[Yum] Problem with yum groupinstall...

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 12:15 -0500, Scott Bambrough wrote:
> I have the following two groups in comps.xml for my repository.  When I 
> perform the following command:
> 
> yum groupinstall 'Bridgeways Core Development'
> 
> I was expecting the packages in the groups bw-core-devel, 
> bw-core-depends and base-x to be installed.  However, the packages from 
> bw-core-depends are not installed.  I'm using yum 3.0.1 on RHEL5.1.  I 
> have been unable to find much info on the xml tags in comps.xml.  Do I 
> need to set <default>true</default> in the group bw-core-depends to get 
> this to work?

in 3.0 and above the comps groupreq was removed so groups can't require
other groups.

so you're not doing anything wrong it is just no longer supported in the
comps syntax.

-sv