[Yum] groupreq and yum 2.6
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Mon Apr 10 20:27:52 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:11 -0500, William Bear wrote:
> Are grouplists (groupreq) in the yumgroups.xml file still supported in
> yum 2.6? Maybe moved somewhere else? I've searched the web, but only
> found a post about the group behavior changing and no real details.
>
> We are migrating to FC5 from FC3, so from yum 2.2 to 2.6, and yum only
> seems to install packagelist packages, but ignores the grouplist. This
> feature was nice for kickstarting machines based on the machine's role
> (yum groupinstall workstation).
>
> Any information would be great.
Group dependencies are no longer supported in FC-5 comps/yumgroups.xml
format. I miss them too... but the groupreq got sacrificed for the GUI
gods, expressing the group dependencies in GUI tools doesn't really
work.
- Panu -
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