Desktop Platform
   Desktop Platform Development
   Development tools
   Dial-up Networking Support
   Directory Client
   Directory Server
   Dutch Support
   Eclipse
   Emacs
   English (UK) Support
   Esperanto Support
   Estonian Support
   Ethiopic Support
   FCoE Storage Client
   FTP server
   Faroese Support
   Fijian Support
   Filipino Support
   Finnish Support
   Fonts
   French Support
   Frisian Support
   Friulian Support
   Gaelic Support
   Galician Support
   General Purpose Desktop
   Georgian Support
   German Support
   Graphical Administration Tools
   Graphics Creation Tools
   Greek Support
   Gujarati Support
   Hardware monitoring utilities
   Hebrew Support
   High Availability
   High Availability Management
   Hiligaynon Support
   Hindi Support
   Hungarian Support
   Icelandic Support
   Indonesian Support
   Infiniband Support
   Input Methods
   Interlingua Support
   Internet Browser
   Inuktitut Support
   Irish Support
   Italian Support
   Japanese Support
   Java Platform
   KDE Desktop
   Kannada Support
   Kashmiri Support
   Kashubian Support
   Kazakh Support
   Khmer Support
   Kinyarwanda Support
   Konkani Support
   Korean Support
   Kurdish Support
   Lao Support
   Large Systems Performance
   Latin Support
   Latvian Support
   Legacy UNIX compatibility
   Legacy X Window System compatibility
   Lithuanian Support
   Load Balancer
   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
   Myanmar (Burmese) Support
   NFS file server
   Nepali Support
   Network Infrastructure Server
   Network Storage Server
   Network file system client
   Networking Tools
   Northern Sotho Support
   Norwegian Support
   Occitan Support
   Oriya Support
   PHP Support
   Performance Tools
   Perl Support
   Persian Support
   Polish Support
   Portuguese Support
   PostgreSQL Database client
   PostgreSQL Database server
   Print Server
   Printing client
   Punjabi Support
   Remote Desktop Clients
   Resilient Storage
   Romanian Support
   Russian Support
   SNMP Support
   Sanskrit Support
   Sardinian Support
   Scalable Filesystems
   Scientific support
   Security Tools
   Serbian Support
   Server Platform
   Server Platform Development
   Sindhi Support
   Sinhala Support
   Slovak Support
   Slovenian Support
   Smart card support
   Somali Support
   Southern Ndebele Support
   Southern Sotho Support
   Spanish Support
   Storage Availability Tools
   Swahili Support
   Swati Support
   Swedish Support
   System Management
   System administration tools
   Tagalog Support
   Tajik 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
   Venda Support
   Vietnamese Support
   Virtualization
   Virtualization Client
   Virtualization Platform
   Virtualization Tools
   Walloon Support
   Web Server
   Web Servlet Engine
   Web-Based Enterprise Management
   Welsh Support
   X Window System
   Xhosa Support
   Zulu Support
   iSCSI Storage Client

