[Yum] A little more on enterprise strength yum.

[Carwyn Edwards]

seth vidal wrote:

>>Does anyone else have any opinions on this? Maybe I've been brainwashed?
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>Alternatively you use groupupdate and just plugin new things to a group
>as 'default' or 'mandatory' then when a user can:
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>yum groupupdate 'carwyn group of fun' 
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>and get all the packages you want them to have.
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Hmm, I suppose you could have a standard group that you then 
automatically do a groupupdate on every night/bootup. Would new packages 
in the group  be installed and packages removed from the group uninstalled?

This is is nothing to do with version numbers, I agree with you on those 
being a bad thing to specify in general. Although there are cases where 
you do need to be able to hold a package at a specific version (say you 
want laptops to catch up with desktops but not install the very latest 
version because it breaks some machines).

Don't get me wrong, I like yum :-) I ditched apt-rpm for it and use it 
at home. I want to use it at work too though but can't without 
addressing some of these issues.

Carwyn