Is yum groups broken in f20 ?

Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 06:37:46 UTC 2013


On 12 December 2013 06:35, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> On 12/08/2013 08:37 AM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
>>
>> Curious, why it blew up right now, just before F20 is released. It
>> should have happened in alpha and not now.
>>
>> Workaround is to yum group mark remove <group name here> for every group
>> on the list. What a waste of time.
>
>
> Whatever you do - do not run "yum group mark convert". Now one of my systems
> wants to install every Fedora package with "yum update".
>
> This affects all Fedoras with yum -120. Here's the parent bug:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014202
>

It looks like setting upgrade_group_objects_upgrade=0 or
group_command=simple sorts that issue out. (FWIW, I went for the
big-axe solution and 'yum group mark remove' all the groups yum
complained about, ~ 20+ groups).

Honestly I still can't get my head around that yum-groups-as-objects change...

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