smart groupinstall

Anders F Björklund afb at algonet.se
Tue May 15 23:30:13 PDT 2007


Grant McWilliams wrote: (snip top of upside-down reply)

> Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> Where does yum get the group definitions from?

> Not sure, I assumed it kept track of they rpm Group: item. Actually  
> how does Smart gui sort things by group? I'm guessing the same way Yum  
> keeps track of groups..

Yum gets the group definitions from the comps.xml, same as what the  
Anaconda installer uses. It's not related to the RPM Group: that the  
packages have.

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ 
i386/os/repodata/comps.xml
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/development/ 
i386/comps.xml

Such Group support in Smart would be cool.

--anders




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