[Yum] problem with groupinstall

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Oct 3 11:59:45 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 03:11, Arnaud Abelard wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After a fresh install of yum-2.0.3 (from rpm) if i try to do a 
> groupinstall install, it will try to get the groups from the wrong 
> repository.
> 
> my yum.conf file is the basic default one with only the duke.edu 
> repositories (base and update) in it and during the groupinstall yum is 
> trying to grab the groups from the update repository... weird.
> 
> If i remove the update repository, yum will fetch the groups from the 
> base repository and everything will work smoothly.
> 
> 
yum attempts to a yumgroups.xml file from every repository, then it
merges them b/t the repositories. As long as there is at least 1
yumgroups.xml file on any of your repositories then groupinstall should
succeed.

is groupinstall not installing the packages you'd expect?

-sv





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