[Yum] Setting up groups in repos

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Aug 24 14:58:47 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 08:52 -0600, Jeremy Lyon wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have multiple repos set up and am looking at moving forward with
> setting up some groups to utilize groupinstall, etc.. Do I need to
> have the groups.xml file in all repos that a client would point to, or
> just in one repo?

just in one repo

>  If I have to have it in all repos, how does yum deal with two
> group.xml files that have the same group name but different packages
> in the group.

in the default case it merges them.
if you set overwrite_groups=1 in your yum.conf under [main] then it will
overwrite one with the other but that behavior can be a bit
nondeterministic b/c it is based on the order yum gets to the
repositories.

-sv





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