On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 01:10 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > Oh, and based on reports I've read, I'd strongly recommend against > running 'yum group mark convert', as yum apparently suggests to you at > times. What this is supposed to do, roughly, is "convert" a legacy > system to 'groups as objects' - it tries to figure out from your > installed package set and (I don't know what else, unicorn droppings?) > which groups you 'have installed', and write that info out > to /var/lib/yum/groups/* . However, it seems like in practice, it > decides that any group from which you have even a single mandatory or > default package is 'installed', and consequently, your next 'yum update' > will try to pull in all the other packages from all those groups, which > you probably don't want. I need to verify those reports and check if a > bug's been filed, though, that's next on my list. Tested this, confirmed it is far too aggressive on a couple of test installs, filed https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1043237 . Will add commonbugs notes for F19 and F20. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
