[Yum] yumgoups.xml in all repos?

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon Jul 14 17:08:55 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 12:57, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> So in attempting to make yum groupinstall (and friends) work I 
> discovered that the each repo must have a yumgroups.xml file in order 
> for the group commands to work (else one ends up with an urlgrab.error 
> and a 'no such group exists' error).
> 
> Is this designed this way or a bug?  If so, can I just touch an empty 
> yumgroups.xml file in my updates directories, or does it need to be a 
> valid xml file that describes nothing?
> 
> Currently just copying the same yumgroups.xml into everything makes it 
> work, but I get a lot of 'Duplicate dependancies" warnings..
> 

What version of yum? yum 1.98 didn't like it if the repos didn't have a
yumgroups.xml 2.0 should throw a warning but happily continue. I tested
that a lot. And the warning should be error level 2 only, I think.

-sv




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