Putting together a development workstation for PHP and Ruby work, and was hoping the group install option would speed the time picking and choosing the many packages.
Is it possible to install only one or two of the "Optional groups" or is it an all-or-nothing choice?
Had a question on the dnf command:
The "Group info" command lists mandatory and optional groups.
# dnf group info "Web Server" Last metadata expiration check performed 3:19:40 ago on Tue Nov 17 06:30:49 2015. Environment Group: Web Server Description: Server for serving static and dynamic internet content. Mandatory Groups: Basic Web Server Core Hardware Support Standard Optional Groups: Guest Agents HAProxy Java Application Server MariaDB (MySQL) Database MongoDB PHP Perl for Web PostgreSQL Database Python Ruby on Rails Tomcat
The help for group install in the man pages and http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command_ref.html shows the 'with-optional' phrase:
dnf [options] group install [with-optional] <group-spec>...
So, the optional groups pretty much include everything except the kitchen sink, and I wonder if I can avoid installing a couple of languages and two databases I don't need, or if I should just skip the group install as an installation technique>
From: "Ted Roche" tedroche@gmail.com
Putting together a development workstation for PHP and Ruby work, and was hoping the group install option would speed the time picking and choosing the many packages.
Is it possible to install only one or two of the "Optional groups" or is it an all-or-nothing choice?
If you install one environment group (list of groups) then you can install all optional packages from groups (with `with-optional`) it contains or none optional. You can do `dnf group info <env>` as you already did and install mandatory groups `dnf group install <env>` + for each optional group: `dnf group install <opt_grp>`.
The help for group install in the man pages and http://dnf.readthedocs.org/en/latest/command_ref.html shows the 'with-optional' phrase:
dnf [options] group install [with-optional] <group-spec>...
So, the optional groups pretty much include everything except the kitchen sink, and I wonder if I can avoid installing a couple of languages and two databases I don't need, or if I should just skip the group install as an installation technique>
Packages that are optional and installed along with `with-optional` switch could be skipped if they get into conflict with other packages. This feature is in DNF for ~year. You can go with just mandatory packages and then install the rest when you need them.
Honza
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Honza Šilhan jsilhan@redhat.com wrote:
If you install one environment group (list of groups) then you can install all optional packages from groups (with `with-optional`) it contains or none optional. You can do `dnf group info <env>` as you already did and install mandatory groups `dnf group install <env>` + for each optional group: `dnf group install <opt_grp>`.
Well, that makes sense. It wasn't obvious from the man pages nor the documentation that this was how it worked.
Packages that are optional and installed along with `with-optional` switch could be skipped if they get into conflict with other packages. This feature is in DNF for ~year. You can go with just mandatory packages and then install the rest when you need them.
I will do that. Thanks!
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Honza Silhan -
Ted Roche