On 2/11/26 2:01 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 10 Feb 2026, at 21:24, Stephen Morris <[email protected]>
wrote:
If we need to raise issues upstream for dnf where do we raise them?
In the Fedora bugtracker
The instructions I found on the net for ensuring all the media
packages needed for vlc to play blu-rays may have been for dnf4, as
it was also using a method for identifying the group that in dnf5, in
my view, is broken. Groups have an ID and a Name, and in dnf4 you
could specify the group by name enclosed in double quotes, in dnf5 it
says the value specified in double quotes doesn't exist even though a
"group list" displays that name.
As I understand it you are expected to use the ID now and not the name.
Both the ID and the description are shown as you noticed.
For example
dnf group info editors
Barry
I've replied to some threads with silly questions, so if I can continue
the trend, given that I have used the group install facility in previous
versions of Fedora and dnf by using the Name and had that work as
specified in articles on the net, how are we supposed to know that in
F43 that functionality has to be done differently?
I guess there's no way to know, but from what I understand now, that
method should never really have been used. The issue is that the name
is localized, so a command with the English name would not work on a
French localized install (unless dnf would check all the localized
names). And I just checked that and dnf4 won't install the French name
on my English system.
# dnf4 group info "Outils système"
Warning: Group Outils système does not exist.
But this works:
# LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8 dnf4 group info "Outils système"
Group: Outils système
Description: Ce groupe est un ensemble de différents outils pour le
système, tels qu'un client pour la connexion aux partages SMB et des
outils permettant de surveiller le trafic réseau.
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