[Yum] where to put yumgroups.xml

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Sep 18 22:49:23 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:42, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I now would have need for the functionality of providing RPMs in gropus
> for which yum offers the `yum groupinstall <groupname>` functionality...
> There is no much documentation for it, so my question is that where
> should the yumgroups.xml file reside? It is on the server side, yes? 
> Do the clients always look for it or do I need to do some magic with
> yum-arch to enable grouping?
> 


The groups stuff is only in the 2.0.X version of yum - not 1.0.X.

But you put yumgroups.xml in the baseurl directory.

the clients look for that file whenever you use one of the groupinstall,
groupupdate,grouplist (and eventually groupremove) commands.

-sv





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