[Yum] Couple of yumgroups.xml questions

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Thu Jun 10 04:53:10 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 16:41 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "sv" == seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> writes:
> 
> sv> No. It doesn't support arch syntax b/c comps doesn't support it
> sv> either.
> 
> Any hope of extending it in the future?  It seems reasonable to be
> able to do this, either by just listing what you would give to "yum
> install" or by adding a tag:
> 
> <packagereq type="default" arch="i386">ncurses</packagereq>
> 
> sv> I can add a string to the output but there isn't one there now.
> 
> It would be appreciated.  If you're short on time, feel free to point
> me at a general place in the code where I should look and I'll have a
> go.  I don't really speak Python but I'm willing to try.
> 

I'd rather that the enhancement to the specification for arch and
possibly explicit version in the groups metadata go through the
rpm-metadata list. I'll push this one up to them and see what other
think.

-sv





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