On Tue, 2026-09-01 at 17:56 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 9/1/26 5:49 PM, Ian Laurie via test wrote:
> > On 2/9/26 07:48, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > > You don't want to provide any details so that it could be fixed?
> > 
> > I thought I did.  The underlying cause appears to be that the group 
> > doesn't exist in 45 (even though the packages in the group do still exist).
> 
> You just said there was a problem with that group, not that it didn't exist.
> 
> > For example, "sudo dnf group install admin-tools" on a 45 box results in 
> > the message:
> > 
> > Failed to resolve the transaction:
> > No match for argument: admin-tools
> Is that the same error that you got during the upgrade?
> 
> I was going to say that complete failure was a bad solution to this 
> because it forces you to remove the packages, but then I checked the man 
> page.  There's a "--no-packages" option to remove the group without 
> removing the packages.  This should probably be highlighted in the 
> common issues page.

Still, a group not existing shouldn't cause an upgrade to fail. If it
does, that should probably be reported as a bug against whatever tool
you were using to run the upgrade (dnf, gnome-software etc.)
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