Expected results:
# yum grouplist
    
Installed Groups:
   E-mail server
Available Groups:
   Additional Development
   Backup Client
   Backup Server
   Base
   CIFS file server
   Compatibility libraries
   Console internet tools
   Debugging Tools
   Desktop
   Desktop Debugging and Performance Tools
   Desktop Platform
   Desktop Platform Development
   Development tools
   Dial-up Networking Support
   Directory Client
   Directory Server
   Eclipse
   Emacs
   FCoE Storage Client
   FTP server
   Fonts
   General Purpose Desktop
   Graphical Administration Tools
   Graphics Creation Tools
   Hardware monitoring utilities
   High Availability
   High Availability Management
   Infiniband Support
   Input Methods
   Internet Browser
   Java Platform
   KDE Desktop
   Large Systems Performance
   Legacy UNIX compatibility
   Legacy X Window System compatibility
   Load Balancer
   Messaging Client Support
   Messaging Server Support
   MySQL Database client
   MySQL Database server
   NFS file server
   Network Infrastructure Server
   Network Storage Server
   Network file system client
   Networking Tools
   PHP Support
   Performance Tools
   Perl Support
   PostgreSQL Database client
   PostgreSQL Database server
   Print Server
   Printing client
   Remote Desktop Clients
   Resilient Storage
   SNMP Support
   Scalable Filesystems
   Scientific support
   Security Tools
   Server Platform
   Server Platform Development
   Smart card support
   Storage Availability Tools
   System Management
   System administration tools
   TeX support
   Technical Writing
   TurboGears application framework
   Virtualization
   Virtualization Client
   Virtualization Platform
   Virtualization Tools
   Web Server
   Web Servlet Engine
   Web-Based Enterprise Management
   X Window System
   iSCSI Storage Client
Available Languages:
   Afrikaans Support
   Albanian Support
   Amazigh Support
   Arabic Support
   Armenian Support
   Assamese Support
   Azerbaijani Support
   Basque Support
   Belarusian Support
   Bengali Support
   Bhutanese Support
   Brazilian Portuguese Support
   Breton Support
   Bulgarian Support
   Catalan Support
   Chhattisgarhi Support
   Chichewa Support
   Chinese Support
   Coptic Support
   Croatian Support
   Czech Support
   Danish Support
   Dutch Support
   English (UK) Support
   Esperanto Support
   Estonian Support
   Ethiopic Support
   Faroese Support
   Fijian Support
   Filipino Support
   Finnish Support
   French Support
   Frisian Support
   Friulian Support
   Gaelic Support
   Galician Support
   Georgian Support
   German Support
   Greek Support
   Gujarati Support
   Hebrew Support
   Hiligaynon Support
   Hindi Support
   Hungarian Support
   Icelandic Support
   Indonesian Support
   Interlingua Support
   Inuktitut Support
   Irish Support
   Italian Support
   Japanese Support
   Kannada Support
   Kashmiri Support
   Kashubian Support
   Kazakh Support
   Khmer Support
   Kinyarwanda Support
   Konkani Support
   Korean Support
   Kurdish Support
   Lao 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
   Mongolian Support
   Myanmar (Burmese) Support
   Nepali Support
   Northern Sotho Support
   Norwegian Support
   Occitan Support
   Oriya Support
   Persian Support
   Polish Support
   Portuguese Support
   Punjabi Support
   Romanian Support
   Russian Support
   Sanskrit Support
   Sardinian Support
   Serbian Support
   Sindhi Support
   Sinhala Support
   Slovak Support
   Slovenian Support
   Somali Support
   Southern Ndebele Support
   Southern Sotho Support
   Spanish Support
   Swahili Support
   Swati Support
   Swedish Support
   Tagalog Support
   Tajik Support
   Tamil Support
   Telugu Support
   Tetum Support
   Thai Support
   Tibetan Support
   Tsonga Support
   Tswana Support
   Turkish Support
   Turkmen Support
   Ukrainian Support
   Upper Sorbian Support
   Urdu Support
   Uzbek Support
   Venda Support
   Vietnamese Support
   Walloon Support
   Welsh Support
   Xhosa Support
   Zulu Support


Additional info:
This could also be solved by giving all languages an unique wording, for example: "Language Support" in the end instead of just "Support" - that way the user could run: yum grouplist|grep -v "Language Support"

Comment 2 seth vidal 2010-11-12 17:39:40 UTC

the option of naming the language groups differently would be FAR easier than adding a new definition/group type to comps.

Comment 3 James Antill 2010-11-12 17:54:44 UTC

Actually it's mostly already there, the langonly attribute appears to be there specifically for this. Although there are a couple of "bad" entries (like Somali Support) doesn't have so ... but that's probably more the fact we aren't using it, so it's hard to see/test.

I agree that naming the groups better as well (Eg. lang-support-blah) would also be useful.

Example output (Fed-13):

