On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:09, Toralf Lund wrote: > Is there any kind of parser available for comps.xml? I'm looking for a > way to optain information like a list of package names that would be > installed if selecting one or more specified groups. (Assuming a fresh > install, i.e. not taking already installed packages into account.) look at yum: http://linux.duke.edu/yum/ the groups parser for yum reads comps.xml - you can do yum grouplist "some group" and it will list out the stuff that would, by default, be installed, and the subgroups. -sv