coms.xml as currently in livna breaks yum groupinstall

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 24.11.2007 12:43, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> On 24.11.2007 09:44, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
>>>> And this is really a bug in ... yum, right?
>>> Is it?
>> Not sure.
>>
>>> If you look in Pirut you will see that there is a higher level of 
>>> sorting above groups, and in this level of sorting we put the livna 
>>> stuff currently in different containers then Fedora itself does.
>> Well, pirut gets the data from the same comps file, thus it might really
>> be a yum bug. IOW: I'm not sure myself whom to blame.
>>
>> Take a look at the section in question from the comps file (
>> http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/8/i386/comps.xml ) :
>>
>> <group>
>> <id>rpmfusion_free-games</id>
>> <name>Games and Entertainment</name>
>> <description>Various ways to relax and spend your free time.</description>
>> <default>false</default>
>> <uservisible>true</uservisible>
>> −
>> 	<packagelist>
>> <packagereq type="optional">crimson-fields</packagereq>
>> <packagereq type="optional">xrick</packagereq>
>> </packagelist>
>> </group>
>>
>> As you can see, I gave a RPM Fusion specific ID (and group; see at the
>> bottom of the page), but used the same <name> as in Fedora, which IMHO
>> should be a valid things to do, but is the reasons for the problem.
>>
> 
> I think though yum may be using 'group.groupid' to distinguish groups, 
> while you select using 'group.name'. This may be causing the last "Games 
> and Entertainment" to be loaded to override the associated 
> 'group.groupid' for this name.
> 
> Could someone try this with rpmfusion/livna's comps using the same 
> group.groupid?

As I said, I don't want to do that:

>> I doubt filling a bug against yum will help. Fedora likely will tell us
>> to use the same group-id then Fedora. I'd like to avoid that, as it will
>> be harder for people to find RPM Fusions packages. And there are
>> problems in anaconda as well, as you will get packages marked as
>> "<packagereq type="default">" only if you unselected and reselect a group.

CU
knurd