On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 11:23, csieh wrote: > > Seth, > > > > > > > So last week I was looking at what I thought yum still needed in the > > shortterm. I saw that the list group contents was not there yet but on > > your todo list. So I decided to look at writing a little patch to just > > show the rpms in a group. Since I wanted to change as little as possible > > I decided to put the code in the "grouplist groupname" area. Right now if > > you do a "yum grouplist "FTP Server"" you get back > > > > FTP Server > > > > . This is usefull but what I really want to see when I use "yum grouplist > > "FTP Server"" is the list of rpms that are part of "FTP Server" . So my > > suggestion is to just use "yum grouplist" in the case of a single group. > > Now my code does it for all of the wildcards. Some might say this is too > > much, and maybe it is, but for me it is ok. I really like the idea that > > in the single case it just gives the rpms too. I guess I am trying to not > > have to add more options. I really like that yum uses "english" options > > vs "-" options as the less options the better. > > > > The patch that I wrote to do this is 4 lines of python code. Patch > > included. I only wrote it because it was on the todo list and I did not > > know the timeframe of this feature. > > > > so the idea is this - if I want a list of all the groups I use grouplist > w/no options or with installed, available. > > if I want a list of pkgs in a group I use grouplist "specific groupname > or wildcard" > > ok, that's fine - works for me. > > I'd like to address the use of pkgTree though. I thought giving some > more useful output would be handy. I used pkgTree because it was easy and would get me through my immediate need. I think more info is good. May have to define what a group and subgroup and Metapkg are though. -Connie Sieh > > So maybe for any given group it lists the groupreqs as subgroups and > then it lists the pkgs and their types. > > > ie: > Group Foo > SubGroups: > subgrp1 > subgrp2 > subgrp3 > > Default Metapkgs: > emacs > > Optional Metapkgs: > does > anyone > care? > > Mandatory Pkgs: > foo > bar > baz > quux > > Default Pkgs: > no > way > really? > > Optional Pkgs: > do > we > care? > > > So people get a more complete view of pkgs that would get installed. > Much of this code is already written in the semi-private > yumcomps.Groups_Info._dumppkgs > > Look at what it does then consider writing a mini function of > pkgaction.py to do display of group information. > > The display format is yours to do with what you will. > > oh and _dumppkgs is just there and useful if you want to use yumcomps.py > independent of yum. It should run standalone quite nicely. > > -sv > > >
