Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith

Benjamin W. Smith  //  Sysadmin by trade, Pythonista by passion. Dad to two boys and a girl. Guitarist. I like my coffee black, just like my metal.

 
Feb 28 / 10:00am

CentOS 5 yum grouplist wrong?

Is there something I’m missing here?

I ran yum groupinstall "Development Tools", it went well. Because I don’t trust software, I decided to verify with yum grouplist and was surprised to find “Development Tools” missing from the installed list. My lack of trust has been further validated :(.

Is yum trolling me?!

Problem?

# yum grouplist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Setting up Group Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * agcom: cf
 * base: cf
 * epel: cf
 * extras: cf
 * update: cf
Installed Groups:
   Dialup Networking Support
   Mail Server
   Network Servers
   Printing Support
   System Tools
   Yum Utilities
Available Groups:
   Administration Tools
   Horde
   Java
   Java Development
   KDE (K Desktop Environment)
   KDE Software Development
   KVM
   Legacy Network Server
   Legacy Software Development
   Legacy Software Support
   Mono
   MySQL Database
   News Server
   Office/Productivity
   OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution
   PostgreSQL Database
   Ruby
   Server Configuration Tools
   Sound and Video
   Text-based Internet
   Tomboy
   Virtualization
   Web Development
   Web Server
   Window Managers
   Windows File Server
   X Software Development
   X Window System
   XFCE-4.4
Done

FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * agcom: cf
 * base: cf
 * epel: cf
 * extras: cf
 * update: cf
Setting up Group Process
Checking for new repos for mirrors
Package flex-2.5.4a-41.fc6.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package gcc-4.1.2-48.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package redhat-rpm-config-8.0.45-32.el5.centos.noarch already installed and latest version
Package strace-4.5.18-5.el5_5.5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package rpm-build-4.4.2.3-20.el5_5.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package 1:make-3.81-3.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package 1:pkgconfig-0.21-2.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package gettext-0.14.6-4.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package gettext-0.14.6-4.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
Package automake-1.9.6-2.3.el5.noarch already installed and latest version
Package gdb-7.0.1-23.el5_5.2.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package bison-2.3-2.1.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package libtool-1.5.22-7.el5_4.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package autoconf-2.59-12.noarch already installed and latest version
Package gcc-c++-4.1.2-48.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package binutils-2.17.50.0.6-14.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package ltrace-0.5-13.45svn.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Package diffstat-1.41-1.2.3.el5.x86_64 already installed and latest version
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