On Fri, 6 Apr 2018, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 04/06/18 17:55, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> related to my earlier query (and i'll have a couple more about
> package groups and virtualization before i'm done), is there any way
> to define my own package groups for personal use, other than manually
> hacking the groups.xml file?
>
> i've scanned the dnf man page, and i don't see any indication that
> that's possible -- perhaps a dnf plugin somewhere i haven't found?
I may be misunderstanding your terminology? There is no concept of
a "dnf" package group.
sorry, just being redundant and superfluous there.
package groups are defined within the repodata for each repo. The
file would be
named something like
db434ff174a0a9afa983f7721dda9caaa1d9b6e35517e504e002f824faa87002-comps-Everything.x86_64.xml.gz
I think the groups.xml file you're talking about hacking would be the one found in,
for example, /var/cache/dnf/fedora-cba4cf65782eccda/repodata/gen ?
But that file will be regenerated when the metadata expires.
correct, i was just trying to draw an analogy with what i was trying
to do.
So, to achieve what I think you want (a new group with your chosen
packages) I believe you probably would want to create a "local" repo
with no packages but with your custom group definition.
ah, quite so, i hadn't thought of that, that seems like the easiest
solution.
rday