Package belonging to a comps group cannot be marked as dependency

[roshanshariff]

If a package belongs to a comps group, then it cannot be marked as a "dependency" using dnf mark. It can only be marked as "user" or "group".

For example, cmake is an optional package in the c-development group:

$ dnf group list --contains-pkgs cmake
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
ID                       Name                                  Installed
c-development            C Development Tools and Libraries           yes
d-development            D Development Tools and Libraries            no
kde-software-development KDE Software Development                     no
kf6-software-development KDE Frameworks 6 Software Development        no

But I have installed it manually and so it is marked as user-installed:

$ dnf rq --installed --qf '%{reason}\n' cmake
User

First bug: Trying to mark it as a group package doesn't work. Dnf claims it is changing the reason from User to Group, but the change does not happen:

$ sudo dnf mark group c-development cmake
Package                                      Arch        Version                                      Repository                  Size
Changing reason:
 cmake                                       x86_64      3.30.5-1.fc41                                @System                 32.5 MiB
   User -> Group                                                                                                                      

Transaction Summary:
 Changing reason:    1 package

After this operation, 0 B extra will be used (install 0 B, remove 0 B).
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction
Complete!
$ dnf rq --installed --qf '%{reason}\n' cmake
User

Second bug: Trying to mark the package as a dependency (so that it will be autoremoved if unneeded by another package) also does not work. Instead, trying to do this changes its reason to "Group":

$ sudo dnf mark dependency cmake
Package                                      Arch        Version                                      Repository                  Size
Changing reason:
 cmake                                       x86_64      3.30.5-1.fc41                                @System                 32.5 MiB
   User -> Dependency                                                                                                                 

Transaction Summary:
 Changing reason:    1 package

After this operation, 0 B extra will be used (install 0 B, remove 0 B).
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Running transaction
Complete!
$ dnf rq --installed --qf '%{reason}\n' cmake
Group

So, to summarize, the dnf mark group command does not work for user-installed packages that are in a comps group, and dnf mark dependency actually marks such packages as group-installed. There is no way to mark such a package as a dependency.

I am using Fedora 41 and dnf 5.2.8.1:

$ dnf --version
dnf5 version 5.2.8.1
dnf5 plugin API version 2.0
libdnf5 version 5.2.8.1
libdnf5 plugin API version 2.0

Loaded dnf5 plugins:
  name: builddep
  version: 1.0.0
  API version: 2.0

  name: changelog
  version: 1.0.0
  API version: 2.0

  name: config-manager
  version: 0.1.0
  API version: 2.0

  name: copr
  version: 0.1.0
  API version: 2.0

  name: needs_restarting
  version: 1.0.0
  API version: 2.0

  name: repoclosure
  version: 1.0.0
  API version: 2.0

  name: reposync
  version: 1.0.0
  API version: 2.0