[Fedora-spins] new comps feature pushed

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu May 30 14:14:45 UTC 2013


Kevin Fenzi (kevin at scrye.com) said: 
> On Wed, 29 May 2013 16:32:05 -0400
> Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Recently landed in yum/anaconda is the ability for an installation
> > environment's add-on groups to be selected by default when that
> > environment is selected for installation.
> > (related to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=924061)
> > 
> > This is done by changing the option entry in comps from:
> > 	<groupid>foo</groupid>
> > to:
> > 	<groupid default="true">foo</groupid>
> > 
> > I'm sending this to the spins sigs, because certain spins might
> > want to change their environment that's used by anaconda to take
> > advantage of this. For example, the XFCE spin includes the
> > @xfce-apps and @xfce-media groups as part of their mandatory groups;
> > they could be moved to just being default options. Similarly, the
> > LXDE spin could mark some of their options (lxde-apps, lxde-office,
> > etc) to be selected by default when LXDE is selected.
> 
> So, this works for any groups? 
> 
> Or only things in optionlist ?
> 
> Ie, to make the Xfce change you suggest I would need to move those
> groups out of grouplist and put them under optionlist? 

Correct, it's only for groups in the optionlist - all the groups in
the main grouplist are still considered mandatory.

Bill


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