[Yum-devel] [Patch 1/1] Conditional Groups Support

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Thu Mar 2 13:34:22 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 02:29 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:57 -0500, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> > This patch applies on top of current CVS HEAD (where there is a trivial
> > patch to add the configuration option).
> > 
> > It works for packages available or packages installed when you use
> > groupinstall.  Any comments before I commit.
> > 
> 
> It all makes sense from what we discussed today.
> 
> Gist:
>  When adding items in - check to see if we know about any conditional
> packages in any groups that should be drug in when interacting with this
> group.

Yup.

> Just to be clear this is mainly to drag in the correct packages of
> language files for the right programs when you add a language support.

That's right.  
> It's sort of like 'enhances' but implemented in comps.xml.

Yes, obviously in the future we can look at how this works with an
enhances tag.

Paul




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