comps discussion at fudcon and the future

Arnaud Gomes-do-Vale Arnaud.Gomes at ircam.fr
Thu Jan 15 16:05:52 UTC 2009


seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> writes:

> When someone goes to install the group: 'yum groupinstall
> mygroup-of-fun' or 'yum install @mygroup-of-fun' then yum will grab the
> comps/groups file from each repo, look if the group you're requesting is
> there. If so it will create a metapkg rpm (a package containing only
> requirements) on the packages that exist in the repositories that are
> listed in that group. Then it will depsolve and install that pkg.

Another issue, from the point of view of a systems administrator this
time: what about anaconda? What if I have the following in my
kickstart packages list:

@mygroup
-mypackage

with mypackage a member of mygroup?

-- 
Arnaud




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