[Yum] Groups & Repositories - Best Way to Setup?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:38, Jeff Sheltren wrote:
> Hi Seth, thanks for the quick response.  I think I will end up setting
> up a small yumgroups.xml, like you mentioned.  I am not sure that using
> a custom yum.conf will solve my problem.  Basically, I want to force the
> machine to install everything in the 'group1' repo.  To do this, it may
> need to install packages located in the RedHat Base repo, but if I have
> both repositories listed in the yum.conf file, then doing a 'yum install
> \*' would want to install *everything* in both the group repo and the RH
> repo, correct?  I want it to install everything in the group repo, but
> only the necesary dependencies it needs from the base repo...  As far as
> I can tell, there is no way to do that without setting up the
> yumgroups.xml file...
> 

right and more to the point the yumgroups.xml lets you get certain other
advantages.

yum groupupdate is a nice way to keep systems current with whatever you
want in a particular group.

-sv