% yum grouplist \*Support
Setting up Group Process
Installed Groups:
   Dial-up Networking Support
   Hardware Support
   Printing Support
Installed Languages:
   Arabic Support [ar]
   Armenian Support [hy]
   Assamese Support [as]
   Bengali Support [bn]
   Bhutanese Support [dz]
   Chinese Support [zh]
   Ethiopic Support [am]
   Georgian Support [ka]
   Gujarati Support [gu]
   Hebrew Support [he]
   Hindi Support [hi]
   Inuktitut Support [iu]
   Japanese Support [ja]
   Kannada Support [kn]
   Khmer Support [km]
   Konkani Support [kok]
   Korean Support [ko]
   Lao Support [lo]
   Maithili Support [mai]
   Malayalam Support [ml]
   Marathi Support [mr]
   Myanmar (Burmese) Support [my]
   Oriya Support [or]
   Punjabi Support [pa]
   Russian Support [ru]
   Sinhala Support [si]
   Spanish Support [es]
   Tajik Support [tg]
   Tamil Support [ta]
   Telugu Support [te]
   Thai Support [th]
   Urdu Support [ur]
   Venda Support [ve]
Available Groups:
   Somali Support
Available Languages:
   Afrikaans Support [af]
   Albanian Support [sq]
   Amazigh Support [ber]
   Asturian Support [ast]
   Azerbaijani Support [az]
   Basque Support [eu]
   Belarusian Support [be]
   Bosnian Support [bs]
   Brazilian Portuguese Support [pt_BR]
   Breton Support [br]
   Bulgarian Support [bg]
   Catalan Support [ca]
   Chichewa Support [ny]
   Coptic Support [cop]
   Croatian Support [hr]
   Czech Support [cs]
   Danish Support [da]
   Dutch Support [nl]
   English (UK) Support [en_GB]
   Esperanto Support [eo]
   Estonian Support [et]
   Faeroese Support [fo]
   Faroese Support [fo]
   Fijian Support [fj]
   Filipino Support [fil]
   Finnish Support [fi]
   French Support [fr]
   Frisian Support [fy]
   Friulian Support [fur]
   Gaelic Support [gd]
   Galician Support [gl]
   German Support [de]
   Greek Support [el]
   Hiligaynon Support [hil]
   Hungarian Support [hu]
   Icelandic Support [is]
   Indonesian Support [id]
   Interlingua Support [ia]
   Irish Support [ga]
   Italian Support [it]
   Kashmiri Support [ks]
   Kashubian Support [csb]
   Kazakh Support [kk]
   Kinyarwanda Support [rw]
   Kurdish Support [ku]
   Latin Support [la]
   Latvian Support [lv]
   Lithuanian Support [lt]
   Low Saxon Support [nds]
   Luxembourgish Support [lb]
   Macedonian Support [mk]
   Malagasy Support [mg]
   Malay Support [ms]
   Maltese Support [mt]
   Manx Support [gv]
   Maori Support [mi]
   Mongolian Support [mn]
   Nepali Support [ne]
   Northern Sotho Support [nso]
   Norwegian Support [nb]
   Occitan Support [oc]
   Persian Support [fa]
   Polish Support [pl]
   Portuguese Support [pt]
   Romanian Support [ro]
   Samoan Support [sm]
   Sanskrit Support [sa]
   Sardinian Support [sc]
   Serbian Support [sr]
   Sindhi Support [sd]
   Slovak Support [sk]
   Slovenian Support [sl]
   Southern Ndebele Support [nr]
   Southern Sotho Support [st]
   Swahili Support [sw]
   Swati Support [ss]
   Swedish Support [sv]
   Tagalog Support [tl]
   Tetum Support [tet]
   Tibetan Support [bo]
   Tonga Support [to]
   Tsonga Support [ts]
   Tswana Support [tn]
   Turkish Support [tr]
   Turkmen Support [tk]
   Ukrainian Support [uk]
   Upper Sorbian Support [hsb]
   Uzbek Support [uz]
   Vietnamese Support [vi]
   Walloon Support [wa]
   Welsh Support [cy]
   Xhosa Support [xh]
   Zulu Support [zu]

Comment 4 James Antill 2010-11-12 18:19:31 UTC

Ok, so the above uses langonly and _mostly_ works ... which I didn't know about until about an hour ago, and Seth doesn't know about. So after discussing and worrying about it for a bit, I'm going to reassign to distribution for someone to say one of:

1. Yes, langonly should be used for that (it's part of the "spec") and any bugs will be fixed.

2. Nobody here has heard of langonly before today, but we will change it to mean what it seems to mean (so basically the same as #1).

3. We'll do some other spec change to comps. that yum can use in 6.1+ that will allow this kind of UI to happen.

4. Nobody here heard of langonly before today, comps makes everyone cry ... don't go near it (or do anything).

Comment 6 Bill Nottingham 2010-11-29 16:41:11 UTC

I'd go with #1 - just key off of langonly, and we can fix bugs where it's missing.

Comment 7 James Antill 2010-12-01 16:15:02 UTC

Ok, given Bill's response ... this has gone upstream in yum. So should be fine for 6.1.

Comment 9 Mike Khusid 2011-01-19 11:25:06 UTC

Tracking for 6.1.

Comment 14 Tomas Capek 2011-05-17 11:52:45 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
With this update, in output of the "yum grouplist" command, software groups and language groups are separated and sorted independently, making the whole list much clearer to read. Additionally, a language code is appended to each entry in the language group list.

Comment 15 Magnus Glantz 2011-05-17 13:11:30 UTC

Love is a powerful word, but, I love it :-)
Thank you!

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 13:33:57 UTC

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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.

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