> > Just point me at the FAQ. ;) >=20 > yah - well this is a newish feature so it's not in the docs or faq yet > I'm working on them :) Aha, so this falls under the heading of, "But wait, there's more!" ;) > the gist of it is simple, though: > you know the "groups" you can select for kickstarts or during a normal > red hat install? *nods* > Well those same groups can be selected and used for installs, etc with > yum. Which means you can get all the pkgs red hat recommends=20 > for doing a > "gnome install" or a "kde install" Interesting...! > the yumgroups.xml file is just red hat's comps.xml (or any=20 > file made up > by any repository maintainer) that lists pkgs in certain=20 > groups and how > they relate to each other. Hhhmmm. How would I go about capturing/creating a 'standard' = yumgroups.xml based on a 'standard' RH9 mirror and/or 'standard' = comps.xml file? I've found 4 comps.xml files: $ find /kickstart/redhat/ -name "*.xml" /kickstart/redhat/linux/9/en/doc/RedHat/base/comps.xml /kickstart/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/comps.xml /kickstart/redhat/linux/8.0/en/doc/RedHat/base/comps.xml /kickstart/redhat/linux/8.0/en/os/i386/RedHat/base/comps.xml > it's pretty cool. That's an understatement. ;) BTW, I've successfully done the 'yum update' on one host, and 'yum = upgrade' on another host. Very impressive! I then followed on with upgrading yum itself to 1.96-1 on both hosts. = I'm in the process of doing a 'yum upgrade' on the first host (I needed = to add a few lines to yum.comf which were originally missing). But I = ran into a problem attempting 'yum upgrade' on the 2nd host: $ yum -bash: /usr/sbin/yum: No such file or directory $ rpm -q yum yum-1.96-1 I then made a backup of /etc/yum.conf, uninstalled then reinstalled = yum-1.96-1 on the second host. Unfortunately the error persists. Just = for fun: $ which yum /usr/bin/yum $ file /usr/bin/yum /usr/bin/yum: a /usr/bin/python script text executable Thoughts? jc > -sv >=20 >=20 >=20
