Package groups: yum vs. rpm

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Max Pyziur <pyz at brama.com> wrote:

>
> Greetings,
>
> When you run the command "rpm -qi <somepackagename>"
> there is a  "Group: <somegroupname>" line.
>
> That group name doesn't coincide with the groups that are listed when
> running "yum groups list"
>
> Are these two bits of metadata related?
>

Not really.   RPM groups are a static small list from a long time before
and have been optional for a while.  Fedora has never really used it for
anything and we use the grouping information from comps.xml that yum.
Anaconda etc supports

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_use_and_edit_comps.xml_for_package_groups

Rahul
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