[Yum] so how do "groups" work?

[Sean O'Connell]

On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 08:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   sorry if i missed any previous discussion regarding groups, but
> "man yum" has no explanation of "yum grouplist|groupinstall|groupupdate".
> 
>   pointers?
> 

The file yumgroups.xml defines the groups (based on anaconda's
definition of groups, like @ Base in a kickstart file, which is a hidden
group, see below) available in a given repository (see
/var/cache/yum/<repos-name>/yumgroups.xml). You can then do

yum grouplist

and you will see the available and installed visible groups.

yum grouplist hidden

will show the available and installed hidden + visible groups. To list 
subgroups/rpms that make a given group (say Base):


yum grouplist hidden Base

Hope this helps.
Sean
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