I was just following the Ansible yum module's example, as they
specified '@Development tools', is that wrong then?
Thanks
Regards,
Asfand Yar Qazi
On 24 December 2015 at 14:42, Toshio Kuratomi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Dec 23, 2015 3:39 AM, "Asfand Yar Qazi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I thought I would quickly discuss this here before reporting a bug as I
>> could not find an existing bug report:
>>
>> I tried a task like this:
>>
>> - name: "Install Development tools package"
>> yum: {name: "@Development tools", state: latest}
>>
>> And it did not install the group, it simply reported as unchanged.
>>
>> When I switched to state: installed, it worked:
>>
>> - name: "Install Development tools package"
>> yum: {name: "@Development tools", state: installed}
>>
>> I am using Ansible 1.9.4
>>
>> Is this bug known? I cannot find a bug report for it.
>>
> I'm not sitting at my computer to check but this sounds like it might be a
> known limitation of the yum module listed as the last note in the docs:
> http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/yum_module.html#notes
>
> Yum has two kinds of groups (package groups listed in the spec file when
> building the package and environment groups listed in a separate xml file
> when building the yum repository.) Sometimes yum will treat these two
> interchangably. other times it requires you to specify them using slightly
> different syntax: "@group" vs "@^group". Unfortunately, the interface
> ansible is using requires the separate syntax so you have to decide if you
> are dealing with an environment group or a package group and change your
> group name appropriately.
>
> -Toshio
>
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